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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on 2010-09-19 ABC's "This Week":
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "was never sentenced to stoning."
False
By Robert Farley • September 22, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-09-20 a town hall meeting:
The Bush administration had been "giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-09-20 a televised town hall:
"Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-09-20 a town hall meeting:
"There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2010-09-17 a speech to the Values Voter Summit:
"Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2010
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on 2010-09-08 a campaign ad:
The new health care law "will cut $500 billion from Medicare. That will hurt the quality of our care."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on 2010-09-14 an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live":
"Do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood? I'm not joking."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2010
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on 2010-09-15 a political ad:
"As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2010
Sharron Angle
Sharron Angle
stated on 2010-09-14 a campaign commerical:
Harry Reid has voted "to give special tax breaks to illegal aliens."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2010
Sharron Angle
Sharron Angle
stated on 2010-09-14 a campaign commercial:
Harry Reid has voted "to give illegals Social Security benefits even for the time they were here illegally."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on 2010-09-14 a campaign ad:
"Taxes went down under Jerry Brown."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2010
John Dennis
John Dennis
stated on 2010-09-14 a campaign commercial:
Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office in downtown San Francisco. 
True
By Robert Farley • September 15, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-09-12 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
"Over 10 years, (extending tax cuts for the wealthy) would add less to the deficit than Obama added with the stimulus in one year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on 2010-09-12 ABC's "This Week":
John Boehner has called for "repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people."
False
By Robert Farley • September 13, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on 2010-09-12 an interview on "This Week.":
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on 2010-09-12 a White House news release:
Says John Boehner changed his position on extending Bush tax cuts.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-09-06 a speech on Labor Day:
John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole "that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on 2010-09-08 a column:
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on 2010-09-02 a television commercial:
Proposed tax changes are a "handout" to BP.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-09-08 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio.:
"When these same Republicans –- including Mr. Boehner –- were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2010
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