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Statement: Says President Theodore Roosevelt said "To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 8, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Barry Popik , an etymologist and consulting editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, also researched the quote in 2013 and found no  Roosevelt said it. Popik discovered the phrase first appeared in print sometime around 2007, well after Roosevelt’s lifetime. On online message boards and blogs dating back to 2002 , the quote was simply attributed to no one, appearing in signatures or in the middle of bodies of text with no source. The quote also isn’t included on the Theodore Roosevelt Center’s list of verified and unverified Roosevelt quotes . We rate this  Roosevelt quote !
Statement: John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich.
Speaker: j.d. hayworth
About the speaker: J.D. Hayworth is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and host of a conservative talk radio show. He challenged Sen. John McCain for renomination in the 2010 Republican Senate primary, but was defeated.
Date: June 4, 2010
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: McCain voted against the tax cuts, as the ad indicated, and he cited the idea that the bills were tilted toward the rich as a major reason for his votes. When discussing one of the bills, McCain did suggest that only the rich would benefit, while for the other bill, he didn't. Because the ad was partly  on this final point, we'll mark it down a notch. But in general, the ad is quite accurate. We rate it .
Statement: The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: September 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech to a joint session of Congress
Fact-check justification: But the bill as written won't mandate which treatment doctors and patients have to select. Nothing has emerged to suggest to us that the death panels  is any more  today than it was when Palin first floated it. We still rate it as  today. In our book, that counts as a "lie, plain and simple." So we find Obama's  .
Statement: Ballots in Arizona's Maricopa County" from the 2020 presidential election "found shredded and in dumpster days before Senate audit to begin.
Speaker: the gateway pundit
About the speaker: The Gateway Pundit is a conservative website.
Date: March 6, 2021
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An article widely shared on Facebook claimed: "Ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County" from the 2020 presidential election "found shredded and in dumpster days before Senate audit to begin." The county elections department said it has a surveillance recording of a man rummaging through a dumpster outside of its office and attempting to gain entry into its warehouse. The department says all voted ballots from the 2020 election are sealed in a locked indoor vault, awaiting shipment for an audit by the state Senate, that none are kept in the warehouse and none have been shredded. We rate the statement . Help shape our fact-checking! Take PolitiFact’s reader survey now >>
Statement: Corporate income has increased as a share of" gross domestic product.
Speaker: janet yellen
About the speaker: Janet Yellen serves as the Treasury Secretary in the Biden administration. An economist by training, Yellen previously chaired the Federal Reserve Board and the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
Date: May 2, 2021
Topics: corporations;economy
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Yellen said, "Corporate income has increased as a share of" gross domestic product. We found no dramatic upward trend line in corporate profits as a share of GDP. In fact, if you separate out three years during the Great Recession, the percentage has moved within a narrow band for the past decade and a half. However, over the longer term, the decade between 2010 and 2019 did have a higher percentage than any decade going back to the 1930s. We rate the statement .
Statement: I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: St. Petersburg, Fla
Fact-check justification: And the Latino community as well as the African-American community was particularly hard hit when it comes to foreclosures." On Feb. 19, 2008, Obama was at a campaign event in San Antonio, Texas, and discussed the need for people having mortgage problems to receive help negotiating with their lenders. "My suspicion is that it's very important we have Spanish-speaking counselors because I know that both the African-American community and Hispanic community have been disproportionately targeted by some of these practices." It's not a campaign theme he hits over and over again, but Obama has made the statement several times, and the 2007 letter is particularly strong  to bolster Obama's argument. We rule his statement .
Statement: Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: April 22, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Pittsburgh:
Fact-check justification: Clinton was asked to explain an intriguing accusation he made against the Obama campaign and responded by saying he didn't say it. But he did. Even when we review the full context of the original radio interview, as Clinton suggests, the facts here don't budge. We say ... !
Statement: Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected in 2014.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: The meme said that Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected. We found small differences in the actual percentages -- Congress had roughly a 14 percent approval rate, and the incumbent re-election rate may be as low as 95 percent -- but the point of the meme is solid. Voters hold Congress in low regard, yet they re-elect almost everyone. So we rate the  .
Statement: 'The largest bust in U.S. history' 412 Muslims arrested from Michigan!
Speaker: freshmedianews.com
About the speaker: Freshmedianews.com is a website that posts fake news.
