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stated on May 10, 2010 in a column:
Elena Kagan "has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 17, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on May 10, 2010 in his website:
Elena Kagan is "a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on May 10, 2010 in his website:
"She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2010
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on May 5, 2010 in a broadcast of the Ed Show:
"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • May 14, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on April 19, 2010 in comments on the MSNBC show Countdown :
The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was "his outreach to Muslims."
Half-True
By Alex Holt • May 11, 2010
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on May 2, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's 'This Week':
"At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on R&D."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 3, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 29, 2010 in his radio program:
Alaska's Prince William Sound "is pristine now."
False
By Robert Farley • April 30, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on April 13, 2010 in a segment on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor:
"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 9, 2010 in his talk show:
People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • March 17, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on February 21, 2010 in a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2010
Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank
stated on March 7, 2010 in a column in the Washington Post:
George W. Bush was "the least popular president in modern history."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 16, 2010 in comments on his television show:
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."
True
By Alex Holt • March 8, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 8, 2010 in a commentary on Fox News Channel's 'Glenn Beck Program':
Franklin Roosevelt never allocated more than 12 percent of GDP to federal spending, while the percentage for Barack Obama is not projected to drop below 22.8 percent.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 3, 2010 in Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor":
"A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country."
True
By Robert Farley • February 10, 2010
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on February 3, 2010 in an interview with Bill O'Reilly:
One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on January 31, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
The Senate-passed health care bill "is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 29, 2010 in his Fox News program:
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2010
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