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Greg Gutfeld
stated on March 10, 2015 in a commentary on Fox News.:

Under New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, homicides are up by 20 percent, and subway delays have soared 45 percent.

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 2015

James Carville
stated on March 15, 2015 in a broadcast of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

Says "Jeb Bush has released 10 percent of his emails."

False

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 10, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Rush Limbaugh Show":

Says "Ted Kennedy sent a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov apologizing for Ronald Reagan and begging the Soviets not to overreact."

False

By Jon Greenberg • March 13, 2015

David Shuster
stated on March 10, 2015 in a Hillary Clinton press conference:

Said former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration "was forced to resign two years ago because of his personal use of emails."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2015

Joe Scarborough
stated on March 9, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Says Hillary Clinton "sent a memo" to all State Department staff that said "you should not do State Department business on personal email."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2015

Paul Bedard
stated on February 27, 2015 in an opinion piece in the "Washington Examiner":

Says "President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country ... with a ban on one of the most-used" assault rifle bullets.

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 20, 2015 in a broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor":

"I never said I was on the Falkland Islands."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • March 3, 2015

David Corn
stated on February 25, 2015 in an interview on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC:

Says he "often" appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and "often was praised" by Bill O'Reilly.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2015

Michael Morell
stated on February 18, 2015 in a broadcast of "Charlie Rose":

The potential Iran nuclear agreement would limit Iran to the number of centrifuges needed for a weapon but too few for a nuclear power program.

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2015

Hillary Mann Leverett
stated on February 17, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

ISIS sends out "90,000 social (media) messages a day."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 2015

Laura Ingraham
stated on February 4, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Laura Ingraham Show":

Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has an "immigrant family background."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2015

Center for Western Priorities
stated on February 5, 2015 in a post on the organization's website:

"Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2015

Dana Perino
stated on February 9, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:

On climate change, "the temperature readings have been fabricated, and it's all blowing up in their (scientists') faces."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • February 13, 2015

Urban Intellectuals
stated on January 15, 2015 in an article posted on Urban Intellectuals:

"Sheriffs Call For Obama’s Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators"

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 3, 2015 in a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":

The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2015

Megyn Kelly
stated on February 2, 2015 in a broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor":

Science is "very certain" that the measles vaccine doesn't cause autism.

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2015

Joe Scarborough
stated on January 29, 2015 in a tweet on Twitter:

"More people have watched ‘Morning Joe’ than CNN and HLN 5 years in a row."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 2, 2015

Bill Belichick
stated on January 24, 2015 in a news conference:

Atmospheric conditions could push a football’s pressure "down approximately one-and-a-half pounds per square inch."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2015

Stuart Varney
stated on January 27, 2015 in an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom":

"It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years."

False

By Jon Greenberg • January 28, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 21, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Says President Barack Obama is "not paying women equally by his own measures in his own White House."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2015

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