Date: November 6, 2017
Topics: fake news;legal issues;crime;religion;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Michigan Muslims comprise more than 15 percent of the state’s medical doctors and more than 10 percent of the state’s pharmacists. Fresh Media News wrote in a headline " ‘The largest bust in U.S. history’ 412 Muslims arrested in Michigan!" The federal government announced the bust of 412 people in a health care fraud scheme in July, but the suspects were from across the nation. We found no  that all the suspects are Muslims. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Tony Thurmond was "sued by the ACLU" for leaving students in unsafe conditions.
Speaker: students, parents and teachers supporting marshall tuck
About the speaker: Students, Parents and Teachers supporting Marshall Tuck for Superintendent of Public Instruction 2018 is an independent expenditure group created by EdVoice, a nonprofit that supports charter schools.
Date: October 11, 2018
Location: california
Topics: education;elections
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: A recent TV spot and campaign mailer by a group supporting Marshall Tuck claimed Tony Thurmond was "sued by the ACLU." In reality, ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a lawsuit in 2012 against the West Contra Costa Unified School District over unsafe school conditions. All five members of the district’s board, including Thurmond, were named in the lawsuit, along with the district’s administrators. The lawsuit, however, doesn’t directly tie Thurmond to any of the school conditions, which are managed daily by administrators, not board members. By focusing on Thurmond only, the campaign mailer and the text of the TV ad distort the facts, giving the  impression he was the sole target of the lawsuit and uniquely responsible. That’s simply not the case.   We rated the  .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. Related fact check: Ad wrongly implies Marshall Tuck is ‘backed’ by Betsy DeVos
Statement: The pope and Donald Trump and Tammy Baldwin all agree" on eliminating the "carried-interest" tax break.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: September 23, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: financial regulation;income;religion;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Trump has called for ending the tax break for investment managers that Baldwin is seeking to repeal with a bill she introduced. But while Pope Francis has called for helping the poor and addressing economic inequality, we could not find that has spoken out on this particular tax break. And his practice is to make broad policy statements, not to comment on an individual piece of legislation. If it turns out the pope has spoken about carried interest, we will review this item, but for now we rate Baldwin's statement . Related items Matthew Dowd: Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims" () Hillary Clinton: Hedge fund managers "pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers" ()
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan promised to "end health care for our seniors.
Speaker: sandy pasch
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay, has served in the state Assembly since being elected in 2008. In 2011, she announced she was running in a recall election against state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills.
Date: June 6, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an online chat
Fact-check justification: Pasch originally claimed that Ryan promised to end health care for seniors and now she says his Medicare plan is a "move toward not promising health care to seniors." That’s quite a step back from the original . Moreover, we’ve established that, although it’s expected that senior citizens would pay more for health care under Ryan’s plan, they would still have health care. At PolitiFact, we have a name for the drink that’s made by mixing  and . It’s called , and that’s what we rate Pasch’s .
Statement: Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a T-shirt that reads, "I'm proud of my gay husband.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: October 31, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Cicilline shared the photo from his congressional Facebook account with the caption, "Just gave Nancy Pelosi this shirt that I had made with a quote from her meeting in the Oval Office last week. So proud of her and grateful for her strong leadership!" Bogus social media posts and claims targeting Paul Pelosi have been abundant since the attack, which sent Pelosi to the hospital to repair a skull fracture. The altered photo in this Instagram post is another example. We rate this !
Statement: The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws" while "the 5 states with the lowest rates have some of the toughest laws.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: April 3, 2023
Topics: legal issues;public health;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Murphy tweeted, "The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws" while "the 5 states with the lowest rates have some of the toughest laws." Murphy is partially accurate when he said the top five states for gun homicide death rates include only states with looser gun laws. However, his framing ignores that several states with relatively loose gun laws have low gun homicide rates, and some states with tighter laws have relatively high gun homicide rates. Experts say other variables, including region, poverty and medical infrastructure,  also shape the gun homicide rate. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important information. So, we rate the statement .
Statement: The president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 22, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;israel
Context: a presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Romney said that Obama said he would create daylight between the United States and Israel. It’s not as simple in this case as going to the tape to see what Obama said. The comment was reported secondhand by the Washington Post , based on anonymous interviews. Romney fairly characterizes a quote attributed to Obama, which the White House has not denied. We rate Romney's statement .
Statement: Says President Trump's limousine driver did burnouts to entertain Daytona 500 spectators during a rain delay.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: February 16, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But the driver did not decide to use the official state car of the president of the United States to do some smoky burnouts, in the rain no less.    Beyond the Facebook post, we found the altered image in a tweet that said: "This is what we needed at the #DAYTONA500 is for @realDonaldTrump limo to do a burnout." The image then got passed around as authentic. If such a thing happened in the First Car, we would all know about it.   We rate this altered photo an extra-smoky !
