Fact Checking the Post-Bloomberg debate
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 12th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Fact Checking the Post-Bloomberg debate
That was certainly a fascinating debate Tuesday night sponsored by The Washington Post and Bloomberg. We posted 13 fact checks during the debate, assisted by Post reporters Josh Hicks and Lori Montgomery, and as is our practice will possibly delve more deeply into some issues in the coming days.
“Mr. Cain, in the past, you’ve been rather critical of any of us who would want to audit the Fed. You said — you’ve used pretty strong terms, that we were ignorant and that we didn’t know what we were doing, and therefore there is no need for an audit anyway because if you had one you’re not going to find out everything because everybody knows everything about the Fed.”
Gingrich: Sarah Palin was right on death panels (Debate video)
When Sarah Palin announced she wouldn’t run for president, she vowed that she would still be a part of the conversation and throw her weight behind favored candidates as she continued to act as a kingmaker for the tea party.
In a previous debate, Michele Bachmann picked up Palin’s “crony capitalism” label to attack Perry. And in Tuesday’s Washington Post/Bloomberg debate, Newt Gingrich turned the clock back to the summer of 2009, dusting off the notorious term “death panels,” another phrase coined by Palin during the controversial health-care overhaul.
Cain: ‘The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect’ (Debate video)
Herman Cain came to Tuesday’s Washington Post-Bloomberg debate to talk about one thing: his “9-9-9” tax plan.
Cain couldn’t seem to answer any debate questions without at least mentioning his tax code overhaul plan, which would include a flat nine percent tax on businesses, a nine percent tax on individuals and a nine percent national sales tax.
