Fact Check Posts – Page 157

Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa

Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."

By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011

Chain email
stated on November 28, 2011 a message via the Internet

While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 11, 2011

Jon Stewart
stated on December 6, 2011 a segment of "The Daily Show"

"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 9, 2011

Bear Education and Resource Group
stated on December 6, 2011 a website

"99% of NJ voters do NOT support hunting."

By Erin O'Neill • December 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on December 6, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren

Says the congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by "a very partisan political committee" in a way that "related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011

Josh Mandel
stated on December 2, 2011 a newspaper column

Sen. Sherrod Brown "has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources."

By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2011

Chris Christie
stated on November 9, 2011 a radio interview

Says Barack Obama had "huge majorities" in Congress during his first two years in office and "did nothing with them to create jobs in America."

By Bill Wichert • December 4, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on November 30, 2011 a speech in Council Bluffs, Iowa

People can use food stamps "for anything," including "to go to Hawaii," and even millionaires can qualify.

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2011

Lisa Baldelli-Hunt
stated on November 17, 2011 a General Assembly debate on pension overhaul

"Eighty-five percent . . . of Rhode Island tax returns that were filed for the year 2010 . . . were from individuals who earned $30,000 or less."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 1, 2011

60 Plus Association
stated on November 7, 2011 a television commercial

An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is "like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs."

By Sabrina Eaton • November 25, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 a television ad

Says Barack Obama said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose."

By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2011

Josh Mandel
stated on November 14, 2011 a radio interview

Says that Sen. Sherrod Brown is "out there egging on a lot of these protesters who are spitting on policemen and going to the bathroom on policemen’s cars at these protests on Wall Street and other places."

By Henry J. Gomez • November 18, 2011

Vincent Fort
stated on October 29, 2011 a newspaper column

"If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it."

By Eric Stirgus • November 8, 2011

New Jersey Republican State Committee
stated on November 3, 2011 a political advertisement

"Corrupt political bosses. Money laundering. Fraud. It’s just another day at the office for Vin Gopal."

By Caryn Shinske • November 4, 2011

John Kasich
stated on October 31, 2011 a campaign speech

"They talk about this problem with binding arbitration. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from Los Angeles fly into Zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you ... and then they’re on the plane back to Los Angeles."

By Joe Guillen • November 3, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on October 31, 2011 an interview on "PBS Newshour"

China is "trying to develop nuclear capability."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 2, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 28, 2011 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer

"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."

By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2011

Chain email
stated on October 25, 2011 a chain e-mail

Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."

By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obama’s health care bill created what "would, in effect, be death panels."

By Willoughby Mariano • October 28, 2011

Chain email
stated on September 24, 2011 a chain e-mail

Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2011

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