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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on September 19, 2011 on "The Rachel Maddow Show"
"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 19, 2011
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on September 8, 2011 a column
Mitt Romney "drove to Canada with the family dog Seamus strapped to the roof of the car."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2011
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 21, 2011 a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour'
"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 24, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Most countries have no debt ceiling."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 12, 2011 an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.
Says Texas routinely gets "a lot more federal spending" than it pays in taxes.
Mostly True
April 22, 2011
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on February 16, 2011 a New York Times column
Texas "ranks third in teen pregnancies... and it is No. 1 in repeat teen pregnancies."
Mostly True
March 7, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 24, 2011 on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"
"The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2011
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on February 20, 2011 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
"The (Wisconsin) governor has proposed tax giveaways to corporations."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 22, 2011
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on February 13, 2011 a comic strip
Since Sept. 11, 2001, "270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on January 21, 2011 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent."
Mostly True
February 3, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 25, 2010 a debate
"Most" of the newspapers that endorsed Alex Sink also endorsed Barack Obama.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 28, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 29, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2010
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on August 15, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour''
Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week"
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 comments on her MSNBC show.
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on May 27, 2010 commentary on his television show
"Sixty-four percent of Americans support the Arizona immigration law.''
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By Lukas Pleva • June 3, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on February 21, 2010 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2010
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on February 3, 2010 an interview with Bill O'Reilly
One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.
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By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010
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