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  • 2016-10-18 (xsd:date)
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  • President Obama 'Demands' Monument to Himself (en)
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  • On 10 October 2016, the conservative news-aggregation web site Observatorial falsely claimed that President Barack Obama said he deserved to be memorialized, publishing an article under the headline Obama DEMANDS: 'I Deserve A Monument To Preserve My Legacy As The First Black President' that opened as follows: There is no record of President Obama's having made any remarks such as these, and no source was identified for them in the article. The piece went on to falsely claimed that unnamed activists are already in the process of planning for Obama to be potentially added to Mt. Rushmore, a statement that is nothing more than another long-debunked piece of fake news. The Observatorial article referenced two genuine stories, even though it linked to neither of them. The first was published on the conservative college news site The College Fix on 23 May 2013 and was based on a survey of ten professors at George Washington University, three of whom, the story stated, felt that President Obama might someday be honored on a monument, though not anytime soon: The Observatorial also made reference to a Facebook page devoted to the idea of putting President Obama on Mount Rushmore before citing a Huffington Post op-ed piece by Bill Lucey musing over whether that could really happen: In fact, it cannot: (en)
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