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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on September 19, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
It's "not true" that since he's been the president, executions in Iran have increased by four times.
False
By Robert Farley • September 23, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on September 19, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "was never sentenced to stoning."
False
By Robert Farley • September 22, 2010
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on September 15, 2010 a political ad
"As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2010
John Dennis
John Dennis
stated on September 14, 2010 a campaign commercial
Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office in downtown San Francisco. 
True
By Robert Farley • September 15, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
John Boehner has called for "repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people."
False
By Robert Farley • September 13, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on June 25, 2010 a TV interview
"Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2010
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 31, 2010 an editorial board interview
"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 3, 2010
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
stated on August 29, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 2, 2010
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver
stated on August 29, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 31, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 28, 2010 comments on his radio program
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 27, 2010
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 24, 2010 a speech
"There is already a mosque four blocks away."
True
By Robert Farley • August 26, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on August 22, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area."  
False
By Robert Farley • August 23, 2010
Rick Lazio
Rick Lazio
stated on August 17, 2010 Fox News "Hannity" program.
A New York imam wants to "have a mosque at Ground Zero.'' 
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 19, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 14, 2010 his weekly address
"Some Republican leaders in Congress" are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 18, 2010
Carol Browner
Carol Browner
stated on August 4, 2010 NBC's "Today Show."
"More than three-quarters of the oil is gone."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 16, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on August 12, 2010 an op ed article
Republicans are now "taking credit" for provisions of the health care bill "that they had tried to derail."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 13, 2010
Barney Frank
Barney Frank
stated on July 7, 2010 MSNBC's Morning Joe
The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.
Half-True
By Erin Mershon, Robert Farley • August 13, 2010
George Packer
George Packer
stated on August 8, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 10, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 8, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it."
False
By Robert Farley • August 10, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 17, 2010 an online column
"Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges" against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation  
False
By Robert Farley • July 23, 2010
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