Fact Checkers Ding Romney On A Few Familiar Points
August 31, 2012; by Mark Memmott

Among the things the Republican Party’s presidential candidate is hearing this morning about the address he gave Thursday night is that “in a speech heavy on anecdotal history but short on policy details, Mitt Romney avoided major falsehoods.”
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but that analysis from the nonpartisan FactCheck.org is cheery compared to what the organization said about the acceptance speech that GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan gave to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. It contained “several false claims and misleading statements,” FactCheck concluded. (We rounded up the morning-after fact checks of Ryan’s speech here and here.)
Still, as with nearly all speeches given by candidates from both major parties, the fact checkers are finding fault with some of the things Romney said at the close of the GOP convention in Tampa: Continue reading “Fact Checkers Ding Romney On A Few Familiar Points”