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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview with President Obama
The majority of people in polls do "not support Obamacare."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 8, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 31, 2011 his radio program
Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Half-True
February 4, 2011
Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas
stated on January 9, 2011 a report on ABC News' "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Saturday's shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2011
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on December 12, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 10, 2010 comments on her MSNBC show.
"The Republican who was just elected governor of the great state of Florida paid his campaign staffers, not with money, but with American Express gift cards."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • November 12, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 6, 2010 the "Rachel Maddow Show"
"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending."
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By Lukas Pleva • August 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 7, 2010 his Fox News program
"The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion."
Half-True
June 11, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
stated on May 10, 2010 a column
Elena Kagan "has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 17, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on May 10, 2010 his website
"She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama."
Half-True
May 14, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on April 19, 2010 comments on the MSNBC show Countdown
The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was "his outreach to Muslims."
Half-True
By Alex Holt • May 11, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 29, 2010 his Fox News program
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
Half-True
February 3, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on November 23, 2009 MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2009
Bob Beckel
Bob Beckel
stated on November 9, 2009 Sean Hannity's show on Fox News
"There were more people at the Air and Space Museum" than at a rally against the health care bills.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 10, 2009 his radio show
The health care bills will be "mandated spending. You can't cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 1, 2009 Fox News Sunday
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Half-True
November 3, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on October 15, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel
"Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more."
Half-True
October 22, 2009
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