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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
stated on May 4, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • May 4, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on May 4, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
In discussing the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "Ms. Rice did say 'a terrorist attack.' It’s not that she put the whole thing on the video."  
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • May 4, 2014
Dana Perino
Dana Perino
stated on April 22, 2014 a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News
"A lot of the problems with forest fires ... is because of bad policy (not to clear out the forests) that was put in place by environmentalists."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 21, 2014 a segment on 'The Rachel Maddow Show'
"Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed a new law which makes you pay a special fee. It will essentially fine people for the crime of using solar power."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 24, 2014
Nia-Malika Henderson
Nia-Malika Henderson
stated on April 16, 2014 comments on MSNBC
"Democrats very much are in the pocket of the NRA."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 17, 2014
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson
stated on April 14, 2014 a broadcast of "The Ed Show"
"We know that Sunday mornings have usually been given over to conservative white men."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 17, 2014
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on April 3, 2014 a broadcast of "Vocal Point"
"A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 15, 2014
James Carville
James Carville
stated on April 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
The insurance risk corridors aren't going broke like Republicans predicted.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 13, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on April 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Obamacare is "costing 2 million jobs."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 13, 2014
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer
stated on April 1, 2014 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor"
"If you want out of the individual mandate... all you have to do now is tick off the box that says 'hardship' and you're out."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 4, 2014
Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee
stated on April 2, 2014 an interview on MSNBC
"Less than 1 percent of 1 percent of the American population has given an amount over $200" to a federal political campaign.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2014
Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace
stated on March 24, 2014 an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America"
Premeditation, in murder cases like the Oscar Pistorius case, "can be formed in the twinkling of an eye."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • March 31, 2014
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"No one" claims the report vindicating New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the bridge scandal is "conclusive."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • March 30, 2014
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on March 24, 2014 a broadcast of "The Ed Show"
Health insurance and medical costs "are going down because of Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2014
Rich Lowry
Rich Lowry
stated on March 23, 2014 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"
Most of the people who have signed up through the Obamacare exchanges "already had insurance."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 26, 2014
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on March 16, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
After Russia went to war with Georgia in 2008, the U.S. sent a "very strong message" to Vladimir Putin by sending "warships to the Black Sea" and airlifting "combat troops that Georgia had in Afghanistan" back to Georgia.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2014
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
Says President Abraham Lincoln enforced the Fugitive Slave Act until the Civil War ended.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore
stated on March 11, 2014 an interview on 'Hannity'
Earth "has not warmed for the last 17 years."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • March 17, 2014
Michael Reagan
Michael Reagan
stated on March 6, 2014 an op-ed on Townhall.com
Says Ronald Reagan "got the Saudis to flood the market with cheap oil."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 13, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on March 9, 2014 a broadcast of CBS' "Face the Nation"
On Syria, "a lot of the allies signed on. At the last minute, Obama backed off."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2014
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