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Video: Colbert wipes floor with Santorum's bizarre history claim

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Republican candidate Rick Santorum claimed he read somewhere that 7 or 8 UC and CSU campuses don't even offer U.S. history — and isn't that outrageous, angry real Americans? Colbert points out what the simplest Google search would have told Santorum and his handlers: every campus but one not only offers U.S. history, they require it to graduate and most have majors. Colbert hilariously flags in the video the lone exception: the UC San Francisco medical school.


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