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MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on May 8, 2009 a Web ad
Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 12, 2009
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 23, 2009 a news conference.
"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
False
By Robert Farley • May 12, 2009
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
stated on April 27, 2009 a television ad
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 11, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 2, 2009 a chain e-mail
Obama used $20 million in federal money "to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • May 8, 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
By Robert Farley • May 8, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 7, 2009 a speech at the White House.
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • May 7, 2009
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on May 5, 2009 a Web ad.
The Republican Party has "21 percent party ID and shrinking."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 6, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 1, 2009 a radio show
Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch could "end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 5, 2009
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 27, 2009 a CPAC conference
Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, "wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 27, 2009
"Barack Obama's nominee for 'regulatory czar' has advocated a 'Fairness Doctrine' for the Internet" that would require links to opposing opinions.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 30, 2009 an interview on "The Today Show"
"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 4, 2009
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
stated on April 28, 2009 interviews.
On switching parties.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 1, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on April 27, 2009 an interview with Pajamas Media.
In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • April 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 29, 2009 a press conference
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 29, 2009 a news conference
In Iraq, "civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year."
True
By Robert Farley • April 30, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 22, 2009 an opinion piece.
"About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 30, 2009
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on April 26, 2009 a TV interview
"The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 28, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 24, 2009 a news interview
On torture.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 28, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2009 a speech at Georgetown University
"Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 19, 2009 a news conference.
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 21, 2009
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