Did Yahoo do a "fact check" on the speeches of Obama and Biden on the day after their pitches?

Question

I see with both Palin and McCain wee hours after they yak we've got Yahoo's front page presenting a "fact check". I don't recall that for Obama and Biden, but perhaps it was there. Anyone remember?

Answer 1

Please provide the link.

Answer 2

No, Yahoo is obviously Liberal, I saw that too, I find it funny they didn't critique Obama/Biden but they where all over McCain/Palin. Of course liberals will justify this

Answer 3

Some staffer probably tried, but it was yanked because so many of Yahoo!'s executives gave money to Obama's campaign, and they need to protect their investment..

Answer 4

  No. Obviously OBama/Biden had their own fact checkers, while McCain/Palin did not. Don't worry, this kind of thing happens to liars in all walks of life.

Answer 5

This is why nobody respects anything from yahoo.

Answer 6

Yes there was a fact check on Obama's speech.  The main error there was the insistance that McCain says that the average income in America is $5 million per year.  (exactly how he said it I don't remember).  Anyway, McCain was joking on that and Obama would have known that.

Answer 7

what? the media critique something from the left and the great obama? HOW DARE YOU!!!  who do you think you are to criticize the all powerful yahoo and the liberal media machine?  they will come for you in the night...be prepared.

Answer 8

  Don't think so. But I do know that when the democrat media does a "fact check" on the republicans, often times their "facts" are not the facts.

Answer 9

Someone on here left a link to one in the past day or two.

Answer 10

Not no, but h**l no! I just showed my hunting buddy last night the bias of MSNBC. He said he never realized. One more Democrat voting Republican in November. Changing their minds one voter at a time!

Answer 11

Why Yes they did but since there speeches did not contain falsehoods there was no need to do a story on it. When you can't run on your accomplishments you have to run on your lies.

Answer 12

I read that fact check and saved it. Here it is.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Some examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 vote

Answer 13

It bothers you that they are fact checking the speeches?

Do facts bother you.....do they get in the way of your beliefs or something?

Answer 14

Don't know if yahoo had it, but it was easy enough to just go to factcheck.org for yourself. Bottom line, Obama is a politician, too. In other words, he lied.

COURAGE: Sorry, sport. I know how much you despise those pesky facts, but here they are:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/...

Answer 15

Of course not

Answer 16

Right.. i love these people who claim yahoo is "liberal", have you seen the opinion columns here? Its 5 to 1 conservative.

Also, quite simply, Republicans lie. They are the "moral values" party. But everything they say requires fact checking. They are so used to spreading lies and hate they are shocked when the media checks up on it.

Then of course they will slam the media for being "liberal" for asking questions when they tell those bald-faced lies.

The whole point of conservative speaking is to create an "enemy" you can attack, and the press is an easy target.  

Answer 17

I actually wondered that myself, this morning.  Odd, huh?  

To keep it fair...here is Obama's mistakes at his speech:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/...

Answer 18

There were so many with Obama their rag coverage would have exploded.

Answer 19

Yahoo is nothing but a liberal arm.  My main account was suspended because I was posting anti-left questions and answers.