Fact Check Posts – Page 173

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

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

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