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The Michael Berry Show
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Politics and current events from the Czar of Talk Radio.
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True70% confidence4 sourcesSep 23, 2026Enterprise Foundry pours ductile and gray iron castings up to 1,000 pounds.Said by CThe 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.True90% confidence5 sourcesSep 23, 2026Willie 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.True90% confidence7 sourcesSep 23, 2026Claude 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.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 23, 2026President 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.True85% confidence4 sourcesSep 23, 2026The White House press shop was not given advance notice of President Trump's decision to ban certain media outlets from White House grounds.Said by DMultiple 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.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence7 sourcesSep 23, 2026Secret Service confiscated the press badges of CNN reporters.Said by CMultiple 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.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True92% confidence5 sourcesSep 23, 2026In 2009, David Axelrod served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama.Said by CMultiple 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.True90% confidence5 sourcesSep 23, 2026In 2009, David Axelrod appeared on ABC News to discuss whether Fox News qualified as a legitimate news organization.Said by COn 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.True88% confidence7 sourcesSep 23, 2026In 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.Said by BMultiple 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.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True93% confidence6 sourcesSep 23, 2026Fox News reporter James Rosen obtained a scoop in 2009 reporting that North Korea would respond to sanctions with more nuclear tests.Said by BMultiple 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.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 23, 2026The Obama administration attempted to exclude Fox News from a round-robin interview with executive pay czar Ken Feinberg.Said by AMultiple 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.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True62% confidence6 sourcesSep 23, 2026In 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.