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Joshua Feuerstein
Joshua Feuerstein
stated on November 5, 2015 a video
Says that Starbucks took "Christmas off of their brand new cups."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • November 11, 2015
Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel
stated on November 3, 2015 a discussion on MSNBC's "Up with Steve Kornacki"
Obamacare insurance cooperative failures "should be expected" because they're like any business, and "when you start businesses in America, at the fifth year, half of the businesses have closed."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2015
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah
stated on November 3, 2015 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
"Iowa's Republican caucus stopped mattering years ago. It in no way determines the party nominee."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 4, 2015
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on October 19, 2015 a segment of Fox News' "Hannity"
"The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."  
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on October 25, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says Marco Rubio opposes abortion "even in the case of rape and incest."  
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman • October 25, 2015
Jon Voight
Jon Voight
stated on October 20, 2015 an interview with "Cigar Aficianado"
"The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 21, 2015 an image on the Internet
"CNN's Crap Polling" is so bad that it shows that "no one under the age of 50 has an opinion of Hillary Clinton."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2015
NowThis
NowThis
stated on October 15, 2015 a video shared on social media
Says CNN deleted an online poll showing Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic presidential debate to help out Hillary Clinton.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • October 19, 2015
Steve Deace
Steve Deace
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "News Nation"
Pollsters say "don't actually believe our own data" and Gallup stopped primary polling "because they don't trust their methodology."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2015
X posts
X posts
stated on October 4, 2015 tweets
Says Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" hats were made in China.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 a New York Times op-ed
"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on September 29, 2015 a tweet
Says Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards was "forced to concede that 86 percent of Planned Parenthood’s revenue is from abortion."
False
By Katie Sanders • October 5, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on October 2, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2015
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
stated on October 4, 2015 an interview on "State of the Union"
"We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • October 4, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 20, 2015 a post shared on Facebook
Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 25, 2015 a viral Internet post
Honduras "bans citizens from owning guns" and has the "highest homicide rate in the entire world." Switzerland, with a similar population, "requires citizens to own guns" and has the "lowest homicide rate in the entire world."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • September 30, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on September 27, 2015 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2015
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with Ted Cruz
Says Ronald Reagan "reversed his world’s ‘largest tax cut’ and raised taxes when revenues did not match the expectations."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • September 25, 2015
Martin Shkreli
Martin Shkreli
stated on September 21, 2015 comments on Bloomberg TV
"Daraprim is still underpriced, relative to its peers."  
False
By Linda Qiu • September 24, 2015
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on September 20, 2015 a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 22, 2015
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