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James Capretta
James Capretta
stated on December 1, 2013 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
Obamacare is a "massive, massive income redistribution" with "$250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2013
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on December 1, 2013 a Doonesbury strip in the Sunday comics:
"The economy bled $24 billion" due to the government shutdown.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 3, 2013
Allen West
Allen West
stated on November 25, 2013 comments on his blog:
"Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 27, 2013
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on November 19, 2013 a broadcast of CNN's Situation Room:
Republican ideas on health care don’t give people "an option to even enroll in something that they can afford."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 26, 2013
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 24, 2013 comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday":
The Affordable Care Act alters the "sensible doctor-patient-relationship-centered health care program ... we see today."
False
By Steve Contorno • November 24, 2013
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on November 24, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Harry Reid was against (the nuclear option) before he was for it. Mitch McConnell was for it before he was against it. President Obama was against it before he was for it."
True
By Julie Kliegman • November 24, 2013
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on November 21, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"8.5 million Americans have gotten rebate checks because their insurance companies were spending too much money on executive bonuses and administrative costs and not enough on health care."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • November 21, 2013
Ari Melber
Ari Melber
stated on November 18, 2013 a talk on MSNBC's "The Cycle":
Says Barack Obama’s approval rating "is right in the average" for second-term presidents at this point.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • November 20, 2013
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
stated on November 19, 2013 comments on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends":
A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 20, 2013
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on November 15, 2013 a video on Cain TV:
Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2013
Ellen Qualls
Ellen Qualls
stated on November 12, 2013 comments on Fox News Channel:
Obamacare "was the Republican plan in the early '90s."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2013
Goldie Taylor
Goldie Taylor
stated on November 12, 2013 an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation":
"Our national debt is as low as it has been since World War II."
False
By Katie Sanders • November 14, 2013
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton
stated on November 12, 2013 a segment on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation":
Under Obama, the national debt "has been reduced every year for the last five years."
False
By Katie Sanders • November 14, 2013
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 11, 2013 comments on Fox News Channel:
"In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 13, 2013
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
stated on November 8, 2013 a broadcast of the "Tonight Show":
"Social Security took seven years before anybody got the first check."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 12, 2013
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on November 11, 2013 a Fox News interview:
"They delayed my swearing-in here in Massachusetts for a couple weeks so they could ram (the health care law) through."  
False
By Katie Sanders • November 12, 2013
Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen
stated on November 10, 2013 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Says Chris Christie "vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times over the course of his governorship."  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • November 10, 2013
George Will
George Will
stated on November 10, 2013 comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday":
Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.  
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2013
Larry Elder
Larry Elder
stated on November 4, 2013 CNN's "Crossfire" roundtable:
"When you add a dollar value to mandates," government took almost 50 percent "of the American people’s money."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • November 8, 2013
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on November 5, 2013 a broadcast of the "Ed Schultz Show":
Says Chris Christie fired 6,000 teachers.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 7, 2013
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