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House Finds 14th Forged Letter on Climate Bill

By | 09.10.09 | 4:34 pm

Yet another letter to Congress opposing the Waxman-Markey climate bill has been revealed to be a fake. The letter, the 14th confirmed forgery, claims to be from an American Legion post in Rocky Mount, Va.

The letter was sent to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who has thus far confirmed More…

‘Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless’

By | 08.06.09 | 1:18 pm

It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original forgery and a mocking declaration:

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WorldNetDaily Responds to Hoax Accusation

By | 08.04.09 | 10:09 am

The editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily left a comment at TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota Independent, taking issue with the statement that the site “has been accused” of publishing hoaxes in the past, such as “poorly written and unauthenticated emails” allegedly between Barack Obama and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

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Forged Kenyan Document Splinters ‘Birther’ Movement

By | 08.03.09 | 7:58 pm

Jon Chessoni, a first secretary at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington, can’t understand why his office gets so many baseless questions about whether Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

“It’s madness,” said Chessoni on Monday. “His father, in 1961, would not even have been in Kenya. When this matter first More…

Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’

By | 08.03.09 | 7:34 pm

[Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for "birther" debunking.]

One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther”-debunkers passes on quite the discovery: a 1964 “certified copy of registration More…