Pants on Fire
Politifact rates claims and allegations as being “Pants On Fire” lies when they are baseless and without merit. Below is a list of the “Pants On Fire” lies told by Republicans and Tea Party members about President Obama.
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Statements by the GOP and GOP SupportersThat Were Rated
Pants On Fire Lies
"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer"
John Hunstsman
"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any
Michele Bachmann
"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
Rick Perry
President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America."
Mitt Romney
"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."
Rick Perry
The Massachusetts health care plan "dealt with 8 percent of our population,"
far less than the "100 percent of American people" affected by
President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Mitt Romney
President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with
Michel Bachman
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help
with offshore drilling projects.
Rick Perry
"We're inches away from no longer having a free economy."
Mitt Romney
"Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."
Crossroads GPS
Next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your
Chain E-Mail
President Obama’s health care law "represents a government
Mitt Romney
"We’ve lost 26 million jobs … since (Obama’s) been president."
Reince Priebus, RNC Chairperson
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the
Obama administration since they came into office."
Michele Bachmann
"Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his
Rick Santorum
"Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million
jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
Tim Pawlenty
Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business.
They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."
Michele Bachmann
18% of the American Public – Pew Research Poll
Elena Kagan is "a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through."
Michael Savage
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."
Nancy Pfotenhauer
Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death
panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment
of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Sarah Palin
"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."
Chain E-Mail
"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."
Chain E-Mail
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop
churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays,
as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."
Newt Gingrich
"(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."
John McCain