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Statement: Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.
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 23, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The McCain campaign responded to the Obama ad by pointing out that the Obama campaign rents office space from Accenture, which is based in Bermuda. The Chicago Sun-Times reported in 2007 that the Obama campaign was leasing the 11th floor of an office tower for its headquarters from Accenture. The company is based in Bermuda. The ad states that McCain got $50,000 from people connected to Bermuda-based companies, and we find this accurately portrays the contributions received. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Says "Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Speaker: raymond bateman
About the speaker: Raymond Bateman, a Republican, served in the New Jersey Assembly from 1958 to 1968, and then in the State Senate until 1978. Bateman ran for governor in 1977, but lost to Gov. Brendan Byrne.
Date: April 9, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: history
Context: an opinion piece on DailyRecord.com
Fact-check justification: In an April 9 opinion piece, Bateman claimed "Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line." But historical records and experts confirmed that the Mason-Dixon Line never entered New Jersey. The boundary was first established in the 1760s to settle a border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: February 14, 2016
Location: national
Topics: abortion;supreme court
Context: on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Cruz said of Trump, "The one person he has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge." Cruz’s  is . Yes, Trump said his sister would make a good Supreme Court justice. But he said he wouldn’t appoint her, and he has named two other potential nominees. And yes, Clinton elevated Trump’s sister to the appeals court. But Cruz leaves out that Reagan appointed her to the federal bench in the first place. Trump’s sister did join in ruling a New Jersey ban on partial-birth abortions unconstitutional. It’s worth noting that Justice Alito — hardly a "hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge" — joined in that opinion. Cruz twisted and left out facts to make a faulty  about Trump’s views on the Supreme Court. We rate Cruz’s  .
Statement: The seasonal cold and flu is actually more dangerous for kids than the Coronavirus" and "there is very low transmissibility from children to their families and communities.
Speaker: tom tiffany
About the speaker: In 2004 and 2008, Tom Tiffany ran for the 12th State Senate District, first against Senator Roger Breske, and then Jim Holperin losing both times in very close elections. In 2010, he ran for the Wisconsin State Assembly after the position was vacated by retiring incumbent, Representative Donald Friske. Tiffany won the primary, and later defeated Democrat Jay Schmelling 58.09% - 41.81%.
In 2012 Tiffany chose not to seek re-election to the State Assembly and to seek election to the State Senate after Holperin announced he would not run for reelection. He defeated Democrat Susan Sommer, 56% - 40%, in the general election on November 6, 2012. Tiffany succeeded fellow Republican Sean Duffy in Congress, winning a special election against Democrat Tricia Zunker in 2020.
Date: August 8, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;public health;coronavirus
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Tiffany claimed "The seasonal cold and flu is actually more dangerous for kids than the Coronavirus" and "there is very low transmissibility between from children to their families and communities." The first part of the  uses outdated information, and the situation is now the opposite of what Tiffany said. Meanwhile, though the level of transmissibility from schools to families and the community may generally be low, the situation is more complicated than presented. Much depends on the level of spread in the community, how many adults are vaccinated and what mitigation measures are in place. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Amendment 1 protects Florida seniors from scams and rip-offs.
Speaker: consumers for smart solar
About the speaker: Consumers for Smart Solar is a utilities-backed advocacy group promoting Amendment 1, the "Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice" ballot measure. 
Date: October 19, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: energy;florida amendments
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: Consumers for Smart Solar said, "Amendment 1 protects Florida seniors from scams and rip-offs." The amendment’s wording doesn’t mention seniors specifically, it only lets current consumer protection laws stand. That means the measure doesn’t preclude any protections, but it also doesn’t provide any. If there were no amendment at all, the effect on consumer laws and regulations would be the same. This talking point may lead many voters, especially seniors, to think the amendment somehow offers new safeguards for solar customers, but it doesn’t. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, "It's better for our budget if cancer patients die more quickly.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 16, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The back-and-forth illustrated that Price does want to draw back access to Medicaid. The  comments in the made-up story, however, echo a real accusation made in 2009 by former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, during debate on the Affordable Care Act. Grayson admonished GOP opposition to the bill by saying on the House floor that "If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly." But Price did not use the words Politicops.com attributed to him by saying the budget would benefit more from cancer patients who gave up and died. We rate the statement !
Statement: Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.
