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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2009 a news conference.
"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 17, 2009
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on April 15, 2009 a news release
It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 16, 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
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 24, 2009 a press release.
"Some even advocate wiping out 401(k)s entirely and replacing them with government-run accounts."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on April 8, 2009 an episode of his TV program.
"President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 8, 2009 a radio broadcast
"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."
False
By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 an episode of her MSNBC show
Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."
False
By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on March 24, 2009 a column published by the Washington Post and other news organizations.
"Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets."
True
By Bill Adair • April 9, 2009
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on April 6, 2009 an appearance on MSNBC.
"There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea."
False
By Bill Adair • April 7, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 2, 2009 a chain e-mail.
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
False
By Robert Farley • April 3, 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
By Robert Farley • April 1, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 25, 2009 a press release.
"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.
False
By Alexander Lane • April 1, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 31, 2009
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 17, 2009 a speech on the Senate Floor.
On the propriety of budget reconciliation.
Half Flip
By Robert Farley • March 30, 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
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on March 26, 2009 a statement during a press briefing
The Republican leadership's budget proposal "doesn't contain any numbers."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 27, 2009
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
stated on March 24, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor
The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the "elimination of the secret ballot."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • March 27, 2009
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 25, 2009 a Fox News interview
Obama's budget plan would "take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent."
True
By Robert Farley • March 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2009 in a news conference.
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2009 a news conference.
"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • March 25, 2009
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