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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 22, 2014 a Facebook post
"As unbelievable as it sounds, your tax dollars are funding the federal government's Zombie Apocalypse Plan. I kid you not."
False
By Katie Sanders • May 28, 2014
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on May 18, 2014 a discussion on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2014
Larry Pratt
Larry Pratt
stated on May 6, 2014 an interview on 'All in with Chris Hayes'
"20 percent of the time (smart guns) won't work."
False
By Katie Sanders • May 20, 2014
Brit Hume
Brit Hume
stated on May 18, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The media "widely overlooked" comments made by former President Bill Clinton that Hillary Clinton had a terrible concussion that took six months to recover from.  
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 18, 2014
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on May 8, 2014 a panel discussion
Says Hillary Clinton spent 30 days in the hospital in 2012 and appeared "wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on May 11, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The incandescent light bulb "has no effect whatever on the planet."     
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on May 4, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
After the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, "the ambassador's body was dragged through the street."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2014
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on April 26, 2014 speech to the NRA convention
Says Attorney General Eric Holder recently revealed "this idea to have government have gun owners wear special bracelets that would identify you as a gun owner."
False
By Katie Sanders • May 1, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 28, 2014 comments on his radio show
"Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 29, 2014
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed
stated on April 20, 2014 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
"Social science is irrefutable" that children are better off being raised by a mom and a dad.
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 22, 2014
Todd Starnes
Todd Starnes
stated on April 17, 2014 an interview on "Hannity"
Liberals have figured out a Facebook algorithm and "all the people getting banned from Facebook are somehow conservatives."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2014
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2014 a tweet
"ObamaCare enrollment lie: Obama counts an enrollee as a web user putting a plan in ‘their online shopping carts.’"
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 21, 2014
John E. Sununu
John E. Sununu
stated on April 6, 2014 a panel on "Meet the Press"
The health care law reduces "the number of uninsured in America by 3 percent for how much money? $2 trillion."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 10, 2014
Dick Morris
Dick Morris
stated on April 7, 2014 in a broadcast of Fox News' "Hannity"
A North Carolina study proves that "probably over a million people voted twice in (the 2012) election."
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 10, 2014
Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney
stated on April 6, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 6, 2014
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 6, 2014 a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show'
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."
False
By Katie Sanders • March 12, 2014
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed
stated on March 9, 2014 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"
Millennials are "more pro-life than baby boomers and older Americans."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2014
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on February 23, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
The Ukraine Orange Revolution in 2004 "was the first color revolution."
False
By Julie Kliegman • February 23, 2014
Kai Ryssdal
Kai Ryssdal
stated on February 18, 2014 a "Marketplace" segment
A Congressional Budget Office report says President Barack Obama’s executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers "will cost the economy 500,000 jobs."
False
By Katie Sanders • February 20, 2014
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