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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on October 15, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel:
"Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 22, 2009
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on October 18, 2009 an interview on CBS's Face the Nation:
"The first installment of health care reform ... will raise the deficit by $250 billion."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 20, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on September 9, 2009 a chain e-mail:
An Iowa policy "provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus."
False
By Robert Farley • October 14, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on October 8, 2009 his radio program.:
"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • October 14, 2009
John Kline
John Kline
stated on October 8, 2009 a press release:
Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime."
False
By Robert Farley • October 9, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
During the Reagan administration, "Millions of people were thrown out of work."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • October 8, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."  
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 7, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
During the Reagan era, "the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 6, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 in his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":
In the 1950s,  "A lot of people got rich — and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 2, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 26, 2009 an appearance on Larry King Live:
"The majority actually want single-payer health care."
False
By Robert Farley • October 1, 2009
Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy
stated on September 29, 2009 a statement on Fox and Friends:
White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.
False
By Robert Farley • September 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on September 28, 2009 a chain e-mail:
"For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 28, 2009
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on September 25, 2009 a blast e-mail from Republican National Committee:
In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'"
True
By Robert Farley • September 25, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 his Fox News program:
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 23, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2009 a White House announcement:
On whether he would put a missile shield in Poland.
Half Flip
By Robert Farley • September 22, 2009
National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee
stated on September 16, 2009 a press release:
"Under the Baucus bill ... federal funds would subsidize coverage of elective abortions."
False
By Robert Farley • September 21, 2009
National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee
stated on September 16, 2009 a press release:
The Baucus bill "contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion."
True
By Robert Farley • September 21, 2009
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on September 16, 2009 an interview on Fox News:
Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2009
Charles Boustany
Charles Boustany
stated on September 9, 2009 response to President Obama's health care address to Congress:
The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 an address to a joint session of Congress:
"It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 10, 2009
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