Fact Checking the Fox News-WSJ debate in South Carolina

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And then there were five ... which made for a feisty evening of misstatements. We focused on 11, and may come back for more later in the week. Let’s take them in the order in which they were made.

“As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.”
— Newt Gingrich

Former president Clinton would be shocked at this description, since he always credited the 22 million jobs created during his presidency to the deficit-reduction package he narrowly passed early in his tenure without a single GOP vote.

Gingrich led the charge against that bill, which included higher taxes on wealthy Americans. In any case, a key contributor to the booming economy — and the government surplus — in that period had little to do with government actions: the computer technology boom of the mid-1990s.

lots more......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-the-fox-news-wsj-debate-in-south-carolina/2012/01/16/gIQAVBuh4P_blog.html?hpid=z1

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1. Good idea for the Post to narrow it down to only 11 whoppers

I mean, "misstatements." Otherwise, they'd fill up the internets with Republican debate lies. Dammit, I mean "misstatements."

[Muskypundit]

2. Checking for facts.... nope didnt find any.

Try again in 2016 guys...

[lpbk2713]

3. Speaker Gingrich shut down the federal govt during the Clinton Presidency.

That doesn't sound a hell of a lot like working with him to me.