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Latest Fact-Checks On Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 in a speech to investors in Hong Kong:
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
Mostly True
By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 12, 2009 in her Facebook page:
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."
False
By Robert Farley • August 13, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 7, 2009 in a message posted on Facebook:
Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • July 20, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox:
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
False
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 24, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Mo.:
Obama would "experiment with socialism."
Pants on Fire!
By Alexander Lane • December 3, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 11, 2008 in an interview with reporters:
"The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • October 14, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 6, 2008 in Clearwater, Fla.:
"Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 6, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo.:
"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 3, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in a debate in St. Louis:
"As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 3, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis:
"You had supported John McCain's military strategies pretty adamantly until this race."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • October 3, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis:
Barack Obama's health care plan is "to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis:
"Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line."
True
By David DeCamp • October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo.:
"You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief."
True
By David DeCamp • October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 22, 2008 in the New York Sun:
"If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed."
False
By Alexander Lane • September 25, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 6, 2008 in a radio address:
"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • September 15, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 10, 2008 in Virginia:
"Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • September 15, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 11, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska:
Sarah Palin was repeating "Abraham Lincoln's words" in discussing the war in Iraq.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 12, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 11, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska:
On whether global warming is man-made.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 12, 2008
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