At least they got the color of his footprint correct
” …and she’s brought along a second forgery (visible above) that purports to be President Obama’s real birth certificate, proving once and for all that he was born in Kenya and is ineligible to be president.
As was also the case with the first forged birth certificate that Taitz tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce into a lawsuit in which she’s representing Alan Keyes and several other plaintiffs, this new document is a pretty obvious hoax.
It’s so clearly fake, in fact, that Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily — one of the chief promoters of the Birthers and their myths — has already debunked it. Taitz apparently obtained it from one Lucas Smith, who’d previously made several aborted attempts to sell it on eBay. Corsi claims that Smith has “a lengthy criminal record” and once “attempt[ed] to sell his kidney to a man in need of an organ transplant.”
Among other obvious problems with Smith’s document that Corsi pointed out is the format for dates used in it — the American style, not the British style, which presumably would have been used when Kenya was a British colony, as it was at the time of Obama’s birth.
The biggest issue with the document, though, is that its header reads “Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya.” In 1961, when Obama was born and this certificate was supposedly produced, Mombasa was a part of Zanzibar. (The claim of birth in Mombasa is illogical anyway, given where Obama’s family lives in Kenya, but it’s become part of Birthers’ conspiracy theories because the city is in one of the more Muslim parts of the country.)
Like lemmings off a cliff.
I could have created that document.
If someone on the left tried this crap, Fox News would be running update every quarter hour about the outrageous “Birthergate” movement.
The real reason people in the MSM aren’t touching this is because 1) It’s total bullshit being trotted out by known fucktards, and 2) Dan Rather went with a story based on questionable information and was run out of town for it.
Checked the Mitchell Daily Republic website last weekend and found this appalling “news” story by reporter Ross Dolan. It’s the brainless blathering by Kitty Werthmann, lobbyist for Heritage Foundation affiliate Concerned Women of America and a loony fixture at each session of the legislature. She compares her experiences growing up in Hitler’s Germany with Obama’s America today. Here’s the link:
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/event/article/id/36671/
I expect this from Kitty and I don’t blame Ross for having to cover the local Right to Life meeting. The organization certainly has a right to meet and say most anything they want. But what happened to the editors at the Daily Republic? What is the news value of this, other than the freakish ramblings of Ms. Werthmann?
Have a great day!
The thing that bugs me the most about the Rather story is that most of it was true, he screwed up by not checking all the sources. I think that after he apologized he should have been given the opportunity to correct the mistakes in the story and give it again. Bush and Cheney were Vietnam combat dodgers yet they skewer Rather for not checking one source? Stupid.
As for the DR story, no surprise.
Well, RM?, it’s known well in internet circles that the first person to invoke Hitler or Nazis in an argument loses. Take heart.
Actually GoD, Godwin’s Law simply explains that the longer a discussion progresses, the greater the chances that someone will mention Hitler or Nazis. It has no bearing on who “wins” an argument as in many cases (discussing World War II or German history for instance) a reference to Hitler is quite appropriate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Now I realize it is common for people to claim others “lose” as soon as such a reference is made, but it all depends upon context. Clearly RM was referencing statements made in the actual story he was discussing, and thus it wouldn’t be appropriate to say he “loses” an argument for citing the work of others.
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I wasn’t pointing out that RM ‘loses’. More that the wingnut in the article loses for being so stupid that the only thing they can trow out there as an argument is the hitler reference.
She had her day in court you can read about it here http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/naranja-news/orlys-day-in-court/
I loved it when Olbermann said someone stepped on the birth certificate.
What is more distubring than some of her comments are some of the reader comments to the story.
Clearly there are a great number of people who qualify to be labeled “birthers” out there. I used to think 50% of this nation was ignorant and less intelligent than the average ice cube tray, but this story has made me rethink that. I think my number was a bit low… it might be closer to 70%.
Except in Lake Wobegon, MN, where all the kids are above average.