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: December 2, 2007
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: "The overall thematic attack that he is out there saying that he is somehow different from someone else in the field, that he is somehow propelled into this race … I think that's absolutely fair game for the Clinton camp to go after," said Dunn, a Democratic strategist not aligned with a candidate, but who worked as a consultant to Obama's Hopefund PAC for six months in 2006. "On the other hand, were they wise in the example they used?" It does appear that Obama expressed ambition for the office of president many years ago. We wish we had a ruling category called ", but ." We don't, so we're left with .
Statement: Says George Floyd has "hair in one shot but is bald in the shots of him laying on the ground.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 15, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Around the 2:20-minute mark, Floyd can be seen from above as he sits handcuffed against a wall. As he moves, his head looks different at different angles.   This blog post misleads readers to think Floyd’s death was staged. Video footage, witnesses, and autopsy reports prove otherwise. We rate this post .
Statement: Photos show a photojournalist crying while capturing pictures of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
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: May 10, 2021
Topics: israel;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The tweet includes an emoji of Qatar’s flag. Iraq played Qatar in the Round 16 of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and lost 0-1 . The verified Twitter account of Sports360 Arabiya tweeted the same image that day. The caption, translated by Google from Arabic to English, says: "An Iraqi photographer cries while performing his work as he watches his country’s national team exit from the Asian Cup." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton said, "This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half of a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.
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 14, 2019
Topics: environment;candidate biography;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: On Feb. 9, 1999, when she was the first lady, she gave a speech about Cairo at The Hague. Among other things, she discussed reproductive health care and family planning. "The world agreed — for the first time — that smaller families and slower population growth are created by choice and opportunity, not control and coercion," she said. More recently, Bindi Irwin, the daughter of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, criticized a State Department e-journal in 2013 for revising an essay she wrote and omitting Irwin’s opinion that the growing population poses the greatest risk to conservation. As for the made-up quote in the Facebook post, we rate it .
Statement: Says an image shows the Highland Park shooting suspect "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting.
Speaker: marjorie taylor greene
About the speaker: Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Republican representative from Georgia.
Date: July 5, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: national;crime;facebook fact-checks;illinois;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: PolitiFact could not pinpoint where the image originated, but we found the same image posted on several since-suspended Twitter accounts that appear to have been affiliated with Crimo or the stage name he adopted as an amateur rapper, "Awake the Rapper." A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the company suspended accounts that "may belong to the alleged perpetrator," per its rules around perpetrators of violent attacks.   Shortly after sharing the image for the second time to her nearly 1 million Twitter followers,  Greene retweeted it again and said , "This is supposedly photoshopped. "  Greene’s office did not respond to a request for comment.   We rate Greene’s  that the image shows Crimo "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting .
Statement: There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States.
Speaker: katty kay
About the speaker: Katty Kay is an anchor for BBC World News America.
Date: February 8, 2015
Topics: health care;public health;punditfact
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Kay said, "There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States." We found ample  to back up her point, with several African countries boasting better vaccination rates than the United States. Mauritius, Tanzania and Morocco have nearly complete vaccination of 1-year-olds, according to World Health Organization data. We rate her  .
Statement: In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time.
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: June 6, 2019
Topics: fake news;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That site also states that the photo was taken on July 31 that year during a pie eating contest at Tidal Basin Bathing Beach . We couldn’t find any credible reports of suffragettes eating pizza to annoy men — though the  has appeared on Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest, among other websites — and definitely not in 1921. By then, women had secured voting rights. The 19th Amendment , which guaranteed all American women could cast a ballot, was ratified in 1920. We rate this Facebook post as .
Statement: AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice.
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: October 9, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Cincinnati, Ohio
Fact-check justification: Obama's comments suggest a misunderstanding of the details behind AIG’s collapse, or a deliberate effort to skip over the realities of AIG's corporate structure in order to make a good point. Also, Obama slams AIG for two junkets at a time when the company had only held one. AIG might have had a tin ear when it came to organizing corporate events. But Obama’s  to lay blame for the financial meltdown on a highly regulated, profitable part of the business that sells life insurance. We rule the  .
Statement: The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign … actually spied on the president of the United States.
