Fact Check: Thursday (Jan 26) Florida Debate

[JaneQPublic]

More Florida Fouls

Newt Gingrich falsely claimed he never favored a federal mandate requiring individuals to have health insurance. Rick Santorum claimed five times more people are seeking free care at Massachusetts hospitals because of Mitt Romney’s health care law — a claim contradicted by official statistics.

Romney repeated a false accusation that President Obama failed to denounce Hamas rocket attacks in a speech to the United Nations. And Santorum insisted that Muslim terrorists are seeking missile bases in Cuba — a wild claim based most likely on mistranslations of an Italian newspaper report.

These were among the factual fouls that we noted as four GOP presidential candidates met for yet another debate. This one, the final debate prior to Florida’s Jan. 31 primary, took place Jan. 26 at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., and was carried live on CNN.

For the rest of our full coverage of the Jan. 26 GOP presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Fla, please see our website: http://factcheck.org/2012/01/more-florida-fouls/

[tabatha]

1. Before any debate, I think it should be mandated that

factchecks of the previous debate be read to the audience.

[JaneQPublic]

2. Excellent idea! (nt)

[msongs]

3. now that is a great idea :-) nt

[Sherman A1]

4. It would appear

That the conservatives are a bit "conservative" with the truth.

[JaneQPublic]

5. LOL! A sparsely used commodity, indeed! (nt)

[AFord]

6. re: fact check

Republicans are having enough trouble, so scale the standard to allowing at least seven fouls before holding them accountable. As much as it irks me to watch, just seems they are throwing "wild punches"--for lack of a better analogy--and hoping they will land, but only seems to serve notice they are no match for President Obama this year--sigh