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Rush to judgment

National
Angie Drobnic Holan
By Angie Drobnic Holan
July 14, 2009

A group called Presente.org is using some political sleight-of-hand to suggest that Adam Putnam, a Republican House member from Florida, endorses Rush Limbaugh’s comment that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a racist.

That’s not correct, and we rated their statement

False

. Read our

full report here

to find out why.

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