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AP ‘Fact Check’: Romney‘s ’Ghetto Language’ Ad, Obamacare, Israel & More

AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential Debate

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, look toward moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN as they participate in the Republican presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Editor’s Note: The following “fact check” was composed by the Associated Press. Below, find the inconsistencies the AP claims to have found during last night’s GOP debate:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a “ghetto language.” Close, but not quite.

Gingrich denies doing so and said he merely promoted the use of English, “period.” That’s even more of a stretch.

The last Republican presidential debate before the GOP Florida primary Thursday brought viewers a blitz of charges and countercharges over immigration, the financial lives of the candidates and more. Here are how some of the claims compare with the facts:

AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential DebateGINGRICH: “It’s taken totally out of context…. I did not say it about Spanish. I said in general about all languages. We are better for children to learn English in general, period.”

THE FACTS: At issue is Romney’s Spanish-language radio ad running in Florida that says Gingrich branded Spanish a ghetto language in a 2007 speech. In the contentious remarks in question, much more came after Gingrich’s “period.”

In his speech to the National Federation of Republican Women, Gingrich advocated making English the official language, a position he still holds, and added: “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”

He did not explicitly call Spanish a ghetto language. But at the time, the remark was widely taken to mean Spanish, overwhelmingly the main foreign language spoken in the United States and the primary language of many immigrants.

Gingrich recognized as much when, in response to a Hispanic backlash against his remark, he made an online video days after the speech in which he more or less apologized for his choice of words and for producing “a bad feeling within the Latino community.”

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ROMNEY on the same topic: “I doubt that’s my ad, but we’ll take a look and find out.”

THE FACTS: It’s his ad.

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AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential Debate

RICK SANTORUM: “You had a president of the United States that held (up) a Colombian free trade agreement. Colombia, who’s out there on the front lines working with us against the narco-terrorists, standing up to Chavez in South America – and what did we do? … The president of the United States sided with organized labor and the environmental groups and held Colombia hanging out to dry for three years.”

THE FACTS: When President Barack Obama took office, he actually tried to revive a free-trade deal with Colombia that had been negotiated by his Republican predecessor but left to languish without congressional approval, just as he tried to make similar progress with South Korean and Panamanian free-trade pacts. He bucked considerable opposition from organized labor and fellow Democrats in doing so.

Obama did hold off on submitting the three deals to Congress as his administration tried to negotiate more palatable terms to Democrats. He finally submitted them in 2011 and Congress approved them in the fall – with substantial GOP support and a fair amount of Democratic opposition.

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ROMNEY: “Obamacare takes over health care for the American people.”

THE FACTS: Obama’s health care overhaul does increase the role of the federal government in the health care system, but even after it is fully implemented in 2019, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says 56 percent of Americans under age 65 will be covered by employer plans, about the same share as today. That’s hardly a takeover.

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AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential Debate

ROMNEY: Fannie and Freddie are “offering mortgages again to people who can’t possibly repay them. We’re creating another housing bubble, which will hurt the American people.”

THE FACTS: If there is another housing bubble forming, most homebuilders, mortgage lenders and real estate agents would like to find it. Instead, the housing market remains depressed, with sales low and home prices falling.

Fannie and Freddie don’t sell or offer any mortgages. Their function has always been to support the housing market by purchasing mortgages from banks, packaging them into bonds and guaranteeing the bonds against default. This proved costly when the housing bubble burst: The two entities were formally taken over by the government in 2008 and have since cost taxpayers $150 billion.

The two mortgage giants are still functioning under government receivership, and now own or guarantee nearly all new mortgages, because banks are reluctant to make loans without the agencies’ support. But banks have significantly toughened their credit standards since the housing bubble and are requiring higher credit scores and bigger down payments. That is causing an increasing number of home sales contracts to fall through as would-be buyers are unable to get mortgage loans.

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AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential DebateSANTORUM: Criticized the Obama administration for its “abysmal treatment” of allies in Latin America, and said Obama has a “consistent policy of siding with the leftists, siding with the Marxists, siding with those who don’t support democracy.”

THE FACTS: Obama has not sided with the leading leftists, such as those ruling Cuba and Venezuela, and instead has roundly criticized them.

