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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Dale Peterson
Dale Peterson
stated on May 25, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Says he was "a Marine during Vietnam."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • May 26, 2010
Dale Peterson
Dale Peterson
stated on May 25, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Says his opponent Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions.  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 26, 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
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on May 16, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 17, 2010
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on May 16, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
Elena Kagan "violated the law of the United States at various points" with her opposition to military recruiters.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • May 16, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on May 10, 2010 his website:
Elena Kagan is "a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on May 10, 2010 his website:
"She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on May 10, 2010 a press release:
"Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway."  
True
By Ciara O'Rourke, Robert Farley • May 10, 2010
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on May 5, 2010 an op ed article:
"We can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn't have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47."
True
By Robert Farley • May 7, 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
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
Ed Whitacre
Ed Whitacre
stated on April 21, 2010 a TV ad:
GM has "repaid our government loan, in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 27, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"I never had a filibuster-proof Senate."
True
By Robert Farley • April 18, 2010
Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen
stated on April 15, 2010 a story about taxes from Associated Press:
"The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 16, 2010
Julian Assange
Julian Assange
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • 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
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 12, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 11, 2010
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