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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 23, 2009 in a posting on many blogs.:
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2009
Christopher Monckton
Christopher Monckton
stated on October 14, 2009 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn.:
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on September 9, 2009 in a letter to AARP:
AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2009
Patients First
Patients First
stated on September 29, 2009 in a news release:
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2009
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
stated on July 26, 2009 in CNN's State of the Union with John King:
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 in a GOP survey:
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on July 1, 2009 in a column in Human Events.:
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"
False
By Wes Allison • July 10, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 25, 2009 in an e-mail received by many people.:
"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2009 in legal filings:
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 14, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 10, 2009 in a television interview:
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 13, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 1, 2009 in a radio show:
Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch could "end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 5, 2009
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 27, 2009 in a CPAC conference:
Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, "wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 27, 2009:
"Barack Obama's nominee for 'regulatory czar' has advocated a 'Fairness Doctrine' for the Internet" that would require links to opposing opinions.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2009
Fidelis
Fidelis
stated on February 3, 2009 in a news release:
"Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 6, 2009
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on January 13, 2009 in public statements.:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on whether Senate Democrats would seat Roland Burris.
Full Flop
By Robert Farley • January 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 20, 2008 in a TV ad:
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 29, 2008
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
stated on October 1, 2008 in a TV ad.:
Says McCain "voted to let governments charge rape victims" for forensic exams.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • October 1, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 26, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention.:
McCain "still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work."
False
By Richard Rubin • August 27, 2008
Focus on the Family Action
Focus on the Family Action
stated on March 26, 2008 in an article written by Tom Minnery:
"As a state senator, he (Obama) even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship!"
True
By Robert Farley • April 23, 2008
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