Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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James Capretta says Obamacare is ‘massive income redistribution’

December 5, 2013

Obamacare is a "massive, massive income redistribution" with "$250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for…

Doonesbury says government shutdown took $24 billion out of the economy

December 3, 2013

"The economy bled $24 billion" due to the government shutdown.

Allen West: More black-on-black murders in six months than by ‘KKK’ in 86 years

November 27, 2013

"Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years."

Donna Brazile says GOP lacks plan to help working poor get health insurance

November 26, 2013

Republican ideas on health care don’t give people "an option to even enroll in something that they can afford."

Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggests Census worker admitted to 2012 jobs conspiracy

November 20, 2013

A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season."

Herman Cain quotes Thomas Jefferson — sort of

November 19, 2013

Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American…

Nancy Pelosi: Health care law doesn’t demand insurance companies cancel policies

November 17, 2013

"The (health care) law does not demand that all of these cancellations go out."

Is the ACA the GOP health care plan from 1993?

November 15, 2013

Obamacare "was the Republican plan in the early '90s."

Sean Hannity says government predicted massive loss of health care

November 13, 2013

"In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large…

Leno says Social Security took 7 years to issue its first check

November 12, 2013

"Social Security took seven years before anybody got the first check."

18 states have voted Democratic in six consecutive elections with 242 electoral votes, George Will says

November 10, 2013

Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.  

Ed Schultz says Chris Christie fired 6,000 teachers

November 7, 2013

Says Chris Christie fired 6,000 teachers.

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