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Glenn Beck
stated on January 15, 2010 a video blog post

Chile ranks third internationally in economic freedom, while the U.S. ranks 17th.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2010

Dana Milbank
stated on January 3, 2010 a column in the Washington Post

"Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2010

Ed Schultz
stated on November 20, 2009 MSNBC's the 'Ed Show'

"Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up" due to the House health care bill.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • November 27, 2009

Rachel Maddow
stated on November 12, 2009 her show on MSNBC

"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on October 8, 2009 his radio program.

"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."

Mostly False

October 14, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on September 1, 2009 his radio program

Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist."

Mostly False

September 8, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 his radio program

The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."

Mostly False

September 8, 2009

George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 his radio show

On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009

Ann Coulter
stated on June 10, 2009 a column.

Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • June 19, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 26, 2009 his radio program

Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."

Mostly False

May 28, 2009

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