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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 26, 2014 emails and social media posts circulating on the Internet:
Says Barack Obama said that "ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs" and that individuals should "surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 18, 2014:
Barack Obama is the "first president to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 16, 2014 a meme on social media:
"Gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices":
"In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices":
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 5, 2014 emails and social media posts circulating on the Internet:
"Obama Signs Bill Forgiving All Student Loan Debt."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 5, 2014 emails circulating on the Internet:
Due to actions by President Barack Obama, "the Burger King national headquarters announced this month that they will be pulling their franchises from our military bases."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 1, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2014
Steve King
Steve King
stated on May 22, 2014 a House floor speech:
Says Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., only needs about 40,000 to 50,000 votes to win election to Congress compared with the 120,000 votes King needs, because Waters has a higher immigrant population.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 30, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 19, 2014 messages on the Internet:
"Solar panels drain the sun’s energy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 27, 2014 a meme on social media:
"For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 20, 2014 an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:
Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 17, 2014 a chain email:
"Obama Announces Plans For A Third Term Presidential Run"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2014
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on May 18, 2014 a discussion on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 16, 2014 a speech at the New America Foundation:
"Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, … living longer on average, and facing less income inequality."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2014
Russ Fulcher
Russ Fulcher
stated on May 14, 2014 a gubernatorial debate:
"Idaho was the only Republican-led state in the nation that chose to partner with President Obama" by creating a state-based marketplace under the Affordable Care Act.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2014
Trey Gowdy
Trey Gowdy
stated on May 11, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"We were the last flag flying in Benghazi."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 14, 2014 a chain email:
"No Republicans voted for" recent hikes in the income tax, payroll tax, capital gains tax, dividend tax and estate tax. "These taxes were all passed under … Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2014
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on May 7, 2014 an email to supporters:
"Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims, Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2014
John Garamendi
John Garamendi
stated on May 5, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
"During the George W. Bush period, there were 13 attacks on various embassies and consulates around the world. Sixty people died."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2014
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