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Statement: Says Barack Obama's approval rating "is right in the average" for second-term presidents at this point.
Speaker: ari melber
About the speaker: Ari Melber is a host of MSNBC's "The Cycle" and a correspondent for "The Nation."
Date: November 18, 2013
Topics: polls and public opinion;punditfact
Context: a talk on MSNBC's "The Cycle"
Fact-check justification: Melber said: "As to the approval numbers, it’s very important to understand, we look at Gallup over the entire history of second-term presidents, and you’ve got in the 40s this president. At the same point, 1,700 days or so in, that’s exactly about where (George) W. Bush was, it’s where LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) was. (Bill) Clinton was higher because he was a very popular second-termer." Depending on what presidents you pick, and how you gauge the time frame, Melber comes close. Obama’s approval ratings are roughly in the range of some presidents. But looking at the numbers other ways produce vastly different results.   Melber’s  is partially accurate but take things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.' But raised the minimum wage only three times.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 20, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: congress;economy;history;income;jobs;labor;poverty;states;workers
Context: a Facebook posting
Fact-check justification: A posting by the Facebook group Raise the Minimum Wage said, "Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.' But raised the minimum wage only three times." Although Congress has scored 15 pay increases thanks to the automatic formula it adopted in 1989, it has also approved seven increases in the minimum wage during that period, not three. Because the posting ignores more than half the minimum wage increases since 1988 while giving the  impression that Congress has actively voted itself raises 15 times, we rate the statement   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: The (Erie Co., N.Y.) health commissioner makes more than the governor, the vice president of the United States, and has a salary that is comparable to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Speaker: stefan mychajliw
About the speaker: Stefan Mychajliw is the comptroller of Erie County, N.Y., which includes Buffalo. He was elected to the post as a Republican in 2012 and won reelection in 2013 and 2017. Previously, he was investigative journalist at WKBW-TV and WGRZ-TV in Buffalo.
Date: January 29, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Mychajliw said, "I think a lot of people are going to be very angry that the health commissioner makes more than the governor, the vice president of the United States, and has a salary that is comparable to Dr. Anthony Fauci." Burstein is benefitting from a rule that allows her to collect overtime, and she’s working more hours because of the pandemic. So Burstein’s salary and overtime alone exceeded the easily classifiable compensation for Cuomo and Pence, and when benefits are added in, she beats Fauci as well. However, Cuomo and Pence receive housing, transportation, and security benefits that are large but hard to quantify, and if these benefits are added into the calculation, they likely exceed what Burstein received. We rate the statement .
Statement: Military tribunals start Jan. 20, 2021.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 20, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And that night, an Inauguration Day special starring singers like Bruce Springsteen that was hosted by Tom Hanks aired on several networks.   Followers of QAnon, a vast and baseless conspiracy theory with many tentacles, have preached about the military tribunals where a cabal of pedophiles then-President Donald was supposedly fighting would finally be punished.    But after Trump boarded Air Force One for Florida and no tribunals materialized, some QAnon adherents started to grapple with the falsehoods they had come to believe .   The events widely broadcast on Jan. 20 were a presidential inauguration ceremony and a musical special, not a tribunal.   We rate the  !
Statement: In the Wisconsin State Assembly this session, more than 75% of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile, the GOP allowed less than 2% of Democratic bills to have a hearing.
Speaker: francesca hong
About the speaker: Francesca Hong is a second-generation Wisconsinite, mother, community organizer, and service industry worker in Madison, Wisconsin. Hong is the daughter of immigrants who made the journey to the United States in the 1980s. Hong, D-Madison, is a Wisconsin State Representative.   
Date: May 18, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bipartisanship;legal issues;party support;states
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Hong claimed that in the current legislative session "more than 75% of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile, the GOP allowed less than 2% of Democratic bills to have a hearing." Statistics compiled by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau show she is correct, with a steep decline occurring since Republicans took over after the 2010 election. In the previous session, when Democrats had control, some 39% of Republican-sponsored bills got a hearing. We rate this  .
Statement: A "regulatory thing" means you can't show someone drinking beer on camera.
Speaker: heineken
About the speaker: Heineken is a Dutch brewing company
Date: August 19, 2014
Topics: pop culture;punditfact
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: A Heineken beer commercial said regulations ban showing someone drinking beer on camera. If you take a more relaxed view of regulations, that’s close to the . The rules come from the television networks, not the government. The restriction might not have the force of law but it’s just as effective. We rate the  .
Statement: I'm calling into question the accuracy of the ruling. The district judge in Seattle said there was no indication of terrorism from these seven countries in our country.
