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PM Show Hr 1 | Talarico Was Created in a Lab to Convince White Youths to Vote Democrat

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The Michael Berry ShowSep 23, 2026
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The Michael Berry ShowPM Show Hr 1 | Talarico Was Created in a Lab to Convince White Youths to Vote DemocratWhole episode, 31:43
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  1. 1Can’t tellTalarico was created in a lab to convince white youths to vote Democrat.The claim is a rhetorical characterization ('created in a lab') from a partisan podcast, not a checkable factual assertion. The post's title does say 'White Youths,' so the extraction matches the title, though the transcript instead names 'white conservative Christians' as the target. No source fact-checks the claim, and the Reason piece's 'grown in a lab' line is a metaphor in opinion writing.5 sources →

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  2. 2TrueRay Bryers owns a company called The Pipeyard Inc.Sources identify Ray Briers (spelled 'Bryers' in the claim) as President of The Pipe Yard, Incorporated, and a 2026 King Air Magazine profile describes Chris Prause as a minority owner of The Pipe Yard, which implies Ray holds the controlling ownership. No source states his ownership in explicit terms, and the sources are unrated or low-credibility, so confidence is moderate. The claim's 'Pipeyard Inc.' is a minor naming variant of 'The Pipe Yard, Incorporated'.3 sources →

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  3. 3MixedInsurance companies will pay for testosterone therapy if a patient's testosterone level is below 350.The claim that insurers will pay for testosterone therapy when levels are below 350 ng/dL is partly supported: sources say insurance coverage for TRT depends on a low-level threshold that some plans set at 350 ng/dL (lowtcenter.com), but most insurers and the FDA/Endocrine Society framework use 300 ng/dL, and coverage also requires symptoms, two morning labs, and prior authorization, so a 350 cutoff guaranteeing coverage is not established. The claim also departs slightly from the passage, which said 'very good chance' rather than a guarantee.8 sources →

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  4. 4TrueEnterprise Foundry pours ductile and gray iron castings up to 1,000 pounds.The claim matches the post's wording and is supported by the company's own website, which lists ductile and gray iron and no-bake parts up to 1,000 lbs, and by a Yahoo listing saying it pours castings up to 1,000 pounds. A 2025 trade directory gives a 0 to 2,500 lb casting size, which is a different figure, but the claim is graded on the primary and listing sources.4 sources →

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  5. 5TrueWillie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas.Multiple independent sources, including the Wittliff Collections (primary), PBS Ken Burns biography (tier2), and the Statesman (birth record explanation), state Willie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas. The claim's 'I believe' hedge and doubled word in the passage are casual phrasing, not a departure from the post's content.8 sources →

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  6. 6TrueWillie Nelson wrote the song Family Bible in 1957.Multiple independent sources (Stereogum/Legacy Recordings press material, Genius, American Songwriter, Wide Open Country citing KXRB) state Willie Nelson wrote 'Family Bible' in 1957, matching the claim; the claim's wording matches the passage's 'He wrote that song in 1957' with the referent resolved to Willie Nelson from the post itself.7 sources →

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  7. 7TruePresident Trump announced he would ban CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from White House grounds.Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (BBC, Politico, NYT via Inquirer, ABC, CNN, Reuters) confirm Trump announced on Truth Social on Sept 18, 2026 that he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, so the announcement claim holds as of 2026-09-23. The extraction's 'CNMS/Now' is a transcription of CNN/MS NOW, and the later court rulings and reinstatement orders do not change that the announcement was made.6 sources →

    ▶ 9:24

  8. 8TrueThe White House press shop was not given advance notice of President Trump's decision to ban certain media outlets from White House grounds.Multiple reliable outlets reported that White House press shop staff were blindsided by Trump's September 2026 ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico and learned of it only from his Truth Social post, which supports the claim as of 2026-09-23. The claim is faithful to the passage, and the ban itself was announced on September 18, 2026.4 sources →

    ▶ 9:36

  9. 9TrueSecret Service confiscated the press badges of CNN reporters.Multiple reliable sources report that Secret Service confiscated CNN reporters' press badges at the White House on September 19, 2026, before the September 23 post. The claim matches the passage's core assertion, and the later restoration of access does not change its status as of the posting date.7 sources →

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  10. 10Can’t tellThe Trump White House removed CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the White House press pool.The claim departs from the passage: the post says the White House removed "CNN and MSN" from the press pool and never mentions Politico, so the added Politico element is not the poster's claim. Sources do support that CNN was removed from the TV pool around September 21 (and that Politico was barred from Air Force One on October 5), but the verdict rests on the extraction-fidelity rule and the claim as posted is not gradable as stated.6 sources →

