Latest Fact-Checks By Linda Qiu

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Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on September 7, 2014 in a comment on "Meet the Press.":
"Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races, Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate."
True
By Linda Qiu • September 7, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 27, 2014 in a Facebook meme:
"McDonald’s hamburgers are only 15 percent ‘real beef.’ The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer."
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • September 3, 2014
Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay
stated on August 31, 2014 in an interview on "State of the Union":
The prosecutor who brought the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry "has ties to Obama. He has ties to the Democrats."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • August 31, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 27, 2014 in comments on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown":
Says he holds the record for "most appearances on 'Meet the Press'."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • August 27, 2014
Cornel West
Cornel West
stated on August 25, 2014 in an interview on Salon:
Says President Barack Obama released a statement on the "death of brother Robin Williams before ... a statement on brother Michael Brown."
True
By Linda Qiu • August 26, 2014
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2014 in comments on Fox News Business:
"Over the last 40 years, real wage growth has been flatlined because of the policies of the Federal Reserve ... It was all driven by the Federal Reserve."  
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • August 26, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 24, 2014 in comments on Fox News Sunday:
The No. 1 cause of death for African-American males 15-34 is murder.
True
By Linda Qiu • August 24, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 15, 2014 in comments on his radio show:
When news broke that Ferguson 18-year-old Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery, "MSNBC practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation."
False
By Linda Qiu • August 20, 2014
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on August 10, 2014 in 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
D’Banj
D’Banj
stated on August 3, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"The music industry is the biggest export from Africa after oil and gas."
False
By Linda Qiu • August 7, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on August 2, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas," because Kerry was seen as "supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League."
False
By Derek Tsang, Linda Qiu • August 4, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 in 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
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 in comments on MSNBC:
Between June 30 and July 10, CNN interviewed "17 Israeli public officials versus one" Palestinian official.  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 24, 2014
Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan
stated on July 17, 2014 in comments on Fox News:
"Right now, one third of all illegal aliens are going to California."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 23, 2014
Mark O'Mara
Mark O'Mara
stated on July 16, 2014 in comments on CNN:
"Literally, by the time a child is 18 years of age, they've killed over 100,000 people in video games and other online things."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 21, 2014
Jason Riley
Jason Riley
stated on July 14, 2014 in comments on Fox News' "The Kelly File':
"Black voter turnout in 2012 exceeded the rate of white voter turnout, even in the states with the strictest voter ID laws."
True
By Linda Qiu • July 17, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on July 13, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 16, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2014 in posts on Facebook:
Fox News is "banned in Canada" because it violates a law that "prevents ‘news’ channels from lying to their viewers."  
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • July 14, 2014
Kendall Jones
Kendall Jones
stated on July 2, 2014 in a Facebook post:
"Without the financial resources provided by hunters to protect habitat and stop poachers, there would be no infrastructure for wildlife management."
False
By Linda Qiu • July 11, 2014
Donny Deutsch
Donny Deutsch
stated on July 1, 2014 in comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"13 percent of Americans, the lowest ever, are without health care."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 8, 2014
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