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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
stated on May 4, 2014 in 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
stated on May 4, 2014 in 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
stated on April 22, 2014 in 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
stated on April 21, 2014 in 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
stated on April 16, 2014 in comments on MSNBC:

"Democrats very much are in the pocket of the NRA."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • April 17, 2014

Michael Eric Dyson
stated on April 14, 2014 in 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
stated on April 3, 2014 in 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
stated on April 13, 2014 in 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
stated on April 13, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Obamacare is "costing 2 million jobs."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • April 13, 2014

Charles Krauthammer
stated on April 1, 2014 in 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
stated on April 2, 2014 in 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
stated on March 24, 2014 in 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
stated on March 30, 2014 in 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
stated on March 24, 2014 in 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
stated on March 23, 2014 in 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
stated on March 16, 2014 in 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
stated on March 11, 2014 in 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
stated on March 11, 2014 in an interview on 'Hannity':

Earth "has not warmed for the last 17 years."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • March 17, 2014

Michael Reagan
stated on March 6, 2014 in 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
stated on March 9, 2014 in 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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