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Barack Obama stated on July 21, 2015 in an interview with Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show":

"The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office."

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2015

Gary Johnson stated on June 5, 2012 in an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart":

"Right now, I’m polling at about 8 percent" against Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2012

Jon Stewart stated on December 6, 2011 in a segment of "The Daily Show":

"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.'"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 9, 2011

Nancy Pelosi stated on November 9, 2011 in an interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show":

In April 2009 "the Democrats were in control, and the congressional (approval) rating was 40 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2011

Jon Stewart stated on June 19, 2011 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."

By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2011

Barack Obama stated on October 27, 2010 in an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":

The health care bill "cuts the deficit by over $1 trillion dollars."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • October 28, 2010

Eric Cantor stated on October 12, 2010 in an interview on Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

In the past two years, Democrats have "spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined."

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2010

Jon Stewart stated on July 21, 2015 in an interview on "The Daily Show":

The United States is "fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS along with Iran. But in Yemen we're fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis."

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 23, 2015

Jon Stewart stated on March 11, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014

Jon Stewart stated on March 11, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014

Jon Stewart stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":

Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2013

Corey Stewart stated on April 11, 2012 in a TV interview.:

Prince William County "has cut violent crime in half" since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration.

By Sean Gorman • May 25, 2012

Jon Stewart stated on February 3, 2010 in an interview with Bill O'Reilly:

One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.

By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010

Jon Stewart stated on July 16, 2024 in TV appearance:

Milwaukee's Marcus Performing Arts Center – where 'The Daily Show' had been scheduled – “was originally located in the ‘soft perimeter,’ they called it, security-wise” but “was shifted, understandably so, to the ‘hard perimeter.’”

By Madeline Heim • July 17, 2024

Donald Trump stated on March 6, 2018 in a tweet:

The 2018 Academy Awards show was the "lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY."

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018

Wawa Welcome America stated on April 13, 2017 in in a press release:

"The Wawa Welcome America festival (features) . . . America's largest free concert."

By Jordan Gunselman • April 21, 2017

Barack Obama stated on July 21, 2015 in an online interview with "The Daily Show":

Since 2009, "we've cut homelessness (among veterans) by a third."

By Kirby Wilson • July 28, 2015

Carlos Curbelo stated on July 10, 2015 in a radio interview:

Says Bill and Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trump's last wedding.

By Joshua Gillin • July 21, 2015

Aziz Ansari stated on June 16, 2015 in comments on "The Daily Show":

"46 percent of women between the age of 16 to 24 despise sexual contact" in Japan.

By Katie Sanders • June 23, 2015

Bill Clinton stated on June 17, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

"Between 2010 and 2014, there was no net in-migration from Mexico."

By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2015

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Articles (58)

Why we fact-checked Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, and 11 reasons we’re sad to see him go

By Aaron Sharockman • August 6, 2015

Is Jon Stewart right that Congress often worked on Christmas?

By Bill Adair • December 9, 2011

President Obama on Jon Stewart’s ‘The Daily Show’

By Katie Sanders • July 28, 2015

Sorting out the facts in Jon Stewart’s last interview with Barack Obama

By Katie Sanders • July 28, 2015

Jon Stewart’s epic rundown of PolitiFact’s fact-checks of Fox News

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 11, 2015

Jon Stewart, Fox News & PolitiFact

By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2011

Jon Stewart’s PolitiFact segment: The annotated edition

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2011

Readers say we were uninformed about Jon Stewart’s claim

By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2011

Jon Stewart: “What has you, governor, fed up?”

November 9, 2010

Fact-checking O’Reilly’s interview of Jon Stewart

By Catharine Richert, Robert Farley • February 10, 2010

Fact-checking Jon Ossoff and Mike Collins in Georgia’s first Senate debate

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Briceño • October 9, 2026

Joni Ernst’s bread bags: Iowans give us their take

By Lauren Carroll • January 22, 2015

Napolitano, Stewart debate the Civil War

By Jon Greenberg • March 19, 2014

Mailbag: Readers react to Mar-a-Lago reports, Biden promises

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 16, 2022

Happy birthday, PolitiFact! PolitiFact turns 8

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2015

A stat about sex that might shock you

By Katie Sanders • June 24, 2015

What do baby names say about a shift in American politics?

By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2013

Pre-abortion ultrasounds in Texas

By W. Gardner Selby • March 6, 2012

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By Bill Adair • February 24, 2012

PolitiFact turns 4!

By Bill Adair • August 19, 2011