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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2010
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
stated on May 20, 2010 in an interview with Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show:
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2010
Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
stated on April 16, 2010 in a campaign commerical:
Steve Poizner "increased his department's budget nearly 14 percent."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman "contributed to, and campaigned, for" Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2010
Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
stated on May 14, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, a Republican, "gave $10,000 to Al Gore's recount" effort in 2000.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on May 11, 2010 in an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:
Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 in a press conference:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 9, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2010
Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
stated on May 4, 2010 in an interview with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC:
Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the "second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2010
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema
stated on April 30, 2010 in an interview on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's "lawn is overgrown" or if a dog is "barking too loudly."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on April 30, 2010 in a news release:
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Ann Kirkpatrick
Ann Kirkpatrick
stated on April 28, 2010 in a speech on the House floor:
Members of Congress "have not reduced their salaries ... since the Great Depression," meaning they've gone "eight decades without a pay cut."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2010
Alfredo Gutierrez
Alfredo Gutierrez
stated on April 26, 2010 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on April 13, 2010 in a segment on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor:
"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
The financial services bill will end "too-big-to-fail."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on April 5, 2010 in a town hall in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.:
"We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance."
Mostly False
By Carol Rosenberg, Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2010
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