Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Charlotte Bergmann
stated on July 4, 2012 an email newsletter.

"Obamacare" represents "the largest tax increase in the history of the world."

By Bartholomew Sullivan • July 22, 2012

Chain email
stated on February 19, 2012 an email

Says Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.

April 4, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on March 6, 2012 a speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee

Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of "peace through strength" is why "the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 17, 2012 a campaign event

Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2012

Stacey Campfield
stated on January 26, 2012 an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”

AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."

By Zack McMillin • February 3, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2012

Chain email
stated on December 10, 2011 a message via the Internet

"What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2012

Jon Stewart
stated on December 6, 2011 a segment of "The Daily Show"

"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 9, 2011

Chain email
stated on October 25, 2011 a chain e-mail

Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."

By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2011

Critics of water fluoridation
stated on October 4, 2011 a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments

Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

By Becky Bowers • October 6, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando

"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times."

By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011

Harry Reid
stated on August 2, 2011 a Senate floor speech

There was a "loss of eight million jobs during the Bush eight years."

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2011

Chain email
stated on June 22, 2011 a chain e-mail

Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.

July 14, 2011

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 3, 2011 a chart posted on her Flickr account

Promotes a chart saying that Barack Obama has "increased the debt" by 16 percent, compared to George W. Bush, who increased it by 115 percent.

By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2011

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference

After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011

Reince Priebus
stated on April 5, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show

"We’ve lost 26 million jobs … since (Obama’s) been president."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011

Ray McBerry
stated on December 15, 2010 a radio interview

"You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War.

By Willoughby Mariano • January 7, 2011

Eric Cantor
stated on October 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart

In the past two years, Democrats have "spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined."

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2010

Bloggers
stated on September 12, 2009 conservative blogs

Photo of "tea party" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument

By Catharine Richert • September 14, 2009

Bloggers
stated on February 18, 2008 blog postings responding to a news video showing the flag.

"Barack Obama loves Che Guevara."

February 22, 2008

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