It‘s true that Latin America has been on the back burner for much of Obama’s tenure, as he concentrated on other parts of the world, including the Middle East. But Obama visited three countries in Latin America last year, and the Panamanian and Colombian trade agreements were part of the biggest round of trade liberalization since the North American Free Trade Agreement and other pacts of that era.

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AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential DebateROMNEY: “My investments are not made by me. My investments for the last 10 years have been in a blind trust, managed by a trustee.”

THE FACTS: Not all of his investments have been in a blind trust. Romney’s personal financial disclosure forms show he owned between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Federated Government Obligation Fund, which contained mutual-fund notes of politically sensitive Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. An addendum to Romney’ disclosure forms says that certain assets – including the federated fund – were outside the scope of his blind trust.

The investment was not on Romney’s 2007 financial form, making it a relatively new one – just as the housing and financial crises were hitting Americans full force.

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AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential DebateRON PAUL: Obama “promises to end the wars, but the wars expand.”

THE FACTS: By the most obvious measures, the wars are shrinking. Last month, the U.S. pulled its last troops out of Iraq, fulfilling a pledge by Obama to end the war there.

Obama did escalate America’s fight in Afghanistan, announcing in December 2009 that he was sending an additional 33,000 troops.

The U.S. and its NATO partners in late 2010 agreed to end the combat mission in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. As part of that plan, Obama fulfilled his promise to bring 10,000 troops home from Afghanistan by the end of last year, and is moving ahead with plans to pull an additional 23,000 out by this fall. There are now about 90,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

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AP Fact Check of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum & Paul in CNN Presidential DebateGINGRICH: “We’re in a continuous state of war where Obama undermines the Israelis.”

ROMNEY: “This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip.”

THE FACTS: Obama has spoken at length about the plight of the Israelis and has talked about an Israeli girl near Gaza who fears for her life because of the rocket attacks launched by Hamas. In a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Obama said both Israel and Palestine have a right to exist, but the U.S. does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. That’s not only the view of his administration; it’s long-held U.S. policy. Despite that, the administration sided with Israel by vetoing a U.N. resolution that would have condemned its settlement policy.

Comments (44)

  • ranger22x
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:08pm

    Here is an article from Boston Herald that sums up Mittens campaign! If we do not will win screw the voters!!

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20220127smoke_gets_in_mitts_guise/

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    • RJL
      Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:04am

      Our total collapse in producing a candidate is as follows. Bush 1, Dole, Bush 2,(started out good but was surrounded by Mass. liberals like Kerry and Romney) McCain and now the worst of the worst Willard (I saved the olympics) Romney.

      Willard sounds like John Kerry “I was in Vietnam” and Willards favorite “I saved the Olympics”

      Just what we need another north east liberal as in Romney.

      Ron Paul keeps looking better.

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    • RJL
      Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:36am

      Bring on the third party.

      (Pres.=Bachman )(Vic.=Palin) (Press Secr.=Newt ) (Finance=Ron Paul)
      (Spy=Romney, because he wants to be Demopublican)

      Romney could be in charge of olympics because as John Kerry said “I was in Vietnam” Willard said “I saved the olympics”

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    • RJL
      Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:47am

      Romney has totally ruined what was left of the Republican party. He has used the same hate filled tactics as the democrats. His lie soaked adds about Newt after Newt started in Iowa without all the negativity. We will never be united.

      I can see how he became so rich. Just stomping out his competitors with daddys money. You gotta have money to make money.

      Romney is the biggest of the biggest rhino that ever ran for a Republican office. (other than Scott Brown) He will never win over Obama.

      Did I mention he saved the olympics?

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    • RJL
      Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:49am

      Money truly corrupts and he has proven it!!!!

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    • RJL
      Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:01am

      Florida, you can’t be serious in voting for this guy. Please don’t let this millionaire continue to corrupt anymore the Republican party. His money corrupts the process.

      A vote for Willard (now it’s my turn to talk) Romney will bring on a third party. Trust me it will. Maybe thats what we need?

      Did I mention he saved the olympics?

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 2:10pm

    Vote for me for president. I will go back to the constitution and spend 4 years in office…not one minute more. I will eliminate the top liberals. They will rot in jail and never see the light ot day again. Obama will be thoroughly investigated and his fake citizenship revoked. He will be a house-boy in the Soros household in Indonesia somewhere. I will deport illegals and close the borders if I have to put a soldier with a machine gun every 100 yards (with orders to shoot). I will have a flat tax on the income tax issue. I will eliminate most rules on the second amendment and a gun in every home will be mandatory. Repeat offenders in the prison system will be executed. Laws against the rights of the majority will be repealed and everyone will be equal. I will outlaw lobbying and no congress/senate member can get money directly or inadvertently from any foreign source. Congress shall live by the laws that they pass. No more exempting themselves from the laws they pass. Whew..I am tired already.

