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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
"My grandfather came home from ... (World War II) exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 5, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
"I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 3, 2008 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn.:
"That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 3, 2008 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn.:
Barack Obama supports plans to raise "income taxes ... payroll taxes."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 3, 2008
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on August 31, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
Sarah Palin "has more experience than Barack Obama."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on August 31, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
Sarah Palin "already has more executive experience" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden "combined."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2008
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on September 2, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 30, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. :
When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 30, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Sarah Palin "has had 12 years of elected office experience."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 31, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 29, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio:
When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up, Palin sent "a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 29, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on August 26, 2008 in a statement on the RNC Web site:
"Barack Obama and Joe Biden oppose new drilling at home and oppose nuclear power."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 27, 2008
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on August 26, 2008 in Denver:
The U.S. energy policy is to "borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2008
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 25, 2008 in Denver:
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 25, 2008
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 25, 2008 in Denver:
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 21, 2008 in Chester, Va. :
The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2008
Jerome R. Corsi
Jerome R. Corsi
stated on August 1, 2008 in his book The Obama Nation. :
Barack Obama "rejects everyone white, including his mother and his grandparents."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 20, 2008
Jerome R. Corsi
Jerome R. Corsi
stated on August 1, 2008 in his book The Obama Nation. :
Barack Obama "openly supported (opposition leader) Raila Odinga during his visit to Africa in 2006."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 20, 2008
Jerome R. Corsi
Jerome R. Corsi
stated on August 1, 2008 in his book The Obama Nation. :
Barack Obama has "pledged to reduce the size of the military."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 20, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2008 in a television ad:
John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 4, 2008 in flip-o-meter:
On a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.
No Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2008
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