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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."
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 9, 2015
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