politifact, you are fired.nglish language by pretending to it in your name. the english language wants their word back. you are an em baurs minute. you have sullied it. you are fired. >> i love that clip. >> my goodness. >> she was right and she was totally right. here's the thing. getting to this bubble thing, i was wasn't guest hosting for rachel and we had senator brown on. he said my opponent is running this add and even politifact, independent fact checker has laid it on the line. i said, no, no, no, i don't trust politifact. this show doesn't trust politifact and we can't have that sort of situation. >> what's the expectation? that's what we we have to ask. what is thomas jefferson asking for? he's wishing for people to care if the facts are wrong. >> right. >> there were scientific studies out a year ago that said a large swath of voters, when they're presented with facts that contradict their ideology, they actually dig in more on their own belief system. and i don't think it's just limited to conservat

so we now have 11 states politifact sites, politifact ohio, politifact wisconsin, et cetera, where wehave trained journalists at newspapers and at new hampshire public radio how did you politifact fact-checking if they do it. doesn't have to be a big organization. they don't have to put up multiple people. we have our smallest partner is nashua telegraph, a newspaper with circulation of about 17,000 faq great fact-checking on the leaders of new hampshire. so we collectively now, politifact has 36 full-time fact checkers around the country. we have talked to many tv stations. none have been willing to make a commitment to it yet, but i can see that happening. so tell them to call me. >> meredith, also as a partial answer, when campaigns put out new ads, ap tries to look at them and do what we call an ad watch. it's sort of like fact-checking version but it's just for television ads. and we try to do those within the first day or two after a new ad comes out, and we can do all them, but if the ad happens to be an added they're dealing with happens to be one of those, there may be some r

politifact has a rating. we tally those ratings because our readers ask for it, but that is as far as we go. what is interesting, and i do not put a lot of stock in it, but it is fun to see what people do with our work. there is a guy in ohio that has a word in it that i cannot say on c-span, it begins "who is more full of," and i am not sure how revealing that is. >> the average pinocchio ratings, it gives an average. again, it is a little self selective in terms of what we look at. between obama and romney, and they are both in the two range. michele bachmann -- i do not know what it necessarily tells you, but it is sort of a fun thing to look at. it does provide you links to every single fact check that i or my colleagues have done for the candidates. >> excuse me. >> good morning. david, george mason university. i think we have seen in the campaign so far that both candidates are in the position of being challenged. flip-plopped positions. i have noticed so far that both governor romney and president obam

. >> reporter: politifact says president obama has kept 37% of his campaign promises. he's compromised on some and broken 16% of them outright. that leaves another third either stalled or in the works. was barack obama deliberately misleading to get votes or is the intransigence in washington just too hard to overcome? to some, none of that matters. the only question now, can they trust barack obama? we know for a fact president obama did not create the economic crisis, but has he done enough to fix it? is he the man to stand up to the economic storm that we know is headed our way? i want to bring in don peebles, he owns a real estate development firm, he's a democrat, a top fund-raiser for the obama campaign. good to see you. don, why has the president only come through on 37% of his promises? >> you know, politics is one of the areas, unlike business, in business you can underpromise and overdeliver and in politics you've got to overpromise to get elected, but let's look at this. the president has actually fulfilled many of his promises. he killed bin laden, he saved

they were from people with the fact, the washington post, and the -- politifact, "the washington post," and [unintelligible] this is one-and-a-half hours. >> good morning. my name is kathleen hall jamieson. i direct the annenberg public policy center at university of pennsylvania. welcome to our session -- this includes sessions trying to address the question, what is the role of journalism in a debunking deceptions and holding candidates accountable? to set the fringe for our discussion, we are releasing the results of a survey of adults, with a margin of error of 3.2%. we will offer as our conclusion that the public has a lot to learn about the 2012 presidential race. also, we will say that those who seek out fact checking on the internet, do no more. here are specifics. a sizable proportion of the public fails to understand the plan and records of major presidential candidates. when people watch debates, the level of knowledge improves. we expect in the second, third, and third wave of the study, to find that in these areas we have seen an increase of accurate reporting of candidat

. >> reporter: politifact says the president has flat-out broken 83 promises. here's one promise broken by both campaigns this season. >> one of the things we have to change in our policy is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other's character and each other's patriotism. >> reporter: the delegates are excited to hear president obama. >> he'll do it with his own style. i don't think anybody can match bill clinton with the way he did his speech last night. and president obama will explain everything and talk from his heart. >> reporter: former president bill clinton dazzled delegates and many pundits. >> we simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double-down on trickle down. >> across the world in an ambassador's residence, the secretary of state watched her husband's speech, riveted. it's possible she didn't blink even once. >> reporter: this evening, president obama will say, you elected me to tell you the truth, and the truth is, it will take more than a few years to solve challenges that have built

