Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 in a television ad:
Obama "voted against funding our troops."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 in a television ad:
"Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 in a television ad:
Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 21, 2008 in a chain e-mail:
Barack Obama wants to "unilaterally disarm our nation."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2008 in a television ad:
Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2008
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on July 9, 2008 in in an ad on the Internet:
John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 3, 2008 in in an e-mail message from campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.:
Barack Obama has "reversed" on his commitment "to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 10, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 22, 2008 in a television interview:
John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 in a television ad:
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2008 in a television ad:
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2008 in a television ad:
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 17, 2008 in Houston, Texas:
We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 20, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo.:
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 20, 2008
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on June 13, 2008 in a Web ad:
John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 13, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on May 18, 2008 in a Web ad:
Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 11, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 19, 2008 in an e-mail message:
From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 19, 2008 in an e-mail message:
Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 4, 2008 in St. Petersburg, Fla.:
When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 5, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 1, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico:
"We are winning the popular vote."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 3, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 13, 2008 in a chain e-mail:
Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably racist."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2008
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