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Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-06-28 a chain e-mail:
A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen.
Pants on Fire!
By Alex Holt • July 30, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-06-28 a chain e-mail:
Justice Antonin Scalia agreed for the Supreme Court to hear a case about whether Barack Obama is eligible to be President.
Pants on Fire!
By Alex Holt • July 30, 2010
Mark Dayton
Mark Dayton
stated on 2010-07-14 a campaign ad:
"Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks."
Half-True
By Erin Mershon • July 29, 2010
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on 2010-07-26 a breakfast with journalists in Washington, D.C.:
"I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-07-22 remarks at a bill signing:
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on 2010-07-25 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent "have grown." Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, "they've seen their wages stagnate."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 29, 2010
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on 2010-07-25 an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press:
"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2010
Marc Morial
Marc Morial
stated on 2010-07-25 a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate.
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on 2010-07-25 on ABC News' "This Week.":
People in the top tax bracket, "these so-called wealthy, most of them are small-business owners."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 27, 2010
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on 2010-07-20 an MSNBC interview:
"For every dollar we put in unemployment, it pays back about $1.60."
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • July 27, 2010
Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner
stated on 2010-07-25 ABC's "This Week":
"We've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 27, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on 2010-07-25 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Americans for Job Security
Americans for Job Security
stated on 2010-07-09 an issue advocacy ad:
"Jane Norton supported the largest tax hike in Colorado history."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2010
Americans for Job Security
Americans for Job Security
stated on 2010-07-09 a television ad:
The "state bureaucracy" Jane Norton managed "grew by $43 million in just three years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2010
Jane Norton
Jane Norton
stated on 2010-07-09 a television ad:
"Ken Buck's (District Attorney's) office? His spending skyrocketed by 40 percent."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2010
Susana Martinez
Susana Martinez
stated on 2010-07-22 a campaign commercial:
In New Mexico, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish "spent federal stimulus funds on campaign Christmas cards."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on 2010-07-17 an online column:
"Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges" against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation  
False
By Robert Farley • July 23, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2010-05-07 a campaign ad:
"Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona."
Mostly False
By Alex Holt • July 23, 2010
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on 2010-07-18 a campaign commercial:
"Recent data showed Nevada ranks 50th in the money received from" the stimulus bill.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-07-18 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
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