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Bob Beckel
Bob Beckel
stated on September 1, 2014 a discussion on Fox News' "The Five"
The United States has "the most number of deductions available to corporations" for the corporate income tax.
False
By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014
Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling
stated on September 1, 2014 a discussion on Fox News' "The Five"
The United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free world."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on September 4, 2014 a tweet
"Obama admin gutted @ProjChildSafe budget to provide trigger locks and safety kits."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 8, 2014
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on September 7, 2014 a comment on "Meet the Press."
"Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races, Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate."
True
By Linda Qiu • September 7, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 27, 2014 a Facebook meme
"McDonald’s hamburgers are only 15 percent ‘real beef.’ The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer."
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • September 3, 2014
The Other 98%
The Other 98%
stated on August 24, 2014 a Facebook post
"McDonald’s workers in Denmark have a union. Earn $45,000/year."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 3, 2014
Larry Elder
Larry Elder
stated on August 20, 2014 comments on CNN
"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."
False
By Derek Tsang • September 2, 2014
Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay
stated on August 31, 2014 an interview on "State of the Union"
The prosecutor who brought the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry "has ties to Obama. He has ties to the Democrats."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • August 31, 2014
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
stated on August 27, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Hardball"
On tax inversions, the Wall Street Journal "surprisingly attacked this tax scheme."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2014
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly
stated on August 25, 2014 a segment on "The O'Reilly Factor"
Al Sharpton went to Ferguson, Mo., and is "declaring as a matter of fact that ... Michael Brown didn't use any deadly force or posed no deadly threat to the officer."
True
By Katie Sanders • August 28, 2014
Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill
stated on August 20, 2014 a CNN segment
"Every 28 hours" an unarmed black person is shot by a cop.
False
By Katie Sanders • August 26, 2014
Don Lemon
Don Lemon
stated on August 20, 2014 a live broadcast on CNN
"I was able to go and buy an automatic weapon … Most people can go out and buy an automatic weapon."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 26, 2014
Cornel West
Cornel West
stated on August 25, 2014 an interview on Salon
Says President Barack Obama released a statement on the "death of brother Robin Williams before ... a statement on brother Michael Brown."
True
By Linda Qiu • August 26, 2014
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2014 comments on Fox News Business
"Over the last 40 years, real wage growth has been flatlined because of the policies of the Federal Reserve ... It was all driven by the Federal Reserve."  
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • August 26, 2014
Martha Raddatz
Martha Raddatz
stated on August 24, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
The Obama administration originally "wanted 10,000 troops to remain in Iraq -- not combat troops, but military advisers, special operations forces, to watch the counterterrorism effort."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • August 24, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 24, 2014 comments on Fox News Sunday
The No. 1 cause of death for African-American males 15-34 is murder.
True
By Linda Qiu • August 24, 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
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on August 19, 2014 comments on Fox News' "America's Newsroom"
Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.  
False
By Derek Tsang • August 21, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 15, 2014 comments on his radio show
When news broke that Ferguson 18-year-old Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery, "MSNBC practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation."
False
By Linda Qiu • August 20, 2014
Heineken
Heineken
stated on August 19, 2014 a TV ad
A "regulatory thing" means you can’t show someone drinking beer on camera.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2014
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