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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 4, 2008 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
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 3, 2008 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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 4, 2008 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 a television ad
John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 11, 2008 an Internet ad
Obama plans "a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2008
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