Fact Checker Archive: 4 Pinocchios
Michele Bachmann's 'bombshell' on a 'hidden' $105 billion
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) claims the Obama administration hid $105 billion in spending in the health care bill. She must have lost her reading glasses.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 9, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Health, Michele Bachmann
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Four pinocchios for the American public on the budget
Americans show an appalling lack of knowledge about how their government spends their tax dollars.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 3, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Economy, issue context
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Haley Barbour's Medicaid fantasy
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour paints a picture of Medicaid recipients driving around in high-class German cars. We find it highly dubious.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 2, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Haley Barbour, Health
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Obama's 'Apology Tour'
GOP presidential candidates say that President Obama keeps apologizing for America and does not value American greatness. But the evidence is slim.
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Glenn Kessler
| February 22, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Other Foreign Policy, Tim Pawlenty
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Rumsfeld's flight of fancy on Iraq
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims that Saddam Hussein kicked out weapons inspectors for the "second or third or fourth time" before the Iraq invasion. He's not even close.
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Glenn Kessler
| February 9, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Iraq
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Bachmann on slavery and the national debt
Rep. Michele Bachmann has trouble with both history and her math in her evolving stump speech.
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Glenn Kessler
| January 28, 2011; 4:45 PM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Michele Bachmann
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