Just days after PolitiFact criticized the 18% of respondents in a recent poll who believe President Obama is Muslim — awarding them its “Pants-On-Fire” false rating — Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter offers a strong case against that and other myths and lies about the president.

A majority of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama “sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world,” according to a survey released on Monday.