Hank Williams Jr. saying Obama a Muslim prompted No. 5 favorite fact check
By W. Gardner Selby
Published on Tuesday, December 25th, 2012 at 6:00 a.m.
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Says Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Hank Williams Jr., Sunday, September 2nd, 2012.
Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details
Says the Department of Homeland Security has ordered "enough rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to kill every man, woman and child in the United States," possibly to combat "massive civil unrest" or "an invasion by a foreign power."
Chain email, Saturday, March 24th, 2012.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
"Just on Jan. 1 of this year, there were 40,000 new laws put on the books in one day."
Ron Paul, Tuesday, April 10th, 2012.
Ruling: False | Details
Says the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913.
Ron Paul, Monday, January 16th, 2012.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
Says a new national poll shows "the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard" for U.S. currency.
Ron Paul, Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012.
Ruling: False | Details
"Gas prices have gone up $2 since Obama took office."
Michael Williams, Tuesday, April 26th, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
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Hank Williams Jr. was once the lead-in singer for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" (Associated Press photo).
Country singer Hank Williams Jr. spiced a Fort Worth concert with comments critical of Obama, saying: "We’ve got a Muslim for a president..."
Not so, we concluded, setting the woods Pants on Fire because Obama’s religious faith has been tracked and noted for years.
That Truth-O-Meter article was our readers' No. 5 favorite for 2012.
It's posted to the right along with the articles that placed 6 through 10, based on online views.
Peek here tomorrow for our No. 4 reader fave.
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Researchers: W. Gardner Selby
Names in this article: Barack Obama, Hank Williams Jr.
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