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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on January 21, 2011 in 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
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 10, 2010 in 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
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 6, 2010 in the "Rachel Maddow Show":
"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending."
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • August 12, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 2, 2010 in "The Rachel Maddow Show":
"The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse."
True
By Alex Holt • August 12, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 in comments on her MSNBC show.:
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 12, 2009 in her show on MSNBC:
"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on October 22, 2009 in "The Rachel Maddow" show:
"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 14, 2009 in the Rachel Maddow Show:
Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Boehner and John Mica flip-flopped on providing end-of-life counseling for the elderly.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 in an episode of her MSNBC show:
Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."
False
By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
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