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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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