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Whoomp! There he isn't!

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Could that be Barack Obama in the 'Whoomp! (There it is!)' video?

Bill Adair

By Bill Adair June 9, 2010

Take a look at the picture at the right. It's a still frame from the 1993 video for Whoomp! (There it is!).

Could that be Barack Obama?

We decided to go upside-down and inside-out and show you folks what it's all about.

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Republican Party of Florida

stated on March 19, 2010 in a news release:

The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of nearly 20 percent of our economy."

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pants-fire

stated on March 2, 2010 in the State of the State address:

Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."

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barely-true

C.W. Bill Young

stated on February 20, 2010 in a speech to Pinellas County Republicans.:

The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of our health programs."

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pants-fire

stated on October 7, 2014 in a debate :

"The Common Core was not put together by the Department of Education in Washington. It was put together by governors and by states."

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mostly-true

stated on October 3, 2014 in a news release:

Says Thom Tillis "refuses to say what we should do to combat ISIS."

mostly-true

mostly-true

Protect Oregon Driver Licenses

stated on April 21, 2013 in a campaign website statement:

Gov. Kitzhaber oversaw creation of the Oregon driver card law "behind closed doors without allowing any input from citizens who represent the public interest."

barely-true

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stated on July 18, 2014 in a campaign debate:

Oregon "is the most trade-dependent state in the nation"

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false

stated on February 26, 2016 in a test of the fact-checking widget:

"This is a test of the fact-checking widget."

false

false

Donald Rumsfeld

stated on February 17, 2013 in an op-ed in the "Washington Post":

Says wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln.

true

true

18% of the American public

stated on September 6, 2012 in a test:

true

true

18% of the American public

stated on August 22, 2012 in a statement:

true

true

stated on June 26, 2012 in a message forwarded to many people:

Says "a lip-reading instructor at the River School, a Washington, D.C., school for the deaf" has determined that during 9/11 ceremonies, Michelle Obama said, "All this for a damn flag."

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pants-fire

stated on January 8, 2012 in a Republican debate in New Hampshire.:

Says President Barack Obama "is a socialist."

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pants-fire

Michele Bachmann

stated on November 22, 2011 in a Republican debate in Washington:

Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30,000 engineers.

true

true

18% of the American public

stated on November 3, 2016 in a test conducted on an obscure PolitiFact site.:

"This is a test of the Share the Facts widget."

true

true

Republican Party of Florida

stated on March 19, 2010 in a news release:

The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of nearly 20 percent of our economy."

pants-fire

pants-fire

stated on March 2, 2010 in the State of the State address:

Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."

barely-true

barely-true

C.W. Bill Young

stated on February 20, 2010 in a speech to Pinellas County Republicans.:

The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of our health programs."

pants-fire

pants-fire

stated on October 7, 2014 in a debate :

"The Common Core was not put together by the Department of Education in Washington. It was put together by governors and by states."

mostly-true

mostly-true

stated on October 3, 2014 in a news release:

Says Thom Tillis "refuses to say what we should do to combat ISIS."

mostly-true

mostly-true

Protect Oregon Driver Licenses

stated on April 21, 2013 in a campaign website statement:

Gov. Kitzhaber oversaw creation of the Oregon driver card law "behind closed doors without allowing any input from citizens who represent the public interest."

barely-true

barely-true

Social Media
stated on July 5, 2025 in posts on social media:

The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas.

By Madison Czopek • July 7, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on July 2, 2025 in a House floor speech:

“Tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on July 6, 2025 in una publicación en TikTok:

“Si dios fuera ilegal lo deportariamos palabras del gobernador de Texas”.

By Maria Briceño • July 7, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on June 20, 2025 in una publicación en TikTok:

“Donald Trump acaba de firmar una nueva orden que pone al país en alerta máxima y sella las fronteras para todos los residentes” el 1 de julio.

By Maria Briceño • July 3, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on June 24, 2025 in una publicación en TikTok:

Una nueva ley permite aplicar a “la residencia permanente de forma directa, rápida y sin salir del país” si los migrantes han vivido al menos siete años en EE.UU.

By Maria Briceño • July 2, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on June 28, 2025 in a TikTok post:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order for “a total border shutdown with no set reopening date” on July 1.

By Maria Briceño • July 2, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on June 24, 2025 in a TikTok post:

A new “community recognition” law allows people to apply for “permanent residency directly, quickly, and without leaving the country” if they have “resided continuously in the United States for at least seven years, regardless of their current immigration status.”

By Maria Briceño • July 1, 2025
X posts
stated on June 30, 2025 in X posts:

Idaho shooting suspect Wess Roley faced criminal charges and had a no-contact order from his family.

By Loreben Tuquero • July 1, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on June 29, 2025 in an interview on Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures':

The One Big Beautiful Bill will deliver the promise of “no tax on Social Security.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 in an X post:

“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"

By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2025

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