http://www.wikio.com/search=Adair Wikio - Adair http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69366554 $8 million job training contract cancelled; work goes to B.C. competitor. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:33:15 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69366554 2008-08-29T05:33:15Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69343970 Melrose Resources surged back into the black in the first half when strong growth in output helped the firm put last year’s exploration reverses in Bulgaria behind it. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:36:51 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69343970 2008-08-28T23:36:51Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69308758 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:09:41 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69308758 2008-08-28T16:09:41Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69287672 SINGAPORE: More are coming forward to do their part to save water. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:13:50 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69287672 2008-08-28T14:13:50Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69275356 An Aug. 27 NewsBusters post by Colleen Raezler claimed that Bill Adair of PolitiFact.org "discredited" Joe Biden's claim that John McCain votes with George W. Bush 95 percent of the time. In fact, the section of the "Morning Joe" transcript that Raezler reproduces quotes Adair as saying: "in terms of Biden, the 95 percent is just something where you've got to understand that that's sort of the worse case scenario. He's cherry picking. 95 percent was last year." The PolitiFact item on the claim, which gives it a "half-true" rating, explains further: McCain’s 95 percent score was the high-water mark of his presidential support during President Bush’s tenure, and was partly a reflection of the new political calculus in the Democratic-controlled Congress. But other years, McCain's rating was lower. He supported Bush as infrequently as 77 percent of the time in 2005, and backed the president’s position an average of 89 percent of the time since 2001. By congressional standards, that’s solidly partisan, but hardly marching in lockstep. So it's not "discredited," as Raezler claims. Incomplete and exaggerated, perhaps, but with a core of truth to it. Unlike, say, McCain's claim that Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent, which PolitiFact has rated a " pants on fire " lie. Indeed, PolitiFact has found a higher percentage of recent claims by McCain to be "half-true" or less than statements by Obama, and no Obama statement has ever been given the "pants on fire" designation. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:10:50 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69275356 2008-08-28T13:10:50Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69198905 On the August 25 edition of MSNBC Live , PolitiFact.com editor Bill Adair, discussing his website's assessment of campaign attacks this summer, falsely suggested that Sen. Barack Obama's and Sen. John McCain's campaigns have been equally guilty of making what PolitiFact has characterized as inaccurate claims in public statements and political ads. Adair criticized Obama for what he said was a "barely true" attack on McCain and after describing it, said that "we've given a lot of 'barely true' ratings lately on our Truth-O-Meter. We've been looking at the TV ads, also at their speeches. And it's the same on McCain's side. It's really -- the truth has been a casualty of summer." In fact, it is not "the same on McCain's side." According to a review of PolitiFact's findings since Sen. Hillary Clinton's concession speech on June 7 , 57 percent of Obama's claims assessed by PolitiFact were called "mostly true" or better , while 62 percent of McCain's claims assessed by PolitiFact were described as "half true" or worse . Moreover, McCain is the only one of the two to receive PolitiFact's sharpest critique, " pants on fire ," which he received twice this summer. During the segment, MSNBC host Dan Abrams stated, "With the way that McCain and Obama have been trading attacks you'd think that we're days away from Election Day, rather than months," then asked Adair, "You say that the truth has become a casualty of that?" Adair responded, "[W]e wouldn't have expected these kind of attacks so early in the campaign," adding, "What's different is that we're seeing many more inaccurate claims earlier than we would have expected." PolitiFact rates what it calls "attacks" and "statements" made either by a candidate or his campaign, as either "true," "mostly true," "half true," "barely true" -- which Adair described to Abrams as a statement with "a grain of truth, but the overall point is false" -- "false," or "pants on fire." From the 11 a.m. ET hour of the August 25 edition of MSNBC Live : ABRAMS: It's time to check in with PolitiFact.com's Truth-O-Meter. Bill Adair is the St. Petersburg Times Washington bureau chief and the editor of PolitiFact.com. Thanks for coming in. Appreciate it. ADAIR: Thanks for having me. ABRAMS: All right. We're going to get to [Sen. Joe] Biden in a second. With the way McCain and Obama have been trading attacks, you'd think we're sort of days away from Election Day, rather than months. Now, you say that the truth has become a casualty of that. ADAIR: It really has. We wouldn't have expected these kind of attacks so early in the campaign. ABRAMS: Really? ADAIR: We -- ABRAMS: Why not? ADAIR: What's different is that we're seeing many more inaccurate claims earlier than we would have expected. ABRAMS: Like, out of -- out of -- falsity, or context? ADAIR: Now, what they do -- and on our Truth-O-Meter, it's often a -- we rate it a "barely true." There'll be a grain of truth, but the overall point is false, and so we give that a "barely true." Some typical claims is when Obama links McCain to Big Oil and says that he's giving big tax breaks to Big Oil. Well, he is, but he's giving them to all corporations. And we've given a lot of "barely true" ratings lately on our Truth-O-Meter. We've been looking at the TV ads, also at their speeches. And it's the same on McCain's side. It's really -- the truth has been a casualty of summer. ABRAMS: All right. You took out your Truth -- the Truth-O-Meter, measured some of the claims that Biden has made about McCain in his speech on Saturday. Here's one. BIDEN [video clip]: These are John's words, quote: "The most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush." Ladies and gentlemen, that's what he