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trailmonkee

(2,681 posts)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 03:07 PM Sep 2012

Joe Biden Challenges Press to ‘Fact Check Me’

Source: ABC News

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Vice President Joe Biden extended an invitation to the media to check the veracity of his claims on Medicare, telling the press to “fact check me.”

“What they’re proposing, and this is a fact. I say to the press, ‘Fact check me,’” Biden said at Zane Grey Elementary School in Zanesville. “What they’re proposing will actually cause the Medicare trust fund that pays for the benefits when you go to the hospital, the doctor, etc., to run out of money, a sufficient amount of money by 2016. That’s when it would hit the wall.”

-snip-

“By the way, it’s amazing how they don’t like to be fact checked, right? Isn’t that amazing? ‘We’re not going to be bound by those fact checkers,’” Biden said of the Romney campaign.

Biden said he was eager to discuss the policies Republicans did not mention at their convention, telling the crowd, “They don’t have the courage to tell you what these new policies are. I do. I’ve got the courage to tell you. I’m anxious to tell you.”

“If you’d been dropped down from Mars and had been in a time capsule in the last hundred years, and you got dropped down from Mars and turned on the convention, and you heard him talking about Medicare, you’d think that really, you’d think they really cared about it. You’d think it’s something they thought of,” he said.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/joe-biden-challenges-press-to-fact-check-me/



The Biden.... is fucking awesome!

you gotta love the Biden.
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Joe Biden Challenges Press to ‘Fact Check Me’ (Original Post) trailmonkee Sep 2012 OP
"The Biden" -- love it! gateley Sep 2012 #1
The Biden sayz, "Bring it on." nt Ilsa Sep 2012 #2
What is "Something a Republican would never say" Alex? tridim Sep 2012 #3
I'll take lies and dirty lies for $200..... trailmonkee Sep 2012 #4
To the Factmobile Batman! BrainMann1 Sep 2012 #5
a smart fact/bat-mobile.... trailmonkee Sep 2012 #6
LOL!!! Where is this pic from?? blaze Sep 2012 #12
just googled it... globalgeeknews.com trailmonkee Sep 2012 #14
at least that would fit in my garage TrogL Oct 2012 #22
Go Joe Go! SoapBox Sep 2012 #7
Republicans HATE this fact stuff Berlum Sep 2012 #8
For them, something is true if one of their authority figures says it is nxylas Sep 2012 #18
Fact check? Pffft! eissa Sep 2012 #9
Response to trail monkey redwhiteblue Sep 2012 #10
. trailmonkee Sep 2012 #11
I really, really, like your style redwhiteblue. Welcome to DU! n/t susanna Sep 2012 #16
Because I like to know the RW story before the rw's tell me Thinkingabout Sep 2012 #13
Because... CthulhusEvilCousin Sep 2012 #15
LOL! I love your posting name! Lisa0825 Sep 2012 #17
Thank you! CthulhusEvilCousin Sep 2012 #19
Brilliant. Tell the truth. Get the Fact-checkers checking. Spin that, Rommey/Ryan. cr8tvlde Sep 2012 #20
Thanks for another great post/link, trailmonkee, but... beac Sep 2012 #21

TrogL

(32,818 posts)
22. at least that would fit in my garage
Mon Oct 1, 2012, 03:08 PM
Oct 2012

A full-size car fits with inches to spare. None of the other Batmobiles will. They're either too long or too wide.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
18. For them, something is true if one of their authority figures says it is
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 07:14 AM
Sep 2012

Some time back, there was a website (can't remember the name of it, so not sure if it is still going) that billed itself as a conservative answer to Snopes. Unlike Snopes, with its pesky liberal concern for truth, this site only used cult-approved sources. So entries would go something like:

BARACK OBAMA WAS BORN IN HAWAII. FALSE. Glenn Beck done said he was born in Kenya.

eissa

(4,238 posts)
9. Fact check? Pffft!
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 06:01 PM
Sep 2012

That would require effort and research instead of just reading off a script.

LOVE JOE!

redwhiteblue

(29 posts)
10. Response to trail monkey
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 06:12 PM
Sep 2012

Ask ourselves if we will be better off after 4 years if the Republicans win the White House.
Will you be better off when your Social Security is cut and Medicare goes on a vouture system. Do you understand what the voucher system is? You will receive a voucher for $8, 000. Any medical bills over the $8,000 will be paid out of YOUR pocket.
When they cut back on teachers and education, firemen, policemen, college loans,vets benefits, medicaid, unions and collective bargaining, planned parenthood,and write new child labor laws,will you be better off? Gingerich suggested that POOR 6 year old children should get a job as a janitor.Santorum says President Obama is a snob because he wants all children to have a chance to go to college.
They refused to pass the Obama bill for new jobs. In all my years, I have never seen the Republican party so heartless and cruel. They are telling you right out what they will do. Do you think they won't do all these things? Will you be better off after 4 years of Romney ? WILL YOU BE SATISFIED WHEN THEY RAISE THE TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS BUT REFUSE TO RAISE THEM ON THE RICH?
Most of these things are in the Ryan budget. Believe it when they say what they will do.
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA and save the country.

susanna

(5,231 posts)
16. I really, really, like your style redwhiteblue. Welcome to DU! n/t
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 01:26 AM
Sep 2012

on edit: to make clear my response.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
13. Because I like to know the RW story before the rw's tell me
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 11:53 PM
Sep 2012

I listened to Hannity say how everything said at the DNC was lies, all lies and never did he point to one lie and what was the truth. He probably does not know about fact checkers. And then he can't let the dedicated faux listeners know DNC tells the truth, it would get him fired.

CthulhusEvilCousin

(209 posts)
15. Because...
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 01:16 AM
Sep 2012

Because Sean Vanity is stuck in Allan Colmes vs Hannity talking point wars. That's all he knows how to do.

beac

(9,992 posts)
21. Thanks for another great post/link, trailmonkee, but...
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 10:48 PM
Sep 2012

your new greasy-cackling Romney gif is the stuff of nightmares.


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