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Stuart Varney
Stuart Varney
stated on January 27, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom"
"It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 28, 2015
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on January 25, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Democrats have "lost more than 900 state legislators" since Barack Obama has been president.  
True
By Katie Sanders • January 25, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on January 21, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Says President Barack Obama is "not paying women equally by his own measures in his own White House."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2015
Bret Baier
Bret Baier
stated on January 20, 2015 an analysis of Obama's speech
In President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, "the words ‘al-Qaida’ were never used, the first time those words have not been used in a State of the Union address since February 2001."
True
By Katie Sanders • January 21, 2015
Ted Olson
Ted Olson
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right" and never said "it had to be between a man and a woman."
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2015
Jennifer Granholm
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."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 2015
Steven Emerson
Steven Emerson
stated on January 10, 2015 an interview on Fox News
"There are actual cities" like Birmingham, England, "that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • January 14, 2015
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
stated on January 11, 2015 a "Washington Post" op-ed
The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • January 14, 2015
Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer
stated on January 11, 2015 a red carpet interview before the Golden Globes
"The name Frank has risen in popularity by 20 percent" since the debut of 'House of Cards' on Netflix.
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2015
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics
The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015
Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn
stated on January 7, 2015 a tweet on Twitter
"Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 8, 2015
Craig Melvin
Craig Melvin
stated on January 5, 2015 an MSNBC segment
"There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, ‘If you give us more money we don't know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.’ "
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2015
NaHa Daily
NaHa Daily
stated on January 4, 2015 a website article
"Fox News airs Stuart Scott R.I.P. tribute with picture of Stephen A. Smith."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 4, 2015 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
Says President Barack Obama got "a pass" over controversal remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while a 12-year-old speech by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has blown up into a national story.
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on December 28, 2014 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"
"We've caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2014
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 21, 2014 an interview on Fox News
Says President Barack Obama has said "that everybody should hate the police."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • December 23, 2014
Ana Navarro
Ana Navarro
stated on December 17, 2014 an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper"
"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on December 14, 2014 the Sunday comics
Says 3,000 Americans "died of gunfire" between the time of the Ebola scare in Dallas and the midterm elections.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014
Matthew Cooke
Matthew Cooke
stated on December 10, 2014 a Huffington Post column
The United States has "more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 16, 2014
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