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  • kalayaan
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 1:15pm

    WARNING: This is a fact check from the White House.

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    • HistoryFTW
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 1:47pm

      The AP is about as “nonpartisan” as the CBO; both are practically direct extensions of the white house.

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  • TEIN
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 12:59pm

    Are these really fact checks or spin?? There is a whole lot of opinion and “supposing” going on in these fact checks especially when it is facts relating to Pres. O….

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  • okieqt
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:55am

    This is not a fact check. It’s a Democrat response list. A “fact” is something that is indisputably the case. Most of the “facts” stated here are obviously opinions.

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    • Bobgood1
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 2:59pm

      @ OkieQT ——– I agree. It sounds like a thinly veiled “ Revise Addition ” from the WH.

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  • TRUTHSENSE
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:29am

    Do those idiots at AP realize that their attempt at showing Rick Santorum saying something untrue actually showed that what he said was in fact true? “Obama did hold off on submitting the three deals to Congress as his administration tried to negotiate more palatable terms to Democrats. He finally submitted them in 2011 and Congress approved them in the fall – with substantial GOP support and a fair amount of Democratic opposition.” Yes, Obama submitted the three deals to Congress in 2011, three years later just as Rick Santorum said.

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    • duncan1622
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 2:12pm

      As I was reading this Fact Check on Santorum I was I noticed the same thing. Thanks for pointing it out. AP is a joke.

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  • BODYBAG
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:18am

    This exchange was a massive embarrassment for WIllard McRomney.
    It also illustrates how clueless and ruthlessly dishonest he is.
    This wasnt a McRomney PAC ad….this was his OWN ad and he
    claims to not even know what’s in it?
    We already have a president like that and it aint working out well.

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    • MacPharlan
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:15am

      Really, with the hundreds and hundreds of adds out there, you really think the candidates know them all? Romney’s own campaign seems to be pretty careful in not running falsehoods, even this one shows that it holds truth.

      I don’t see why folks call him dishonest, watching and listening to him I sense that he is very honest, politicking, yes, campaigning yes, flat out lying, no.

      Newt is the only one I have seen flat out lie, and no one seems to care.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 3:29pm

      If I was a candidate and I was going to have an ad where I say I approved this message, I would darn sure want to watch it first before it aired and if my staff aired it beforehand, they would be fired.

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:02am

    Newt in 1999 “Theodore Roosevelt La Follette Progressive tradition” http://youtu.be/GjKlxVFHJPs

    “The populist movement and the progressive moment profoundly changed America for the better.” Newt at a forum with Ralph Nader, aired 2/21/2002. http://youtu.be/zex6qptVIPU

    Newt Gingrich: “Increase the Size of the State Department by 50%” http://youtu.be/U51paRRllvk

    Newt Gingrich the Big-Government Progressive http://youtu.be/bH_h4hrrYjA

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    • Babeuf
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:05am

      And Progressive insurance is BAD! They will lock you in your car and take you away to FEMA Camps! Lets get hung up on semantics. What did Liberal used to mean? Has Newt increased the size of the State Dept? What was the size of it then? What about RomneyCare? What about Romney saying and doing “Progressivism”? Lets use language to further an agenda. Ubeenchanged? Progress AHHHHHHHHHHHH! Alternative to main stream media my A$$! Restoring Love? Let’s Get Em!