Speaker: stephen miller
About the speaker: Stephen Miller was a senior adviser to President Donald Trump. Previously, he worked in the Senate office of Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions, who became Trump's attorney general in 2017. In April 2021, he launched America First Legal, saying it would use "our legal system to defend our society and our families from any unlawful actions by the left."
Date: February 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;legal issues;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Miller said, "I'm calling into question the accuracy of the ruling. The district judge in Seattle said there was no indication of terrorism from these seven countries in our country." Miller's comments seemed to reference the ruling -- the only part of the case record with legal authority. But no such statement was included in the ruling. And while the judge did make a comment along those lines during oral arguments, citing this ignores a contradictory  in the appeals court ruling. We rate Miller’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/af06f1e4-cf49-4b8d-8895-27c8cc3f0cd6
Statement: President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: May 18, 2017
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues;crime
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Schumer said, "President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office." The statistics bear out Schumer’s assertion, so we rate it .
Statement: Scientists warn eggs are causing thousands of people to 'suddenly' form blood clots.
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: January 26, 2023
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But "the research did not show a direct link between egg consumption and ‘suddenly forming blood clots,’" the authors said in the statement.   What’s more, the clinic said, a subsequent study in 2021 by the same researchers found that the simple consumption of eggs did not have the same increased risk. The study’s title, in the American Journal of Medicine? Emphasis ours: "Dietary choline supplements, but not eggs, raise fasting TMAO levels in participants with normal renal function: a randomized clinical trial. "  We rate this headline .
Statement: Says "there is a plan formulated by Chair (Lynn) Peterson and the cities in Clackamas County to further increase this fee in three years and split it up on projects between the county and cities.
Speaker: mary olson
About the speaker: Mary Olson is currently a Lake Oswego City Councilwoman
Date: December 8, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: Clackamas County Board of Commissioners hearing
Fact-check justification: The $10 two-year county bridge fee does not mean an automatic pass to ever-higher tag fees and a host of expensive new projects. According to state law, county commissioners would have to vote again on any vehicle fee increase after July 2013 for projects other than the Sellwood Bridge. While there isn’t "a plan," there clearly is planning. We find the  . Comment on this item.
Statement: Winston Churchill didn't mention the Holocaust in his memoirs because it didn't happen.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 8, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "Yet for decades after the war, the genocide lacked any formal title in English except, perhaps, ‘The Final Solution,’ the term the Nazis used. In Hebrew, the calamity quickly became known as ‘Shoah,’ which means ‘catastrophe.’ But it wasn’t until the 1960s that scholars and writers began using the term ‘Holocaust,’ and it took the 1978 TV film ‘Holocaust,’ starring Meryl Streep, to push it into widespread use. "  Claims that Churchill’s memoirs are  that the Holocaust didn’t happen are unfounded, and . We rate them !
Statement: Tommy Thompson is the father of welfare reform, creating the groundbreaking Wisconsin Works program in Wisconsin that became the model for national and international reforms.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: May 1, 2007
Location: national
Context: the Web
Fact-check justification: The role Thompson played at every stage was substantial." Lawrence Mead, professor of Politics at New York University, and the author of a book on the first "welfare to work" program in the U.S., "Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin," agrees "those are fair statements. He didn't do it single-handedly, but he was the crucial, most important single leader." In 2004, Mead told a conference on welfare reform at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research "Wisconsin took the idea (of welfare to work) to extremes not seen anywhere else in the country. Wisconsin Works, the eventual system that it implemented, is the most radical reform in the country…and is a triumph of government."
Statement: Terry McAuliffe has a campaign sign that says, "Keep parents out of classrooms.
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 24, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: During the second and final gubernatorial debate, Youngkin raised a bill McAuliffe vetoed as governor in 2016 that would have given parents the right to opt their children out of some reading assignments.    "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach," McAuliffe said.   Youngkin seized on the quote, and it's drawn both critical and supportive coverage in the days since.   But that sign is not from McAuliffe’s campaign.   We rate claims that it is .
Statement: Says that Sherrod Brown "voted to cut Medicare by over $500 billion in order to fund government-run health care.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: June 9, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;medicare;voting record
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: We found that critics of the law are correct that it significantly increases government regulation of health insurers. But it is, as noted previously, a system that relies on private companies:   The NRSC’s  cites a real figure -- $500 billion -- that is part of the health reform debate. But it incorrectly describes it as $500 billion in Medicare cuts, rather than as decreases in the rate of growth of future spending. And the NRSC piles on the  talking point about "government-run health care." On the -Meter, the NRSC’s  rates as .
