Tammy Bruce, the Fox News contributor turned State Department spokesperson who is now awaiting confirmation as United States Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, spent years promoting baseless Islamophobic conspiracy theories and espousing incendiary rhetoric, including about former President Barack Obama.

A CNN investigation examined Bruce’s public comments beginning in the early 2000s and found “a pattern of demeaning language about Muslims,” including statements suggesting that American Muslims “needed to prove their loyalty” to the U.S. following 9/11.

Much of Bruce’s rhetoric—the bulk of which was published on her personal blog, which is no longer available online but was accessed using the Internet Archive—targeted then-president Barack Obama.

Bruce referred to Obama as a “Ken

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