Statement: Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached.
Speaker: jimmy kimmel
About the speaker: Jimmy Kimmel is the host of ABC's late-night show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Date: June 6, 2019
Topics: history;impeachment;punditfact
Context: on "Jimmy Kimmel Live"
Fact-check justification: Kimmel said, "Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached by a 'witch hunt.'" Nixon probably would have been kicked out if he hadn’t resigned first, and the impeachment process against him had begun. But only two presidents have actually been impeached, and Nixon was not one of them. He resigned before the House had the chance to vote on the articles of impeachment. We rate this statement .
Statement: Kamala Harris' husband said, "I am married to the next president of the United States.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 21, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Really means so much to us." It would be eight more months before Biden would tap Harris to be his running mate . Emhoff’s quote is authentic, but it’s not recent. This video is being reshared in a way that misleads viewers to believe otherwise.   We rate these posts .
Statement: In 2020, when Raphael Warnock ran a campaign ad featuring himself with a beagle, "that wasn't his dog.
Speaker: gary black
About the speaker: Elected Georgia's first GOP farm chief in 2010
Date: May 13, 2022
Topics: animals;candidate biography
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Black said that the beagle in Warnock’s ads "wasn’t his dog." Black is correct: The dog was lent to Warnock’s campaign by a supporter for the purpose of filming the ads. Warnock had lived with dogs on several earlier occasions, but not while the ad was being filmed. For the record, Warnock himself has never claimed that the dog was his own.  We rate the statement .
Statement: Seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage are going to see an average premium increase between $50 and $90 per month.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: April 3, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an "El Nuevo Herald" editorial
Fact-check justification: Scott said in a Spanish-language editorial that "seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage are going to see an average premium increase between $50 and $90 per month." That’s an estimate made by an insurance lobbying group back in 2013, based on government data that wasn’t finalized. Experts we spoke to pointed out the estimate also was created in the best interest of the industry, seeking to maximize government reimbursements for private Advantage plans. Even the group that commissioned the report from which the projection was culled says it wasn’t the proper number for Scott to use. We should note that the numbers changed again shortly after Scott's editorial appeared. But even before that, the numbers Scott used were off. It’s possible that one day premiums may increase, but data since 2010 don’t reflect that. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Ohio Treasurer Josh "Mandel first claimed bank fraud in June 2010 but did nothing for more than a year while raising money for his (Republican) Senate campaign.
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: March 20, 2012
Location: ohio
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: It is  and  to say Mandel "claimed bank fraud" against BNY Mellon and State Street when he focused his public statements solely on State Street and clearly attributed them to the investigation in California. It also is  to strip those statements of the full context: that Mandel was mainly concerned about contract-steering and cronyism. Furthermore, it is  for the Ohio Democratic Party to charge Mandel with more than a year of neglect when it acknowledges the DeWine investigation began last June. That leaves the party without a sturdy leg of truthfulness to stand on. !
Statement: No one was taken into custody" for feeding the homeless.
Speaker: jack seiler
About the speaker: John P. "Jack" Seiler, a lawyer, was elected mayor of Fort Lauderdale in 2009 and re-elected in 2012. He previously served eight years in the Florida House of Representatives and also served as council member and mayor in Wilton Manors. 
Date: November 5, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: city government;crime
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Seiler said that "no one was taken into custody" for feeding the homeless. Seiler is correct that Abbott wasn’t taken into custody -- the activist was not handcuffed or taken to jail but was instead given a notice to appear in court. But his carefully worded  glosses over the fact that Abbott was indeed arrested on more than one occasion for allegedly feeding the homeless in violation of city ordinances, something that leaves Abbott at least theoretically in peril of being sentenced to jail. Seiler’s  is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Says the CDC recommends men shave their beards to protect against coronavirus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 26, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: online posts
Fact-check justification: A headline claims that the CDC recommends men shave their beards to protect against coronavirus. The story, and others like it, say that facial hair can interfere with masks – and that isn’t untrue – but these posts in connection with the coronavirus are ultimately .  The story inaccurately says the CDC is telling people to shave their faces to help ward off the coronavirus and omits that the graphic was made years ago and unrelated to the current outbreak. It also misses health officials’ actual recommendation against using respirators for protection outside of the workplace.  We rate it .