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Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley
stated on October 19, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"This (Ebola) is not as bad as SARS was in 2003."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • October 19, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on October 19, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 19, 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
Mark Shields
Mark Shields
stated on October 10, 2014 a broadcast of PBS' "Newshour"
Republicans "made it easier to buy a gun" in states they won in 2010.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2014
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox and Friends" on Fox News
Says President Barack Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip "cost between $25 million and $50 million."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2014
Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins
stated on October 12, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 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
Morgan Brittany
Morgan Brittany
stated on October 7, 2014 an article on the WND website
"According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 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
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck
stated on October 3, 2014 an interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher"
The Islamic State is so small it "couldn't fill a Double A ballpark in Charleston, W. Va."
False
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2014
Dean Obeidallah
Dean Obeidallah
stated on October 6, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
Saudi Arabia is "the only Muslim country out of 47 Muslim-majority countries" where women cannot get licenses to drive.
True
By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2014
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
stated on October 1, 2014 an AP interview
More women were killed by their husbands or boyfriends since Sept. 11 than "all the Americans who were killed by 9/11 or in Afghanistan and Iraq."
True
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on September 24, 2014 a broadcast of "Hannity" on Fox News
"We have four combat-ready brigades out of 40 in the U.S. Army."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on October 5, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in government's competence was under Ronald Reagan."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2014
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan
stated on September 29, 2014 an interview on "CNN Tonight"
Says female genital mutilation is "a central African problem," not an Islamic problem, as Bill Maher suggested.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 2, 2014
William Benson Huber
William Benson Huber
stated on September 28, 2014 an op-ed in the "New York Post"
The non-profit group Feeding America is lying when it claims "that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily" in the United States.    
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2014
Jane Harman
Jane Harman
stated on September 28, 2014 a panel on "Fox News Sunday"
The Justice Department’s Fast and Furious gun-walking program "started in the Bush administration."
False
By Katie Sanders • September 30, 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
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on September 28, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
This Congress "adjourned earliest of any time in congressional history before an election."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 28, 2014
LZ Granderson
LZ Granderson
stated on September 28, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says President Barack Obama has launched "twice as many strikes (on) countries that are predominantly Muslim" than President George W. Bush.
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • September 28, 2014
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