Politics

 Damage at White House Offices Being Handed Over to the Bush Administration from The Clinton Staff-Truth!     Summary of eRumor: When George W. Bush took over the presidency in 2001, his new staff arrived in the offices of the White House to find that there had been widespread pranks and vandalism by the departing Clinton …

Damage to the White House during trasition from Clinton to Bush-Truth! Read More »

The Estimated IQ’s of American Presidents–Fiction!   Summary of eRumor: This email claims that a think tank in Pennsylvania determined the IQ’s of American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, rating bush as the lowest and Bill Clinton as the highest. The Truth: This was written from the fantasies of someone who …

Comparison of presidential IQ's-Fiction! Read More »

Al Gore’s Horse-Thief Ancestor–Fiction!   Summary of eRumor: This email claims that Tipper Gore, the wife of former Senator and presidential candidate Al Gore, is into genealogy and discovered a great-great uncle in the Gore family who was hanged as a horse thief and train robber.  When the president’s image-makers were finished with the story, …

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Summary of eRumor: This email claims that Laura Bush, the wife of President George W. Bush, is into genealogy and discovered a great-great uncle in the Bush family who was hanged for stealing horses. When the president’s image-makers were finished with the story, however, they had made the history of the great-great uncle sound like …

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A chain email makes a number of claims about Bill and Hillary Clintons’ government pensions and that the Clintons charge the Secret Service $10,000 a month in rent.