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wyldwolf

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Sun Dec 7, 2014, 04:04 PM Dec 2014

The 2014 Lie of the Year Finalists: Vote in the PolitiFact Readers' Poll

If you're interested...

"My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues. —Barack Obama

The State Department says the 42,000 jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline are "ongoing, enduring jobs." —Russ Girling

Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough." —George Will

"At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas" and there are "dozens more that did not get caught by the Border Patrol." —Duncan Hunter

"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell." —Alison Lundergan Grimes

Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn’t specifically referring to" Islamic State. —Barack Obama

"Global warming is a hoax." —Lenar Whitney

Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus." —Phil Gingrey

The United States has seen "a net loss of people with health insurance" because of Obamacare. —John Boehner

Says President Barack Obama has issued upwards of 1,000 executive orders, more than any modern president. —Chain email

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/dec/04/2014-lie-year-finalists-vote-politifact-readers-po/

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