Statements that are LIES and the people that made them

Statements that are LIES 

Information from

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/rulings/pants-fire/

There was no runnerup

Facebook posts

The runnerup to Caitlyn Jenner for ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award was "Army veteran Noah Galloway, who lost an arm and leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq."

Making a mess of the immigration reality

Ann Coulter

"America has already taken in one-fourth of Mexico's entire population."  

This claim is KO'd

Jim Lampley

The projected revenue from the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight is "larger than the annual GDP of 29 different countries."

A fabrication

Nation of Islam Research Group

Says Baltimore police are "trained by Mossad and Shin Bet."

Based on a debunked claim

George Will

Says President Ronald Reagan "had a month of job creation of 1 million."  

Wrong last year, wrong today

Dana Perino

On climate change, "the temperature readings have been fabricated, and it's all blowing up in their (scientists') faces."

A reckless distortion

Urban Intellectuals

"Sheriffs Call For Obama’s Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators"

Indicates a high fever

Rush Limbaugh

The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."

A minister wrote this 50 years after Lincoln died

John Kasich

"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it."  

Emerson blames sloppy research

Steven Emerson

"There are actual cities" like Birmingham, England, "that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in."

Satire website strikes again

NaHa Daily

"Fox News airs Stuart Scott R.I.P. tribute with picture of Stephen A. Smith."

An outlandish distortion

Rudy Giuliani

Says President Barack Obama has said "that everybody should hate the police."

Even key critics of fluoridation run from this claim

Jesse Ventura

"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"

Oddly specific, unrealistic number

Thom Hartmann

"The Kochs stand to make around $100 billion if the government approves the Keystone XL pipeline."

At least they didn't confuse her with Loretta Lynn

Breitbart

Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe."

Maybe when Trump travels, but not Obama

Donald Trump

Says President Barack Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip "cost between $25 million and $50 million."

Truth is the best disinfectant for this rumor

Morgan Brittany

"According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola."

The distortion here is what Huber claims Feeding America said

William Benson Huber

The non-profit group Feeding America is lying when it claims "that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily" in the United States.    

20 years later, still no

Mika Brzezinski

"Super Bowl Sunday has the highest rate of domestic violence."

An old claim, recycled

Facebook posts

A flight from Atlanta to Houston was canceled due to a "terrorist dry run."  

A wild, outdated claim

Facebook posts

"McDonald’s hamburgers are only 15 percent ‘real beef.’ The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer."

'Operation Hornet's Nest' is a conspiracy rabbit hole

Bloggers

Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.  

Deceptive, also wrong

Tucker Carlson

"Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns."

Not the chief's wife

Tweets

The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."  

Not a New World Order plot

Bloggers

Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.

A claim inoculated against facts

Bloggers

President Barack Obama’s latest executive order "mandates the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ "

A stat pulled out of thin air

Oxfam Ireland

Women "own just 1 percent of the world’s land."

That'd be a pretty awesome power, if it actually existed

Katie Pavlich

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes."

Then delivers conspiracy theory

Peter Lavelle

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I never allow conspiracy theorists on my program."

'A profound mischaracterization of human nature'

Bryan Fischer

"We know how to stop AIDS: persuade men not to have sex with men."

Red card time

Bloggers

"North Korea is telling its people that their men’s national team is in the World Cup final."

An old myth that keeps circulating

Facebook posts

Fox News is "banned in Canada" because it violates a law that "prevents ‘news’ channels from lying to their viewers."  

A wrong stat made even more wrong

Sean Spicer

"In the last three years alone, 13 times, the Supreme Court, unanimously, 9-0, including all of the president's liberal picks, have struck down the president's executive orders."

An influx of conspiracy theory

Rush Limbaugh

"Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border."

Update: The man behind the science Doocy quoted responds

Steve Doocy

"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming."

Uses a gruesome, and debunked, photo

Ted Nugent

Says a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is "one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free."

Uses a gruesome, and debunked, photo

Ted Nugent

Says a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is "one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free."

He was never president, she never said he was

Facebook posts

Says Michele Bachmann said on Fox News, "This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again."

Fundamentally different designs

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Obamacare is "one big fat VA system."

