Accuracy in Media

The liberal media, normally staunch supporters of President Obama, have been forced to backpedal a little this week after a particularly vicious ad by Obama SuperPAC Priorities USA Action was released. The ad suggested that Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of a steelworker’s wife because Bain Capital closed his plant and left him without […]

Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod told CNN’s Candy Crowley that the campaign never said that Mitt Romney was a felon, only that he might have committed a felony in the signing of SEC documents. Axelrod appeared Sunday on State of the Union and was asked by Candy Crowley whether or not he thought Romney […]

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 […]

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 […]

It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn’t sound very important. But it’s evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish. AVS stands for Address Verification System. It’s the software that […]