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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 18, 2014 a segment on "The Rush Limbaugh Show"
The decision to cancel the trademark of the Washington Redskins "is not the Patent and Trademark Office. This is Barack Obama."
False
By Katie Sanders • June 19, 2014
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on June 13, 2014 a "Real Time with Bill Maher" episode
"There are 278 Republicans in Congress. (With Eric Cantor's defeat), they are now all Christian and all white except for one black senator, who was appointed."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 18, 2014
Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
stated on June 12, 2014 a Facebook post
Says a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is "one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on June 15, 2014 a statement on "This Week"
Says Eric Cantor "was the co-author of the House GOP principles on immigration reform. Both the 'New York Times' and the 'Washington Post' said that that captured the essence of what was in the Senate immigration bill."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 15, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on June 12, 2014 a broadcast of the "Laura Ingraham Show"
Americans "invented the automobile."
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 13, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on June 8, 2014 a segment on "Last Week Tonight"
FIFA "pressured Brazil into passing a so-called Budweiser bill, allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums."
True
By Katie Sanders • June 11, 2014
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on June 11, 2014 comments on MSNBC
"Cantor's campaign spent more at steakhouses than Brat spent on his entire campaign."
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 11, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on June 8, 2014 a segment on "Last Week Tonight"
Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that "is only going to be used for four World Cup games," and there’s no team "that can fill it afterwards."
True
By Katie Sanders • June 11, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 4, 2014 a broadcast of the "Rachel Maddow Show"
In February, John McCain "suggested" the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls "outrageous and dangerous."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 10, 2014
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on June 8, 2014 a discussion on "Fox News Sunday"
The Obama administration "went to court to keep one of these five in jail at Guantanamo just three years ago because he was such a huge risk."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • June 8, 2014
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on June 8, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Only one out of 10 minimum wage workers today are teen age or a young person."
False
By Katie Sanders • June 8, 2014
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer
stated on June 4, 2014 remarks on Fox News
The Israelis "gave up 1,000 terrorists in return for one sergeant."
True
By Shannon Beckham • June 8, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 3, 2014 comments on "The Rachel Maddow Show"
"The Pentagon made up" the since-debunked heroics of POW Jessica Lynch as she tried to avoid capture in Iraq.  
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 5, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 5, 2014 posts on Facebook
Says Michele Bachmann said on Fox News, "This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • June 5, 2014
Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth
stated on May 26, 2014 a segment on "Outnumbered"
Redskins is "used historically" as "a term of respect."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • June 4, 2014
David Frum
David Frum
stated on June 3, 2014 in comments on "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"We’ve seen a remarkable reduction in the number of Americans being executed -- it’s down nearly two-thirds over the past generation."  
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 3, 2014
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 23, 2014 in comments on "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"We're fifth in the world (in executions), behind China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 3, 2014
Jeremy Schaap
Jeremy Schaap
stated on May 28, 2014 an interview on MSNBC
"Qataris don't really work."
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 2, 2014
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace
stated on June 1, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Says Hillary Clinton "defended Syria’s President Assad as a possible reformer at the start of that country’s civil war."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 1, 2014
Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas
stated on May 25, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
From 2000 to 2008, we averaged "about five mass shootings a year. We're now averaging 15. So that's a three-fold increase."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 28, 2014
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