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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.
Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 2, 2009 CNN's State of the Union with John King
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. "spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy" and "trillions" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
stated on August 2, 2009 on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that "if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2009
John King
John King
stated on August 2, 2009 an interview on CNN's State of the Union
"The John McCain Twitter account has more than 1.1 million followers. The official White House Twitter account has only about 830,000."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • August 4, 2009
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle
stated on July 31, 2009 the Glenn Beck show
If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.    
False
By Robert Farley • August 3, 2009
Dan Lungren
Dan Lungren
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009
Russ Carnahan
Russ Carnahan
stated on July 20, 2009 a town hall meeting in Missouri.
"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 3, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
"53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 a chain e-mail
"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 a chain e-mail
"All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 a chain e-mail
In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on July 22, 2009 his TV program
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 29, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 14, 2009 a chain email
"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • July 29, 2009
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 26, 2009 This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
stated on July 26, 2009 CNN's State of the Union with John King
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily
stated on June 17, 2009 an advertisement
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.
False
By Robert Farley • July 28, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a speech on health care reform
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a news conference.
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2009
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey
stated on July 16, 2009 on the Fred Thompson radio show
The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • July 23, 2009
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