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Latest Fact-Checks On George Will

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George Will
George Will
stated on October 10, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Just like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "the AFL-CIO receives dues from foreign entities associated with it."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on September 12, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
"Over 10 years, (extending tax cuts for the wealthy) would add less to the deficit than Obama added with the stimulus in one year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on August 1, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 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 July 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 13, 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
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on April 25, 2010 a panel discussion on ABC This Week:
 "What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • April 28, 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
George Will
George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on June 18, 2009 a Washington Post op-ed:
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
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By Catharine Richert • June 29, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on March 24, 2009 a column published by the Washington Post and other news organizations.:
"Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets."
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By Bill Adair • April 9, 2009
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