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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Tag Archives: chain e-mail
Special Favors from Nancy Pelosi?
Q: Did Nancy Pelosi get wage breaks and tax credits for the American Samoan operations of a company in which her husband owns $17 million worth of stock? A: This widely e-mailed claim is false. Pelosi’s husband doesn’t own that stock, despite what a bogus Wikipedia entry briefly claimed. Furthermore, American Samoa …
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A Spam Metamorphosis
We’ve seen a lot of misleading spam this season claiming Sen. Barack Obama is guilty of one or all of the following: He won’t place his hand over his heart for the national anthem. He refuses to wear a flag pin. He replaced the American flag on his campaign plane …
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Tagged chain e-mail, flag pin, Jeremiah Wright, national anthem, Our Country Deserves Better PAC
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Obama’s Citizenship and the Survival of the Fittest
Yesterday we posted something about the evolution of rumors. Here’s a postscript: Sometimes in addition to developing new eyespots or camouflage, they actually engage in a little adaptive development — rumors that aren’t working mutate into slightly altered versions that haven’t been debunked yet. A case in point: First there …
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Life Cycle of a Rumor
One thing we’ve noticed at FactCheck is that e-mail rumors tend to circulate, get debunked (ideally), go dormant for a while, and then flare up again. Think of it as a horde of zombies — they come at you, you kill them, you breathe a sigh of relief, and then …
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Anne Kilkenny’s Sarah Palin E-Mail
Q:What about that Anne Kilkenny e-mail? A:The facts in the e-mail message about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are mostly correct.
McCain found at fault in 1960 Navy plane crash
We have updated our Ask FactCheck item on John McCain’s flying career to note new information uncovered by the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper found records of a Navy investigation into the crash of John McCain’s aircraft while he was in flight training in 1960. McCain and others have written …
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