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Statement: I'm predicting (the Saints) will go not only undefeated, but all the way through the Super Bowl -- something that's never been done before.
Speaker: bobby jindal
About the speaker: Bobby Jindal is the governor of Louisiana and a candidate for president in 2016. He was elected to his first term in 2007. Prior to that, he served as a congressman from 2004 to 2008, representing the suburban areas north of New Orleans.
Date: December 7, 2009
Location: national
Topics: recreation
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: But until then, we remain the only perfect team in NFL history, an achievement our players and coaches rightly are proud of." That's the kind of measured response we might have expected from the Dolphins' front office. But with the Saints still only 12-0 (they'd need to win four more regular season games and three playoff games to finish perfect), we think this smack talk from former Dolphins running back Mercury Morris, uttered when the New England Patriots made a run at a perfect season in 2007, is perhaps more appropriate: "Like I said, don't call me when you're in my town, call me when you're on my block and I see you next door moving your furniture in." We're all for hometown boostering, especially from a guy like Gov. Jindal who said he suffered through the Saints' many bad years too, but we're all about the facts here, and he fumbled this one. We rate his statement .
Statement: [Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050.
Speaker: ken cuccinelli
About the speaker: Ken Cuccinelli became acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli, a Republican, was Virginia's attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he lost the general election for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. In 2016, he was a adisver to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Born in 1968, Cuccinelli has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Geroge Mason University School of Law and an M.A. in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.
He represented Fairfax County in the state senate from 2002 to 2010.
 
 
 
 
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Date: January 17, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: environment;climate change;transportation
Context: a speech to Tea Party activists
Fact-check justification: The EPA said the reductions would be between 0.011 degrees Fahrenheit and 0.027 degrees Fahrenheit and would occur by 2100. The agency’s  is even more modest than Cuccinelli suggested. Speaking without notes at a cold outdoor rally, the attorney general came pretty close to hitting the actual EPA , and he actually erred in the agency’s favor by overstating the size of projected reductions. He also missed the date, but again erred in the EPA’s favor. Because his mistakes were minor and in the EPA’s favor, we rate his  as .
Statement: Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: January 26, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a Republican presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: Santorum called Romney’s health law "a top-down, government-run health care system."   The individual mandate and the requirement that employers offer health insurance might be considered top-down, though it is still a system that relies heavily on private insurance and private medical providers. But there’s no case to for calling it "government-run."  A real government-run system has doctors on the payroll. Massachusetts does not. We rate Santorum’s  .
Statement: U.S. House of Reps. votes 226-194 to criminalize disassembling, cleaning, and re-assembling your gun without a firearm manufacturer's license, including 8 Republicans!
Speaker: gun owners of america
About the speaker: an advocacy group for gun rights
Date: June 8, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Protecting Our Kids Act passed by a  223-204  vote, with five Republicans in favor; a portion dealing with ghost guns was approved 226-194, with eight Republicans in favor. The bill is unlikely to take effect. As written, it would prevent people who can’t pass a background check from buying untraceable firearm parts and assembling them into a ghost gun. Legal experts said it’s a misreading to suggest the bill would criminalize disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling a gun.   We rate this  .
Statement: The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: April 11, 2016
Location: national
Topics: crime;guns
Context: Port Washington, N.Y
Fact-check justification: Clinton said "the state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont." Clinton’s specific statistical computation is accurate. But beyond the numbers, Clinton’s  is  for a varied number of reasons. From a policy perspective, experts say raw numbers of gun flows are likely a better measure. And while the ATF data set is the best we have, Clinton’s bold comment glosses over some important caveats about the data, including whether the guns it captures are representative and whether they line up with "trafficking." These caveats call into question whether Vermont’s gun policies are having the effect Clinton suggests. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details and context, so we rate it .
Statement: Video shows Kenya's president saying he will "get rid of U.S. dollar.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 27, 2023
Topics: economy;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Ruto said, "Dollar availability in the next couple of weeks is going to be very different because our fuel companies will now be paying for fuel in Kenya shillings. They do not have to look for dollars every month because we have done what we must do as government to ensure we ease the burden on people who want to realize their returns in dollars." So, Ruto wasn’t saying that dollars would become worthless because he was getting rid of them. He was saying that the surge in demand for dollars would wane because of the plan to buy fuel with shillings , freeing more U.S. dollars for circulation.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says extras are needed to portray aliens in a Star Wars movie being shot near Rosenberg, Texas.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 27, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: after the fact;fake news
Context: a web post flagged by Facebook
Fact-check justification: A web post said extras are being sought to participate in a new Star Wars movie being shot near Rosenberg, Texas. There’s no  for this  anywhere including on wbn12.com, which counsels that none of its content "should be considered ." Fair enough. We rate this -news statement .  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: This video shows a cartel member in Mexico carrying a Javelin that the U.S. sent to Ukraine.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: June 6, 2023
Location: national
Topics: ukraine
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video claimed to show a cartel member in Mexico carrying a Javelin that the U.S. sent to Ukraine. We found no  that a Mexican cartel obtained U.S. weapons destined for Ukraine. Experts told PolitiFact that the man in the video is carrying what appears to be an AT4 weapon, not a Javelin.   We rate this  . Read this fact-check in Spanish .