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:39am

      Thank you babeuf.. Contacts change and times change. One good example is – we did not know for sure what was going on with global wwarming- soon to be know n as climate change. We did not have the evidence of the conspiracy behind it that we now have. Likewise- Environmental used to mean one thing, but for the progs it has always meant socialist change. Everyone needs to lay off Newt a little bit. He has been pretty solid whee actuality and common sense are concerned. The hijacking of word and wikipediazation (new word for wiki) has been elastic and political.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:26pm

      Look guys, the only thing I have against Gingrich is the fact that he lied to the people when he became speaker by saying: “While I am speaker, I will not allow any anti-second amendment legislation pass through the floor of the house.” He became speaker and then not only allowed two anti-second amendment bills to go through, but also voted for both of them. He was kicked out for ethics violations and I am tired of corrupt politicians that say anything to get your vote. Romney seems to me to be exactly the type of politician to say anything to get your vote also. Santorum, he just seems to want to go to war with everyone and thinks that profiling should be a norm in our country and to me that is scary. Paul, he seems to be the most honest candidate that we have ever had and that is why I am voting for him come heII or high water. I do not care about the phony newsletter crap, the foreign policy crap, but I am interested in the fact that he seems to have the only solution to our economic problem, which if left the same, will cause our destruction as a country. People need to wake up or it will not matter how strong our military is or if Iran gets a nuke, we will not be in a position to help anyone once the dollar collapses.

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  • vaman
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:57am

    The language of global commerce, business, trade and general civilized society is English. That should be the official language of the US. Spanish is a ghetto language and good for Newt to point that out. Contrary to those coming from south of the border, Spanish will not take hold in this country. I know California would like that, but the rest of us do not.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:56am

    Romney is pitiful.. He is a divider. He wants to be President way too badly. Newt‘s heart is always int he right place where America’s interests are concerned. He is not a career Candidate for President. He stepped down from Power, not in disgrace as Romney claims, but because he thought it was better to step aside at the time.
    Newt stood against Clinton’s IRS/CIA/FBI and Pelosi and cleared 83 of 83 charges that were UNFOUNDED! That is as clean as it gets!

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:22am

      hahahahahaha … Drink kool aide much ?? You seriously believe what you just wrote ?? Newt Gingrich, the man who has never worked a real job in his life, just like Obama, learning how to use political power and influence to get rich, getting rid of his wife two decades ago because she wasn‘t pretty enough to be President’s wife, You have to be an Evangelical, one of these ones who is flooded in the nonsense that just saying you are a born again clears your way to heaven.Here is a little insight to your God sent man Newt “”He (Gingrich) said, ‘You know and I know that she’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a president,’ ” Carter, who now lives in South Carolina, told CNN recently, relating the conversation he had with Gingrich the day Gingrich revealed he was filing for divorce. Carter served as treasurer of Gingrich’s first congressional campaigns.”~ I am sure you wouldn’t believe he left his family BROKE and STARVING either, huh ??”When Jackie Gingrich and her daughters moved from their other home in Fairfax, Virginia, back to their house in Carrollton, Georgia, there were “no lights, no heat, no water, no food in the home,” former Gingrich friend and academic colleague Carter said.

      Carter, who helped collect donations for the family, said Gingrich “wouldn’t give them a dime” in the first months of the separation.” No, he wasn’t a sociopath looking to be president. WAKE UP !! http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/politics/gingrich-divorce-

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    • spankadonkey
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:08am

      HOBB- And your savior Ron FRAUD Paul has spent the better part of his live in Congress and never accomplished one thing. What a guy.

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:44am

      Hobb- Where is your evidence? Same place as “Newt left his wife on her deathbed”? The same wife who is getting paid to ‘give her side’ to the media who ignore that they were separated for 6 years before Newt said he would not turn his back on Calista – right up front in the face of some reconciliation with the exwife? What do you know of their personal business? What you hear 5th hand?

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    • marion
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 12:54pm

      Hobbs, you need to check the record of Newt, it is pretty impressive on the Conservative side of the isle. We can rule out the marriage problems, it takes two to stay happy, there are a lot of us divorced in the world, would rather have a person divorced and happy to be productive than see marriages like the Hillary and Bill Clinton mockery.

      If you want to call Newt rich, better compare it to Mitt’s. His income, if you wish to compare to get an example of the difference is, last year he made about $20million off investments! Let’s just say for example he did better than the rest of us on their returns (I lost money on my IRA along with most people), so if he got a 10 percent return, which would be very high and very good, that’s still over $200million invested. Not attacking Capitalism or anything like that, but that still pales what all the other candidates combined are worth, let alone interest on investments. Remember, we are in a very bad economy, so my concern with Mitt is not that he is rich, but what might he do for his friends? Look what BHO has done for his supporters? We taxpayers are in the rears for tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars with no gain. A 15 percent flat tax does sound better than 25 percent, and I like the sounds of bringing government down to the revenues brough in, VICE raise revenues to meet the government requirements (as Newt says).

