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Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 comments on CNN

Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."

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By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014

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."

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By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2014

Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC

"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."

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By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014

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."

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By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014

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."

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By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014

Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 8, 2014 a broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"

"Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population."

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By Jon Greenberg • July 14, 2014

Peter Beinart
stated on July 6, 2014 comments on CNN

"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."

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By Derek Tsang • July 10, 2014

Sally Kohn
stated on June 30, 2014 a segment on CNN

"Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit."

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By Katie Sanders • July 1, 2014

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."

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By Jon Greenberg • June 10, 2014

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."

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By Aaron Sharockman • June 3, 2014

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."

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By Aaron Sharockman • June 3, 2014

Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union."

The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."

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By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014

Neera Tanden
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"95 percent of the income gains in the last few years have gone to the top 1 percent."

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By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2014

Genevieve Wood
stated on April 8, 2014 comments on CNN

"Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.

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By Aaron Sharockman • April 9, 2014

Cokie Roberts
stated on March 31, 2014 an interview on NPR's "Morning Edition"

"Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female."

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By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2014

Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole."

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By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014

Ilyse Hogue
stated on March 12, 2014 an interview on "The Daily Show"

"Medicare has spent $172 million on penis pumps in the last five years at $360 a pop."

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By Katie Sanders • March 24, 2014

Karl Rove
stated on March 16, 2014 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"

Russian annexation of Crimea "removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for (Viktor) Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election."

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By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2014

John Bolton
stated on March 3, 2014 comments on Fox News Channel

Says Vladimir Putin once said, "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."

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By Katie Sanders • March 6, 2014

Chris Matthews
stated on March 3, 2014 a segment on "Hardball"

"The Russians didn’t wear uniforms when they came in" to Ukraine.

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By Katie Sanders • March 4, 2014

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