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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Judson Phillips
Judson Phillips
stated on July 27, 2011 a "Washington Post" opinion piece
"Our government has spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 29, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised address
"The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office."
True
By Robert Farley • July 27, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised address
"President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times.  George W. Bush did it seven times."
True
By Robert Farley • July 26, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 22, 2011 a chain e-mail
Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter Town Hall
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter town hall
"We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Steve Case
Steve Case
stated on July 3, 2011 an interview on CNN
"Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 6, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm."
False
By Robert Farley • July 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 a press conference
"What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'"  
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 CBS' Face the Nation
"Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • June 27, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on June 19, 2011 a CNN interview
When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 states in job creation.  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 22, 2011
Turn Right USA
Turn Right USA
stated on June 13, 2011 a YouTube video
"Janice Hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be 'gang-intervention specialists.' She even helped them get out of jail, so they could rape and kill again."
False
By Robert Farley • June 20, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"There was a recent report out that the premiums for Medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. So it is not financially solvent."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 14, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
The Obama administration has cut taxes on small businesses 17 times.
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 13, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 a web news story
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
By Robert Farley • June 9, 2011
Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn
stated on June 7, 2011 a TV ad
Says that Sarah Palin and Craig Huey "would ban a woman's right to choose in every case"
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 8, 2011
Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn
stated on June 7, 2011 a TV ad
Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a "murder mill."
True
By Robert Farley • June 8, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on Fox
"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, 'Hey, you're not going to succeed.' "
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • June 6, 2011
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on June 3, 2011 a robo-call
Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz "demanded that Congress vote to increase the nation’s debt limit without making any spending cuts."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • June 3, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview on Fox
"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 3, 2011
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