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  • MS-GlenNBC
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:43am

    Glenn is back at the Newt Bashing..

    Upcoming we have actual video of Gingrich saying he is a Progressive.

    What about this video of Romney saying he is a progressive.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dMcjJEXt9To

    Santorum wiped Romney’s Ass last night with Healthcare and Glenn wants to talk about Gingrich being a progressive.

    You make the decision.

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    • MacPharlan
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 1:21pm

      It is not just that he said ‘progressive’, (I think we need to be careful to judge word use from different times), but also whom his idles are, FDR, Wilson, big gov folks. Many, many clips on Newt talking about FDR as the greatest pres of the 20th Century, yet he never mentions that on the trail?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:40am

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    The A.P. can Fact Check all it want’s……

    The Fact is we still don’t have a George Washington. All we got is a Newt, a Mitt, a Rick and a NutJob…..

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:57am

      R.P. is far from a nutjob Monkey. Do you know what Romney’s grand plan to cut government spending is? He wants to cut $500 billion by the end of his first TERM! We’re currently borrowing $1.5 trillion a year. Bold, aint it?

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    • spankadonkey
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:12am

      GONZO – I agree, Ron Paul is not a nutjob. But Ron Paul is a certifiable FRAUD. Waht a guy.

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    • justangry
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Who certified RP as a fraud?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:33am

    Since when is the A.P. the arbiter of truth?

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  • nocalifornia
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:32am

    I love how you guys at the Blaze disguise a Newt bash as a Romney fact check. LAMO LDS RINO politics at its worst, you all should be ashamed of yourselves especially Beck. If Beck and the Blaze are going to be so transparent in their support of Romney then they should come out and say it and stop trying to screw the rest of the field. Just so lame stream media of you all, yes that was an insult.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:26am

    The Barrycare taking over 50% of the healthcare obligation is Not taking over healthcare.?? And since when is the AP an unbiasede player inthe info wars. The AP, along with 99% of the LSM is in Barry’s underwear.

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    • spankadonkey
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:16am

      Agreed, this AP “fact check” sounded more like a campaign ad for OBummer.

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:23am

    I wish the blaze would stop using the biased AP for “fact” checking and do it themselves. I do not trust the AP. Who are they anyway? I thought the blaze was going to do more investigative journalism?

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  • capnbrit
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:21am

    Sound like AP needs to be fact checked – anyone up to it?

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  • theninthplanet
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:11am

    Yeah AP, I’m calling BS on Israel. Obama advocated using the 1967 lines to redraw the map… how is that pro-Israel?

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  • Babeuf
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:07am

    If Romney gets the nomination, I am sure that this is going to come out, whether true or not I do not know….
    Mitt Romney involved in Medicare Fraud
    http://www.redstate.com/williamjameson/2012/01/20/mitt-romney-involved-in-medicare-fraud/
    Obama has instant access to all medicare and justice records, don‘t think they won’t use this.

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  • neiman1
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:05am

    If you cannot speak the main language of a country you will not succeed. If you live in China you will struggle if you only speak English. This is just common sense. If we want immigrants from any country to succeed we need English taught first. We don’t need to educate them in their own language unless they are headed back home.

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  • READRIGHTHERE
    Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:47pm

    The problem with Romney’s promise is that repeal is contingent on the make-up of congress. A President does not have the power to simply repeal any legislation that passed into law. Repeals take majority votes (not clear if that means simple or super) but nonetheless it is not a given that if elected President he would even have the power to make a difference. Repeal depends on us and whether or not we pack the house and senate with like minded lawmakers. The foolishness isn’t that Romney may be flip flopping by choice on the issue, its that he made the mistake (that everyone else has as well) of stating that he will repeal it, because he may well not be able to.

    The elephant in the room (pun intended) is that our hospitals are required by law to administer care, First aid and beyond if necessary, to stabilize a patients status making it possible for healing or transfer to another facility without first requiring payment. In other words, any person in this country has a legal right to receive care if a facility is open for business, even without paying for it. This must be addressed in some manner. Romneycare, was an attempt to reduce risk to hospitals and to eliminate non-payers (get insurance or pay your bill.) Democrats in Massachusetts have morphed into an entitlement. The answer to our health care issues lie in their cost, which is astronomical and unsustainable in a free market. Without intervention the price will be contigent on the market, as it should be.

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