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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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