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Birth Certificate Troofers Bite the Dust
Little Green Footballs —
Well, this puts the eggs in the fridge and shuts off the light.
Can we please knock off the “birth certificate” troof stories now?
FactCheck.org: Born in the U.S.A.
In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document’s authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a ...
FactCheck.org: We’ve seen Obama’s original birth certificate and it checks out
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... It’s real and it’s spectacular. Recently FactCheck representatives got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at the Obama headquarters in Chicago. We can assure readers that the certificate does bear a raised seal, and that it’s stamped on the back by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka (who uses a signature stamp rather than signing individual birth certificates). We even brought home a few photographs… The document is a “certification of birth,” also known as a short-form ...
Can this birth certificate nonsense be over now?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Jess Heng of FactCheck.org has held the stupid thing in
his hands. They have taken photos of it. It says "Barack
Hussein Obama II" as the name and "Honolulu" as the place of birth.
The document number is 151 1961 - 010641. It is,
in other words, a certified copy of a birth certificate that shows
that the assumed Democratic candidate for President is eligible to
run for President in this country, and that the name that
he uses now is the name that he was born with. ...
Obama Is a U.S. Citizen
Stop The ACLU —
Looks like all the blog speculation on fake birth certificates were in vain. Factcheck.Org: In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document’s authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is “fake.” We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original ...
Obama is American. Deal with it
Daimnation! —
FactCheck.org definitively beats down one of the stupidest conspiracy theories in recent memory. (via Hot Air)
Note who's been recently pushing the "fake birth certificate" story, by the way. More proof, as if any were needed, that to believe one crazy conspiracy theory is to believe all crazy conspiracy theories. (Speaking of which...)
Damian P.
FactCheck Checks Obama's Birth Certificate
JustOneMinute —
Fact Check is given access to Obama's birth certificate and endorses it, which neither surprises me nor prompts a reassessment of any official editorial positions. However, they close with this ...
This Settles It -- Barack Obama A Natural-Born Citizen
Rhymes With Right —
And it is about damn time that his campaign released the original of the document certifying his birth in a Hawaii hospital into the hands of an objective party. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the ...
Crazy So Deep It Needs A Lifeguard
Confederate Yankee —
Crazy So Deep It Needs A Lifeguard So, you thought that the validation of Barack Obama's printed, notarized birth certificate by FactCheck.org would be enough to shut down the Obama Truth Movement TM (OTM)? Guess again, suckers, A PUMA is ...
The Early Word: More Clues, Still No V.P.
The Caucus —
... playing up the link between Senator Obama and Bill Ayers, the 1960s radical and Weather Underground founder. And while we’re on the subject of fact-checking, there’s the continuing swirl around Mr. Obama’s birth certificate. FactCheck.org of the Annenberg School of Public Policy has inspected the documents and finds them to be authentic, determining that indeed, Mr. Obama was born in the U.S.A. — contrary to popular Internet rumors. In addition, the organization writes: “Of course, it’s distantly possible that Obama’s grandparents may have planted the announcement just in ...
Bamboozled! Led Astray!
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... FactCheck goes and looks at Barack Obama’s birth certificate - the real, live thing that they can hold in their hands. Because they are not fucking nuts, they conclude that the document is, in fact, a real birth certificate which certifies Obama’s birth in the United States on August 4, 1961. ...
RACISMISTS!
protein wisdom —
... even if Sen. Obama could have somehow been deemed “natural born,” that citizenship was lost in or around 1967 when he and his mother took up residency in Indonesia, where Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen. Berg also states that he possesses copies of Sen. Obama’s registration to Fransiskus Assisi School In Jakarta, Indonesia which clearly show that he was registered under the name “Barry Soetoro” and his citizenship listed as Indonesian. Of course, factcheck.org (among others — some, notably, on the political right) has tried to put paid to these ...
Mystery solved*: Barack Obama was American-born
Top of the Ticket —
... say they have seen the certificate, touched and vouched it -- Obama is as American as baseball, apple pie and, these days, burritos, pasta and kung pao chicken. ...
Obama: Born in the USA
Israpundit —
... However, FactChecker.org says it obtained Obama’s actual birth certificate and that the document was indeed real. The site discredited some of the claims of Internet bloggers, such as that the certificate as viewed in a scanned copy released by Obama’s campaign lacked a raised seal. FactChecker.org also established that many of the alleged flaws in the document noted by bloggers were caused by the scanning of the document. ...
factcheck.org: Obama birth certificate is real
Ace of Spades HQ —
factcheck.org: Obama birth certificate is real Looks like factcheck.org has this nailed down pretty definitively. They examined the actual document and it has a raised seal, etc . Maybe we can move on to the plethora of genuine defects with this candidate now. Posted by: Purple Avenger at ...