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  11. 11FalseBarack Obama previously removed Fox News from the White House press pool.The claim that Obama removed Fox News from the White House press pool is contradicted by fact-checkers. Snopes rated the claim that Obama banned Fox News from briefings Mostly False, and FactCheck.org and Yahoo report the Obama administration only briefly tried to exclude Fox from one pooled interview with Kenneth Feinberg, then backed down after other networks objected, and never excluded Fox from the daily network TV pool. The narrow kernel of truth is that single 2009 interview exclusion, which does not make the broader ban claim mixed.6 sources →

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  12. 12TrueIn 2009, David Axelrod served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama.Multiple sources, including PolitiFact (2009) describing David Axelrod as senior adviser to President Barack Obama, and the White House photo and biographical records, confirm he held the senior advisor role from January 20, 2009 onward, so the 2009 claim holds. The claim matches the passage's wording without added scope, and the 'first year of the Obama administration' framing is consistent with the sources.5 sources →

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  13. 13TrueIn 2009, David Axelrod appeared on ABC News to discuss whether Fox News qualified as a legitimate news organization.On October 18, 2009, David Axelrod appeared on ABC's "This Week" and discussed whether Fox News was a legitimate news organization, saying it was "not really a news station" and that its news programming was "pushing a point of view." The claim matches the record; the post's extraction is faithful and the exact date within 2009 is not in the claim.5 sources →

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  14. 14TrueIn 2013, the Obama administration secretly monitored Fox News reporter James Rosen and identified him as a criminal co-conspirator in an investigation regarding classified information.Multiple reliable sources confirm that the FBI's affidavit in a 2013-revealed search warrant described Fox News reporter James Rosen as a potential 'criminal co-conspirator' under an espionage law, and that the Justice Department secretly obtained his records and tracked his movements, though he was never charged. The monitoring itself dates to 2010 per FactCheck.org and CNN; 2013 is when it became public, so the 'in 2013' timing is a peripheral detail that is only partly accurate.7 sources →

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  15. 15TrueFox News reporter James Rosen obtained a scoop in 2009 reporting that North Korea would respond to sanctions with more nuclear tests.Multiple sources confirm that Fox News reporter James Rosen published a June 2009 story reporting that U.S. intelligence expected North Korea to answer a U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution with another nuclear test. The claim drops the post's remark that Rosen vowed to protect his source, but that is a faithful paraphrase and does not affect the core assertion.6 sources →

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  16. 16Can’t tellFox News has been a member of the White House press pool rotation since 1997.Tier-1 sources (Reuters, AP, BBC) confirm Fox News is one of the five networks in the White House TV pool rotation, but none gives the year Fox joined, and the only source that addresses entry says the exact year is not pinned down. The 1997 start date is therefore unconfirmed, and since the year is the claim's specific figure, the claim cannot be graded true. The extraction is faithful to the passage, which says Fox has belonged 'since 1997'.7 sources →

    ▶ 23:56

  17. 17TrueThe Obama administration attempted to exclude Fox News from a round-robin interview with executive pay czar Ken Feinberg.Multiple sources, including FactCheck.org and Snopes, confirm that in October 2009 the Obama administration (via Treasury and the White House) tried to make Ken Feinberg available to every pool member except Fox News; the attempt failed when the networks refused to proceed without Fox. The administration called it a miscommunication and denied a plot, but internal emails obtained by Judicial Watch show a deliberate effort.6 sources →

    ▶ 24:14

  18. 18TrueIn March 2021, Brian Stelter hosted a segment discussing whether Joe Biden should remove Fox News from the White House press pool.A 2026 transcript and multiple outlets quote a March 2021 CNN segment in which Stelter asked whether Fox News should be part of the White House press pool, framed as whether Biden should remove it. The sources are mostly partisan or unrated and trace back to one resurfaced clip, and the March 2021 date comes from the clip's posting rather than an independent record, so confidence is capped.6 sources →

    ▶ 24:54

  19. 19TrueTwitter and Facebook suspended the account of Donald Trump in early 2021.Multiple tier1 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC) confirm Twitter permanently suspended President Trump's account on January 8, 2021, and tier2/tier1 sources confirm Facebook suspended his accounts in early January 2021. The claim's extraction drops the 'sitting president... before he leaves office' framing from the post, but the core assertion about early 2021 suspensions by both platforms is supported; the post's 'just suspended' phrasing is a recent-tense detail that the sources date to Jan 6-8, 2021.6 sources →

