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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 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 in 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
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 25, 2009 in in a Fox News interview.:
Obama's proposed budget "doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2009
Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia Lummis
stated on March 24, 2009 in a news conference.:
Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are "going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • March 24, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on March 23, 2009 in a blog post.:
Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"
False
By Alexander Lane • March 24, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 22, 2009 in a television interview:
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on March 19, 2009 in a CNN interview.:
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
Full Flop
By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 17, 2009 in a TV interview:
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
True
By Robert Farley • March 20, 2009
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