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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 in a presidential campaign announcement video:
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 in a campaign video:
During his time as House speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent)."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 in a speech in Austin, Texas:
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
stated on May 8, 2011 in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press":
During the Eisenhower Administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2011
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 2, 2011 in in various posts on the web:
Wrote that in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she didn’t think capturing Osama bin Laden "makes us any safer," but in 2011 called his killing "historic."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on May 5, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
"We have the highest corporate income tax in the world right now."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2011
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly
stated on May 3, 2011 in a House floor speech:
"America owns 3 percent of the world’s oil but consumes 25 percent of its global reserves."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Dan Boren
Dan Boren
stated on April 27, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"A vast majority of the production in the United States comes from small independent oil and gas companies."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 in a press conference:
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 in an interview with ABC news:
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 in a press conference:
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 in a press conference:
"CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 14, 2011 in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News:
"Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2011
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on April 15, 2011 in an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2011
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on April 15, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":
According to David Cay Johnston, "the average American pays about 22 percent of their income to federal taxes. The richest 400 Americans … pay about 16 percent of their income to federal taxes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on April 13, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 14, 2011 in a fundraising e-mail:
"Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on April 13, 2011 in a House floor speech:
"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy • April 15, 2011
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