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Heineken
Heineken
stated on August 19, 2014 a TV ad:
A "regulatory thing" means you can’t show someone drinking beer on camera.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 21, 2014 a news article:
Says his "Act 10 reforms" have "saved the taxpayers some $3 billion."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 20, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on August 17, 2014 a segment on his show, "Last Week Tonight":
"The number of SWAT raids have gone up by 1,400 percent since the 1980s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2014
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
stated on August 17, 2014 an episode of NBC's "Meet the Press":
In Ferguson, Mo., "you've got three black officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American."  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • August 17, 2014
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on July 15, 2014 a press release:
Kasim Reed has kept every promise he made as a candidate.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • August 15, 2014
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The Islamic State, or ISIS, was "cast off by al-Qaida because" it was "considered too extreme."  
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • August 13, 2014
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on August 4, 2014 during an appearance in Middle Georgia:
"There are only about 10 people in the United States Senate who have any real business experience."
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • August 13, 2014
Duey Stroebel
Duey Stroebel
stated on July 30, 2014 an online video:
Says GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a "compromise vote that cost $788 million" in higher electricity costs.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 10, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on August 7, 2014 a TV ad:
Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 7, 2014 a meme on social media:
"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The people who want President Barack Obama impeached "are all white, they're all older, and guess what, they're in the far right wing of the Republican Party."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on July 13, 2014 a debate on WPRI-TV:
Rhode Island's state pension system "underperformed the median three out of the four years that Mr. [Frank] Caprio was in office."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 3, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on July 29, 2014:
Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst does not support "a national minimum wage." 
Mostly True
By Molly O'Connor • August 1, 2014
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 comments on CNN:
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Concerned Veterans for America
Concerned Veterans for America
stated on July 25, 2014 a television ad:
Says Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, missed "79 percent of veterans affairs committee hearings."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 30, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 29, 2014 a campaign email:
"Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 30, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2014 a meme on social media:
"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on his radio show:
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":
"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 22, 2014 a campaign TV ad:
"(Mary) Burke’s company," Trek Bicycles, "makes 99% of their bikes overseas."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 28, 2014
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