Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."

False

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014

Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."

True

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014

Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on March 16, 2014 in a broadcast of ABC's "This Week":

"The majority support (raising) the minimum wage."

True

By Jon Greenberg • March 16, 2014

Michael Reagan
stated on March 6, 2014 in an op-ed on Townhall.com:

Says Ronald Reagan "got the Saudis to flood the market with cheap oil."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • March 13, 2014

Ralph Reed
stated on March 9, 2014 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press":

Millennials are "more pro-life than baby boomers and older Americans."

False

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2014

Dick Cheney
stated on March 9, 2014 in a broadcast of CBS' "Face the Nation":

On Syria, "a lot of the allies signed on. At the last minute, Obama backed off."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2014

Russia Today
stated on March 4, 2014 in a posting on their website:

The new Ukrainian government "introduced a law abolishing the use of languages other than Ukrainian in official circumstances."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • March 5, 2014

Sarah Palin
stated on February 28, 2014 in a post on Facebook:

Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2014

John Kerry
stated on March 2, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"The (Russian) ruble is already going down."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2014

Ted Nugent
stated on February 24, 2014 in comments on CNN:

"I've been a cop in Lake County, Michigan, since 1982 thereabout. I conduct federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2014

stated on February 23, 2014 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Chained CPI would save $1 trillion in the second decade off the federal budget debt," a report shows.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2014

Rachel Maddow
stated on February 17, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":

"When the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago, they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground ... (and) those earthquakes stopped."

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 2014

Wolf Blitzer
stated on February 18, 2014 in comments on CNN:

The words "subhuman mongrel," which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to "justify the genocide of the Jewish community."

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 2014

Ed Schultz
stated on February 12, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Ed Show":

"When union membership goes down, so do (middle class) wages."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2014

Peggy Noonan
stated on February 16, 2014 in a broadcast of ABC's "This Week":

Says "(President) Reagan's second inaugural was moved inside the Capitol. It was. Because of a terrible snowstorm."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2014

Chris Stirewalt
stated on February 11, 2014 in a daily summary of news "Fox News First":

Businesses "will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that Obamacare was not a motivating factor" for cutting staff.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 13, 2014

Ari Melber
stated on February 5, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Cycle":

"The median net worth of American households hasn't changed much over the past decades, it's about $20,000 ... but Congress' average median net worth has ballooned, more than doubled."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 11, 2014

Candy Crowley
stated on February 9, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"It’s been 14 years since a president or a vice president or a member of their family has not gone and attended at least an event at the Olympics."

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2014

Dana Milbank
stated on February 3, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Politics Nation":

Says Bill O’Reilly spoke 40 percent of the words in an interview with President Barack Obama.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2014

Gretchen Carlson
stated on February 4, 2014 in a broadcast of Fox News' "The Real Story":

"The CBO now says the president's health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2014

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