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Another ridiculous Internet rumor bites the dust: Obama OK’d 2 SEAL teams for pirates. President Obama dispatched two separate teams of Navy commandos to carry out last week’s rescue of a merchant ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates but left the operational details and rules of engagement to ...
The State of Hawaii has released a statement verifying that they have Barack Obama’s official birth certificate on record. HONOLULU — The state’s Department of Health director on Friday released a statement verifying the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama birth certificate. The state has received multiple requests for a ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rumors, Dirty Tricks, birth certificate
You didn’t see a single one of these stupid, ugly rumors promoted by LGF, and we’re proud of that. Shame on the right-wing bloggers who let their fears convince them to throw their credibility away (you know who they are). This stuff has been very damaging to the McCain campaign, ...
Philip Berg appeared on the Michael Savage radio show yesterday, talking about his frivolous and unfounded lawsuit against Barack Obama to force him to disclose his birth certificate. Yes, this again. Following Berg’s radio appearance, we’ve received half a dozen angry emails blasting us for our position against repeating this ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rumors, Dirty Tricks, birth certificate
This is what we posted back on August 11th: Obama ‘Birth Certificate’ Links Not Welcome. This is a public notice that I’m going to be deleting any posted spinoff links that try to promote the “Obama birth certificate” nonsense. I’ve mentioned this several times in comments, but it apparently ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Africa, Rumors, Dirty Tricks, birth certificate
Jake Tapper at ABC News says “conservative blogs were all atwitter” about that silly rumor that Michelle Obama called an African media organization and ranted about racism. The conservative blogs are all atwitter about a bizarre interview allegedly with Michelle Obama on a Web site called “African Press International.” ...
You’ve probably seen a story floating around that Michelle Obama telephoned an African media organization and made some outrageous statements. It smelled like seafood to us, and sure enough, Byron York has the official word at The Corner. I’m sure a lot of you have seen references this morning ...
At Reason Online, David Weigel begins to figure out that Larry Johnson (the source of the scurrilous and apparently false “Michelle Obama whitey tape” rumor) has zero credibility—something I’ve known for several years, which is why I didn’t write a single word about his claim (despite many emails, some of ...
I’ve received several emails about a story originating in Italian media, that one of the cartoonists who drew caricatures of Mohammed for Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten had been murdered. Jyllands-Posten officially quashes the rumor: No Danish cartoonist has been murdered. A rumour among international news organisations says that one of the ...