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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 1, 2009 his radio program
Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 his radio program
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2009
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 31, 2009 an interview on MSNBC
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 4, 2009
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on August 25, 2009 a Fox News interview
The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 9, 2009 an appearance on ABC's "This Week"
"There's no rationing in any of these bills."
False
By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 18, 2009 a press release
The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research "would be used by the government to ration care."
False
By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009
Orly Taitz
Orly Taitz
stated on August 2, 2009 an attachment to a lawsuit
Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 21, 2009
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on August 12, 2009 a TV ad
The health care reform plan being proposed in Congress would mean "big tax increases."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 14, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 12, 2009 her Facebook page
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."
False
By Robert Farley • August 13, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall on health care
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert, Robert Farley • August 12, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on July 27, 2009 a statement on the House floor
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."
False
By Robert Farley • August 12, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 23, 2009 an op-ed for National Review
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
False
By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle
stated on July 31, 2009 the Glenn Beck show
If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.    
False
By Robert Farley • August 3, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on July 22, 2009 his TV program
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 29, 2009
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily
stated on June 17, 2009 an advertisement
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.
False
By Robert Farley • July 28, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
False
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 a PBS interview.
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 9, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad
"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."
False
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009
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