GOP Fact Check
Are the GOP presidential candidates being truthful?
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A presidential candidate is only as good as his word, and the six remaining Republican presidential candidates have been slinging quite a few to win over voters. Ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, BET.com discovered where candidates line up and where they fall short. According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center, presidential Mitt Romney’s repeated and prominent claim that he created 100,000 jobs through his work with private equity firm Bain Capital is misleading because there is no clear count of jobs lost as well as created in the multiple companies in which the firm invested. —Britt Middleton(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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Does Newt Gingrich Really Believe All Food-Stamp Recipients Are Black? - Newt Gingrich resurrected the racist stereotype that the majority of food stamps recipients are Black when he said that if he were invited to the NAACP convention hosted in Houston, he would go and “talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” According to the Department of Agriculture, roughly 40 million Americans receive food stamps. Out of that number, 13.4 million are white, 8.9 million are African-American, and 6.6 million are Latino. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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Did Jon Huntsman Stretch the Truth on Gas and Oil? - At the final GOP presidential debate before the Iowa Caucuses on Dec. 15, Jon Huntsman said that the U.S. has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil, but as Steven Grape at the Energy Information Administration told PolitiFact.com: “We don’t have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil, but we produce more natural gas in this country per year than Saudi Arabia produces oil.”(Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
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Are Blacks Getting the Bulk of Government Entitlements? - After Rick Santorum told Iowa voters at a campaign stop recently that he didn’t want to "make Black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money,” the presidential candidate has backtracked, denying that he actually singled out Blacks for being participants of public assistance programs such as welfare and Medicaid. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Did President Obama Call Americans Lazy? - In a campaign ad that ran in November, Texas Gov. Rick Perry attacked President Barack Obama for saying that “Americans are lazy” — but according to the APPC, he took the commander-in-chief’s words out of context. Obama actually said that “We’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades,” according to the APPC, and was referring to collective efforts to promote foreign investment in the U.S., and not to American workers or voters as individuals.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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