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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on June 19, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:
Says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will "retire with a whole lot more money" than under Social Security.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop:
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on June 9, 2011 a New York Times column:
"The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview with political commentator Roland Martin:
By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2011
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
stated on May 24, 2011 a congressional subcommittee hearing:
The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 8, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 7, 2011 a chain e-mail:
Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 2, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential campaign:
"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 2, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential campaign:
"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2011
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 1, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown":
"We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 29, 2011 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would "allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on May 26, 2011 a column in the Wall Street Journal:
"In the late 1980s, the U.S. was nearly the lowest-taxed nation in the world, and a quarter century later we're nearly the highest."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2011
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on May 24, 2011 an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews:
"There's a 1.5 percent to 2 percent overhead in Medicare. The insurance companies have a 20 percent to 30 percent overhead."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 30, 2011
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