Fact Check Posts – Page 79

Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting in New Hampshire:

"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009

John Boehner
stated on July 23, 2009 an op-ed for National Review:

The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."

By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009

Paul Krugman
stated on August 5, 2009 a blog posting.:

During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009

Bloggers
stated on August 4, 2009 a news release:

Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009

Club for Growth
stated on August 4, 2009 a TV ad:

The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the "socialized" system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would cost more than $22,000.

By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.:

Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009

Kimberly Guilfoyle
stated on July 31, 2009 the Glenn Beck show:

If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.

By Robert Farley • August 3, 2009

Dan Lungren
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor:

President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009

Russ Carnahan
stated on July 20, 2009 a town hall meeting in Missouri.:

"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."

By Catharine Richert • August 3, 2009

WorldNetDaily
stated on June 17, 2009 an advertisement:

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.

By Robert Farley • July 28, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a press conference:

Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009

Presente.org
stated on July 13, 2009 a radio ad:

Rep. Adam Putnam was silent when Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a racist.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 14, 2009

Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey:

The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."

By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009

Ann Coulter
stated on July 1, 2009 a column in Human Events.:

"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"

By Wes Allison • July 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2009 a newspaper interview:

"We import more oil today than ever before."

By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009

John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad:

"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."

By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009

Keith Olbermann
stated on June 18, 2009 his MSNBC "Countdown" program:

"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."

By Robert Farley • June 24, 2009

Sean Hannity
stated on June 18, 2009 a Fox News interview:

Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500."

By Robert Farley • June 22, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on June 10, 2009 his Fox News program:

"Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it."

By Robert Farley • June 19, 2009

Americans United for Change
stated on June 14, 2009 an Internet ad.:

"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2009

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