said. ABRAMS: He said it, didn't he? ADAIR: He did. We checked that one out, went back. It came from a Meet the Press interview in 2005, so that one got a "true" on our Truth-O-Meter. ABRAMS: All right. In the very next breath, Biden said this. Let's listen. BIDEN [video clip]: You can't change America when you supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time. ABRAMS: All right. So, same speech, almost the same sentence; he gets a different rating. ADAIR: He did. We gave him a "half true" for that one. And the reason is that he is quoting one year in McCain's -- how often McCain votes with President Bush. But if you look at McCain's record over the entire Bush administration, he's been as low as 77 percent, which is very low for a Republican, and averaged about 89 percent. So we gave that one a "half true" on the Truth-O-Meter. ABRAMS: All right. And then the last but not least, we go to the -- what you call the Flip-O-Meter, the latest and greatest tool from PolitiFact. We are learning today that Biden actually pressed hard to get this spot on Obama's ticket, but listen to what he had to say two months ago on Meet the Press . [begin video clip] BIDEN: If asked, I will do it. I've made it clear -- I do not want to be asked. BRIAN WILLIAMS (guest host): Do not want to be asked, but if asked, the answer, of course, would be yeah. BIDEN: Of course it would be. [end video clip] ABRAMS: All right. Well, look. You know, this one -- you guys are really doing a Truth-O-Meter on this? Because, they all -- I mean, they all said this, right? ADAIR: Exactly. ABRAMS: I mean -- ADAIR: And, indeed, nobody wants to be seen as campaigning for -- ABRAMS: Right. ADAIR: -- for the running-mate spot, but we wanted to have a little fun here. And if you go back through some of the other things he said, he had been really adamant that he would not take it under any circumstances, and he's pounding the desk about it. So we gave that one a "full flop" on the Flip-O-Meter. ABRAMS: All right. You know, it'd be interesting to see if anyone has totally told the truth about -- in this election season. We'll see who the Republicans pick. We'll see who McCain picks and what that person has said. My guess: That person, at the very least, has claimed they didn't want the job. ADAIR: Exactly. And I think that's just part of the ritual dance. You don't want to be seen as too eager to be running mate -- ABRAMS: Yeah. ADAIR: -- but, you know, for PolitiFact, it's fair game. And -- ABRAMS: Oh, yeah, I know. It's fair game. You know. All right. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:58 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69198905 2008-08-27T22:00:58Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69186017 Both these looks are worthy of discussion. At the launch of Tide and Downy Total Care in NYC. Yeah. They walked the red carpet for a detergent. Either Tide has an awesome PR firm or these girls are really desperate for invites. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:26:15 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69186017 2008-08-27T18:26:15Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69192549 Just as she would prior to the start of any other school year, Deer Park Elementary second grade Teacher Pam Price spent most of her available time preparing her classroom for the first day of school. But, on Aug. 20 and 21, she faced a new challenge to organizing her room: the continuing arrival of flowers and other congratulatory gifts. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:08:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69192549 2008-08-27T18:08:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69174615 Pay close attention to Joe Biden's words tonight. During an appearance on this morning's "Morning Joe" Bill Adair, Washington bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times and editor of politifact.com, implied that Barack Obama's running mate is not always truthful. Adair told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that "from a fact-checker's standpoint, we should be grateful to Joe Biden" because he is "full employment for fact checkers." Brzezinski asked Adair about "the most outrageous statement" by Biden and Adair pointed to Biden's soundbite in which he says John McCain votes with George W. Bush 95 percent of the time. He discredited it, along with a charge from Hillary Clinton's speech last night about John McCain desire to privatize social security, "I thought, well, in terms of Biden, the 95% is just something where you've got to understand that that's sort of the worse case scenario. He's cherry picking. 95% was last year. Last night one of the things that Senator Clinton said that we'll hear a lot is John McCain wants to privatize social security. We heard it from several of the other speakers last night. You know, that's a real exaggeration. McCain is actually really vague and fuzzy on social security." Biden's "95 percent of the time" charge may be the "worst-case scenario" but the fact remains that people should pay close attention to what Biden says tonight. Full transcript below: JOE SCARBOROUGH: This guy is the nitpicker of all nitpickers. He is the Washington bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times and also he's the editor of politifact.Com. Bill Adair. What's going on with the Rays? When are the Ray's going to start losing? BILL ADAIR, St. Petersburg Times: Well it's been interesting that we definitely saw, before Hillary last night, we saw a change in the rhetoric that they are really beginning now to set the narrative about McCain. So we spend a lot of time on politifact fact-checking what was going on last night. We're beginning to really see some of the same claims come up again. Did you hear the one, we've heard it a lot, McCain votes with Bush 95% of the time. And we've heard that from Obama. We've heard it from most recently from Biden. And on our truth-o-meter, we've been pretty harsh on them about that, particularly Biden who said it on Saturday because you hear that and you think wow, McCain's in the tank for Bush. SCARBOROUGH: By the way, can I just say you should not apply the truth-o-meter to Joe Biden. Because I think we all agree here we love the guy, whether what he's saying is the truth or not, if it's exaggerated, we really don't care. Seriously. He's Joe. MIKE BARNICLE: We're hopelessly biased. SCARBOROUGH: You know how the markets already, they sort of, if a hurricane is coming, three days before, they figure that in. We know he's going to exaggerate, so just don't waste your time. ADAIR: Maybe we should have a special sort of calibrated truth-o-meter for Biden. SCARBOROUGH: I think you need to calibrate because we love him and we really don't care whether what he's saying is the truth or not. He says it anyway. BRZEZINSKI: What was the most outrageous thing he said? ADAIR: I thought, well, in terms of Biden, the 95 percent is just something where you've got to understand that that's sort of the worse case scenario. He's cherry picking. 