Fact Check Posts – Page 173

Republican Party of Florida
stated on September 1, 2009 a press release

Schoolchildren across the nation "will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 25, 2009 a radio broadcast

"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."

By Catharine Richert • August 27, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on August 25, 2009 a Fox News interview

The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."

By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009

Orly Taitz
stated on August 2, 2009 an attachment to a lawsuit

Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

By Robert Farley • August 21, 2009

Roy Blunt
stated on August 12, 2009 an editorial board meeting with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced."

By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on August 7, 2009 a message posted on Facebook

Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009

Liberty Counsel
stated on July 29, 2009 a memo on the group's Web site.

Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"

By Catharine Richert • August 7, 2009

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

"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009

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

In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on July 22, 2009 his TV program

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."

By Robert Farley • July 29, 2009

Chain email
stated on July 14, 2009 a chain email

"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."

By Catharine Richert • July 29, 2009

Betsy McCaughey
stated on July 16, 2009 on the Fred Thompson radio show

The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."

By Catharine Richert • July 23, 2009

Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 an editorial.

The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009

Chain email
stated on June 25, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.

"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2009

Chain email
stated on May 24, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.

The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."

By Robert Farley • July 1, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 an interview with the Washington Times.

ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."

By Robert Farley • June 26, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 a Washington Times interview

Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."

By Robert Farley • June 25, 2009

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 30, 2009 an e-mail

Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • June 8, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2009 interview with Canal Plus Television

"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."

By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009

Steve King
stated on May 6, 2009 a Fox News interview

The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create "special protection for pedophiles."

By Robert Farley • May 14, 2009

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