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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 12, 2009 her Facebook page
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."
False
August 13, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 7, 2009 a message posted on Facebook
Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 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
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
July 28, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
False
July 14, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
July 14, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 a PBS interview.
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Mostly False
July 9, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Mostly False
July 7, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 24, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."
Pants on Fire!
July 1, 2009
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on June 1, 2009 a press release.
"President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent."
True
By Catharine Richert • June 1, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 2, 2009 a chain e-mail
Obama's "first call (as president) to any head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory."
Half-True
May 8, 2009
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 7, 2009 a discussion on MSNBC
President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.
False
By Alexander Lane • April 15, 2009
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
stated on April 1, 2009 a political advertisement.
"There has been no net global warming for over a decade now."
False
April 1, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on March 24, 2009 a press release and Web post
"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • March 30, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 25, 2009 a speech on the House floor.
"The president campaigned against this type of legislation."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2009 in many blogs and an email sent to many people.
"The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • February 11, 2009
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