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Published: 10/18/10

Obama's African Relatives Think His Father Was Murdered

By Dana Chivvis - AOL News

(Oct. 18) -- Perhaps the president can add this one to his list of myths to bust in December when he appears on the Discovery Channel show "MythBusters": His father was not killed in a car accident in 1982, as was reported, but was murdered. So goes a family theory investigated by Peter Firstbrook in his history of President Barack Obama's African side of the family, "The Obamas," and dissected by Obama biographer David Remnick in a post today on the New Yorker's website. Barack Obama Sr. was "a thwarted politician and bureaucrat," outspoken in his criticism of the Kenyan government's ...

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Published: 10/18/10

Obama to Appear on 'Mythbusters' to Promote Math, Science

By Tom Kavanagh - Politics Daily

Uh-oh. Has the "birther" controversy come to this? Nope. President Obama's appearance on "Mythbusters" in December is part of a White House push to promote math and science education, and the Discovery Channel program, which uses science to determine the truth behind urban legends, dovetails with that mission. The White House says the episode will air Dec. 8, AP reports. The show will explore whether the Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun. Officials say the president's appearance has already been taped. On ...

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Published: 10/18/10

Obama to Tackle Urban Myths on Discovery Channel

By Joseph Schuman - AOL News

(Oct. 18) -- President Barack Obama, the target of widely circulated falsehoods about his religion, birth and experience, is going on a Discovery Channel program aimed at dispelling urban legends. Obama will appear on the Dec. 8 episode of "MythBusters," a cable-TV show aimed at young teenagers whose recent subjects have ranged from tornado decapitations to the bridge-building capacities of duct tape, the president announced today during the annual White House science fair. The Discovery Channel said the president will challenge the show's hosts "to revisit an ancient and somewhat ...

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Published: 09/1/08

Palin Was for the 'Bridge to Nowhere,' Too

By David Knowles - Politics Daily

Mythbusters, start your engines! A key rationale that John McCain uses to justify his choice of Sarah Palin as anything but a crass, cynical play for disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters, is that Palin is a reformer who opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere." The problem? Palin fought for the bridge before she fought against it. As George Stephanopoulos pointed out to a flat-footed Lindsay Graham:But Senator, she turned against that, only she campaigned for it in her 2006 race, and turned against it in 2007 only after it became a national joke. Watch a video compilation, via ...

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