Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

Clear
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 4, 2011 a public appearance:
Under a House Republican appropriations bill, "6 million seniors are deprived of meals."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on April 1, 2011 a column in the "Wall Street Journal":
The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 5, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"We’ve lost 26 million jobs … since (Obama’s) been president."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business network:
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2011
George Will
George Will
stated on April 3, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2011 an interview on ABC's "The View":
South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 29, 2011 a radio interview:
"A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation," the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 "because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2011 a televised address:
"Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on March 23, 2011 an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News:
"American troops have never been under the formal control of another nation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on March 23, 2011 televised interviews:
On whether the United States should intervene in Libya.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2007 an interview with the "Boston Globe":
On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack "that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
Ted Poe
Ted Poe
stated on February 9, 2011 a House floor speech:
The U.S. gives foreign aid to Cuba and Venezuela, even though those countries are our enemies.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
Robin Wright
Robin Wright
stated on March 20, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
The coalition of Arab states against Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 18, 2011 a private briefing to Members of Congress:
"The Congressional Budget Office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward, and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year 2037 because their computer simulation can't conceive of any way in which the U.S. economy can continue."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on March 13, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Fred Upton
Fred Upton
stated on March 8, 2011 a letter to fellow Members of Congress:
A bill that would halt the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would help "stop rising gas prices."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2011
Previous Next