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Fact-checking the Sunday Jan. 5 news shows

Mitt Romney talked about the Sochi games, an MSNBC controversy and Obamacare during an interview on Fox News Sunday.

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Mail call: PunditFact hears from our readers

Readers stuffed our stockings with feedback on our recent work.

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PunditFact fact-checks the Sunday news shows

Renewed talk about the NSA’s spying programs gave pundits and politicians the opportunity to revisit history on the Sunday talk shows. 

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Fact-checking the Sunday Dec. 22 news shows

Renewed talk about the NSA’s spying programs gave pundits and politicians the opportunity to revisit history on the Sunday talk shows.
 

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Introducing “After the Fact”

Today we launch a new segment that allows pundits to respond to our work.

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Bill O’Reilly vs. PunditFact

On Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly mixed praise and criticism over two of our recent fact-checks.

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Fact-checking the Sunday Dec. 15 news shows

Newt Gingrich tried to tie Democrats to the problem of poverty in the United States on ABC's "This Week."

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Fact-checks from the Sunday news shows

On This Week, Newt Gingrich claimed that 'every major city which is a center of poverty is run by Democrats.' PunditFact checked his numbers.

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Spin in the no-spin zone? PunditFact fact-checks O’Reilly

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly caught the attention of fact-checkers recently with claims about marijuana and communism.

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Fact-checking the Dec. 8 Sunday shows

Fox analyst Brit Hume said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s decision to start talking about raising the minimum wage and income inequality was a political calculation to shift the discussion away from the health care law. If so, it worked.

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Fact-checking the Dec. 8 news shows

Fox analyst Brit Hume said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s decision to start talking about raising the minimum wage and income inequality was a political calculation to shift the discussion away from the health care law. If so, it worked.

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Fact-checking Sarah Palin and Nov. 24 Sunday shows

The news of the day was Iran, but that didn't stop the former Alaska governor from talking about the health care law.

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