Fact Check Posts – Page 172

Rush Limbaugh
stated on January 18, 2010 a comment on his radio show.

There are "high administrative costs" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.

By Kevin Robillard • January 20, 2010

Hector Uribe
stated on January 11, 2010 a press release

Says Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson threatened to shoot him.

By W. Gardner Selby • January 15, 2010

Rick Perry
stated on December 20, 2009 in a press release

"Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2010

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 4, 2010 an interview on 'The O'Reilly Factor'

A recent Obama executive order could "lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials."

By Kevin Robillard • January 13, 2010

Barbara Ann Radnofsky
stated on October 22, 2009 in a Web site video

"The attorney general requires that rape victims pay for the rape kit."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 12, 2010

Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 8, 2010 an interview on 'Good Morning America'

"We had no domestic attacks under Bush."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 8, 2010

Dick Cheney
stated on December 30, 2009 a statement to Politico.

President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."

By Bill Adair • January 3, 2010

Chain email
stated on November 23, 2009 a widely circulated e-mail

A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."

By Louis Jacobson • November 25, 2009

Chain email
stated on November 23, 2009 a chain e-mail

Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.

By Catharine Richert • November 23, 2009

Chain email
stated on November 13, 2009 an e-mail circulated to many people.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."

By Catharine Richert • November 13, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on November 12, 2009 his radio program

"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."

By Robert Farley • November 12, 2009

Charlie Crist
stated on November 4, 2009 an interview on CNN

"I didn't endorse" the federal stimulus bill.

By Aaron Sharockman • November 5, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 30, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel.

Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."

By Catharine Richert • November 3, 2009

Chain email
stated on November 1, 2009 an e-mail circulated to many people.

You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.

By Ian Jannetta • November 2, 2009

Bloggers
stated on October 23, 2009 a posting on many blogs.

Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."

By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2009

Christopher Monckton
stated on October 14, 2009 a speech in St. Paul, Minn.

If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."

By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2009

Chain email
stated on October 14, 2009 a chain e-mail

The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees "holiday trees."

By Catharine Richert • October 14, 2009

Chain email
stated on September 28, 2009 a chain e-mail

"For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)."

By Robert Farley • September 28, 2009

Bloggers
stated on September 12, 2009 conservative blogs

Photo of "tea party" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument

By Catharine Richert • September 14, 2009

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.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009

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