megyn: when you see that pants object fire that politifact gave the romney sad do you agree with thatree with pants on fire. i think the fact of the matter is -- i go back to -- if this authority to do with the administration has just done as always existed why are they doing it in july of 2012 instead of soon after he was inaugurated in 2009? megyn: why are they doing that? >> i leave that for the conclusion but it has to do with issues of mobilizing people they hope will turn out for them and vote. megyn: are you a partisan guy, russell? >> not at all. i have been in different parties all my life. i ran the program fairly and equitably in new york. i just believe in work. >> i'm not partisan. i like to call them as i see them. megyn: thank you so much for being here. all the best. the story behind an intriguing political photo that is vice president biden in the middle and a female biker who appears to be sitting in his lap. that's next. my brother doesn't look like heart attack patient. i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you beg

politifact has a rating. we tally those ratings because our readers ask for it, but that is as far as we go. what is interesting, and i do not put a lot of stock in it, but it is fun to see what people do with our work. there is a guy in ohio that has a word in it that i cannot say on c-span, it begins "who is more full of -- " and i am not sure how revealing -- it begins "who is more full of," and i am not sure how revealing that is. >> the average pinocchio ratings, it gives an average. again, it is a little self selective in terms of what we look at. between obamamania -- obama and mitt romney, and they are both indian -- obama and romney, they are both in the two range. michele bachmann -- i do not know what it necessarily tells you, but it is sort of a fun thing to look at. it does provide you links to every single fact check that i or my colleagues have done for the candidates. >> excuse me. >> good morning. david, george mason university. i think we have seen in the campaign so far that both candidates

now, politifact is one of those independent fact checkers.is from the "tampa bay times," they objectively evaluate lies in campaigns and they found that of mitt romney's statements of his statements, 42% were rated somewhat false and 9% of them were pants on fire lies! for the president 27% of the ads were somewhat false and 1% pants on fire lies. you don't want anybody lying about anything but who is the bigger liar here? here are some of the top romney whoppers. the ones that have earned him the legendary four pinocchios rating from "the washington post"'s fact checker greg kessler. so there was the four pinocchios lie about welfare. that false claim that obama wanted to take the work requirement out of welfare. that's false. four pinocchios false. four pinocchios is the highest amount of lying you can do. a romney ad that took the president's quote on the economy completely out of context, that was also awarded four pinocchios. then there's the campaign's recent use of a 14-year-old clip out of context from obama using the word redistribut

apologizing for america's values when people who have checked us out like in "the washington post," politifactsaid that's a four pinocchio statement. that's an utter lie. the president hasn't gone around the world apologizing. can you give me one example of when the president apologizeed? >> we've seen in cairo and we've seen even in the statement that came out of embassy cairo after the attack that this super uber -- >> jennifer: you think that was an apology for america? >> this super conciliatory approach that if we somehow -- you know, are super understanding, we bow down to foreign leaders we apologize for mistakes -- >> jennifer: wait, what you're suggesting though is that we should -- that america sort of absorbs that ridiculous movie. that it is okay with us. that we don't distance ourselves from something because it didn't come from american government, that movie. >> it certainly wasn't. that's why we shouldn't be apologizing for it. that youtube clip has nothing to do with the u.s. government. >> jennifer: isn't that the point? >> the point is we believe in freedom of speech. >> jen

we have not -- politifact was created in 2007.able about president obama's promises there are so many of them, 508 campaign promises he made in 2008. a lot of them presidents can do with executive order. but many of them were include in the economic stimulus bill that he pushed through congress and health care bill. he's had some notable promise kept. also had some notable promises broken. he promised to bring the parties together for a bipartisan agenda, something that he's been stymied at doing. he promised to close guantanamo bay and repeal the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. all in all, our obamameter tracks them all so your viewers can take a look at it. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> thanks, thomas. other news we're following, we're learning a hoaxing sparked an emergency landing of a dallas bound flight in philadelphia. this morning police rushed on board u.s. airways flight 1267, removing the passengers, arresting one man named christopher shell. investigators said they called officials that shell was trying to smuggle s

politifact lifted it. they said her pants were on fire.ets said that i quoted her accurately. neither one are partisan conservative outlets. >> we saw the congresswoman a few hours ago at the presidential rally but this is not the first time she's been challenged about her remarks. are these incidents you think affecting her job as a dnc chair when you're there in washington listening to people? is she in danger of becoming an issue for the campaign, you think? >> look, i don't want to speculate beyond what my reporting was. i'm here to talk about her accusations about me. i don't kind of want to get into the analysis of whether she's damaging democrats or not. >> all right. philip klein, thank you. we appreciate you coming on. if the congresswoman is not here to defend herself, she was on last night, if she'd like to come back on, we'll have her back on as well. philip klein, requests washington examiner," thank you. >>> is she a distraction to the president's re-election efforts? her answer coming up at 7:00 p.m. stay tuned. >>> the reas

