When the issue turns to jobs, Romney makes false assertions both about Obama's record and about his own.
Lawyers acting for Mohamed claim the Foreign Office made "false assertions" – ie lied – when it said it had contacted President Barack Obama's office and was told that America would cease co-operation.
The government said that it was assessing the credibility of a claim of responsibility by an obscure Qaeda-linked group, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, but that the group had made false assertions in the past.
But never before has the broadcaster been scrutinized as thoroughly and as effectively as it has since May, when one of its reporters, Andrew Gilligan, said in a radio broadcast that Tony Blair's Labor government had embellished the case for war against Iraq by making false assertions in a publicly released intelligence dossier.
Controversies discussed in the film include the Essjay controversy, where a member of Wikipedia made false assertions about his academic background; and the Wikipedia biography controversy, where false statements were inserted into the Wikipedia entry for journalist John Seigenthaler.
In a release the campaign charges that, in the language Morse submitted to the secretary, he "violated state law" by making false assertions about Herpin and about Basic Freedom Defense Fund — the group organized to promote recall of Morse mainly in response to his support for gun-control legislation last spring.
"These extremists created a fake business, made apparently misleading corporate filings and then used false government identifications to gain access to Planned Parenthood's medical and research staff with the agenda of secretly filming without consent," Richards also wrote, "then heavily edited the footage to make false and absurd assertions about our standards and services".
Don't make false accusations.
In general, radical right pundits can make patently false assertions, or offer up fantastical narratives of liberal evil, and count on suckering the credulous infotainers who populate corporate journalism into giving these dissembling spinmeisters a forum, doing no investigation, and asking no hard questions.
The authors made other false assertions about our study, for example, alleging that 'the water consumption was not measured'.