Statement: We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: February 23, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”
Fact-check justification: Booker claimed that in the past year, Newark’s unemployment rate fell two percentage points. A spokeswoman for the Newark mayor cited nonseasonally adjusted federal data from January 2011 to December 2011 to support his . Within that time frame, the unemployment rate fell two percentage points. But an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said his agency recommends comparing year-over-year data or annual averages when using statistics that are not adjusted for seasonal fluctuations. From December 2010 to December of last year, the city’s unemployment rate dropped 0.7 percentage points, not two percentage points. We rate this  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Kim Myers "voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters.
Speaker: claudia tenney
About the speaker: Claudia Tenney is a member of Congress from New York's 22nd district. She represents the area stretching from Utica to Binghamton.
Date: July 7, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: taxes
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Claudia Tenney said in July that Kim Myers voted "to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters and jobs to Pennsylvania." In her only budget vote since joining the Broome County Legislature, she supported a spending plan that raised the tax levy by under 2 percent. She also voted to increase property taxes while president of the Vestal School Board. Dick’s Sporting Goods relocated its headquarters to Pennsylvania 20 years before Myers’ election to the Broome County Legislature. We could not find any information to support Tenney’s  that the company saved millions in taxes by moving to Pennsylvania. We rate this  as .
Statement: Photo shows electric cars that were bought for civil servants in France and then abandoned because "it was too expensive to replace the batteries.
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: August 7, 2022
Topics: climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He said not all the Microcity electric cars parked in the region were defective. "Some of them had problems, some could still be used, others were old enough to be sold to another company and disassembled." We previously fact-checked a  about a different photo that was described as showing a "boneyard" of electric cars abandoned in France because the cars’ batteries were too expensive to replace. They were vehicles that belonged to a French car-sharing service that also failed, and the cars were being resold or sold for parts.   We rate claims that this photo shows electric cars abandoned by French civil servants because of dead batteries .
Statement: Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system.
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: April 8, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: "In a sense, calling it a 'parallel public financing system' undersells the importance of the small donor revolution." We agree that Obama's network of small donors does imitate an important goal of public financing of encouraging political participation of small donors. But Obama omits the spending limits that public financing has and  his own donor network. His group of small donors be may positive for democracy, but it does not equate to public financing system. For this reason we find his statement that he has created a "parallel public financing system" to be only .
Statement: Says women who need a sonogram in the eighth to 10th week of pregnancy have to get a transvaginal sonogram.
Speaker: carol alvarado
About the speaker: Carol Alvarado represents Houston in the Texas House of Representatives. Before being elected, she served on the Houston City Council from 2002-2008 and as Mayor Pro Tem from 2004-2008.
Date: March 2, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;health care;women
Context: remarks on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Where does that leave us? Given that lawmakers were weighing whether to mandate sonograms in advance of abortions, we find reasonable Alvarado’s post-debate clarification that she intended to characterize sonograms through the first 10 weeks of pregnancy and not just a two-week segment. Most of the experts we reached agreed that to produce a clear image, a transvaginal sonogram is best, if not the only choice, up to about the seventh week of pregnancy. But between seven and 10 weeks, another type of sonogram may produce a viewable image, according to some doctors. We rate Alvarado’s statement .
Statement: Democrats and their allies (...) are manufacturing voters.
Speaker: ken blackwell
About the speaker: Ken Blackwell is the former Ohio secretary of state.
Date: November 9, 2018
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Blackwell said, "Democrats and their allies (...) are manufacturing voters." We found no , nor has the state, to support this . Blackwell provided no  to support his statement. We rate this .
Statement: Say first grandma Marian Robinson will get a $160,000 annual pension for life when President Barack Obama leaves office.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 9, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: It was run by Associated Media Coverage, another website that also ran  news, including one about several states enacting a two-pet limit that we rated ! in the past. There’s no indication that the story is , but other websites continue to cite it as fact in various vitriolic posts. We rate this  assertion ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/77ba8fae-5a6b-451b-bde0-c6fff48a3f4a
Statement: Says Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath is requiring teachers to return to classrooms while "he has closed his offices at TEA through January.
Speaker: ken zarifis
About the speaker: Ken Zarifis is the president of Education Austin, the teachers and employees union for the Austin Independent School District.
Date: July 8, 2020
Location: texas
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: The president of the Austin school employees’ union said the leader of the Texas Education Agency is requiring teachers to return to classrooms while keeping his offices closed through January.  While the new rules for the fall semester do mean that some teachers will have to go back into school buildings, it doesn’t look like Morath is hunkering down through January — in fact, he’s been in-office since March, along with other staff who are deemed essential.  Although it’s unknown how many TEA staffers are back in the office at this moment, they did have the option to begin returning this month. We rate this  .