95 percent was last year. Last night one of the things that Senator Clinton said that we'll hear a lot is John McCain wants to privatize social security. We heard it from several of the other speakers last night. You know, that's a real exaggeration. McCain is actually really vague and fuzzy on social security. SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you this question. When Bush was pushing his plan to privatize social security, did McCain support that? You need to go back and check up on that. ADAIR: You stumped me. Yeah. And yes, he did. He did support it. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. ADAIR: When you look at what he has said in his tax plan this time, he's not necessarily embracing the same kind of plan Bush that did in 2005. SCARBOROUGH: Bill, the past is prologue, my man. The past is prologue. ADAIR: Well, it's important to look at what these guys say. And that's what we try to do at politifact is to really look at their wording and rate whether it's true or not. And we're really beginning to see the exaggeration. SCARBOROUGH: Help me out. Over the past couple weeks, the race has tightened up, but it's tightened up because Steve Schmidt and the McCain campaign have come out swinging hard, they've been focused, they've had a lot of attacks, the celeb-attacks, the Moses attack, one of the funniest commercials I've ever seen in my life. BRZEZINSKI: It was pretty funny. SCARBOROUGH: And they just keep going after him. I don't need specifics because, you know, in our business we really don't want to know politi-facts, just generally, has the tenor of the attacks coming from McCain campaign been fair? Have they been honest or are they cheap shots? ADAIR: Well, and I would say not just the McCain campaign, the Obama campaign, too. We're giving a lot of barely true ratings on our truth-o-meter, and that's because they have a grain of truth but the overall point is a distortion. And we've seen a lot more of those over the summer. They used to count for about 12 percent of our ratings now they count for 22 percent. SCARBOROUGH: So they get a lot more aggressive with the truth. ADAIR: Absolutely. And the summer- SCARBOROUGH: That's the way we like it. ADAIR: -it's been much more aggressive much earlier. And it's -- you really need to be aware, these TV ads that will have a tiny bit of truth and the overall point is just not accurate. SCARBOROUGH: We now pass it over to MSNBC Senior Statesman Mike Barnicle for a question. Mike. BARNICLE: Well, can we get an agreement from you that from now to the election you'll stop running down Joe Biden? BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, really. That's just one thing we have a problem with. ADAIR: I saw an Obama senior aide the other day, and I told her, I said, you know, I've got to be honest. From a fact checkers standpoint we are grateful for Joe Biden. BRZEZINSKI: Keeps you in business. ADAIR: He does. He's full employment for fact checkers. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:19:41 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=69174615 2008-08-27T17:19:41Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68768369 Zac Adair didn't need anyone to tell him that Hurricane Bertha delivered something big last month. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68768369 2008-08-24T05:30:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68740132 Kiwi Olympic double medallist Hayden Roulston has lost $250,000 invested in a failed finance company that is now under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Roulston, whose Olympic dream was almost destroyed by the saga, is... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:00:20 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68740132 newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz 2008-08-23T17:00:20Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68715561 Despite an ordered halt to hostilities by the President of Russia, attacks on Georgian websites by Russian hackers remain unabated. Will it ever end? Read on for the sad prognosis. 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Then the complaining party brought in family to use the [...] Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:21:09 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68520505 2008-08-21T17:21:09Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68503695 Opera singer Graeme Danby will sing the Blaydon Races (again) at St James's Park before Saturday's game against Bolton Wanderers. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:28:15 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68503695 2008-08-21T15:28:15Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68509137 JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PSS World Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: PSSI) announced that it held its annual meeting of shareholders today in Jacksonville, Florida. At the meeting, the Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68509137 2008-08-21T15:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68433626 Film Reviews: "The House Bunny" is a blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom -- she's funny, she's sexy, and her movie distinguishes itself grandly from a mostly gore-and-groin-fixated summer comedy season. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68433626 2008-08-21T01:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68358653 Democrat Doug Mullins, who had been running in the open seat race for the 51st House District, said he begrudgingly withdrew from that contest upon doctors orders as he battles inoperable lung cancer. He said he is currently in his third week of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and was advised by doctors that the intense combination would make campaigning difficult,... 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The sinkhole of sorts could now be turning into a battle of who's responsible and who's willing to fix it. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:21:55 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Adair?rinfoid=68218957 2008-08-19T12:21:55Z