Many Chamber ads attacking House Dems contain debunked falsehoods, distortions

Last week I noted that the ads that have been bankrolled by Karl Rove's groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against Senate Dem candidates across the country have been widely debunked by independent fact-checkers for their multiple falsehoods and distortions.

Turns out the same is true of the Chamber's ads against House Democrats. These Chamber ads, which are running or have run in multiple districts across the country, contain many claims that are demonstrable distortions or have been repeatedly debunked as false by independent fact-checkers.

This is the side of this story that continues to unfold under the media radar. Much of the media focus has been on the high-profile Beltway spat between these groups and the White House and Dems over their undisclosed donors. But the ads themselves are not receiving anywhere near the high-profile media scrutiny that Dem claims about the Chamber have -- even though they constitute a massive national campaign flooding airwaves in multiple races that could tip the balance of power in Congress.

Here's a rundown of the Chamber ads attacking House Dems that contain the debunked claims:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/many_chamber_ads_attacking_hou.html

by telling the people the truth, or showing them helpful ways to look at things.

Because if the cons did this, they wouldn't win.

lies.

Best.response.ever. :thumbsup:

This is hilarious.



An excerpt from the Chamber's response:


So the basis for the claim that this is a government takeover of health care is based on a public option that didn't pass, people being added to Medicaid and mandated private insurance?

Yet the Chamber claims that its opposition to health care reform is a myth