Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Mary Matalin
stated on October 22, 2009 CNN's Situation Room program

"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."

By Catharine Richert • October 27, 2009

Rachel Maddow
stated on October 22, 2009 "The Rachel Maddow" show

"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on October 12, 2009 a statement on his Fox News Channel program

Forty-five percent of doctors "say they'll quit" if health care reform passes.

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2009

Steve Doocy
stated on September 29, 2009 a statement on Fox and Friends

White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.

September 30, 2009

Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 a column in Investor's Business Daily.

The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."

By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009

Paul Krugman
stated on August 5, 2009 a blog posting.

During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009

Kimberly Guilfoyle
stated on July 31, 2009 the Glenn Beck show

If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.

August 3, 2009

Ann Coulter
stated on July 1, 2009 a column in Human Events.

"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"

July 10, 2009

Keith Olbermann
stated on June 18, 2009 his MSNBC "Countdown" program

"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."

June 24, 2009

Sean Hannity
stated on June 18, 2009 a Fox News interview

Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500."

June 22, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on June 10, 2009 his Fox News program

"Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it."

June 19, 2009

Bill O'Reilly
stated on June 3, 2009 an op-ed.

Says he didn't call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what "some prolifers branded him."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 5, 2009

Joe Scarborough
stated on April 7, 2009 a discussion on MSNBC

President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.

By Alexander Lane • April 15, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 8, 2009 a radio broadcast

"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009

Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 an episode of her MSNBC show

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009

Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on April 6, 2009 an appearance on MSNBC.

"There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea."

By Bill Adair • April 7, 2009

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