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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 1, 2009 Fox News Sunday
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Half-True
November 3, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on October 27, 2009 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
Sen. Joe Lieberman's "home state has a public option which covers about 10,000 of its citizens that was introduced by its Republican governor."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • November 2, 2009
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 23, 2009 a comment on the O'Reilly Factor
When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2009
Mary Matalin
Mary Matalin
stated on October 22, 2009 CNN's Situation Room program
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
False
By Catharine Richert • October 27, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on October 22, 2009 "The Rachel Maddow" show
"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on October 15, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel
"Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more."
Half-True
October 22, 2009
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on October 15, 2009 on his television show
U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • October 19, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on October 12, 2009 a statement on his Fox News Channel program
Forty-five percent of doctors "say they'll quit" if health care reform passes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on October 8, 2009 his radio program.
"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."
Mostly False
October 14, 2009
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on October 4, 2009 appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2009
Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy
stated on September 29, 2009 a statement on Fox and Friends
White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.
False
September 30, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 an interview with Sen. John McCain on Fox News Channel
The Obama administration is "cutting back on defense"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 his Fox News program
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
Mostly True
September 23, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on September 16, 2009 his television show "Countdown"
For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2009
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 a column in Investor's Business Daily.
The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."
False
By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 1, 2009 his radio program
Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist."
Mostly False
September 8, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 3, 2009 his television program
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 his radio program
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."
Mostly False
September 8, 2009
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on September 1, 2009 a fundraising e-mail
Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 25, 2009 a radio broadcast
"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 27, 2009
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