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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
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
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
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
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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