TYT: Fact Checkers Working Overtime On GOP Debate Lies

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Last night’s GOP debates are making the fact checkers put in overtime. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down on tonight’s TYT Power Panel. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The Republican presidential candidates who failed to make the cut for the Aug. 6 prime-time debate repeated a number of past false and misleading claims, while adding some new ones that we hadn’t heard before:

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said the U.S. sends “$300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts.” But that’s spending on all oil imports, including from Canada and Mexico.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal claimed a study proved “expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes.” The study he cited measured only three health indicators over a two-year period, and even then found some positive benefits.”*

Read more here: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/08/factchecking-the-gop-debate-early-edition/

[BlueJazz]

1. Boy, that's enough to get your dander up. Out of all the lies told by the Republicans...

...last night, not one..NOT ONE DAMN TIME did any of the journalists (journalists??) point out to anybody that their statement was false.
What a disgusting pack of human garbage.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. How many remember when debates were sponsored by the League of Women Voters....

....and they were fact checked right after they were over?

Not COMMENTED ON by someone giving their OPINION.

Fact checked.

As in, errors, omissions and out and out LIES were fully disclosed to the public without some party hack jumping in to interrupt and "explain".

[floppyboo]

3. same night canadian debate

no one was left off the hook on this debate. I applaud McLeans Mag for holding everyone accountable for their facts and figures. Get a clue southern neighbours! I so appreciate the US alternative media and hope you guys get the young and disenfranchised out to vote. You may be preaching to the converted, but the converted need to mobilize!!!

[Gothmog]

4. The GOP candidates on that debate were all liars who made up numbers and facts

[icarusxat]

5. PAC of lies...

Why not call these "debates" what they really are?

[Enthusiast]

6. I knew when Kasich was throwing out all those numbers and bragging, that he was lying.

That's what Republicans do. But Huckabee. Have you ever seen such a slime? Don't answer that, the entire Republican field is nothing but slimy dishonesty equal to that of Fox "News".

[Red Knight]

7. Unfortunately 24 million people heard those lies

And now believe them as fact--because they will not be challenged on them.

Of course that's not exactly true--not all 24 million people who watched watched because they supported those idiots--some watched to stare at a car wreck--and some people may question it anyway--but certainly others will repeat their lies as facts now.

They know this.

It's easy to throw out a lie as fact.

Trying to convince people that it isn't true is much harder.

[tclambert]

8. Fact-checking? Republicans don't need it. They have Faith.

And if your facts and evidence cast doubt on their beliefs, well, that's just the devil tempting them. When you truly believe, you can keep believing despite the facts. Besides, it says right in the Bible that Obamacare is a disaster and that the deal with Iran will give them nuclear weapons, not prevent them from developing them. If you can't find the exact verse, that's OK, as long as you believe hard enough that it's in there. (I think it's in the Epistle of Jeff to the Efficacians.)

Besides, fact-checking is like footnotes. People just ignore them. Saddam Hussein proved that on 9/11.