Latest Fact Checks By Bill McCarthy

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Whoopi Goldberg warned about another Hollywood blacklist. Here’s what she was talking about

By Bill McCarthy
September 5, 2019
"The last time people (created a Hollywood blacklist), people ended up killing themselves … They were accused, and they lost their right to work."
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Do wealthy Canadians donate to hospitals to get better treatment?

By Bill McCarthy
August 19, 2019
Says "wealthy people in Canada donate to hospitals" to get better health care treatment.
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public charge law more headlines

What’s new in Trump’s policy for legal immigrants on welfare

By Bill McCarthy
August 15, 2019
Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the…
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Bloomberg correct that NRA’s Wayne LaPierre once supported background checks

By Bill McCarthy
August 13, 2019
"If you go back, you can see Wayne LaPierre, who runs the NRA, testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or…
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Trump charged after office headlines

Donald Trump didn’t talk about exterminating Latinos

By Bill McCarthy
August 8, 2019
Says President Donald Trump is "talking about exterminating Latinos."
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Is Walmart ‘one of the largest sellers of assault-style weapons,’ as MSNBC anchor said?

By Bill McCarthy
August 7, 2019
Says Walmart is "one of the largest sellers of assault-style weapons."
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Chelsea Handler blames Trump’s tweets for break-in at Cummings’ home. That’s wrong

By Bill McCarthy
August 2, 2019
"Elijah Cummings’ house was broken into after Trump publicly attacked him on Twitter."
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Biden Harris prisoners headlines

At debate, Joe Biden said to Google ‘1,000 prisoners freed Kamala Harris.’ Time for a fact-check

By Bill McCarthy
August 2, 2019
Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory…
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Williamson schools headlines

Fact-checking Marianne Williamson on school funding in the United States

By Bill McCarthy
July 31, 2019
"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."
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Roland Martin more headlines

Have Trump judicial nominees refused to say Brown vs. Board was properly decided?

By Bill McCarthy
July 25, 2019
Republicans "are advancing federal judges who won't even say that Brown vs. Board of Education was properly decided."
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No, Fox News is not snubbing Mueller’s testimony

By Bill McCarthy
July 23, 2019
"Fox ‘News’ just announced that they will not air Mueller’s testimony about his report, which they claim ‘exonerates’ Trump."
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Limbaugh wrongly blames Obama for no census citizenship question

By Bill McCarthy
July 15, 2019
"Somebody in the Obama regime decided to get rid of" the citizenship question in the census.
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