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Robert Farley

Robert Farley

Former staff Writer, PolitiFact

Robert Farley was a staff writer for PolitiFact and a reporter with the St. Petersburg Times from 1998 to July 2011. Before joining the PolitiFact team in early 2008, he worked a stint on the newspaper's investigative team and won a 2008 Casey Medal for stories about the dramatic rise in antipsychotic drugs prescribed to children. In 2006, Farley won a first place award for general feature writing from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors for a story about a former girlfriend of rock icon Jim Morrison.

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Judson Phillips
Judson Phillips
stated on July 27, 2011 in a "Washington Post" opinion piece:
"Our government has spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 29, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 in a televised address:
"The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office."
True
By Robert Farley • July 27, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 in a televised address:
"President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times.  George W. Bush did it seven times."
True
By Robert Farley • July 26, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 22, 2011 in a chain e-mail:
Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 in a Twitter Town Hall:
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 in a Twitter town hall:
"We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Steve Case
Steve Case
stated on July 3, 2011 in an interview on CNN:
"Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 6, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm."
False
By Robert Farley • July 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 in a press conference:
"What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'"  
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 in CBS' Face the Nation:
"Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • June 27, 2011
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