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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.
On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • October 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • October 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.
On the economic troubles of 2008, "really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • October 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.
"The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • October 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.
A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
False
By Robert Farley • October 7, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 6, 2008 Clearwater, Fla.
"Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 6, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 a debate in St. Louis
"As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 3, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 2, 2008 vice presidential debate in St. Louis
Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • October 2, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 a debate in Oxford, Miss.
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 30, 2008 a TV ad
"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 30, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 26, 2008 in debate in Oxford, Miss.
"He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 26, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 26, 2008 in debate in Oxford, Miss.
"You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • September 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 a radio ad
McCain "has opposed stem cell research."
False
By Robert Farley • September 24, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 15, 2008 a news release.
"Barack Obama has the longest track record of any candidate in this election in support of the 'Bridge To Nowhere.' "
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2008
"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."
False
By Robert Farley • September 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 18, 2008 a video ad.
Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration.
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 19, 2008
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
stated on September 16, 2008 a conversation with reporters.
Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create."
False
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2008 St. Clair Shores, Mich.
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 15, 2008
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