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Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on March 10, 2010 a Web ad:
Sen. Barbara Boxer "passed only three bills in 18 years" into law.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 28, 2010
Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
stated on April 16, 2010 a campaign commerical:
Steve Poizner "increased his department's budget nearly 14 percent."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2010
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 11, 2010 a TV ad:
"Minnick voted to let the government fund abortion under Obamacare."
False
By Robert Farley • May 19, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on May 11, 2010 an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:
Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on May 11, 2010 a speech on the Senate floor:
On Sandra Day O'Connor: "I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience" before she joined the Supreme Court.
False
By Catharine Richert • May 12, 2010
Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
stated on May 4, 2010 an interview with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC:
Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the "second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press' :
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
False
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 29, 2010 his radio program:
Alaska's Prince William Sound "is pristine now."
False
By Robert Farley • April 30, 2010
Tim James
Tim James
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release:
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."
False
By Robert Farley • April 29, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 21, 2010 an interview with CNBC's John Harwood :
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference:
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
stated on March 25, 2010 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner:
"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."
False
By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week.":
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2010
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