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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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George Will
George Will
stated on August 1, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2010
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 26, 2010 a breakfast with journalists in Washington, D.C.:
"I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 remarks at a bill signing:
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on July 25, 2010 an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press:
"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2010
Marc Morial
Marc Morial
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate.
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Susana Martinez
Susana Martinez
stated on July 22, 2010 a campaign commercial:
In New Mexico, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish "spent federal stimulus funds on campaign Christmas cards."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on July 18, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"Recent data showed Nevada ranks 50th in the money received from" the stimulus bill.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2010 a press conference:
"Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 14, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Russ Feingold "voted against the law that protected our lakes" and "was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 15, 2010 an op-ed in the Detroit News:
"Since February 2009, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs while the federal government has grown by more than 400,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Sabrina Eaton • July 15, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 14, 2010 a news conference:
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2010
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott
stated on July 13, 2010 an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:
"Most" of the Bush tax cuts went to people "in the top 3 percent of this country."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 11, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2010
Trent Franks
Trent Franks
stated on July 7, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show':
"The top 1 percent pay over half of the entire revenue for this country."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 30, 2010 a Facebook posting:
The U.S. "only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 30, 2010 a Facebook posting:
"We spend three times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
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