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John Carter
John Carter
stated on 2009-08-31 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 2009-09-01 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 2009-09-03 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 2009-08-28 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 2009-08-31 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 2009-08-26 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 2009-09-02 an editorial:
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 3, 2009
Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
stated on 2009-08-13 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 2009-08-31 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 2009-09-01 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 2009-09-01 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 2009-08-27 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 2009-08-30 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 2009-08-25 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
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on 2009-08-25 an interview on "Fox and Friends":
"Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2009
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on 2009-08-10 an interview with Rachel Maddow:
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on 2009-08-25 a radio broadcast:
"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 27, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on 2009-08-24 Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren:
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on 2009-08-24 a mailing:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on 2009-08-24 a mailing:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
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