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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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