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National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on 2011-02-10 a speech by Wayne LaPierre at the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2011-02-15 a press conference:
"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-02-15 a press conference:
Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2011-02-04 a comment on his television show:
The Muslim Brotherhood has "openly stated they want to declare war on Israel."
False
By Lucas Graves • February 15, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on 2011-02-10 a speech at the CPAC conference:
"The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • February 14, 2011
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on 2011-02-13 a comic strip:
Since Sept. 11, 2001, "270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2011
Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur
stated on 2011-02-09 MSNBC Live:
Orrin Hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2011-02-11 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"In the month of January, Canada created more new jobs than we did."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2011-02-11 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on 2011-02-08 a speech in Philadelphia:
"If you shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, it's estimated you'd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-02-07 a speech to the Chamber of Commerce:
"Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 10, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on 2010-12-15 an interview on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman:
Fox News "said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2011-02-07 a chain e-mail:
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on 2011-02-06 an interview with President Obama:
The majority of people in polls do "not support Obamacare."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 8, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on 2011-02-06 an interview with President Barack Obama:
Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-02-06 an interview on Fox:
Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional."
False
By Robert Farley • February 8, 2011
Americans Against Food Taxes
Americans Against Food Taxes
stated on 2011-02-06 a television commercial:
"Some politicians … want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-02-06 an interview on Super Bowl Sunday:
"I lowered taxes over the last two years."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-02-06 an interview on Super Bowl Sunday:
"I didn't raise taxes once."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2011-01-31 his radio program:
Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 4, 2011
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