Fact Check Posts – Page 31

Mitt Romney
stated on April 9, 2012 in a graphic posted on his website:

"What president has the worst record on female labor force participation? Barack Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2012

Morgan Griffith
stated on April 3, 2012 in an interview.:

"On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first."

By Nancy Madsen • April 9, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on April 3, 2012 in remarks to the Newspaper Association of America:

Says Ronald Reagan "understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2012

Chain email
stated on February 19, 2012 in an email:

Says Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.

By Sue Owen • April 4, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on April 2, 2012 in in a speech in Wisconsin:

"I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught."

By Becky Bowers • April 3, 2012

Harold Metts
stated on March 14, 2012 in a news release:

Says when Rhode Island Lottery was proposed, "state residents were enticed to vote for it with the promise that the money would be used for education."

By Edward Fitzpatrick • March 28, 2012

Texas Democratic Party
stated on March 3, 2012 in a quoted comment.:

"In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on March 6, 2012 in a speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee:

Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of "peace through strength" is why "the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 29, 2012 in a speech near Knoxville, Tenn.:

"If you look up the dictionary definition of happiness at the time of our founders … happiness was not doing what you want to do but doing what you ought to do."

By Becky Bowers • March 7, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 29, 2012 in a campaign speech:

"When my grandfather came to this country back in 1925, there were no government benefits."

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2012

Scott Walker
stated on February 23, 2012 in a radio interview:

Wisconsin is called the Badger State because "our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining."

By Tom Kertscher • March 5, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 17, 2012 in a campaign event:

Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2012

Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on January 31, 2012 in TV advertisement for MSNBC's "The Last Word.":

Says critics called the original GI Bill "welfare."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2012

Stacey Campfield
stated on January 26, 2012 in an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”:

AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."

By Zack McMillin • February 3, 2012

Ron Paul
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in South Carolina:

Says the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913.

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 31, 2012

Travis Rowley
stated on January 21, 2012 in an opinion column:

"Martin Luther King was a Republican."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa:

"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."

By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012

Charlotte Bergmann
stated on January 10, 2012 in a campaign billboard along I-240.:

"Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican."

By Bartholomew Sullivan • January 23, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:

The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2012

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