Helpful analysis of the factual claims in Obama's address, with links to more detailed articles fact-checking the highlights one at a time. The related rulings also contain one on a claim by Paul Ryan in the GOP response.

A fascinating approach to reporting on the speech and it's responses. The more information you give the more readers may demand. For instance, is Obama's claim that some corporations are paying no tax due to advanced accounting true ? A follow up to this may be to suggest the scale of such evasion, as a proportion and an absolute ? Links to the sources of these fact checks would be useful, to prompt the audience to investigate further.

In a different way the judgment was given like 'true', 'mostly-true', half-true' etc. Good analysis done staying on the 'no man's land. But it is too brief...

The approach is interesting. On one particular point, claiming the US has the highest corporate tax rate, I think they botched the question. The reality is that almost no corporation pays that stated tax rate, via the use of offshoring profits, depletion allowances, offsets, and innumerable loopholes and earmarks installed by armies of lobbyists. On very narrow legalistic grounds, the republican talking point has some traction, but in the real world of what corporations really pay, it is utter nonsense.

The meters are a good idea as many statements require inherent reservations and, therefore exhort necessary qualifications in the response.That said, Obama is consistently careful in his choice of words, ...and the tone, whether upbeat or conciliatory, is an important factor in any speech. Generalizations are always difficult to fact check, but here you have a president that leans more heavily on specifics than any I have witnessed in the past.