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Peter Lavelle
Peter Lavelle
stated on July 23, 2014 a segment on RT's "CrossTalk"
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I never allow conspiracy theorists on my program."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • July 30, 2014
Bryan Fischer
Bryan Fischer
stated on July 18, 2014 his "Focal Point" radio show
"We know how to stop AIDS: persuade men not to have sex with men."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • July 30, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on his radio show
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • July 29, 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
Deirdre Imus
Deirdre Imus
stated on July 24, 2014 a broadcast on Fox Business of "Imus in the Morning"
Under President Ronald Reagan, illegal immigrants "were not pouring in like" they are now.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC
"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 24, 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
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on July 21, 2014 a broadcast of "Lou Dobbs Tonight"
Obama’s 2012 policy on younger immigrants "created these children coming across" the border.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2014
Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan
stated on July 17, 2014 comments on Fox News
"Right now, one third of all illegal aliens are going to California."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 23, 2014
Kate Obenshain
Kate Obenshain
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor"
Compared to President Obama, "President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2014
Mark O'Mara
Mark O'Mara
stated on July 16, 2014 comments on CNN
"Literally, by the time a child is 18 years of age, they've killed over 100,000 people in video games and other online things."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 21, 2014
Stu Burguiere
Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program
There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
stated on July 15, 2014 a segment on "The View"
"For the first time in history, (Thor’s) hammer is being held by a woman."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 18, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 8, 2014 comments on Fox News
"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 12, 2014 a post on the blog "Outside the Beltway"
"North Korea is telling its people that their men’s national team is in the World Cup final."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2014
Jason Riley
Jason Riley
stated on July 14, 2014 comments on Fox News' "The Kelly File'
"Black voter turnout in 2012 exceeded the rate of white voter turnout, even in the states with the strictest voter ID laws."
True
By Linda Qiu • July 17, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on July 13, 2014 a "Meet the Press" pundit panel
"We are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history (of the United States.)"
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 16, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 14, 2014 an episode of his radio show
Republicans "went out of the way to praise (Eric) Holder's nomination. ... Not a single Republican senator opposed Eric Holder's nomination."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on July 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 16, 2014
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