Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Matthew Dowd
stated on August 15, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':

Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2010

George Packer
stated on August 8, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.

August 10, 2010

Gen. Peter Chiarelli
stated on August 8, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":

About 106,000 soldiers had "a prescription of three weeks or more" for pain, depression or anxiety medication.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2010

Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

House Democrats "have a two-to-one advantage money-wise" against House Republicans.

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010

Paul Krugman
stated on August 1, 2010 in on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":

The Bush administration "pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2010

George Will
stated on August 1, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":

During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2010

Donna Brazile
stated on July 25, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":

Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent "have grown." Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, "they've seen their wages stagnate."

By Lukas Pleva • July 29, 2010

Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 in on ABC News' "This Week.":

People in the top tax bracket, "these so-called wealthy, most of them are small-business owners."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 27, 2010

Timothy Geithner
stated on July 25, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

"We've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector."

By Lukas Pleva • July 27, 2010

Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":

Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."

By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010

George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:

Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010

Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

"I never called for a partition" of Iraq.

July 21, 2010

Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:

"The health care numbers are going up."

By Alex Holt • July 20, 2010

Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:

"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.

By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010

David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

"We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015."

July 15, 2010

David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":

Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush "when he asked to extend unemployment insurance."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2010

George Will
stated on July 11, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."

July 13, 2010

Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 11, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':

"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."

By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2010

Al Hunt
stated on July 4, 2010 in an appearance on ABC's "This Week.":

"Crime is down in Arizona."

By Alex Holt • July 7, 2010

John McCain
stated on July 4, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":

As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 7, 2010

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