'M*A*S*H' star needs to triage this claim

Wayne Rogers

"There are over 200 documented cases where (Obama) has lied."

Update: Drudge deletes incorrect tweet about 29 hours later

Drudge Report

Says Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald "Sterling is a Democrat."  

He must be reading some other constitution

Andrew Napolitano

"The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states)."

The quote came from an adviser to Gov. Rick Scott

MSNBC

Says Charlie Crist's campaign bashed Sen. Bill Nelson's "big-government solutions."

Lots of bull here

Bloggers

The Bundy Ranch deal is all about Nevada Sen. Harry Reid "using federal violence to take people’s land in his state so he can package it to re-sell it to the Chinese."

She said what?

Facebook posts

Says Rep. Michele Bachmann said President Barack Obama might be to blame for the Fort Hood shootings.

Debunked in moments, but lives on for Drudge

Drudge Report

"Reporters rehearse questions with White House press (secretary)."

Listen more closely

Facebook posts

President Barack Obama spent "$5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their democratically elected government."

Time to review your notes, judge

Andrew Napolitano

Says President Abraham Lincoln "tried to arm the slaves."

He must be deep undercover

Ted Nugent

"I've been a cop in Lake County, Michigan, since 1982 thereabout. I conduct federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers."  

Or how a misreading of a poll can take over the Internet

Bloggers

A YouGov.com poll shows 71 percent of Obama voters regret voting for him.

Taken days earlier

Tweets

A photo from the Russia-Finland hockey game shows a sad Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

Blue Shield of Calif. still around

Ann Coulter

A friend’s sister "died from Obamacare" because Blue Shield "completely just pulled out of California."

No secret tea tax increase

Andrea Tantaros

During the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, "some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea."

We've got some fire to keep you warm

Rush Limbaugh

Says the media created the term "polar vortex" and the cold air proves "the ice isn’t melting."

Unless you listen to the founders

Bryan Fischer

"By the word religion in the First Amendment, the founders meant Christianity."

A thesis shot full of holes

Allen West

"Back door gun control is in full effect in the United States" due to "Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency."

This claim flatlines

Glenn Beck

Says Barack Obama "knew half of the population of the United States would lose their health insurance."

Our experts say: "outrageous," "ridiculous," "ludicrous"

Ann Coulter

"No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare."

A weird formulation that's also wrong on its own terms

Mike Huckabee

"America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S."

Mandate opposite of what Maddow claims

Rachel Maddow

Says Ohio budget item later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a  "mandatory vaginal probe."

Try 74 miles

John DePetro

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried "not far" from President Kennedy’s grave.

'Ridiculous,' Bane creator says

Rush Limbaugh

Says it's not "accidental" that the villain in the Batman movie is named Bane.

Not even biggest in U.S. history

Rush Limbaugh

"Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world."

Scores of permits granted

Mike Huckabee

President Obama's refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring.

Waaaay out of bounds

John DePetro

"[The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines."

Burned by the "History" channel

Jon Stewart

"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"

Misinformed outrage

Glenn Beck

Says Michelle Obama has 43 people on her staff; Nancy Reagan had just 3.

Pesky things like facts won't mess up his good story

Glenn Beck

"This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasn’t taken any money from the government. They don’t want any money from the government."

Lincoln Memorial is open for biz - and rallies

Glenn Beck

"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."

Obama was the one who put him in charge of war in Afghanistan

Ed Schultz

With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama "has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration."

Writing a history thesis about socialism does not a Marxist make

Michael Savage

Elena Kagan is "a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through."

$1.8 million? More like $25,200

Ed Schultz

"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade."

Apparently, the research wasn't thorough enough

Bill O'Reilly

"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."

Obama isn't confiscating rods and reels

Rush Limbaugh

People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."

Pretending clarity while distorting

Nancy Pfotenhauer

The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."

No, there's no Pay Pal on White House site

Rush Limbaugh

There are "high administrative costs" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.

No public option for Bo

Glenn Beck

"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."

No media debunking? Helloooooo!

Organizing for America

Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.

Rush Limbaugh

"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."

No one's mandating circumcision, including Obama

Holdren never endorsed these ideas

Glenn Beck

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."

Investor's Business Daily

The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.

Misreading the legislation, then standing by it

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