August 25, 2010 3:11 pm ET filed under Blog
American Future Fund Attacks Rep. Braley In Anti-Mosque, Anti-Muslim Ad
August 25, 2010 2:55 pm ET filed under Fact Check
American Future Fund Attacks Rep. Braley With False Anti-Muslim Ad
The American Future Fund has released a new ad attacking Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) for supporting the construction of an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The ad states that the center would be built "at Ground Zero" and attempts to paint Imam Abdul Feisal Rauf, the leader of the project, as a terrorist sympathizer. Both claims are demonstrably false.
March 20, 2010 3:53 pm ET filed under Fact Check
FactCheck.org On American Future Fund Ad: "That's Absurd."
FactCheck.org's analysis of American Future Fund's newest ad, "Backroom": it's "absurd."
March 12, 2010 6:16 pm ET filed under Fact Check
American Future Fund's Attack On Sen. Reid Is Breathtakingly Deceitful
The conservative American Future Fund has created a new attack ad seeking to portray Democrats as hypocrites on the process of reconciliation. Their ad highlights various statements made in 2005 in which Senate Democrats opposed a Republican plan to change the rules for confirming judicial nominees. Because they have no facts to attack Democrats on the merits of the argument, they've egregiously resorted to taking quotes out of context. Budget reconciliation and the Republican-led "nuclear option" plan to change the rules of the Senate are entirely separate things.
February 24, 2010 10:01 am ET filed under Fact Check
American Future Fund's "Lipstick" Is Smudged
The American Future Fund has released a new ad titled "Lipstick" that reverts to the tired, overused Republican rhetoric of the last year. While the ad attempts to assure readers of the many bad aspects in Democratic health care reform - reality proves otherwise.
January 11, 2010 12:11 pm ET filed under Fact Check
American Future Fund Airs False Attack Ads Against Martha Coakley
Last week, the conservative American Future Fund launched a new attack ad against Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. By using a misleading, out of context quote, the ad falsely claims Coakley favors increasing taxes. In reality, she said "get[ting] people back to work" would increase tax revenue and reduce the deficit.
November 05, 2009 3:06 pm ET filed under Fact Check
New American Future Fund Anti-Reform Ad Chock Full Of Misleading Information
The American Future Fund has released a new anti-health care reform ad that likens the distribution problems of the H1N1 vaccine to the imminent failure of additional government involvement in health care. Evidently, the production staff at AFF needs an introduction to "Google" since simple searches produce factual contradictions to the ad's script.
