Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks In National

Clear
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on May 26, 2010 YouTube video of a floor speech
"Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 15, 2010 an address from the Oval Office
"I've issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 16, 2010
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 15, 2010 a statement at a hearing of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee
"Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2010
Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak
stated on June 15, 2010 a Congressional hearing
"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on June 4, 2010 a campaign commercial
John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 7, 2010 a campaign commercial
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 13, 2010 a discussion on ABC's 'This Week'
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 15, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 14, 2010 a statement on ABC News' 'This Week.'
Ninety percent of the people in Arkansas still love Bill Clinton.
Half-True
By Alex Holt • June 15, 2010
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 13, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week''
"The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 13, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week''
"The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on June 9, 2010 a Senate floor speech
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 7, 2010 his Fox News program
"The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on June 7, 2010 a video on his campaign website
California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."
True
By Alex Holt • June 11, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 10, 2010 a chain e-mail
Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 a chain e-mail
"In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 a chain e-mail
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 3, 2010 a chain e-mail circulated on the Internet
Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 8, 2010 a rumor widely discussed on the Internet.
Barack Obama appeared in the video for 'Whoomp! (There it is!)'
Pants on Fire!
By Cristina Silva • June 8, 2010
Previous Next