Statement: Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker: frank lautenberg
About the speaker: Frank Lautenberg is a Democratic senator representing New Jersey.
Date: July 30, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: guns
Context: an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
Fact-check justification: Lautenberg said, "guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan," claiming that "more than 6,500 American soldiers" died while "guns have been used to murder about 100,000 people on American soil." Though Lautenberg’s numbers are mainly on target, three experts agreed that the senator’s statement is flawed largely because he uses raw numbers to compare two very different populations. Also, Lautenberg focuses solely on deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, when many more have died in both wars. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Goodyear Tires "announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS…This is what the Radical Left Democrats do.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: August 19, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;transportation
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said Goodyear "announced a ban on MAGA hats" and said that "this is what the Radical Left Democrats do." This distorts Goodyear’s dress code and makes it sound as though the company singled out Trump campaign messaging. Goodyear has not announced a ban only on hats that display the Trump campaign’s MAGA slogan. Rather, the company requires employees to refrain from any political expression that falls "outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues." Campaign paraphernalia supporting Trump challenger former Vice President Joe Biden is also off-limits by this measure.  We rate this statement .
Statement: Toomey and Trump will ban abortion and punish women who have them.
Speaker: naral pro-choice america
About the speaker: NARAL Pro-Choice America, formerly the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, is the country's oldest abortion rights advocacy group. It advocates for pro-choice rights on the issues of abortion, birth control, sex education and healthy pregnancies.
Date: September 28, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: abortion
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: None of the citations showed Toomey saying or implying he believes women who have abortions should be legally punished. Our Ruling In an attack ad, NARAL Pro-Choice America said, "Toomey and Trump will ban abortion and punish women who have them." Even if Toomey and Trump could themselves ban abortion and punish women who have them, Toomey has never said he’d support punishing women who have abortions. Trump said he’d support such a measure, but walked back that stance hours after saying it. We rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/525a11ea-916b-474f-b872-a15c52b04277
Statement: What Republicans call the "death tax" is the estate tax "on the ultra wealthy" which, in 2016, was paid by only "two out of every 1,000 people.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: October 18, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;wealth;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Pocan says that what Republicans call the "death tax" is the estate tax "on the ultra wealthy" which, in 2016, was paid by only "two out of every 1,000 people." Republicans who are proposing to eliminate the estate tax do use the "death tax" term. In 2016, the tax, generally 40 percent, applied only to estates worth $5.45 million or more. After deductions, the tax was paid by only about two out of every 1,000 people who died. We rate the statement .
Statement: In 2010, (Wisconsin Republicans) inherited a multi-Billion dollar deficit … Today we are looking at a projected surplus approaching 7 Billion.
Speaker: devin lemahieu
About the speaker: Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, has served in the Wisconsin State Senate since 2015, representing District 9. He was named senate majority leader in November 2020.
Date: January 3, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: deficit;economy;state budget
Context: Senate address
Fact-check justification: In a Senate address , LeMahieu claimed: "In 2010, (Wisconsin Republicans) inherited a multi-billion dollar deficit. ... Today we are looking at a projected surplus approaching 7 billion."  He is right on the numbers, but in skipping past the role federal aid played in keeping state and local budgets afloat during the height of the pandemic, he’s ignoring important information. Our definition of  is "the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. That fits here.
Statement: The state GOP ticket "says their top priority is a career-long mission to outlaw abortion in all cases and ban some common forms of birth control.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: June 12, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe claimed the GOP ticket "says their top priority is a career-long mission to outlaw abortion in all cases and ban some common forms of birth control." A compelling argument can be made that members of the GOP ticket will do everything possible to restrict abortions and those actions could ban certain types of birth control. But McAuliffe went an extra step and put words in the mouths of his opponents. We rate McAuliffe’s statement .
Statement: Says opponent Mary Burke told reporters she would have "required workers to give up bargained-for healthcare and retirement benefits like Gov. Walker.
