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Hawaiian Whopper

Posted on November 1, 2012

An ad by Republican Senate candidate Linda Lingle in the Aloha State is telling a real whopper — about us. Her ad says that factcheck.org rated a claim made by her opponent as “the worst political deception of the year,” and it shows our logo with a headline reading “Whopper …
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It’s Official: Obama “Born in the U.S.A.”

Posted on November 1, 2008

Of all the nutty rumors, baseless conspiracy theories and sheer disinformation that we’ve dealt with at factcheck.org during campaign 2008, perhaps the goofiest is the claim that Barack Obama is not a “natural-born citizen” and therefore not eligible to be president under the constitution. This claim was first advanced by …
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