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Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on August 15, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2010
George Packer
George Packer
stated on August 8, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 10, 2010
Gen. Peter Chiarelli
Gen. Peter Chiarelli
stated on August 8, 2010 an interview on "This Week.":
About 106,000 soldiers had "a prescription of three weeks or more" for pain, depression or anxiety medication.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
House Democrats "have a two-to-one advantage money-wise" against House Republicans.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 1, 2010 on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
The Bush administration "pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on August 1, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent "have grown." Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, "they've seen their wages stagnate."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 29, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 on ABC News' "This Week.":
People in the top tax bracket, "these so-called wealthy, most of them are small-business owners."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 27, 2010
Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner
stated on July 25, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"We've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 27, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"I never called for a partition" of Iraq.
True
By Robert Farley • July 21, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"The health care numbers are going up."
Mostly False
By Alex Holt • July 20, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 15, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week.":
Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush "when he asked to extend unemployment insurance."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 13, 2010
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 11, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on July 4, 2010 an appearance on ABC's "This Week.":
"Crime is down in Arizona."
True
By Alex Holt • July 7, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 4, 2010 an interview on "This Week.":
As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 7, 2010
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