Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2008 in in a television ad:
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2008 in an online ad.:
"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia:
The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 16, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 13, 2008 in a chain e-mail:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 8, 2008 in Washington, D.C.:
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 10, 2008 in Boonville, Ind.:
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on April 5, 2008 in an e-mail message:
"John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 8, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on April 5, 2008 in an e-mail message:
"McCain opposes a woman's right to choose."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 8, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on April 5, 2008 in an e-mail message:
"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 8, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on April 5, 2008 in an e-mail message:
"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 8, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 5, 2008 in Eugene, Ore.:
"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 17, 2008 in Washington, D.C.:
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2008
Dick Morris
Dick Morris
stated on March 21, 2008 in an opinion article in the "New York Post":
Hillary Clinton's international travels included "no serious diplomacy."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 17, 2008 in Washington, D.C.:
"I remember landing under sniper fire."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 25, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 13, 2008 in a chain e-mail:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 24, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 18, 2008 in Amman, Jordan:
It's "common knowledge" that al-Qaida is receiving training from Iran.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 19, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
McCain and Bush are millionaires who are "for tax cuts for millionaires."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
John McCain and George Bush have "absolutely no plan for universal health care."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
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