Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 18, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

Says Mitt Romney "pays less tax than the guys who installed his car elevators."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 2015

Jonathan Turley
stated on January 11, 2015 in a "Washington Post" op-ed:

The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 14, 2015

Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 in the Sunday comics:

The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on January 11, 2015 in an interview on CBS "Face the Nation":

Western Europeans "can fly in the United States without even having a visa."

True

By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2015

Sally Kohn
stated on January 7, 2015 in a tweet on Twitter:

"Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 8, 2015

NaHa Daily
stated on January 4, 2015 in a website article:

"Fox News airs Stuart Scott R.I.P. tribute with picture of Stephen A. Smith."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 4, 2015 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":

Says President Barack Obama got "a pass" over controversal remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while a 12-year-old speech by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has blown up into a national story.

False

By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015

John Thune
stated on January 4, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

Says President Barack Obama's own administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, "all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 4, 2015

Stephen Hayes
stated on December 28, 2014 in a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday":

"We've caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014

Ana Navarro
stated on December 17, 2014 in an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper":

"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014

Doonesbury
stated on December 14, 2014 in the Sunday comics:

Says 3,000 Americans "died of gunfire" between the time of the Ebola scare in Dallas and the midterm elections.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014

Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."

False

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014

Dick Cheney
stated on December 14, 2014 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Saddam Hussein "had a 10-year relationship with al-Qaida."

False

By Jon Greenberg • December 14, 2014

Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Daily Show":

"The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did."

True

By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2014

Stephen Carter
stated on December 4, 2014 in an opinion piece in "Bloomberg Views":

"More than 70 percent of American adults have committed a crime that could lead to imprisonment."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2014

Matthew Dowd
stated on December 7, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Says President Barack Obama "has lost more members of the House and more members of the Senate than any president ever has lost" in modern times.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 7, 2014

Peter Morici
stated on December 7, 2014 in an op-ed in the "Statesman Journal":

Immigrants "have captured all of the nearly 9 million jobs created since 2000."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • December 2, 2014

Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 23, 2014 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says "93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • November 25, 2014

Benjamin Crump
stated on November 23, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

Says "99 percent of the time police officers aren't charged when they kill young people of color."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • November 25, 2014

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