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Hans von Spakovsky
stated on July 9, 2015 an article on the Heritage Foundation website:

"134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years."

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By Jon Greenberg • July 16, 2015

Harris Faulkner
stated on July 6, 2015 a broadcast of "Outnumbered" on Fox News:

"President Obama in November of last year wiped away (a program) that allows for shared fingerprinting for those who are behind bars so you know who is here legally and illegally."

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By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2015

Newt Gingrich
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg."

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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015

John Lott
stated on June 24, 2015 comments on Fox News:

"The United States doesn’t have the highest murder rate among developed countries. You look at Russia, you look at Brazil, those are countries that have 3 to 5 times higher murder rates than what we have here in the United States."

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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015

Juan Williams
stated on June 22, 2015 a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:

Polls indicate that "white people think that black people are less intelligent. They think they’re less trustworthy, less patriotic."

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By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015

Stanley McChrystal
stated on June 12, 2015 comments on the Hugh Hewitt radio show:

ISIS reaches "about 100 million people a day" through social media.

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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 25, 2015

Michael Skolnik
stated on June 16, 2015 comments on CNN:

"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."

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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 18, 2015

John Oliver
stated on June 7, 2015 a segment about bail on "Last Week Tonight":

Says "Florida is a model" for successful pretrial release programs.

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By Katie Sanders • June 12, 2015

Pamela Geller
stated on June 4, 2015 an interview with Chris Cuomo:

"In Muslim countries, under the Sharia, there is a death penalty for blaspheming Mohammad."

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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 11, 2015

Megyn Kelly
stated on May 13, 2015 a broadcast of "The Kelly File":

The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."

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By Jon Greenberg • May 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on May 13, 2015 a tweet:

"You can be an NFL player with murder charges and not be suspended."

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By Katie Sanders • May 18, 2015

Chris Wallace
stated on May 3, 2015 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":

"Baltimore spends the third highest per capita on its public schools."

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By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2015

Ed Schultz
stated on April 17, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show":

"America has lost over 50,000 manufacturing factories on other trade deals."

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By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2015

Kirsten Powers
stated on April 12, 2015 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday":

Says Rand Paul denied that he "put forward a bill ... to zero out foreign aid and specifically spoke about Israel."

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By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 20, 2015 a broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor":

"I never said I was on the Falkland Islands."

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By Jon Greenberg • March 3, 2015

David Corn
stated on February 25, 2015 an interview on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC:

Says he "often" appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and "often was praised" by Bill O'Reilly.

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By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2015

Jonah Goldberg
stated on February 13, 2015 a column in "National Review":

Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy "have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act."

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By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2015

Richard Besser
stated on February 1, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week":

"It used to be that the only children at school who weren't vaccinated were those who had true medical" conditions. "Now there are 19 states that allow personal belief exemptions."

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By Katie Sanders • February 1, 2015

Jack Keane
stated on February 1, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years."

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By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2015

Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

Says Mitt Romney "pays less tax than the guys who installed his car elevators."

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By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 2015

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