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Obama Called Out Over ‘Self-Serving Falsehood’ in State of the Union: ‘A Line I Wouldn’t Accept From an Undergrad’ - After President Barack Obama said the Middle East is “rooted in conflicts that date back millennia” during his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, viewers called out his claim as everything from a “self-serving falsehood” to a notion one educator “wouldn’t accept from an undergrad.”

“Thousands of years?” a Washington Post writer reacted. “Many of the conflicts in the Middle East don’t even date back a decade.”