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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 26, 2011 a comment on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"
Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 at a meeting arranged by the Small Business Caucus at the Kimball Jenkins House in Concord, N.H.
Says the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2011
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist
stated on July 13, 2011 an interview on CNN
"Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 19, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says scientists are "in dispute" over whether being gay is a choice.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview with "Newsweek"
Slim Jims "just recently" cost 99 cents but now cost $2.69.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm."
False
July 1, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"
"We've got more revenue than we ever have."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 1, 2011 an interview on WKXL-AM in Concord, N.H.
"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent."
False
By Jake Berry • June 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on June 19, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2011
Turn Right USA
Turn Right USA
stated on June 13, 2011 a YouTube video
"Janice Hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be 'gang-intervention specialists.' She even helped them get out of jail, so they could rape and kill again."
False
June 20, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 a web news story
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
June 9, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview with political commentator Roland Martin
By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 29, 2011 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would "allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
The Agenda Project
The Agenda Project
stated on May 17, 2011 an advertisement
The Paul Ryan budget proposal would leave the country "without Medicare."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2011
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