Latest Fact Checks By Aaron Sharockman

Breitbart gets the wrong Loretta Lynch in Whitewater claim

By Aaron Sharockman

November 10, 2014

Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe."

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Rachel Maddow: ‘Not even old Gen. Eisenhower … saluted military personnel’ as president

By Aaron Sharockman

September 24, 2014

"Not even old Gen. Eisenhower … saluted military personnel" as president.

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Ferguson police chief’s wife calls African-Americans ‘feral’ in Facebook post, group claims

By Aaron Sharockman

August 14, 2014

The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."  

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Maddow: Pentagon made up story of Jessica Lynch’s heroism

By Aaron Sharockman

June 5, 2014

"The Pentagon made up" the since-debunked heroics of POW Jessica Lynch as she tried to avoid capture in Iraq.  

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David Frum: U.S. executions have dropped by ‘nearly two-thirds’

By Aaron Sharockman

June 3, 2014

"We’ve seen a remarkable reduction in the number of Americans being executed -- it’s down nearly two-thirds over the past generation."  

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Maher: U.S. ranks fifth in the world in number of executions

By Aaron Sharockman

June 3, 2014

"We're fifth in the world (in executions), behind China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia."

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Limbaugh: ‘Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now’

By Aaron Sharockman

April 29, 2014

"Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now."

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RT anchor says U.S. spends big on military

By Aaron Sharockman

April 16, 2014

"The U.S. spends more money on its military than the 16 biggest military budgets in the world" combined.

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How rare is it that we had three presidents re-elected consecutively? Very rare

By Aaron Sharockman

April 10, 2014

Before "our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected."

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What pay gap? Young women out-earn men in cities, conservative pundit claims

By Aaron Sharockman

April 9, 2014

"Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.

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Photo showing sad Putin and Medvedev was taken days earlier, during a Russian hockey victory

By Aaron Sharockman

February 19, 2014

A photo from the Russia-Finland hockey game shows a sad Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

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NFL’s Goodell says players live longer than average male

By Aaron Sharockman

February 2, 2014

NFL "players are living, on average, longer than the average male."

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