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Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2008-01-24 a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris:
"Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2008-02-03 an interview on "Face the Nation":
In the Florida Republican primary, "we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 5, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-01-30 Denver:
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2008-01-26 Fort Myers, Fla.:
Mitt Romney wants "to set a date for withdrawal" from Iraq.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 31, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2008-01-30 a Republican debate in Simi Valley, Calif.:
"Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year."
Mostly False
By Shawn Zeller • January 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2008-01-30 a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.:
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 31, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2008-01-28 West Palm Beach, Fla.:
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2008-01-24 a debate in Boca Raton.:
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-01-21 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 22, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2008-01-05 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."
Mostly False
By Asjylyn Loder • January 10, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2008-01-05 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on 2007-12-27 a TV ad:
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."
Mostly False
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • December 31, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-12-06 College Station, Texas:
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on 2007-11-15 a debate in Las Vegas:
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
Mostly False
By Neil Skene • December 21, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-12-18 a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa.:
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • December 19, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2007-12-05 a TV ad:
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
Mostly False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-10-10 a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H.:
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."
Mostly False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2007-12-12 a debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair, Tom Tobin • December 13, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on 2007-10-09 Detroit:
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."
Mostly False
By David DeCamp • December 11, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2007-11-15 Las Vegas, Nev. :
"I do provide universal health care."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
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