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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
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
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
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson
stated on July 9, 2014 comments on MSNBC's "Ed Show"
"Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone."  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • July 15, 2014
Donny Deutsch
Donny Deutsch
stated on July 1, 2014 comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"13 percent of Americans, the lowest ever, are without health care."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 8, 2014
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 29, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th century when I took office."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 29, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 16, 2014 a post on Facebook
"For the cost of the Iraq War we could’ve ended world hunger for 30 years."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2014
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 22, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
The IRS "also investigated liberal groups, groups that had progressive in their name. ... The IRS was basically looking at everybody."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • June 22, 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
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
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
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
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 18, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
In the Georgia-Russia conflict, "we flew a brigade of Georgian soldiers" from Iran to Georgia and "sent U.S. ships into the Black Sea and provided various kinds of supplies."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 19, 2014
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on May 12, 2014 a segment on "Hannity"
"When you read the Koran, it talks about don't take Christians and Jews as your friends."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 16, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on May 11, 2014 a segment on "Last Week Tonight"
"28 percent of Kentuckians don’t have any online access."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • May 14, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on May 12, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Americans "bought into climate change" in 2004-06, but then most "began wandering away from this issue."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 13, 2014
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on May 4, 2014 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week"
In some states, African-Americans are three times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites for the same crime.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 7, 2014
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on April 20, 2014 the "Doonesbury" comic strip
Last election, the Koch brothers "spent three times what the top 10 unions spent combined."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2014
Anissa Naouai
Anissa Naouai
stated on April 16, 2014 comments on CNN
"The U.S. spends more money on its military than the 16 biggest military budgets in the world" combined.
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 16, 2014
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