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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 3, 2015 a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show"
The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2015
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
stated on December 2, 2014 an interview with Salon.com
"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 28, 2014 a blog post
Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.
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By Katie Sanders • August 11, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 3, 2014 an article posted on Infowars.com
President Barack Obama’s latest executive order "mandates the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ "
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By Jon Greenberg • August 6, 2014
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on July 7, 2014 a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 25, 2014 a meme shared on social media
"Over 300K home owner suicides attributed to foreclosures."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 23, 2013 blog posts
"Obamacare Medical Codes Confirm: Execution by Beheading To Be Implemented in America."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 2, 2014
Allen West
Allen West
stated on December 2, 2013 a blog on his website
"Back door gun control is in full effect in the United States" due to "Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency."
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By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 15, 2013 blog posts
Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents.
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By Becky Bowers • August 21, 2013
Jodie Laubenberg
Jodie Laubenberg
stated on June 23, 2013 Texas House debate on Senate Bill 5.
Says a "rape kit" can be used to "clean out" women, "basically like" dilation and curettage.
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By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • June 24, 2013
Susan B. Anthony List
Susan B. Anthony List
stated on April 23, 2013 a radio ad.
New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics "provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices."
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By Sean Gorman • April 28, 2013
Stacey Campfield
Stacey Campfield
stated on January 26, 2012 an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”
AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."
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By Zack McMillin • February 3, 2012
Critics of water fluoridation
Critics of water fluoridation
stated on October 4, 2011 a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments
Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.
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By Becky Bowers • October 6, 2011
Rob Eissler
Rob Eissler
stated on May 23, 2011 remarks on the House floor
"Obesity kills 34 children per hour."
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May 31, 2011
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