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Russell Brand
Russell Brand
stated on May 26, 2015 an episode of 'The Trews'
"The American murder rate is 50 times that of any other developed nation."
False
By Katie Sanders • June 2, 2015
Chris Cuomo
Chris Cuomo
stated on May 6, 2015 a Tweet
"Hate speech is excluded from protection" under the First Amendment.
False
By Lauren Carroll • May 7, 2015
Peter Schweizer
Peter Schweizer
stated on May 1, 2015 an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell
"Amendments (Hillary Clinton) supported and voted for in 2006, she no longer supported in 2008," showing she changed positions on an India nuclear deal.
False
By Lauren Carroll • May 6, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 27, 2015 a segment on 'Morning Joe'
Algeria "wanted to be taken off of the terror list" at the time it made an unreported donation to the Clinton Foundation. 
False
By Katie Sanders • April 28, 2015
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on April 14, 2015 a panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"
"The president and vice president can't be from the same state."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 16, 2015
Addicting Information
Addicting Information
stated on April 4, 2015 an infographic on the Addicting Info website
"U.S. police killed more people in just one month than the U.K.’s did in over a century."
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 15, 2015
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on March 31, 2015 a RedState.com column
Say Apple’s Tim Cook "will not do business with Indiana."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2015
Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn
stated on March 19, 2015 an opinion piece on CNN.com
"White men account for 69 percent of those arrested for violent crimes."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 2, 2015
Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
stated on February 20, 2015 a panel on "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"Not a single unarmed white person has been shot by the police" in New York in about 45 years.
False
By Katie Sanders • April 1, 2015
Allen West
Allen West
stated on March 19, 2015 a post on his website
"EPA wants to regulate … the family BBQ."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on March 19, 2015 a Facebook post
"A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2015
James Carville
James Carville
stated on March 15, 2015 a broadcast of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says "Jeb Bush has released 10 percent of his emails."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2015
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on March 10, 2015 remarks on Fox's Hannity
 In 2007, when Nancy Pelosi met with President Assad of Syria, "nobody got upset."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 18, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 10, 2015 a broadcast of "The Rush Limbaugh Show"
Says "Ted Kennedy sent a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov apologizing for Ronald Reagan and begging the Soviets not to overreact."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 13, 2015
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on February 23, 2015 an op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal'
Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."
False
By Steve Contorno • February 23, 2015
Terry Jeffrey
Terry Jeffrey
stated on January 21, 2015 a column in TownHall.com
There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2015
Stuart Varney
Stuart Varney
stated on January 27, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom"
"It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 28, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 4, 2015 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
Says President Barack Obama got "a pass" over controversal remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while a 12-year-old speech by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has blown up into a national story.
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 14, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Saddam Hussein "had a 10-year relationship with al-Qaida."
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 14, 2014
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