. >> reporter: politifact evaluated the obama score c.o.r.d. promises made and said that 190% are kept, and 81 were broken. >> i will follow through on closing guantanamo. >> reporter: that was broken. legal hurdles prevented him from closing guantanamo bay. and also, preventing the bush tax cuts for the very rich. and with states like florida and nevada trying to recover from a crippling mortgage crisis, there is no promised $10 million foreclosure prevention fund. >> he made sweeping promises of changing the culture of washington and bringing the parties together and he ran into trouble there. there has been a real realization on the part of the white house that some of the things that he said back there in the 2008 campaign were not realistic in the way that washington operates. >> reporter: the list goes on and no comprehensive immigration reform, and no cap and trade system, but the white house would rather focus on the promises kept like health care refo reform. i is controversial, but the measure is law, and the president bailed out the

. >> this is from politifact. [applause] they checked a romney campaign claim that obama will end welfare work requirements, rating it "pants on fire." that, i believe -- i do not know what that means, but clearly that would be uncomfortable. in reality, the obama administration has said it will consider proposals from states aimed at finding better ways of getting welfare recipients into jobs. factcheck.org and the washington post fact checker have said the same, that the claim is false. [applause] what do you say? >> allow me to respond. >> the truth tour begins tonight. [laughter] >> i should have set that up to point out that the beginning of that was hermann cain maintain the same point the romney campaign had, that the obama administration is getting rid of the work requirement. what i thought that showed was the importance of fact checkers in this campaign. i really think, and brandon and glenn and i were talking about how things are different this time compared to 2008. there is more fact checking than eve

top-10 kept promises were -- those are some of the promises and unkept promises, according to politifacth in florida. what do you want to talk about? caller: i want to talk about the degree to twin the democrats and republicans. the democrats, they know how to govern. but they do not really used the right talking points. republicans, they do not know how to govern. they are about money, power, and control. the democrats, they look out for the whole country. everybody, think about this. how could you bring this country down like you did and then not even try to help fix what you did? i do not understand why anybody would go back and vote for the party that does not do anything for them, but just 41% in the country. host: betty is a -- but just for the 1% in the country. host: betty in davenport caller:, florida good morning. -- host: betty in davenport, florida. caller: good morning. i am an 80-year-old lady. my partner is 86. my father was a democrat and my mother's a republican. both sides were highly educated. my mother was a schoolteacher and they taught me politics every night. i hav

research or blogging about what some of these things mean, fact checks, which i like better than politifact, i'm not sure the average american vote ser listening to some of this. i think that might be part of the narrative that the democrats are going to use in charlotte here at the convention, are some of the facts, and they should reiterate those facts, and you can't be selective about some of these, as many people criticize republicans. people have said that the conventions really give the candidates unfiltered access to the american public. i quite frankly think that it may be unfiltered for those few minutes but it's overanalyzed, so that's one way that people, the american voter, can listen to these, and see. and of course, it depends on where you're listening. if it's fox, if it's msnbc, if it's c-span, if it's cnn, they take very different approaches to how they're going to dissect that speech. host: north carolina on the line now, greeneville, max, independent, welcome to the program. caller: hey ms. roberts, thank you for coming on today. guest: thanks. caller: there was a piece i

one of the examples that i would give is to checked politifact. whenever they give up facts about the president and romney -- did he really do that stuff? then instead of coming back, if obama is not 100% on a point, they will find some way or some small percentage to show that he was not exactly a perfectly right therefore he is discredited, too. i'm wondering how does the media find to be objective and just to speak the truth instead of being concerned about the fallout and the politics? host: from "the washington times," ralph nader saying obama should be poised for a landslide victory that will swing congress back instead he is running a selfish campaigned and has done little to help as party on capitol hill. host: this is also in "the washington times," man behind insulting video arrested. back to your calls on media coverage of campaign 2012. in illinois, independent line. caller: thank you for c-span. i think c-span is pretty fair in its coverage but the liberal media is totally biased. we even have this on a local level. they just run the

[all talking at once] shea-porter: politifact said you are wrong. >> moderator: hold on. one more question we would love to get you. that is to mike cody. you will have 30 seconds i believe for the last question. thank you for your patience. >> mr. guinta. you like small government. can you name one business helped by government funding? guinta: one business helped by government funding, i don't know one that has been helped by government funding. >> same question. miss shea porter. promote more activist government. is there a business that you can have. --. shea-porter: let me answer his question. bae has 90% defense contracts. they do good defense work. as for businesses hurt, anytime a small business has too much, too much regulation that hurts them. it is our responsibility to seek that out and make sure that they are not overburdened by any kind of paperwork there. but in general. small businesses have benefited from the small business administration and big businesses benefited from a lot of tax cuts and supports for them. >> moderator: all right. thank you both. it