Fact Check Posts – Page 52

Chain email
stated on January 24, 2008 a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris

"Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent."

February 15, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2008 Myrtle Beach, S.C.

"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."

By Adriel Bettelheim • February 13, 2008

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."

By Bill Adair • February 7, 2008

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."

By Bill Adair, Jennifer Liberto • January 25, 2008

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."

By Bill Adair • January 22, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."

January 22, 2008

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain
stated on January 15, 2008 a flyer sent to news organizations in South Carolina

Says McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.

By Shawn Zeller • January 17, 2008

Fred Thompson
stated on November 7, 2007 a Nashville radio interview.

"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."

By Neil Skene • December 31, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on December 19, 2007

Former business partner Robert Gay says: "The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney."

By David DeCamp • December 28, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2007 College Station, Texas

"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 2, 2007 a news release

"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.

December 6, 2007

Chain email
stated on September 17, 2007 an e-mail message circulated by many people.

"The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment."

By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007

Fred Thompson
stated on September 7, 2007 Des Moines, Iowa

"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."

By John Frank • October 18, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 19, 2007 a comment to reporters in London.

"I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2007

Fred Thompson
stated on September 7, 2007 a speech in Sioux City, Iowa

"I've cast a couple of 99-1 votes" and been the lone dissenter.

September 12, 2007

Obama Girl
stated on July 19, 2007 a YouTube video.

"At least Obama didn't marry his cousin," as Giuliani did.

By John Frank • September 6, 2007

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