Biden to media: "Fact-check me"

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at Zane Grey Elementary School, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, in Zanesville, Ohio.

/ AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

(CBS News) ZANESVILLE, Ohio - Democratic Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday went on the attack in central Ohio, shooting down claims by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan that the United States is in decline.

"They are dead wrong," Biden said told a crowd in this battleground state. "Folks, I don't recognize the country they're talking about. They are dead wrong. America is not in decline!"

He also mocked a statement by Romney pollster Neil Newhouse that, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers." Biden issued a challenge to reporters to "fact-check me!"

"It's amazing how they don't like to be fact-checked, right?" Biden said. "What they're proposing will actually cause the Medicare trust fund that pays for the benefits when you go to the hospital, the doctor, to run out of money, a sufficient amount of money by 2016. That's when it would hit the wall, and the most important thing they did not tell you."

(Watch: Biden jokes during an Ohio stop that he almost got arrested once for entering a girls' dormitory at Ohio University.)

However, media fact-checkers have in fact investigated similar remarks by Biden about Medicare going bankrupt in 2016 and found them to be inaccurate. Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post reported on Thursday, "Part A, which pays hospitals, has a 'trust fund,' made up of special-issue Treasury bonds, that always seems to be on the edge of running dry. But even so, the payroll tax could pay most estimated expenditures for decades. And does anyone doubt Congress would not step in and fill any gaps?"

Romney campaign spokesperson Amanda Henneberg said in a statement, "This is further proof that the Obama campaign is unable and unwilling to talk honestly or substantively about the most important issues driving the country. ... Vice President Biden is once again advancing fabricated and disproven attacks on Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan."

[walkthetalk]

FACT CHECK! The famous puppetier Jeff Dunham lost Walter one his most prized puppets on a American Airlines flight going to Dallas TX. last Friday. Jeff is very saddened and is desperately trying a find a replacement in time for Kansas City show next Friday night. Vice President Joe Biden is a long time fan of Jeff's work and has volunteered to stand in as Walter so the show can go on. Jeff says that "Joe is going fit the role perfectly".

[taylorsucram]

One more comment.

THIS IS FROM A TV INTERVIEW WITH THE LAWYER THAT QUESTIONED MITT UNDER OATH WHEN HE WAS MAKING A CASE THAT HE ALWAYS FILED AS A MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT SO HE COULD RUN FOR GOVERNOR .....

" I have alway filed as a Mass resident when in Utah running the Olympics, Take my word for it". When he was shown a copy of his tax returns that listed Utah as his residence of record, Mitt said that must have been a mistake, and that he didn't read his tax returns, he just signed them. This was testified to under oath, when pushed further about his statement about always filling as a Mass resident he relented that the firm that does his taxes made a mistake and he would correct it by filling an amended tax return (ACTUALLY 7 YEARS OF TAX RETURNS, THAT'S THE MASS. RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR). Mitt was also questioned as to why he was given a tax benefit on his Utah residence by filing as his residence of record. Mitts response was the clerk must have made a mistake and just given him a tax break because he was helping so much with the olympics; the lawyer said ... "kinda like a reward?" Well yes, Mitt responded.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! You just can't make this stuff up, but Romney, apparently can!

[UnPoliticallyCorrect2012]

Thanks for PROVING that Mass. Democrats had to SEE Romney's tax returns in early 2000's in order to make a statement like this. Guess Romney is not hiding his tax returns if Democrats had access to them in 2002/2003...... LMAO

[taylorsucram]

Republicans are defined by their willingness to believe whatever they want about the world. They are like children, playing a make-believe world where 50%+ of marriage don't end in divorce, teachers unions are the prime cause of public financial imbalances, where tax cuts raise revenue and deregulation of finance and heavy industry promote responsible behavior within for-profit industries and "Free Markets" turn straw sub-prime mortgages into AAA certified Gold Bars. The ability to believe things without any evidence and the ability to believe fabricated evidence is demonstrative of mental derangement.

IF YOU BELIEVE THE REPUBLICAN LIES ... YOU ARE WORSE OFF THAN THEY ARE !!!

[UnPoliticallyCorrect2012]

Children - believing they can take what does not belong to them because it is not fair they do not have it ..... DEMOCRATS!!!

[tmonta67]

After Bill Clinton's brilliant DNC speech, the Romney campaign is in cat-on-a freshly-waxed-floor mode. They'll be spending the rest of the campaign scrabbling around, trying to discredit what Clinton so masterfully put across in so few words:

"ARITHMETIC" and "We left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough--fire him and put us back in".

This election is as good as over. Make sure you vote Nov 6th!

[knucklecheese]

Soooo, we're just going to ignore the point of the article? Joe Biden is a bald-faced liar. There's no escaping it. You can make unrelated insults and accusations if you wish, but it doesn't change the fact.

[taylorsucram]

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 ..... vote like your life depends on it. Because it does !

[andrewjsacks]

It is lying, distorting Republicans who need fact-checkers.

[knucklecheese]

Again, the same fact-checkers you use to "prove" Republicans have lied have also come to the conclusion that your boy is a liar too. No childish insult will change that.

[UnPoliticallyCorrect2012]

Honey - you may want to pay a visit to Politifact, whereby they have FIVE pages of Obama lies/broken promises......run along, it is good reading!!!

[betty1122]

I guess everyone is OK with this??

Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent'
By E. J. DIONNE Jr., Special to the New York Times
Published: September 18, 1987
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html

Joe Biden in law school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIaALKHVrAA

Even plagiarism Robert Kennedy

[sjc_1]

Joe is saying this right up front, since some of Ryan's claims are in doubt, Joe is saying "bring it on". He does not fear being examined by the media. This is a good thing for America, someone that says let the truth be told.

[knucklecheese]

A reflection of just how stupid he really is. He lies and then says "fact check me". The real funny part is when when the fact-checkers prove he's a liar, and you pretend it never happened! You look like the worlds biggest fool and you don't even know it! Ar you related to Joe?

[Headline_]

400,000 more unemployed give up HOPE... and the Dems celebrate because the unemployment numbers went from 8.3 to 8.1 when in fact it really when up to 8.6 Dems get a heart "Party before Countrymen"

[bignard12]

Joe Biden! Where does this Administration begin to defend a pathological liar! They can't because there whole campaign message is based on lies. Look no further than Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Look no further than the Democratic National Convention when they originally left out God. This is truly what they believe. Someone who does not believe has no fear in how they conduct their lives. For me it is most amazing in how many Americans can be swayed with smoke and mirrors that this current Administration throws at them. The biggest threat to the United States is not Iran or Al Queda, it's President Obama!

[wdrussell1]

"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster.

[knucklecheese]

Obviously, the Democrats aren't either, fool.