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Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on September 20, 2015 a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 22, 2015
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on September 20, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney."  
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By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 26, 2015 an Internet graphic
Bernie Sanders opposes the death penalty, and Hillary Clinton supports it.
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By Will Cabaniss • September 2, 2015
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Viral image
stated on August 26, 2015 a viral Internet chart
Bernie Sanders opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Hillary Clinton supports it.
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By Will Cabaniss • September 2, 2015
Matt Wuerker
Matt Wuerker
stated on August 4, 2015 a political cartoon on Politico
"The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on August 7, 2015 a Washington Post column
Says Bernie Sanders chose "to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in 1988."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 12, 2015
Jack Hanna
Jack Hanna
stated on August 2, 2015 an ABC "This Week" interview
"In 1947, when I was born, there were about 450,000 lions. In the mid-70s, when my kids were born, there were about 100,000. Today, there are less than 30,000."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 3, 2015
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 27, 2015 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor"
Russia and China "absolutely said pretty clearly" they would not keep economic sanctions on Iran if the United States "walked away from the deal."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • July 30, 2015
NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA
stated on July 22, 2015 a Facebook meme
"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2015
Brianna Keilar
Brianna Keilar
stated on July 12, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says Hillary Clinton's "campaign hasn't been clear about when she wiped her server of her work emails."
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By Linda Qiu • July 12, 2015
Larry O'Connor
Larry O'Connor
stated on July 7, 2015 an interview on "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson" on Fox News
"25 percent of federal inmates are noncitizens."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on July 5, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
In Florida, "the number of voters who now register as ‘other’ has grown by a million in the last 10 years. Compare that with the Democrats, who only grew by 300,000 and the Republicans who grew by just 200,000."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • July 8, 2015
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 30, 2015 a tweet
"Chris Christie has led New Jersey to a record-breaking 9 credit downgrades."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2015
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 17, 2015 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
"Between 2010 and 2014, there was no net in-migration from Mexico."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on June 14, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Says Jeb Bush "happens to be where a majority" of Republican voters are on giving legal status to illegal immigrants.
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By Jon Greenberg • June 14, 2015
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
stated on May 17, 2015 an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS"
The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent."  
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By Jon Greenberg • May 17, 2015
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on April 17, 2015 his monologue on "Real Time"
"More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013."
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By Katie Sanders • April 23, 2015
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on April 19, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The Hyde Amendment "language was in the (human trafficking) bill. The Democratic sponsor admits it was in the bill, and she voted for it."  
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By Lauren Carroll • April 19, 2015
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Last Week Tonight"
"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."
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By Katie Sanders • April 9, 2015
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