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Latest Fact-Checks By Alexander Lane

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 17, 2009 in a bill signing ceremony in Denver.:
"We are making the largest investment in education in our nation’s history."
True
By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009
Rosa DeLauro
Rosa DeLauro
stated on February 4, 2009 in a news conference:
"When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall."
True
By Alexander Lane • February 19, 2009
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on January 28, 2009 in a Senate committee hearing:
If we got solar energy from "an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year."
True
By Alexander Lane • February 18, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 12, 2009 in Internet attack:
"Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • February 11, 2009
Fred Smith
Fred Smith
stated on February 5, 2009 in appearance on ABC's This Week:
"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • February 6, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on January 7, 2009 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball.:
"The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • January 14, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 23, 2008 in remarks by chief strategist Steve Schmidt:
"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."
False
By Alexander Lane • December 3, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 24, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Mo.:
Obama would "experiment with socialism."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • December 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 19, 2008 in a TV interview:
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • December 1, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 31, 2008 in a TV interview:
"We are within the margin of error."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • October 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 29, 2008 in North Carolina:
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • October 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2008 in a television advertisement:
McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • October 28, 2008
National Republican Trust PAC
National Republican Trust PAC
stated on October 21, 2008 in a television ad:
"Barack Obama's plan gives a driver's license to any illegal who wants one."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • October 23, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on October 21, 2008 in a direct mail piece:
"Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • October 22, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 10, 2008 in our inbox:
"If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:
"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 16, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 15, 2008 in Hempstead, N.Y.:
"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • October 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 9, 2008 in a Web ad:
"(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • October 10, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."
True
By Alexander Lane • October 8, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn.:
"1.3-million people in America make their living off eBay."
False
By Alexander Lane, Janet Zink • October 7, 2008
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