FACT CHECK: Gingrich energy ad errs on facts

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Published Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

FACT CHECK: Gingrich energy ad errs on facts
By DINA CAPPIELLO

WASHINGTON A 28-minute political ad offers a candidate something sound bites can never capture - a chance to explore a subject in depth.

But in the case of Newt Gingrich's unusual extended commercial on American energy policy, it just means more time for mistakes.

In the ad, Gingrich offers a pain-free prescription for cheap energy that betrays a misunderstanding of how oil markets work, blames President Barack Obama for suppressing development that is actually on the rise, criticizes a dependence on Iranian oil that doesn't exist and misstates the facts behind the deaths of migratory birds in oil waste pits in North Dakota.

He also pledges to make the country more energy independent, but calls for scrapping fuel economy standards - one of the best ways to curb the U.S. appetite for oil and decrease foreign imports.

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Read more: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/02/24/1839095/fact-check-gingrich-energy-ad.html

Also: Newt Gingrich Needs New Fact-Checkers (The Atlantic Wire)

[Kalidurga]

1. Whoops

I read the headline to mean, that Gingrich accidentally had some facts in his ad.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Again? And this is news?

Give me a statement that he makes that is factual, and THAT will be something to write home about!