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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Renewable Fuels Association
Renewable Fuels Association
stated on June 22, 2011 in an advertisement in Washington, D.C., Metro stations:
Ethanol reduced gas prices by 89 cents per gallon in 2010, and if ethanol disappeared, gas prices could rise by as much as 92 percent.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 in a press conference:
"If you're a … wealthy CEO or a … hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are … lower than they've been since the 1950s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 27, 2011 in several speeches and interviews:
Says President Barack Obama said that if he doesn’t turn the economy around after three years in office, he’ll be a one-term president.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2011
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"We do not want to raise anybody's tax rates. That's never been on the table."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley":
"We've got more revenue than we ever have."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on June 22, 2011 in an online chat with the "Washington Post":
"Hispanic unemployment has been ticking down from an all-time high of 13.9 percent because of the policies we’ve implemented."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on June 19, 2011 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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