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: February 15, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;legal issues
Context: a statement to reporters
Fact-check justification: Scott said "the latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign … actually spied on the president of the United States." The filing from Durham is more tentative than Scott presents. It states that an attorney for an internet company that was collecting data related to White House communications from 2016 to early 2017 also served as an attorney for the Clinton campaign. It doesn’t say that the Clinton campaign directed these activities. And it does not assert that the data was gathered illegally or that it was collected while Trump was president. We rate this  .
Statement: The Biden White House has "no one there. They don't travel. They don't go down to the border. They don't go overseas.
Speaker: eric trump
About the speaker: Eric Trump is the second son of President Donald Trump and his former wife Ivana Trump. He is the executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
Date: May 18, 2021
Location: national
Context: a Fox News appearance
Fact-check justification: Eric Trump said of the Biden White House, "There’s no one there. They don’t travel. They don't go down to the border. They don't go overseas." That’s  on every point. The coronavirus has kept some White House staff working away from the White House grounds, but it’s not  that "there’s no one there." Biden has made several trips, including a visit to Michigan the day Trump made his . Other members of Biden’s White House and Cabinet have traveled to the border and overseas. We rate this  !
Statement: Clayton County Public Schools recently achieved a milestone that has eluded other
metropolitan districts across the state" by meeting federal guidelines for having a highly qualified staff.
Speaker: clayton county schools
About the speaker: The Clayton County school district, which has about 51,000 students, is located just south of Atlanta city limits.
Date: July 26, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Waller said he was aware that there have been other districts that have met the guidelines. "It was not intended to imply no one else has done this," he said. Clayton did meet the 100 percent threshold for this school year, as the press release said. There are other metro districts that have come very, very close, but have not reached that mark yet. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that President Obama said in 2008 that his proposed greenhouse gas regulations "will bankrupt" anyone who wants to build a new coal-fired power plant.
Speaker: ohio coal association
About the speaker: The Ohio Coal Association is a trade association that represents the interests of Ohio’s coal industry.
Date: March 1, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;cap and trade;climate change
Context: testimony to a House subcommittee
Fact-check justification: Candidate Obama’s methods were to be more aggressive. In fact, the EPA has shown some flexibility, agreeing to phase in carbon restrictions on new or expanded plants based on their size. The agency also announced on the same day as Carey testified that it will delay its deadlines for businesses that must report their emissions . Carey quoted Obama accurately but not fully, and the regulations and methods that Obama’s EPA wants -- backed by a U.S. Supreme Court decision saying the agency has to regulate greenhouse gas emissions -- are not the same as the candidate proposed. The quote is right, but given the need for clarification or additional information, we rate Carey’s statement as .
Statement: ESPN soccer analyst Shaka Hislop collapsed on air because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: July 24, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "  "I got mine months ago, and I feel so much better for it," Hislop said. Looking for news reports or other credible sources connecting this vaccination to his recent collapse, we found only speculation.   That’s not enough to support such a dramatic . If  does emerge linking what happened to Hislop on July 23 and his COVID-19 shots, we’ll reconsider this ruling.   For now, it’s .
Statement: John McCain "said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president.
Speaker: james dobson
About the speaker: James Dobson is an evangelical leader who founded the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family.
Date: February 5, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a statement read on the <i>Laura Ingraham Show </i>
Fact-check justification: Russert: "We may have a fusion ticket right here." McCain: "Thanks for doing that to us. Thanks for doing that to us, Tim." No spin in that exchange. We judge Dobson's statement to be .
Statement: British Intelligence Seizes Clinton Foundation Warehouse, $400 Million In Cash.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 14, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: posts on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The source of that ? The Last Line of Defense. Social media posts linked to an article headlined, "British Intelligence Seizes Clinton Foundation Warehouse, $400 Million In Cash." But that never happened -- the tall tale originated with a self-described satirical post. We rate it .
Statement: Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average.
Speaker: gina raimondo
About the speaker: Gina Raimondo served a four-year term as Rhode Island's general treasurer beginning in Jan. 4, 2011 before being elected governor in 2014. She cofounded and served as a general partner of Point Judith Capital. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and a Rhodes Scholar. She is married with two children.
Date: March 13, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;federal budget;health care;medicaid;poverty;public health;regulation;state budget;states;taxes
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Raimondo said, "Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee [Medicaid] cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average." But in making her statement on one of the central elements in her proposed budget, Raimondo didn’t note that the numbers were from the 2011 year. Granted, those are the most recent statistics available, according to Kaiser. But a lot can happen in four years. Because the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rule it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)