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Latest Fact-Checks By Bill Adair

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 a debate in Austin, Texas.:
He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."
True
By Bill Adair • February 22, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 20, 2008 a media availability in Columbus, Ohio.:
Obama "suggested bombing Pakistan."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill Adair • February 21, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 13, 2008 a campaign event in Robstown, Texas.:
Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience."
False
By Bill Adair • February 19, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 20, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"I have 35 years' experience making change."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • February 19, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2008 a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.:
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
False
By Bill Adair • February 11, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 6, 2008 a chain e-mail sent to many people.:
"While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches."
False
By Bill Adair • February 8, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 18, 2008 an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.:
"When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel."
True
By Bill Adair • February 7, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 4, 2008 an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday.:
"Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Bill Adair • February 6, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 20, 2007 Iowa:
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill Adair • February 6, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 3, 2008 a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn.:
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • February 4, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 25, 2008 a campaign rally in Pensacola.:
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
False
By Bill Adair, Jennifer Liberto • January 25, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 24, 2008 a Republican debate in Boca Raton.:
"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."
True
By Bill Adair • January 22, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 17, 2008 a news conference in a Staples store in Columbia, S.C. :
"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."
False
By Bill Adair • January 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 a debate in Las Vegas:
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 16, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 10, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • January 11, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 10, 2008 a TV ad airing in Michigan:
Says Time magazine called him "one of America's best governors."
True
By Bill Adair • January 10, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 5, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 17, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa.:
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 19, 2007 an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.:
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
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