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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 24, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 1, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 an interview with the Washington Times.
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 26, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 a Washington Times interview
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 25, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on June 18, 2009 his MSNBC "Countdown" program
"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."
False
By Robert Farley • June 24, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on June 18, 2009 a Fox News interview
Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500."
False
By Robert Farley • June 22, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 10, 2009 his Fox News program
"Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it."
False
By Robert Farley • June 19, 2009
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 15, 2009 a statement.
Oil money from federal leases "can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 15, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 30, 2009 a Twitter message
"Obama has more czars than the Romanovs."
True
By Robert Farley • June 12, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
False
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 9, 2009 a statement at the White House
"In the first round of repayments"  from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
True
By Robert Farley • June 10, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 30, 2009 an e-mail
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • June 8, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 31, 2009 a CNN interview
"The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision" Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 1, 2009
North Korean foreign ministry
North Korean foreign ministry
stated on May 29, 2009 a released statement
"The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests."
True
By Robert Farley • May 29, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 26, 2009 his radio program
Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • May 28, 2009
Judicial Confirmation Network
Judicial Confirmation Network
stated on May 26, 2009 a released statement
Sotomayor thinks "that one’s sex, race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 27, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on May 26, 2009 a talking points memo
Judge Sotomayor has said "that policy is made on the U.S. Court of Appeals."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 26, 2009
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 24, 2009 an interview on CBS's Face the Nation
Cheney is "disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guantanamo."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 26, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech at the American Enterprise Institute
"President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'"
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • May 22, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech at the American Enterprise Institute
"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists."
True
By Robert Farley • May 21, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 6, 2009 a press release
ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."
False
By Robert Farley • May 21, 2009
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