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Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 29, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2010
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on August 29, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on August 10, 2010 a page on her campaign website
"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on August 25, 2010 comments on his TV show
"The federal government is now on track" for the second-largest budget deficit "in 65 years."
True
By Lukas Pleva • August 30, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 28, 2010 comments on his radio program
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 27, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 18, 2010 a response to a question during an appearance in Columbus, Ohio.
Republicans "don't think it's a good idea" to make the child care tax credit "stronger."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • August 27, 2010
18% of the American public
18% of the American public
stated on August 19, 2010 a Pew Research Center poll
President Obama is a Muslim.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010
Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham
stated on August 19, 2010 an interview on CNN
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 24, 2010 a speech
"There is already a mosque four blocks away."
True
By Robert Farley • August 26, 2010
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
stated on August 23, 2010 an opinion column in "The Washington Examiner"
"Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva, Martha M. Hamilton • August 25, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on August 23, 2010 his Senate re-election campaign effort.
On birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.  
Full Flop
By Lukas Pleva • August 25, 2010
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on July 14, 2010 a television commercial
"Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on August 22, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area."  
False
By Robert Farley • August 23, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 2, 2010 a chain e-mail
Under the new health care law, "all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax"
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2010
Tamara Holder
Tamara Holder
stated on August 18, 2010 comments on the Hannity show.
"The Republicans have 2 percent of the Muslim vote.''
Mostly True
By Lukas Pleva • August 20, 2010
Rick Lazio
Rick Lazio
stated on August 17, 2010 Fox News "Hannity" program.
A New York imam wants to "have a mosque at Ground Zero.'' 
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 19, 2010
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
stated on August 10, 2010 a press release.
"U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf’s trip to the Middle East."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2010
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 15, 2010 a segment of CBS' ''Face The Nation.''
Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • August 18, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 14, 2010 his weekly address
"Some Republican leaders in Congress" are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 18, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on August 15, 2010 an interview on ABC's ''This Week with Christiane Amanpour.''
The United States is "number 14, number 15" in college graduation rates, and "we're leading the world in high school dropout rates."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
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