AP FACT CHECK: In Republican debate, flubs and funny numbers

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Ben Carson botched the economic effect of minimum wage increases. Jeb Bush again pitched a dubious target for economic growth. Marco Rubio, in a tale about plumbers and philosophers, undersold the value of a college education.

And Ted Cruz showed just how hard it can be to name government agencies when, just like Rick Perry four years ago in a famously misbegotten moment in a GOP debate, he messed up the list of departments he would close as president.

The fourth debate of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign was thick on economic policy — and with that came a variety of flubs and funny numbers.

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Bush and other Republican candidates suggested that Dodd-Frank sparked bank consolidations, but the mergers actually started in 2008 under George W. Bush. During that year alone, as the market melted down, Wells Fargo took over Wachovia, JP Morgan Chase bought Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns, and Bank of America acquired both Countrywide Mortgage and Merrill Lynch.



http://news.yahoo.com/ap-fact-check-republican-debate-032854138.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. The more "debates" the GOP has the more lies and repeating of the lies happens......will

the clown car occupants also now turn on the moderators and the liberal media....except for Fox of course because they are different.

Except this propaganda act was ON Fox, so who will be able to rush out with a meme to claim the victimhood mantle now - without bashing the "liberal media"?....this will be interesting.

[Xyzse]

2. Don't you know that some complain that FOX News is too liberal?

[Fred Sanders]

3. I think "liberal" is secret code for "non-believers", as heard by the Fox-brainwashed zombies.

Liberal media, liberal economics, liberal policies, liberals believing in the creative force of hurricanes through junkyards rather than believing in magic.....the religious extremists will tolerate no non-believers.

[Xyzse]

4. You're probably right.

I tend to think, that for some of them, it is whomever provides them information that proves them wrong.

[underpants]

6. That's because the really really WHACKED organizations have channels now too

World Net Daily
The Blaze (Glenn Beck)
And some others

Right wingers can now binge watch conspiracy theories and news that tries to out crazy Fox.

[underpants]

5. A big Ofer. Carson said China is in Syria?!?

[wiggs]

7. These fact checking articles are misleading in themselves...they pick a few of the many

distortions and mistruths to highlight rather than all of them. And there were a lot more. Even some of the questions weren't accurate.