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Lisa Bloom
stated on January 14, 2014 an interview with Piers Morgan

"Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • January 17, 2014

Andrea Tantaros
stated on January 15, 2014 comments on Fox News Channel's "The Five"

During the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, "some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea."

Pants on Fire!

By Aaron Sharockman • January 16, 2014

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 12, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"

"Seventy percent of the people living in abject poverty are women."

False

By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2014

Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 a CNN interview

"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2014

Charles Krauthammer
stated on January 2, 2014 a "Washington Post" op-ed

Buried in the Affordable Care Act is "a huge government bailout."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 13, 2014

Karl Rove
stated on January 12, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"

"The amount of attention paid this week to Chris Christie makes the coverage of Benghazi ... pale in significance."

False

By Steve Contorno • January 12, 2014

Robert Gibbs
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"We have been in Afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nation’s history."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2014

Jake Tapper
stated on January 2, 2014 a broadcast of CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper"

"The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined."

True

By Jon Greenberg • January 10, 2014

Rachel Maddow
stated on January 2, 2014 comments on her show

The Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a "Koch brothers affiliated group."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • January 9, 2014

Rush Limbaugh
stated on January 6, 2014 comments on his radio show

Says the media created the term "polar vortex" and the cold air proves "the ice isn’t melting."

Pants on Fire!

By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2014

Ian Bremmer
stated on January 4, 2014 a tweet

"US: Change in Income, 2009-13. Top 1%: +31.4%. Bottom 99%: +0.4%."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2014

Glenn Greenwald
stated on January 2, 2014 a broadcast of CNN's "The Lead"

"Under the Espionage Act, (Edward Snowden would not be) allowed to come into court and say ‘I was justified in disclosing this information.’ There is no whistleblower exception in the Espionage Act."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • January 7, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on December 29, 2013 a Facebook post

The No. 2 owner of Fox News is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who said, "A strong American Government is not good for us."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • January 6, 2014

Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2014 comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday"

The federal health care law tells "the American people precisely what type of coverage they have to have."

Half-True

By Steve Contorno • January 5, 2014

Neera Tanden
stated on December 29, 2013 a panel discussion on CNN

"Forty percent of the country is going to be in states that are tolerant of gay marriage or at least civil unions."

True

By Steve Contorno • January 5, 2014

Michael Moore
stated on January 1, 2014 a "New York Times" op-ed

Because of the health care law, "by 2017, we will be funneling over $100 billion annually to private insurance companies."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • January 3, 2014

Donna Brazile
stated on December 29, 2013 a discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"

"(The farm bill) has a provision that would in many ways reduce the deficit."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • January 2, 2014

Thom Hartmann
stated on December 12, 2013 a broadcast of "The Big Picture"

Republican state lawmakers "are refusing to give the people of their own states their own tax dollars back in the form of (expanded) Medicaid."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2013

Teresa Ghilarducci
stated on December 15, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Up"

"A quarter of our workers make $18,000 per year."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • December 23, 2013

George Will
stated on December 22, 2013 comments on "Fox News Sunday"

"Most of the (Affordable Care Act) has already in some sense been waived or otherwise suspended."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • December 22, 2013

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