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Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
stated on September 9, 2009 the audience at a joint session of Congress
"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 an address to a joint session of Congress
"It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
Preventive care "saves money."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2009
Matt Miller
Matt Miller
stated on September 8, 2009 a Washington Post op-ed
"Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2009
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2009 a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America
"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 1, 2009 his radio program
Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 3, 2009 his television program
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 his radio program
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2009
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 31, 2009 an interview on MSNBC
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 4, 2009
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on August 26, 2009 a letter to principals
A scheduled speech by President Barack Obama will be "the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 3, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on September 2, 2009 an editorial
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 3, 2009
Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
stated on August 13, 2009 an op-ed in the Washington Examiner
"It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog," but he's "cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2009
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on August 31, 2009 an op-ed published in the Huffington Post
"Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • September 2, 2009
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on September 1, 2009 a fundraising e-mail
Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on September 1, 2009 a press release
Schoolchildren across the nation "will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009
America's Health Insurance Plans
America's Health Insurance Plans
stated on August 27, 2009 CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight
"Every survey shows strong satisfaction with private coverage."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 30, 2009 an op-ed in The Washington Post
"Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 31, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show
"All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
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