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George Will
George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on July 15, 2010 a special order speech on the U.S. House floor:
"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 21, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on June 28, 2010 a speech at the state Democratic convention:
Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 12, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech:
"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 24, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 22, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
Under President George W. Bush, "the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 a chain e-mail:
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview:
Says he said last year there's "absolutely no reason" for Texas to secede.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer
stated on March 22, 2010 comments on CBS's Face the Nation:
The Iraq war has been "our longest war."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 16, 2010 comments on his television show:
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."
True
By Alex Holt • March 8, 2010
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on January 21, 2010 a floor speech in the House:
Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2010
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on December 30, 2009 a conference call:
"I haven't missed a vote since 1993."
True
By Catharine Richert • January 6, 2010
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on December 16, 2009 a 'Wall Street Journal' column:
President Obama has "the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on November 23, 2009 MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 her book, Going Rogue:
"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2009
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