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East Coast Birthers Beef With West Coast Birthers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn the "I Love the 2008 Campaign" department, the "birthers" are alive and not so well. Politico likens the current schism between rival Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists to the hip-hop beefs of the 90's. East Coast Birther chief Philip Berg has filed suit against West Coast Birther poobah Orly Taitz, whose name sounds like an inflammation best treated with some Gold Bond powder. Among the complaints is the charge that Taitz called Berg a "Shyster." That's not to be confused with the more recent adjective form, "Shysty." YesToDemocracy.com is all over it, as usual: Ladies and ...
'Birther Bill' Author Offended By Alligator Rumor Fought By Stephen Colbert
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe author of legislation that would require Presidents to submit birth certificates in order to prove their eligibility for office seems to have taken offense to a rumor that Stephen Colbert is trying desperately to quell:Posey, whose bill has yet to find a co-sponsor, struck back against the alligator rumor today. From The Orlando Sentinel:"I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn't civil," Posey said. "Just a bunch of name-calling and personal denigration. ... There is no reason to say that I'm the illegitimate grandson of an alligator."He now says that he has "no ...
Upcoming Movie to Tell Story of Barack Obama's Birth
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Honolulu Advertiser, the same paper that ran President Obama's birth announcement, is now reporting that some University of Hawaii students are casting roles for what may be the Greatest Political Story Ever Told: Casting is underway for a student-made film inspired by the Island birth of Barack Obama. Students in the University of Hawaii-Manoa's Academy for Creative Media program are making the Advanced Production film, "Born In Hawaii." They are currently casting and soliciting donations from the community. "Born In Hawaii" is a fictional story based loosely on the nurses who worked at ...
Politico Throws Gasoline on Birther Fire
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyActually, they're called "birfers" by the cool kids, and a 3-page writeup in Politico is just the thing to make these xenophobic losers do this.That's fine with me. The deeper these people become involved in this nonsense, the less time they'll have to screw up important things. Also, as the piece points out, they make normal conservatives look bad. These folks revolt even slavery mitigator Michael Medved. From Politico: The conservative talk show host Michael Medved recently referred to the movement's leaders as "crazy, nutburger, demagogue, money-hungry, exploitative, irresponsible, filthy ...
Republican Senator Flirts With Obama Citizenship Rumor
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyHuffPo is carrying a newspaper account about Alabama Senator Richard Shelby apparently stoking the "birfers," people who believe that Barack Obama is ineligible to be President no matter what proof they are shown.Another local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama's U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof. "Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate," Shelby said. "You have to be born in America to be president." According to the Associated Press, state ...
Barack Obama's Real Birth Certificate Could Be Made of Kleenex
By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily...for all the difference it will make now.My friends at YesToDemocracy.com have been following the obsessed believers (called "birfers") in the whacked out conspiracies about Barack Obama's birth certificate for a long time now. The birfers' struggle to unseat Barack Obama remained under the sanity radar until around the time our Liza reported on them. Their court-clogging antics have been good for some chuckles, and not much more.But in these last hours before Barack Obama is inaugurated, I'd like to indulge them, and perhaps even vindicate them.Let's just assume Barack Obama's birth ...
New Troll-Suit Challenges Barack Obama's & John McCain's Eligibility
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOur court system has become an internet message board writ large, and there are two new trolls spamming Lady Justice. From the Indy Star: As officials in Washington prepare for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, two Indiana men have filed a lawsuit asking a judge to throw out the election results. ...The Marion County suit contends neither Obama, a Democrat, nor Republican Sen. John McCain proved he was a "natural born citizen," a constitutional requirement to qualify for the presidency. They also claim neither candidate was eligible to be elected president because both were ...
The Cult of Barack Obama's Birth Certificate
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe story of a group calling themselves the "We the People Foundation," who are questioning the authenticity of Barack Obama's natural-bornedness, has gotten a lot of attention this week due to their purchase of a full-page ad demanding access to the original birth certificate. On a related note, I am taking out a full-page ad demanding access to Jessica Alba's sock drawer. As it happens, my Unusable Signal co-host, Christina Cedeno, is also the proprietor of YestoDemocracy.com, a website that has been following this story since the dawn of time. If you have the inclination, you can click here ...
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