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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 17, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":
On immigration, what reports say President Barack Obama "plans to do is roughly on the same scale" as what President George H.W. Bush did.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 24, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 12, 2014 in a Facebook post:
"Fox News uses photo of a married couple promoting ‘traditional marriage’ and the photo is actually of a same-sex couple."
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 21, 2014
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on November 13, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
"4.7 million people have lost their insurance in 32 states" due to Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 18, 2014
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on November 13, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
Repeal of Obamacare would "take away health care for 10.3 million Americans" who have received coverage since Oct. 1, 2013.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 18, 2014
Brit Hume
Brit Hume
stated on November 10, 2014 in an interview on Fox News:
"It is senior citizens, not Hispanics, who are the fastest-growing demographic in this country."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 13, 2014
Jose Diaz-Balart
Jose Diaz-Balart
stated on November 9, 2014 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Every single day in this country, 1,000 people are deported and the vast majority of those people that are deported aren't criminals."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 12, 2014
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 5, 2014 in a broadcast of "Hannity" on Fox News:
Every new Republican member of the U.S. Senate said they "will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2014
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
stated on November 1, 2014 in a column in the "Miami Herald":
"America’s least-trusted news sources are also its most popular."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2014
Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro
stated on October 15, 2014 in a YouTube video:
"We’re above 800 million Muslims radicalized, more than half the Muslims on Earth That’s not a minority. That’s now a majority."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 in an op-ed in the "New York Times":
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 2, 2014 in a broadcast of Fox News' "Outnumbered":
Democrats give "Newports to the homeless to get them to the polls."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2014
Doug Muder
Doug Muder
stated on October 20, 2014 in a post on the Weekly Sift blog:
Says Sen. Rand Paul’s 2011 budget "included a big cut in the CDC."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • October 27, 2014
Allen West
Allen West
stated on October 20, 2014 in a tweet:
"U.S. troops are getting only 4 hours of Ebola training before deployment to Liberia."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2014
Corey Hebert
Corey Hebert
stated on October 20, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes":
"We've had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and they've never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on October 19, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 19, 2014
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on October 15, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Glenn Beck Program":
"Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2014
Mark Shields
Mark Shields
stated on October 10, 2014 in a broadcast of PBS' "Newshour":
Republicans "made it easier to buy a gun" in states they won in 2010.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2014
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox and Friends" on Fox News:
Says President Barack Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip "cost between $25 million and $50 million."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2014
Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins
stated on October 12, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2014
Morgan Brittany
Morgan Brittany
stated on October 7, 2014 in an article on the WND website:
"According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2014
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