Accuracy in Media

After weeks of silence on the Priorities USA Action ad, President Obama finally commented on the ad, saying that he didn’t believe Mitt Romney had anything to do with the death of Joe Soptic’s wife and that the ad was not approved or produced by his campaign. I don’t think that Governor Romney is somehow […]

Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who has been critical in the past of the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital, said Friday that he thinks the campaign may have gone a little bit too far with the “felony business.” Rendell was referring to Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter. She had suggested last week, following a Boston Globe […]

A story in the Boston Globe on Thursday was touted by some Democrats and other critics of Mitt Romney as proof that his tenure at Bain Capital extended for several years after the time he claimed he had stopped working at the firm. The Globe article, as with other similar previous stories, has come under […]

FactCheck.org, which had labeled a new Obama campaign ad calling Mitt Romney a “pioneer in outsourcing” as “untrue” and “thinly supported,” defended itself against criticism from the Obama campaign by saying that they are “all wet” when it comes to their outsourcing claims against Romney. The ad in question was based on a June 21 […]

Glenn Kessler, aka The Washington Post Fact Checker, informed readers that even though the Obama campaign had misinterpreted a recent Washington Post story on Bain Capital and outsourcing, he would not award any Pinocchios (his rating system for accuracy) to the Post for the actual story, since it was the interpretation of the Post story, and […]

Friday night on MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews chided former president Bill Clinton for not defending  President Obama more vigorously over his birth certificate and for defending Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital. Matthews’ guests were Democratic strategist Steve McMahon and Republican strategist Todd Harris. During an interview with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who guest-hosted on […]

Thursday night former president Bill Clinton was a guest on Piers Morgan Tonight with guest host Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein, the well-known Hollywood producer, openly acknowledged that he is a big supporter of both Clinton and Barack Obama, and he was working it for all he could. But it may have backfired. Writing in The Caucus, […]

Last week Democratic Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, NJ created quite a stir when he expressed his disgust with the Obama campaign ads attacking Bain Capital and the private equity industry. Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs about the tenor of the campaign, comparing it […]

On Tuesday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews attacked DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for the lack of pro-Obama surrogates to back up President Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital. Matthews has been troubled since Democratic Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey criticized the Obama campaign for attacking Bain Capital and private equity during an appearance Sunday on […]

In a discussion on MSNBC’s Jansing & Co., Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina made a statement comparing the actions of Mitt Romney’s company, and presumably to Romney himself, to that of rape. “This is not an attack on free enterprise,” Clyburn said. “But there’s something about that enterprise that I have a problem with. […]