Republican fact check: New Hampshire debate claims dissected.
Where their claims overblown or accurate?
Certain claims, although rooted in truth, were overstated, Mary Snow reports:
LIES about the surge in Iraq, torture, waterboarding, Guantanamo Bay and Same-sex marriage from John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Sam Brownback and Tom Tancredo.

September 4, 2007 CNN The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Report about the new Christopher Cain film ‘September Dawn’. The movie sets a fictional love story against the historical tragedy of the Mountain Meadows massacre of September 11, 1857, when a wagon train of emigrants was attacked by a group of Mormon militiamen and Paiute Indians and more than 120 men, women, and children were killed.

August 22, 2007 CNN Showbiz Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaTPbkM5sE4

Jackie and Dunlap on the candidate’s kids and he who’s name shall not be spoken

http://www.redstateupdate.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS3AZzf3H7g

Republican candidate Mitt Romney is being asked why none of his 5 sons have enlisted in the military.

August 9, 2007 MSNBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ZrxB5Yr9Y

Former Massachussetts Governor Mitt Romney apparently isn’t a fan of snowmen, and has all but said no to CNN’s Republican YouTube debate.

He told CSPAN….

You know, I do think that there is a degree of respectfulness that ought to be associated with the process of selecting a nominee for each party, and I think from what I’ve heard that, that, that level of respectfulness was breached, you know I don’t that it makes sense to have people running for president, answering questions from, posed from snowmen. Uh, so, with things of that nature, I’d look for a format that’s a little more, uh, a little more respectful if possible.

Read the full article on Keith Olbermann’s excellent blog The News Hole: Mitt Out You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA5JAuGAkaY

From Countdown with Keith Olbermann this video report about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who’s facing campaign troubles after being photographed with an offensive sign about Senator Barack Obama.  Is Romney targeting his Democratic opponents in a juvenile way?  Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter discusses.

more reporting from Keith on Countdown with Keith Olbermann

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=01d4468d-089a-459d-a0f6-9edb89bce637&f=00&fg=copy