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PAC's newspaper ad filled with falsehoods

PolitiFact by Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead, Katie Sanders | Sep. 27, 2012 (Fact Check)

A full-page newspaper ad running in swing states purports to reveal "the true agenda of Barack Hussein Obama." It says he will: "Force Christian organizations to pay for abortions." "Force employers to give illegal immigrants the jobs of U.S. citizens." and more.
It’s from a political action committee that operates under the name "Government is Not God," or GING-PAC for short. Full Story »

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Tanya J. Maurer
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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Sep. 27, 2012

“It’s an insult to people’s intelligence, really. … It steps on just about everyone, and drags them into somebody’s hate agenda,” Muntz said. On Wednesday, the Herald-Tribune apologized in a note to readers, stating that the ad did not meet the newspaper’s “standards for fairness and accuracy.”

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