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The Gerry Callahan Show
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A longtime Newsmax contributor, #1 rated morning radio host for over 20 years, and throat-cancer survivor, Gerry Callahan calls it like he sees it and offers sharp commentary on the news of the day. With an emphasis on politics, Gerry also brings his unique takes on major sports stories and cultural issues. He has covered The Olympics for Sports Illustrated, numerous World Series and Super Bowls and he offers conservative political opinions from Boston, the belly of the liberal beast.
108 claims
False60% confidence6 sourcesAug 17, 2026The Iranian government killed 42,000 protesters in the streets.Said by BThe claim that Iran killed 42,000 protesters is a figure Trump cited without a source, and it exceeds every estimate in the sources. AP says a toll that high has not been verified, HRANA confirmed about 7,000 deaths, and the highest estimate cited (Iran International, via Wikipedia) is about 36,500, so the magnitude is not supported. The post's claim is graded as stated, without the 'in the streets' scope, since no source addresses that detail separately.False60% confidence5 sourcesAug 17, 2026Democrats are favored to take both houses of Congress according to Calshi and Polymarket.Said by BAs of the claim date (2026-08-17), the CNBC source says Democrats had less than a 50% prediction-market chance of sweeping both chambers before early September, so the claim that they were favored then is contradicted. Later sources from late October and November show Democrats favored to take both chambers, so the situation changed after the claim was made; the claim is not accurate for August 17 itself.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False70% confidence6 sourcesAug 17, 2026The average price for a place to live in New York City is $6,655 a month.Said by BThe $6,655 figure is Corcoran's average rent for Manhattan, not New York City as a whole, and citywide rent measures in the sources are far lower (for example, a citywide median of $2,598 and a citywide median asking rent of $3,785). The claim as written, that the NYC average is $6,655, is contradicted by the sources' geography, and the post's own NYC framing does not change what the figure measures.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False70% confidence6 sourcesAug 17, 2026The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in New York City is $5,486.Said by BThe $5,486 one-bedroom figure comes from Corcoran data for Manhattan, not New York City as a whole. Citywide one-bedroom averages and medians in the sources run roughly $2,500 to $4,400, so the claim's scope is wrong and its magnitude is far too high.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False70% confidence5 sourcesAug 17, 2026The average rent for a three-bedroom apartment in New York City is $12,228, which is a 12% increase over the past year.Said by BThe $12,228 figure and 12% rise come from Corcoran's July data for Manhattan only, not New York City as a whole. NYC-wide three-bedroom figures are far lower (about $5,089 median asking rent, up 2.9%, per Realtor.com), and a Manhattan Borough President page reports Manhattan three-bedroom rents unchanged at $7,161.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False85% confidence3 sourcesAug 17, 202632% of Democrats have a negative view of capitalism.Said by BThe claim reverses the poll result. The CBS News poll found 32% of Democrats hold a positive view of capitalism, while 50% hold a negative view, so the claimed 32% negative figure is contradicted as of 2026-08-17. The claim faithfully reflects the passage's wording ('Capitalism, 32% negative'), so the error is in the poster's figure, not in the extraction.False68% confidence7 sourcesAug 17, 2026Minnesota officials are threatening to put journalists in jail for exposing the state's voter-vouching system.Said by BThe sources do not show Minnesota officials threatening jail for journalists over exposing the vouching system. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged conservative activists James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft for allegedly giving false names to poll workers in the Aug. 11 primary, and the Secretary of State's August response was condemnation with a law-enforcement review. The only 'threat' language comes from Higby, who called Simon's statement 'veiled threats'.False85% confidence5 sourcesAug 17, 2026Minnesota law allows someone who lives in a building to vouch for everybody else in the building to vote.Said by BMinnesota law does not let a building resident vouch for everyone else in the building. A registered precinct voter may vouch for up to eight people, and identification is still required; the only unlimited vouching is by staff of residential facilities, and Reuters and the Secretary of State both rejected the broader 'no ID, anyone in the building' reading the claim repeats. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post, and the later charges against O'Keefe and Higby do not change the August 17 assessment.False70% confidence8 sourcesAug 17, 2026Ilhan Omar received 80% of the vote from unregistered illegal immigrants.Said by BThe 80% figure matches Omar's August 2026 Democratic primary result, which CBS and MinneapoliMedia report as ordinary votes. The claim that illegal, unregistered immigrants cast those votes is an allegation of voter fraud that fact-checkers have examined and rejected in the closely related Somali-voter form, so it is false. The sources do not address the specific 80%-from-illegals assertion directly, and the claim's reading of 'for their friends' is the poster's own gloss.False70% confidence5 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Biden administration has allowed 20 million people to enter the United States.Said by BThe claim that the Biden administration allowed 20 million people to enter the U.S. is contradicted by the sources. Encounter counts (about 8.1 million under Biden) are events rather than people, and about 2.3 million people were released into the U.S., so the record is far below 20 million. The claim is faithful to the post's own wording, which says "the 20 million plus of Biden," and the sources cover the same claim as of 2026-08-17.False70% confidence6 sourcesAug 4, 2026In the November 2025 elections, 46 Muslims won statewide offices and 181 won local elections.Said by BThe claim's figures of 46 Muslim statewide winners and 181 local winners (about 227 total) are contradicted by the sources. CAIR's tracking reported 38 confirmed Muslim winners out of 76 candidates, later reports cited 41 to 42, and only one statewide winner (Ghazala Hashmi, Virginia lieutenant governor) is named. The post itself gave the same 46 and 181 figures, which the sources do not support, and the claim matches the passage faithfully.False60% confidence7 sourcesAug 4, 2026There are more than 3,000 mosques in the United States.Said by BThe best available counts put U.S. mosques at about 2,800 (Pew, citing the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership, and Religion News citing the Faith Communities Today Project, both for 2020–2024), and the Hartford-based count is 2,769 for 2020, so 'more than 3,000' is not supported as of 2026-08-04. Only one advocacy piece says 'close to 3,000', and the mapping-based directories give lower figures. The figure is off by roughly 7%, so this is a modest overstatement rather than a gross error; the post's 'since 9/11' wording could also be read as new mosques built since 2001, which the sources put at roughly 1,600 (about 1,200 in 2000 to about 2,800 later).