Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

John Kerry tells CBS viewers that Russian isolation comes with big economic risks

By Jon Greenberg

March 2, 2014

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

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Ted Nugent on CNN: ‘I conduct federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers’

By Jon Greenberg

February 27, 2014

"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…

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Chained CPI and what it means for the federal budget

By Jon Greenberg

February 23, 2014

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

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MSNBC’s Maddow: Earthquakes led a Texas airport to close fracking-related well

By Jon Greenberg

February 19, 2014

"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…

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Wolf Blitzer: Ted Nugent used Nazi terminology, ‘subhuman mongrel,’ to describe President Barack Obama

By Jon Greenberg

February 19, 2014

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

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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: When union membership drops, so do wages

By Jon Greenberg

February 18, 2014

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

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Panelists on ABC’s ‘This Week’ ask PunditFact for help sorting out presidential trivia

By Jon Greenberg

February 16, 2014

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

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Fox’s Stirewalt: New rules force firms to deny Obamacare leads to downsizing

By Jon Greenberg

February 13, 2014

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

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MSNBC’s Melber: Congressional wealth climbed while median American saw no change

By Jon Greenberg

February 11, 2014

"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…

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CNN’s Candy Crowley says it’s unusual for a president or their family not to attend the Olympics

By Jon Greenberg

February 9, 2014

"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…

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Milbank: O’Reilly said 40% of the words in Obama interview

By Jon Greenberg

February 6, 2014

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

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Carlson: CBO says Obamacare will cut full-time jobs by 2.3 million

By Jon Greenberg

February 5, 2014

"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."

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