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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
Benjamin Crump
Benjamin Crump
stated on November 23, 2014 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Says "99 percent of the time police officers aren't charged when they kill young people of color."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 25, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 23, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"There are more people living in this country who were not born here than at anytime in the history of the country."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2014
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace
stated on November 16, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"The Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, has blocked any vote on the Keystone pipeline for years."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 16, 2014
Jose Diaz-Balart
Jose Diaz-Balart
stated on November 9, 2014 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Every single day in this country, 1,000 people are deported and the vast majority of those people that are deported aren't criminals."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 12, 2014
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
stated on November 1, 2014 a column in the "Miami Herald":
"America’s least-trusted news sources are also its most popular."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on November 3, 2014 a segment on "Morning Joe":
2014 midterm election spending by "the left and the right are both equal."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • November 6, 2014
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 2, 2014 a broadcast of Fox News' "Outnumbered":
Democrats give "Newports to the homeless to get them to the polls."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2014
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on October 15, 2014 a broadcast of the "Glenn Beck Program":
"Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2014
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
stated on October 8, 2014 a video for the National Women's Law Center:
"Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap," which amounts to "a $500,000 vagina tax" over her working career.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • October 10, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 6, 2014 a broadcast of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor":
Muslim nations did not "call out" the people who celebrated the 9/11 attacks.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2014
Emma Watson
Emma Watson
stated on September 20, 2014 a speech at the UN:
Based on current trends, "15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2014
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on September 21, 2014 a panel on ABC's "This Week":
Americans now "support strikes (against ISIS) but the support for ground troops is not there. The support is very thin."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • September 21, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 15, 2014 a post on InfoWars.com:
"The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus.
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014
Maria Cardona
Maria Cardona
stated on September 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history."  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • September 12, 2014
Michael Medved
Michael Medved
stated on August 19, 2014 a Web post from the "Michael Medved Show":
"More whites than blacks are victims of deadly police shootings."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 21, 2014
Mark Emmert
Mark Emmert
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"More (student-athletes) graduate than the students who aren't student-athletes."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 10, 2014
Jamie Weinstein
Jamie Weinstein
stated on July 18, 2014 comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
The states that are doing "better" are the ones that have no state income tax.  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • July 28, 2014
Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The best evidence is that you lose -- if you use marijuana as a teenager regularly -- eight IQ points."    
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 27, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC:
Between June 30 and July 10, CNN interviewed "17 Israeli public officials versus one" Palestinian official.  
Half-True
By Katie Sanders, Linda Qiu • July 24, 2014
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