Speaker: brett hulsey
About the speaker: Democrat Brett Hulsey of Madison, the owner of an energy and environmental consulting firm, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2010. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 Democratic primary for governor.
Date: May 21, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget;workers
Context: a letter
Fact-check justification: Our rating Hulsey claimed Burke told Journal Sentinel reporters and editors that she "would have required workers to give up bargained-for healthcare and retirement benefits like Gov. Walker." There’s an element of  here in that Burke did say she backed benefits cuts in the same areas as Walker got, and was confident she could have achieved them. But Hulsey’s phrasing makes it sound like Burke backs Walker’s approach. That’s a huge stretch given that she would have left collective bargaining intact and tried to negotiate the cost-cutting moves. We rate his  .
Statement: Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: July 29, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: jobs;women
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: Crist said, "Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes." The figure came from a think tank using 2011 Census annual median wage data, and was bumped up a penny to 84 cents for 2012 in its latest statement on the issue. While there are other ways to evaluate the difference between what each gender earns, with several reasons why that’s the case, the Census numbers are one widely accepted measure. We rate the  .
Statement: Barack Obama's health care plan is "to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: October 2, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: St. Louis
Fact-check justification: Obama has said he would like it to be universal, in that everyone has health care coverage. So Palin is   about Obama's plan having a mandate; it only has one for children. He would like it to be universal at some point. She also emphasized that Obama proposes government-run health care, a statement that is completely . Taking all that together, we rate her statement .
Statement: Georgia residents file the most insurance claims for lightning strikes in the country.
Speaker: state farm insurance
About the speaker: major insurer
Date: June 5, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: weather
Context: televised story
Fact-check justification: State Farm says Georgia residents file the most claims for lightning strikes in the country. There’s  this has been the case last year and the two previous years. We rate the statement as .
Statement: McDonald's added xylitol to its ice cream which is toxic to dogs.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 13, 2022
Topics: animals;food;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "These claims are ," the company said in an email to PolitiFact. "Our soft serve, found in our cones and other desserts, does not contain xylitol." This doesn’t mean that regularly giving your dog ice cream is a good idea, however. Pet companies and veterinarians warn that too much can make dogs sick, and some ice cream companies do include toxic ingredients, like xylitol.   Even so, it’s not in McDonald’s ice cream, so we rate this Facebook post .
Statement: A poll worker in Erie County, Pa., threw out over 100 ballots for Donald Trump.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: November 3, 2020
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Overall, the  that an Erie County poll worker threw out over 100 ballots for Trump is based on an Instagram story from a person unaffiliated with the county. It has since been debunked. We rate the  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Says Robert E. Lee opposed slavery and secession and has come to symbolize both slavery and secession.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 26, 2019
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says Robert E. Lee opposed both secession and slavery. It’s accurate that Lee publicly opposed secession and wished for the country to remain intact. However, citing loyalty to his home state of Virginia, he assumed the command of the Confederate Army, which fought in favor of secession and in the defense of slavery.  Lee made statements at the end of the war that he was eager to do away with the institution of slavery. But his actions as a slave owner and his political positions contradict the  that he opposed it. We rate this .
Statement: By the end of Governor Rick Perry's term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion he has been living in while the historic Governor's Mansion is repaired.
Speaker: bill white
About the speaker: Bill White, an author, is a San Antonio native who was mayor of Houston from 2004-2009. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor of Texas.
Date: April 13, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: elections;state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: However, $197,000 has been spent on utilities and other items, such as preparing the rental residence for the governor, according to the Texas Facilities Commission and State Preservation Board. While we don't have an exact comparison of the ancillary costs of living at the Governor's Mansion, we know that in 2007 -- the last year that Perry lived there -- those bills, including for grounds work and utilities, totaled more than $330,000. (Kay Molina, assistant executive director of the Facilities Commission, said high maintenance costs that year reflected the fact that the mansion needed to be renovated.) Regardless, White nails the expected rent costs for the Perrys to reside in suburban Austin. We rate White's statement as .
Statement: COVID-19 vaccines are creating the coronavirus variants.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 19, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a video on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A video on Facebook shows French virologist Luc Montagnier claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines create the variants. The COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the spread of the virus, decreasing the likelihood that it will mutate and create new variants. Several coronavirus variants emerged before the vaccines were rolled out in late 2020. Slow vaccine uptake can cause more variants, since the virus continually looks to evolve and escape any immunity — natural or vaccine-induced. Public health experts say this doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t get vaccinated, but just the opposite, as faster uptake slows this from happening and will leave people better protected from the virus in the process. We rate this . RELATED: No, French virologist Luc Montagnier didn’t say COVID-19 vaccine recipients were going to die soon