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WorldNetDaily stated on June 17, 2009 in :

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.

By Robert Farley• July 28, 2009

Rush Limbaugh stated on May 26, 2009 in :

Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."

By Robert Farley• May 28, 2009

Judicial Confirmation Network stated on May 26, 2009 in :

Sotomayor thinks "that one’s sex, race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench."

By Robert Farley• May 27, 2009

Michele Bachmann stated on April 27, 2009 in :

In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."

By Bill Adair• April 30, 2009

John McCain stated on October 23, 2008 in :

"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."

By Alexander Lane• December 3, 2008

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