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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on August 25, 2010 comments on his TV show:
"The federal government is now on track" for the second-largest budget deficit "in 65 years."
True
By Lukas Pleva • August 30, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 28, 2010 comments on his radio program:
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 27, 2010
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on August 15, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 6, 2010 the "Rachel Maddow Show":
"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending."
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • August 12, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 2, 2010 "The Rachel Maddow Show":
"The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse."
True
By Alex Holt • August 12, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent "have grown." Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, "they've seen their wages stagnate."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 29, 2010
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on July 25, 2010 an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press:
"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 17, 2010 an online column:
"Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges" against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation  
False
By Robert Farley • July 23, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 comments on her MSNBC show.:
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 13, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on July 6, 2010 a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on June 22, 2010 a commentary on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama "has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 7, 2010 his Fox News program:
"The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 an interview on "This Week.":
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on May 27, 2010 commentary on his television show:
"Sixty-four percent of Americans support the Arizona immigration law.''
Mostly True
By Lukas Pleva • June 3, 2010
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
stated on May 20, 2010 an interview with Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show:
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2010
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