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Jay Carney
Jay Carney
stated on August 16, 2011 an interview.
Says Rick Perry "wanted to secede from the union."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on July 27, 2011 an interview on CNN
"This is the first time in the history that we've had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 29, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 26, 2011 a comment on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"
Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on June 2, 2011 a press release
Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 1, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in a speech announcing his presidential run
In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • May 25, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 16, 2011 an interview with Bloomberg television
"In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
stated on May 8, 2011 an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"
During the Eisenhower Administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on April 12, 2011 a speech before Congress
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.
False
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 19, 2011
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on April 13, 2011 a House floor speech
"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy • April 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio
The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on February 2, 2011 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
In the 1980s, "The lowest income people had the biggest gains."
False
February 3, 2011
Jay Hottinger
Jay Hottinger
stated on January 11, 2011 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives
"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death."
False
By Tom Feran • January 21, 2011
Raging Elephants
Raging Elephants
stated on January 7, 2011 a web post
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican!"
False
By Sue Owen • January 17, 2011
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 2, 2011 a statement published in the "Bakersfield Californian"
"The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 a press conference
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2010
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on November 9, 2010 an interview with Fox News.
"We're the only system of federalism in the world."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 10, 2010
John Thrasher
John Thrasher
stated on September 10, 2010 comments at the Republican Party of Florida's annual meeting.
"We will be the first party to elect a bald guy to governor."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • September 13, 2010
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