Fact Check Posts – Page 139

Bloggers
stated on August 28, 2014 blog posts:

"Over 73% of all donations raised (from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge) are going to fundraising, overhead, executive salaries, and external donations."

By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2014

Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 a chain email:

Says Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad chartered a plane to remove 124 young illegal immigrants from his state and take them back to Honduras.

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2014

Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 6, 2014 a Facebook Q&A with Charlie Crist:

Obamacare "prevents (Florida) from regulating insurance."

By Joshua Gillin • August 20, 2014

Bloggers
stated on August 19, 2014 stories:

Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.

By Derek Tsang • August 19, 2014

Occupy Democrats
stated on July 11, 2014 a Facebook photo post:

Says Ted Cruz "was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies America’s national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2014

Gary Lambert
stated on August 11, 2014 a campaign mailer:

Says Marilinda Garcia supports "$150 billion in new taxes."

By Jim Haddadin • August 15, 2014

Tucker Carlson
stated on August 9, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox and Friends Weekend.":

"Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns."

By Jon Greenberg • August 15, 2014

Chain email
stated on August 14, 2014 a chain email:

Says the former president of the Czech Republic said the American people were a "confederacy of fools" for electing Barack Obama.

By Lauren Carroll • August 14, 2014

X posts
stated on August 13, 2014 posts on Twitter:

The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 14, 2014

Bloggers
stated on July 28, 2014 a blog post:

Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.

By Katie Sanders • August 11, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on August 4, 2014 comments to reporters:

"I haven’t really proposed (phasing out aid to Israel) in the past."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2014

Eugene Sepulveda
stated on July 29, 2014 a Facebook post:

Austin mayoral candidate "Mike Martinez takes corporate money."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 7, 2014

Bloggers
stated on August 3, 2014 an article posted on Infowars.com:

President Barack Obama’s latest executive order "mandates the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ "

By Jon Greenberg • August 6, 2014

Oxfam Ireland
stated on July 22, 2014 an info-graphic tweet:

Women "own just 1 percent of the world’s land."

By Jon Greenberg • August 5, 2014

Katie Pavlich
stated on June 18, 2014 an article on Townhall.com:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes."

By Katie Sanders • August 5, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on July 24, 2014 an interview:

"Mitt Romney did not run his campaign on the basis of arguing his experience in the business world was a reason to vote for him."

By Dave Umhoefer • August 4, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

The United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."

By Lauren Carroll • August 3, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on July 26, 2014 a debate.:

"This administration is slashing the Navy to pay for more Obamacare."

By Nancy Madsen • August 3, 2014

Lenar Whitney
stated on June 25, 2014 a YouTube video:

"Global warming is a hoax."

By Lauren Carroll • August 1, 2014

David Alameel
stated on June 28, 2014 his speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention:

Says John Cornyn dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2014

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