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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: Brumar894/11/2015 2:36:34 PM
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Snopes debunks satire from Peoples Cube ... not realizing it was satire:

Congratulations are in order to Comrade Chedoh - his story was debunked as FALSE by Snopes.com within hours after posting. They call it "false," we call it The Current Truthâ„¢!

Snopes

Dog Gone

Claim: A portrait of Abraham Lincoln was removed from the White House to make way for a picture of the Obamas' pet dogs.

FALSE

Example: [Collected via e-mail, April 2015]

Is this true?

Lincoln's Portrait Removed for Picture of the First Dogs

Origins: On 8 April 2015, the web site The People's Cube published an article positing that a portrait of revered U.S. president Abraham Lincoln had been removed from display on a wall at the White House in order to make room for the hanging of a picture of the First Family's pet dogs:

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/dogportrait.asp

Here's a screenshot (with ads and some extra stuff removed to save space).

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