Fact Check Posts – Page 157

Rick Perry
stated on January 8, 2012 a Republican debate in New Hampshire.:

Says President Barack Obama "is a socialist."

By Bill Adair • January 8, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:

"We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy."

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012

Gwen Moore
stated on December 27, 2011 tweets:

Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated "cancer screenings for uninsured women" and offered "no alternatives."

By Tom Kertscher • January 6, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on December 29, 2011 a radio interview:

Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."

By Erin O'Neill • January 5, 2012

Chain email
stated on December 10, 2011 a message via the Internet:

"What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2012

Chain email
stated on December 14, 2011 a chain e-mail:

"Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past."

By Bill Wichert • December 26, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on December 19, 2011 a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa:

"No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas.’"

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:

Says Freddie Mac, electric co-ops and credit unions are all "government sponsored" enterprises.

By Jon Greenberg • December 19, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on December 15, 2011 Fox News Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:

Says Texas did not bail out a loan program he oversaw as state agriculture commissioner.

By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:

"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011

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

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