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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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