Tuesday, August 3, 2010

John Boehner caught lying

PolitiFact makes a great catch:

On the Aug. 1, 2010, edition of Fox News Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried to crystallize how bad the current job picture is. "This is the first time since the depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years," Boehner told host Chris Wallace.

We decided to check whether Boehner was right.

...any way you look at it, Boehner's statistic was wrong. We rate his statement False.