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Latest Fact-Checks By Alexander Lane

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Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 7, 2009 a discussion on MSNBC
President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.
False
By Alexander Lane • April 15, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 8, 2009 a radio broadcast
"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."
False
By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 an episode of her MSNBC show
Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."
False
By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 25, 2009 a press release.
"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.
False
By Alexander Lane • April 1, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 31, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on March 24, 2009 a press release and Web post
"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • March 30, 2009
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
stated on March 24, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor
The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the "elimination of the secret ballot."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • March 27, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on March 23, 2009 a blog post.
Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"
False
By Alexander Lane • March 24, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 22, 2009 a television interview
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on March 19, 2009 a CNN interview.
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
Full Flop
By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on March 18, 2009 a fundraising e-mail.
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • March 20, 2009
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on March 17, 2009 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • March 18, 2009
Christina Romer
Christina Romer
stated on March 15, 2009 an interview on Meet the Press.
"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 17, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 10, 2009 a speech on education
"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."
False
By Alexander Lane • March 13, 2009
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on March 5, 2009 a White House briefing
"A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2009 a White House conference on health care.
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 5, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference
"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."
False
By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 25, 2009 a speech on the House floor.
"The president campaigned against this type of legislation."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 27, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor.
"The president's plan, even after the end of its withdrawal timeline is reached, will leave in place up to 50,000 U.S. troops."
False
By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on February 24, 2009 the Republican response to Obama's speech to Congress
The stimulus bill includes "$8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009
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