Alan Grayson’s Defense of #OccupyWallSt is Impassioned, But is it Accurate? | Politifact Grayson’s defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement earned him praise from the left-wing blosophere and pundits for its pith. No pundit or official in the movement’s first month had quite articulated the protesters’ qualms — high unemployment, expensive health care, poverty and underwater mortgage payments — as Grayson did in 20 seconds on Maher’s show. We examined each of his economic claims and found them accurate, point for point. We rate his claim True. Read More

Alan Grayson’s Defense of #OccupyWallSt is Impassioned, But is it Accurate? | Politifact

Grayson’s defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement earned him praise from the left-wing blosophere and pundits for its pith. No pundit or official in the movement’s first month had quite articulated the protesters’ qualms — high unemployment, expensive health care, poverty and underwater mortgage payments — as Grayson did in 20 seconds on Maher’s show. We examined each of his economic claims and found them accurate, point for point. We rate his claim True.

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