Fact-Checking the Associated Press -- please write to them

[ThatPoetGuy]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEBATE_FACT_CHECK?SITE=WTHRELN&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Calvin Woodward gave a fact-check about the vice-presidential debate, only Woodward had his facts wrong.

He wrote:

"THE FACTS: Biden voted for 1999 deregulation that liberal groups are blaming for part of the financial crisis today. The law allowed Wall Street investment banks to create the kind of mortgage-related securities at the core of the problem now."

Woodward's "facts" are wrong. It is simply not true.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act passed 54-44, down party lines. Senator Joe Biden voted "Nay."

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s1999-105

Mr. Woodward is referring to a second act, which merely averred that the differences between the House and Senate versions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act had been reconciled.

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Please send an email to [email protected] , and demand a retraction. Thank you!

[FrenchieCat]

1. Just sent it to them, and copied Media Matters, Columbia School of Journalism,

and Factcheck.