Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Lara Logan
stated on February 19, 2021 a TV segment

"The reality" in Texas is that "you’re flying helicopters, using fossil fuels, to put oil on wind turbines to defrost them.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021

Tucker Carlson
stated on February 22, 2021 a TV segment

"There's no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That's a lie.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 23, 2021

Greg Kelly
stated on February 8, 2021 a Newsmax TV segment

“Only one person died on that day” during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.

By Bill McCarthy • February 9, 2021

Jordan Rachel
stated on January 16, 2021 a tweet

A $15-per-hour minimum wage would raise the price of a Taco Bell burrito to $38.

By Bill McCarthy • January 20, 2021

Greg Kelly
stated on January 11, 2021 a TV segment

Says Joe Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession."

By Bill McCarthy • January 12, 2021

Rush Limbaugh
stated on December 15, 2020 a radio show segment

The American Medical Association rescinded a previous statement and now says "hydroxychloroquine is okay" for COVID-19.

By Bill McCarthy • December 16, 2020

Laura Ingraham
stated on December 8, 2020 a TV handoff

"You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There's no science for that."

By Bill McCarthy • December 10, 2020

Dinesh D'Souza
stated on September 23, 2020 an Instagram post

Kamala Harris “has not formally taken questions from the press a single time” since she was announced as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick.

By Bill McCarthy • September 25, 2020

Greg Gutfeld
stated on August 20, 2020 a TV segment

“QAnon violence! There is none.”

By Bill McCarthy • August 24, 2020

Sean Hannity
stated on July 21, 2020 an episode of his TV show

The Trump administration has had “zero unfulfilled equipment and supply requests from state governors.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 27, 2020

Brian Kilmeade
stated on July 2, 2020 an episode of "Fox & Friends"

The President’s Daily Brief “is like a mini novel.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 7, 2020

Chuck Todd
stated on May 10, 2020 a TV segment

Says Attorney General William Barr didn’t cite the "rule of law” in explaining his decision in the Michael Flynn case during a CBS News interview.

By Bill McCarthy • May 11, 2020

Laura Ingraham
stated on May 4, 2020 a TV segment

"There was no real scientific basis for believing that" social distancing would be necessary, "since it had never been studied."

By Bill McCarthy • May 6, 2020

Phil McGraw
stated on April 16, 2020 a Fox News appearance

There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 17, 2020

Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2020 an article

“Fish tank additive may treat coronavirus.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 24, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 11, 2020 a Facebook post

“MSNBC actually said on air ‘I hope enough people die from coronavirus that it harms Trump’s re-election.’”

March 18, 2020

Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View"

“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”

By Bill McCarthy • March 12, 2020

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 24, 2020 an episode of his radio show

“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 27, 2020

Viral image
stated on July 22, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Whoopi Goldberg kept her job and was applauded by ABC after calling Jeanine Pirro a racist slur.

July 26, 2019

Joy Behar
stated on September 6, 2017 comments on 'The View'

Says PolitiFact reported that "95 percent of what (Donald Trump) says is a lie."

By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2017

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