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stated on June 5, 2014 posts on Facebook
Says Michele Bachmann said on Fox News, "This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • June 5, 2014
Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth
stated on May 26, 2014 a segment on "Outnumbered"
Redskins is "used historically" as "a term of respect."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • June 4, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 30, 2014 messages on the Internet
Says Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day.
Pants on Fire!
By Shannon Beckham • May 30, 2014
Dawson Hodgson
Dawson Hodgson
stated on May 27, 2014 a radio commercial
Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to "twist [legislator’s] arms to vote for deals like this."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 30, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on May 12, 2014 a fundraising letter
I turned "a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 25, 2014
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
stated on May 7, 2014 a radio interview
A majority of Americans "since Harry Truman days" support single-payer health insurance, or "full Medicare for all."  
False
May 14, 2014
John Garamendi
John Garamendi
stated on May 5, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
"During the George W. Bush period, there were 13 attacks on various embassies and consulates around the world. Sixty people died."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2014
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on April 24, 2014 an interview with the McAllen Monitor
With only 67 bills or so passed into law, "2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since we’ve been keeping record."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 9, 2014
Matt Bevin
Matt Bevin
stated on April 3, 2014 a radio interview
"Many" of the founding fathers were "very actively involved" in cockfighting.
False
By Tim Ryan • May 1, 2014
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on April 3, 2014 a broadcast of "Vocal Point"
"A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 15, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 10, 2014 speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library
During Lyndon B. Johnson’s first 20 years in Congress, "he opposed every civil rights measure that came up for a vote."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 10, 2014 comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Before "our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 10, 2014
Now or Never PAC
Now or Never PAC
stated on March 20, 2014 a campaign ad
Says Ralph Hall is "the oldest member in Congress ever."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2014
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on March 16, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
After Russia went to war with Georgia in 2008, the U.S. sent a "very strong message" to Vladimir Putin by sending "warships to the Black Sea" and airlifting "combat troops that Georgia had in Afghanistan" back to Georgia.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2014
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
Says President Abraham Lincoln "tried to arm the slaves."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
Says President Abraham Lincoln enforced the Fugitive Slave Act until the Civil War ended.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."
True
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Michael Reagan
Michael Reagan
stated on March 6, 2014 an op-ed on Townhall.com
Says Ronald Reagan "got the Saudis to flood the market with cheap oil."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 13, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2014 a speech at the CPAC conference
Says President Barack Obama "is the first president we've ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2014
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