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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on March 4, 2011 a post on his PAC's website:
Says it’s a "statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2011
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2011
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on March 2, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
Says Justice Elena Kagan recused herself in "many cases where she had little role" as solicitor general, simply because of the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2011
Matt Miller
Matt Miller
stated on February 24, 2011 a column in the Washington Post:
Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget "roadmap … doesn't balance the budget until the 2060s and … adds an unthinkable $62 trillion to the national debt between now and then."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 24, 2011 a chain e-mail:
Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army "put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 24, 2011 on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor":
"The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference:
If there’s a government shutdown, "people don’t get their Social Security checks."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2011
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on February 21, 2011 in a Facebook post:
The five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all rank below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranks 2nd.
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio:
The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 14, 2011 an interview on Fox Business News:
The federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 13, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
The Obama administration "actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference:
"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference:
Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on February 13, 2011 a comic strip:
Since Sept. 11, 2001, "270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"In the month of January, Canada created more new jobs than we did."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 8, 2011 a speech in Philadelphia:
"If you shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, it's estimated you'd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on December 15, 2010 an interview on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman:
Fox News "said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 7, 2011 a chain e-mail:
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
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