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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on 2010-07-17 conservative blogs:
Obama's dog has his "own plane"
False
By Lukas Pleva • July 22, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on 2010-07-20 a press conference:
"Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce
stated on 2010-07-07 a CNN interview:
"Sixty percent of the Hispanics" support the Arizona immigration law
Pants on Fire!
By Lukas Pleva • July 21, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on 2010-07-18 ABC's "This Week":
"I never called for a partition" of Iraq.
True
By Robert Farley • July 21, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on 2010-07-18 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"The health care numbers are going up."
Mostly False
By Alex Holt • July 20, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on 2010-07-18 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on 2010-07-14 a campaign commercial:
Russ Feingold "voted against the law that protected our lakes" and "was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2010-05-26 a political ad:
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • July 16, 2010
National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee
stated on 2010-07-13 a prepared statement:
The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover "any legal abortion."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on 2010-07-11 ABC's "This Week":
"We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 15, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on 2010-07-14 a news conference:
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2010
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on 2010-07-05 a CNN interview:
"We're spending $1 trillion a year on our foreign policy."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 15, 2010
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott
stated on 2010-07-13 an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:
"Most" of the Bush tax cuts went to people "in the top 3 percent of this country."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on 2010-07-11 an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on 2010-07-11 an interview on "This Week.":
Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush "when he asked to extend unemployment insurance."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2010
Sharron Angle
Sharron Angle
stated on 2010-07-07 a local radio interview:
On whether BP's $20 billion fund to compensate oil spill victims is "a slush fund."
Full Flop
By Martha M. Hamilton • July 13, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-07-11 ABC's "This Week":
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 13, 2010
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on 2010-07-11 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2010
Trent Franks
Trent Franks
stated on 2010-07-07 an interview on MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show':
"The top 1 percent pay over half of the entire revenue for this country."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on 2010-06-30 a Facebook posting:
The U.S. "only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
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