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David Madland
David Madland
stated on December 6, 2013 in a broadcast of CNN's "Crossfire":
"The CBO just said if we cut this (unemployment benefits) extension, we will kill jobs, because those people who are looking for work won't have any money to spend."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2013
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on December 5, 2013 in a broadcast of the "Daily Show":
"The most popular name is no longer John or Steven. It's Jose, Camilo and Maria."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 9, 2013
James Carville
James Carville
stated on December 8, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2013
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton
stated on December 4, 2013 in a broadcast of MSNBC's Politics Nation:
The "priorities" of more than three-quarters of Americans are to increase the minimum wage, create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and require background checks for gun buyers.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 6, 2013
James Capretta
James Capretta
stated on December 1, 2013 in a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
Obamacare is a "massive, massive income redistribution" with "$250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2013
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on December 1, 2013 in a Doonesbury strip in the Sunday comics:
"The economy bled $24 billion" due to the government shutdown.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 3, 2013
Allen West
Allen West
stated on November 25, 2013 in comments on his blog:
"Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 27, 2013
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on November 19, 2013 in a broadcast of CNN's Situation Room:
Republican ideas on health care don’t give people "an option to even enroll in something that they can afford."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 26, 2013
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
stated on November 19, 2013 in comments on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends":
A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 20, 2013
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on November 15, 2013 in a video on Cain TV:
Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2013
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2013 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The (health care) law does not demand that all of these cancellations go out."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2013
Ellen Qualls
Ellen Qualls
stated on November 12, 2013 in comments on Fox News Channel:
Obamacare "was the Republican plan in the early '90s."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2013
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 11, 2013 in comments on Fox News Channel:
"In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 13, 2013
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
stated on November 8, 2013 in a broadcast of the "Tonight Show":
"Social Security took seven years before anybody got the first check."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 12, 2013
George Will
George Will
stated on November 10, 2013 in comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday":
Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.  
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2013
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on November 5, 2013 in a broadcast of the "Ed Schultz Show":
Says Chris Christie fired 6,000 teachers.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 7, 2013
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on November 4, 2013 in a broadcast of the Glenn Beck Show:
Says Barack Obama "knew half of the population of the United States would lose their health insurance."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Brad Blakeman
Brad Blakeman
stated on October 31, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:
"When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":
Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2013
Jan Crawford
Jan Crawford
stated on November 3, 2013 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"On day one, six people were able to sign up" for health insurance through the federal marketplace.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2013
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