Saturday, February 28th, 2015
The Daily Show posted a Vine Wednesday titled, "50 Fox News lies in 6 seconds."
The Daily Show posted a Vine Wednesday titled, "50 Fox News lies in 6 seconds."

The fact-checks behind 'The Daily Show's' 50 Fox news 'lies'

The Daily Show posted a Vine Wednesday titled, "50 Fox News lies in 6 seconds." PunditFact and PolitiFact have fact-checked almost all of the statements they cited. See them all here.

The Latest from PolitiFact

Support network neutrality on the Internet

Update: FCC approves Obama's net neutrality proposal
Half-True

When it comes to praise, once is not often

David Corn
David Corn

Says he "often" appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and "often was praised" by Bill O'Reilly.

— PunditFact

True

And from Germany, Canada, Australia

American Crossroads
American Crossroads

"The Clintons' foundation took millions from foreign governments" including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Half-True

Record is mixed

Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster

Says she has opposed measures to weaken the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulatory bill and campaign-finance legislation when they were offered as stand-alone bills.

— PolitiFact New Hampshire

Half-True

Fees, not taxes, and some are modest

Mike Lee
Mike Lee

The FCC’s net neutrality policy includes what is "essentially a massive tax increase."  

Mostly False

Some anti-pot votes but not to jail the dying

Drug Policy Alliance
Drug Policy Alliance

Says Debbie Wasserman Schultz "voted repeatedly to send terminally ill patients to prison."

— PolitiFact Florida

True

A genuine irony

Michael Morell
Michael Morell

The potential Iran nuclear agreement would limit Iran to the number of centrifuges needed for a weapon but too few for a nuclear power program.

— PunditFact

Pants on Fire!

Wrinkly wrong

Facebook posts
Facebook posts

Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: ‘Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It’s time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.’

— PolitiFact Texas

Half-True

More in theory than in practice, at least so far

Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg

Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy "have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act."

— PunditFact

Mostly False

A rug art project, yes, but no proof of praying

Bloggers
Bloggers

"Students In Fla. High School Forced To Recite Islamic Prayer, Make Prayer Rugs."

— PolitiFact Florida

Mostly True

Have you heard of Seychelles?

John Legend
John Legend

"We live in the most incarcerated country in the world."

— PunditFact

False

Claim is exceptionally wrong

Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani

Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."

— PunditFact

Mostly True

Maybe 15 times

Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott

"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"

— PolitiFact Texas

True

But the state prison population increased

Eric Holder
Eric Holder

Last year, "we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years."

True

Kids eat the darndest things

Karina Wood
Karina Wood

Cigarette butts "poison babies and small children because of the nicotine in them."

— PolitiFact Rhode Island

Half-True

Trends began before Bush II

Scott Surovell
Scott Surovell

"When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (President George W.) Bush’s administration."

— PolitiFact Virginia

Mostly False

Most studies disagree

George Nee
George Nee

Rhode Island "is one of the worst states" for income equality.

— PolitiFact Rhode Island

False

A whopper from McDonald

Robert McDonald
Robert McDonald

"Nine hundred people have been fired since I became secretary (of Veterans Affairs). We’ve got 60 people that we fired who have manipulated wait times."

Half-True

Figure is credible but not unassailable

Marjorie Sanfilippo
Marjorie Sanfilippo

"200,000 students attempt suicide every year on college campuses."

— PolitiFact Florida

Half-True

Cherry-picking time

Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott

"Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois."

— PolitiFact Texas