Monday, August 30, 2004
To Be FAIR...
Fairness and Accuracy in Media is doing good work blowing down some of the silliness coming from conservative pundits and lazy reporters who parrot them. Unfortunately, FAIR's also guilty of trying too hard, themselves.
Claim: Kerry voted against 13 different weapon systems, including the M1 tank, the Trident Submarine, the Patriot Missile, the B-1 bomber.
Fact: Most of these votes didn't come seperately, but were included in a single vote: the vote against a 1991 defense appropriations bill.
In other words, Kerry voted against the weapons systems the same way McCain voted against breast cancer victims.
Nevertheless, the fact that Kerry was out in the fringe on the vote tells you something in itself.
But that kind of political rhetoric is irritating.
Claim: John Kerry gutted the defense community by seeking a 1.5 billion dollar cut in intelligence expenditures earlier this year.
Fact: True. But Kerry's sought-after cut was actually much, much smaller than the 3.8 billion dollar reduction that was actually passed by a Republican congress.
Claim: Kerry voted for higher taxes 350 times.
Fact: You can only arrive at that figure by counting votes to keep taxes the same, as well as votes to reduce them by less than Republicans wanted.
The claim, as written, remains true, though, since in each case Kerry voted for the higher of competing tax rates. A vote for higher taxes is not the same as a vote to raise taxes. And no one ever made such a claim.
Claim: Kerry voted against 13 different weapon systems, including the M1 tank, the Trident Submarine, the Patriot Missile, the B-1 bomber.
Fact: Most of these votes didn't come seperately, but were included in a single vote: the vote against a 1991 defense appropriations bill.
One of the few reporters to take a serious look at the RNC's list—on which 10 of the 13 items refer to the single 1991 vote on an appropriations bill—was Slate's Fred Kaplan (2/25/04). Kaplan noted that 16 senators, including five Republicans, voted against the bill, and concluded that the claim against Kerry "reeks of rank dishonesty." Kaplan also pointed out that at the time of the 1991 vote, deeper cuts in military spending were being advocated by some prominent Republicans—including then-President George H.W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who was secretary of defense at the time.
In other words, Kerry voted against the weapons systems the same way McCain voted against breast cancer victims.
Nevertheless, the fact that Kerry was out in the fringe on the vote tells you something in itself.
But that kind of political rhetoric is irritating.
Claim: John Kerry gutted the defense community by seeking a 1.5 billion dollar cut in intelligence expenditures earlier this year.
Fact: True. But Kerry's sought-after cut was actually much, much smaller than the 3.8 billion dollar reduction that was actually passed by a Republican congress.
Claim: Kerry voted for higher taxes 350 times.
Fact: You can only arrive at that figure by counting votes to keep taxes the same, as well as votes to reduce them by less than Republicans wanted.
The claim, as written, remains true, though, since in each case Kerry voted for the higher of competing tax rates. A vote for higher taxes is not the same as a vote to raise taxes. And no one ever made such a claim.
Comments:
Each year taxes must rise with inflation or the government will not have enough money to pay its debts
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