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Tag Archives: birth certificate
Indeed, Born in the U.S.A.
Posted on April 27, 2011
President Barack Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate today, yet another piece of concrete evidence that shows he was born in the United States. The White House said he received a special exemption from the Hawaii Department of Health, which keeps the long-form documents confidential. The pdf …
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Donald, You’re Fired!
Posted on April 9, 2011
If Donald Trump worked for us, we’d have to say: “Donald, you’re fired — for incompetence.” The successful developer and TV celebrity says he’d make a good president, and maybe he would — we take no stand either way about that. But when it comes to getting facts straight …
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Tagged Barack Obama, birth certificate, conspiracy theories, donald trump, Neil Abercrombie
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The Obama Birth Chronicles, Chapter CCXCVIII
Posted on May 13, 2010
The latest development in the saga of the so-called "birther" challenges to Barack Obama’s presidency comes from Hawaii, Obama’s native state. Yesterday, Gov. Linda Lingle signed a law allowing state agencies to ignore requests for information if they determine the requests duplicate or are substantially similar to earlier ones. The …
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April Fools’… Still
Posted on April 1, 2010
In view of today’s date, we’d like to pay tribute to the longest-running and most successful April Fools’ hoax we’ve yet encountered. In the spring of 2009, a chain e-mail started circulating with claims of a "smoking gun" proving President Obama was a foreigner. AP- WASHINGTON D.C. – In a …
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Tagged april fools', Barack Obama, birth certificate, birther, birther rumor, chain e-mail
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No Trial for Obama
Posted on January 25, 2010
Q: Is federal judge David O. Carter starting a trial on Jan. 26 to determine whether Obama is qualified to be president? A: No. This is yet another bogus claim circulated by persons who cling to a belief that Obama was not born in the U.S.A. The judge threw the …
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Tagged Barack Obama, birth certificate, chain e-mail, Orly Taitz
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Clueless “Columbo”
Posted on January 18, 2010
Q: What's up with "Columbo" and his questions for Obama? A: The interrogator in a chain e-mail gets his facts fouled up and makes false accusations.
Whoppers of 2009
Posted on December 24, 2009
Although 2009 was not an election year, it kept us exceptionally busy, and led to millions of visits to our site. In this year-end summary, we offer some of the worst examples of the falsehoods we encountered during the first year of the Obama administration. The list of howlers includes the false claim that the stimulus bill would dictate …
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Tagged american recovery and reinvestment act, Barack Obama, birth certificate, cap-and-trade, chain e-mail, energy, Guns, health care, Internet rumors, stimulus bill, swine flu, whoppers
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O RLY?
Posted on July 29, 2009
Yesterday, we wearily acknowledged that nothing would dissuade birth-certificate doubters from their conviction that Barack Obama is not a United States natural-born citizen. As if on cue, dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz appeared on the "Colbert Report," and told the faux pundit that nothing short of retroactive zombie naturalization would convince her …
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The Last Word? We Wish.
Posted on July 28, 2009
We at factcheck.org are grateful to the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists for hundreds of thousands of page views to our "Born in the U.S.A." article from last November, and to our other items debunking some of their more outrageously false claims. We’re less grateful for their thousands of sometimes …
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More “Birther” Nonsense: Obama’s 1981 Pakistan Trip
Posted on June 5, 2009
We continue to receive queries about claims and theories advanced by "birthers," who wish to believe that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the USA or that he somehow gave up his citizenship and thus is not qualified to hold the office he occupies. One is a claim, …
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