Fact Check Posts – Page 80

Karl Rove
stated on June 11, 2009 an op-ed.:

Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 12, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox:

Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."

By Robert Farley • June 11, 2009

Bill O'Reilly
stated on June 3, 2009 an op-ed.:

Says he didn't call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what "some prolifers branded him."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 5, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on May 6, 2009 a press release:

ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."

By Robert Farley • May 21, 2009

Mike Pence
stated on May 12, 2009 an e-mail:

The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009

Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 23, 2009 a news conference.:

"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."

By Robert Farley • May 12, 2009

Joe Scarborough
stated on April 7, 2009 a discussion on MSNBC:

President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.

By Alexander Lane • April 15, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 8, 2009 a radio broadcast:

"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009

Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 an episode of her MSNBC show:

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009

Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on April 6, 2009 an appearance on MSNBC.:

"There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea."

By Bill Adair • April 7, 2009

Chain email
stated on April 2, 2009 a chain e-mail.:

Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."

By Robert Farley • April 3, 2009

Cato Institute
stated on April 1, 2009 a political advertisement.:

"There has been no net global warming for over a decade now."

By Robert Farley • April 1, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on March 25, 2009 a press release.:

"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.

By Alexander Lane • April 1, 2009

House Republican Conference
stated on March 23, 2009 a blog post.:

Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"

By Alexander Lane • March 24, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on March 10, 2009 a speech on education:

"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."

By Alexander Lane • March 13, 2009

Charles Schumer
stated on March 8, 2009 a TV interview:

"No Bridge to Nowhere could occur."

By Robert Farley • March 12, 2009

Peter Orszag
stated on March 8, 2009 a TV interview.:

"Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent."

By Robert Farley • March 11, 2009

Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.:

"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009

Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."

By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009

Democratic congressional leadership
stated on March 2, 2009 statements to reporters.:

The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.

By Bill Adair • March 2, 2009

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