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3 October 2016 Former Southern Baptist minister Pat Robertson did not propose that Christian men should boycott sex with wives who are planning to vote for Hillary Clinton.
15 September 2016 Ted Nugent recently made comments about President Obama's support for NFL player Colin Kaepernick's protests, but he didn't call the athlete a "chimp."
15 September 2016 Ted Cruz did not say that he'd run as a Democrat to defeat Donald Trump if Hillary Clinton dropped out of the 2016 presidential race.
9 September 2016 Brock Turner's father did not lament that the victim in his son's sexual assault case received no punishment.
29 August 2016 A fake news article claiming Mike Pence called for a condom ban led to images decoupling the falsehood from its source.
24 August 2016 A fake news site prompted rumors Michele Bachmann said that the Obama administration was worse for white people than slavery was for black people.
2 August 2016 A fake news article quotes televangelist Pat Robertson waxing eloquent about nude photos of Donald Trump's wife, Melania.
18 July 2016 Mike Pence did not say that if abortion were allowed in cases of rape, then women would try to get raped in order to have abortions.
6 July 2016 New Jersey governor Chris Christie vetoed a pay parity bill, but not over any reasons relating to religious freedom.
24 June 2016 Marco Rubio did not say that the Orlando nightclub mass shooting was a sign from God that he was needed in the Senate.
31 May 2016 A quote purportedly from Sarah Palin saying that slavery wasn't the fault of the United States is fake.
5 May 2016 No, Donald Trump didn't suggest dropping nuclear bombs on Mexico if they refused to build the wall.
2 March 2016 Bristol Palin did not say that the Oscars lack diversity because all black actors look alike.
22 February 2016 Marco Rubio did not state that Zika-linked birth defects were a punishment from God, nor that abortion was an attempt to evade that judgment.
16 February 2016 No, a Republican politician didn't propose saliva-based "hunger tests" prior to issuing food stamps.
15 February 2016 While the Supreme Court Justice's death has prompted discussions and conspiracy theories, this story came from a site that specializes in fake news.
15 January 2016 Pat Robertson didn't suggest David Bowie wasn't really dead, or that "demons kidnapped him to entertain them in Hell."
9 November 2015 GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio did not say rape victims belong in custody if it's suspected they're considering abortions.
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