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Tag Archives: birther
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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Berg Gets Sunk
Posted on October 27, 2008
Readers have been champing at the bit to know our view of the lawsuit brought against Obama by a Philadelphia Hillary supporter, which alleges that the candidate is not a natural-born U.S. citizen. (We know —this again?) Of course only a judge is qualified to legally determine the validity of …
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Tagged Barack Obama, birth certificate, birther, Hillary Clinton, Peter Berg
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