    ▶ 27:35

  20. 20TrueDonald Trump was suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.The claim is supported: multiple sources report that Trump's Twitter account was suspended and permanently banned in January 2021, that Facebook and Instagram suspended his accounts for the same period, and that Snapchat permanently banned him in January 2021. The extracted claim faithfully drops the post's word 'even' and does not add anything the post doesn't say.5 sources →

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  21. 21TrueGoogle, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms.Multiple tier1 sources confirm that Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their app stores in January 2021, and that Amazon removed Parler from its web-hosting service, which took the platform offline. The claim's core is supported; the nuance is that Amazon's action was to its cloud hosting service rather than an app store, and the post's 'Parlor' is the same app.6 sources →

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  22. 22Can’t tellParler had 3 million followers.The claim departs from the passage: the post relays Rep. Devin Nunes saying he had 3 million followers on Parler, a personal following, not a platform-wide count. Sources record Nunes's figure but give no platform-level follower total of 3 million, and reported Parler user numbers are far higher.5 sources →

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  23. 23MixedCNN reporter Clarissa Ward filmed a staged rescue of a prisoner in a Syrian prison after the regime fell.The sources confirm Ward filmed a dramatic prisoner-release segment in a Damascus intelligence prison after Assad's fall, but CNN later said the freed man was apparently a former intelligence officer who gave a false identity, so the 'prisoner rescue' framing was wrong. None of the sources explicitly establishes that the scene was deliberately staged; that word comes from critics and social media, and the post's own wording is not evidence.7 sources →

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  24. 24MixedAmerican journalist Austin Tice has been held captive in Syria since 2012.Sources confirm Austin Tice was abducted in Syria in August 2012 and that the Syrian government held him, but they conflict on whether he remained in captivity. RSF (2026) found no tangible evidence he was still held after early 2013, and CNN (2025) reported a former general saying he was killed in 2013, while his family still believes he is alive. The post's extraction matches its passage, so the dispute is over the claim's 'held captive since 2012' continuing to the present.9 sources →

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  25. 25TrueCNN decided not to carry a speech by President Trump live because of his history of misleading and false statements regarding elections and election integrity.CNN did not carry Trump's July 16, 2026 election-security address live, and anchor John King stated on air that the reason was the president's history of misleading and, in some cases, false statements on elections and election integrity. The claim matches the on-air statement, though CNN also framed the decision as a coverage choice and offered a live stream.7 sources →

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  26. 26TrueWillie Nelson worked as a DJ at station KVAN in Vancouver, Washington.Multiple sources, including Seattle Times, The New Yorker, Wikipedia and American Songwriter, state that Willie Nelson worked as a DJ at KVAN in Vancouver, Washington, in the 1950s. The claim matches the passage's reference to KVAN in Vancouver, Washington; the passage's broadcast-into-Portland detail is not part of the claim and is not contradicted.5 sources →

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  27. 27TrueClaude Gray's recording of the song Family Bible reached number seven on the Hot Country chart.Multiple independent sources (Wikipedia, Mental Floss, American Songwriter, MusicRow, Legacy Recordings) state that Claude Gray's recording of 'Family Bible' reached No. 7 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, matching the claim. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage, and the post's own 'it hit number seven' refers to Gray's recording.7 sources →

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  28. 28MixedThe federal government requires the removal of abandoned pipelines.The claim is partly supported: offshore seafloor pipelines are generally required to be removed, per Oceana's summary of federal rules. But the sources also show that federal regulators routinely allow abandoned pipelines to be left in place, with over 97% authorized that way, and the pipeline rule in 49 CFR 192.727 requires only disconnecting, purging, and sealing abandoned pipelines, not removing them. The post's specific Georgia-to-Alabama pipeline case is not addressed by any source.5 sources →

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  29. 29TrueJ.D. Vance was the Republican nominee for vice president during the 2024 presidential election.Multiple reliable sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, Politico, NPR) confirm that Trump selected JD Vance as his running mate and the Republican National Convention formally nominated him as the Republican vice presidential nominee in July 2024, for the November 2024 election. The extracted claim matches the post's assertion that Vance was the Republican VP nominee in 2024; the post's further wording ('before JD Vance was vice president') is consistent with the sources showing he later became VP in 2025.7 sources →

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  30. 30TrueThe Iranian government released American hostages on the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.The hostages held in Iran were released on January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, as multiple primary and tier1 sources confirm. The claim is a faithful extraction of the passage's date claim; the post's causal story that Reagan's inauguration caused the release is contested by the sources, but the extracted claim does not assert causation.8 sources →

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Fact-checkers 35Primary records 7Most reliable outlets 10Reliable outlets 30Unrated 92Rated low 2

  • foxnews.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited in checking claims 17, 22

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