Chez Pazienza: The Speed of Lies
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... A couple of weeks back, the Annenberg Political Fact Check -- an organization whose credentials are pretty much bulletproof -- set out to settle once and for all the debate over Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate. The word "debate" deserves no small amount of qualification because, in reality, there never was a legitimate claim to be made that the document was phony -- simply a lot of fantastical conspiracy theorist innuendo, perpetuated and amplified at lightning speed by a million far-right dolts with computers and delusions of Sherlock Holmesian cleverness. Annenberg ...
Well, Well, What Do You Know
Nice Deb —
...
Sarah Palin was pregnant, after all….
Or wearing a very convincing fat-suit, Like Ace was saying the other day, the next round of conspiracy theories will involve fat suit comparisons.
Annnnd, I see from checking AoSHQ, this morning, the conspiracy theories have already begun…. Karl rove is behind the smear to deter the nutroots from the real scandal: Sarah Palin used poor judgement by flying in that plane after her water broke. Now the poor nutroots have egg on their ...
Bob Cesca: Enough! Here's Why The Polls Are So Damn Close
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... that convicted Watergate burglar and radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy continues to insist that Senator Obama was born in Kenya and that his birth certificate is a forgery. Lies. Debunked months ago by numerous nonpartisan experts. ...
Obamatruthers
Oliver Willis —
Up there, on the grassy knoll…
I watch in amusement as the far right wackos fight with the idiotic far right wackos who are convinced Obama isn’t American (he is).
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"Someone is lying" (And I don't think it's Granny)
Classical Values —
... ," but I think that is not strictly accurate, because no longer is this a question of whether an official birth certificate exists. It does. Too many investigators have seen it. Not only is Factcheck.org satisfied, but so are ...
William Bradley: The "Manchurian Candidate" Fantasy: Paranoia And Irony Abound
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Then things get even more baroque. Obama, it's said, really attended an anti-Western madrassa, a canard repeated on Fox News. (Debunked, but still repeated.) He's not really an American. The far right is still going on about Obama's birth certificate, with various navel-gazing theories. (Here it is, incidentally.) ...
Big GOP Bundlers: We Don't Mind Palin's $150K Shopping Spree
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... if the connections are true. ... I'm inundated with this stuff. And for many many years, I've been involved in the finances, with the party. I've got all the information, stuff here that's pretty condemning. ... You judge a person by the company you keep. There are questions about his [Obama's] birth certificate, if it's true or not. It appears to be pretty factual. You people in the media don't dispute it, and the people I get it from are pretty good sources."
In fact, both FactCheck.org and Politifact say there are no "questions" about Obama's birth ...
Big GOP Bundlers: We Don't Mind Palin's $150K Shopping Spree
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... if the connections are true. ... I'm inundated with this stuff. And for many many years, I've been involved in the finances, with the party. I've got all the information, stuff here that's pretty condemning. ... You judge a person by the company you keep. There are questions about his [Obama's] birth certificate, if it's true or not. It appears to be pretty factual. You people in the media don't dispute it, and the people I get it from are pretty good sources."
In fact, both FactCheck.org and Politifact say there are no "questions" about Obama's birth ...
Barack Obama is a US Citizen
Dean's World —
... faith.
At any rate, I’ve previously addressed the “non-citizen smear” at City of Brass and here is a summary linkfest for anyone who may still doubt the eligibility of Barack Obama for President according to the Constitution:
the Obama campaign has already posted a copy of Obama’s birth certificate on his campaign website
Snopes.com debunks the “non-citizen smear”
FactCheck.org actually saw the original birth certificate
Since I am clearly a loony left-wing partisan ...
Today’s Tosser: Do You Even Have to Ask?
ArchPundit —
... CLICK HERE to see the Annenberg funded FactCheck.org article defending Obama updated on Aug. 26. The article shows many pictures of what they say is the original certificate complete with laser printing unknown in 1961. ...
Still Undecided?
Garling Gauge —
... out, the document is a “certification of birth,” not a “certificate of birth,” etc. The proof says otherwise. i. One: other people from Hawaii have the same “certificate of live birth,” including description problems like “White” and “Caucasian” both standing in as “Race” for parentage. Jeremy Sott Smith and Patricia Decosta . ii. Two: there was a birth announcement in the paper: Close-up and the whole announcement. iii. These people went and saw it in person. They took excellent photos of it, too. It has the ...
"Will this put a stop to the idiotic rumors? Of course not!"
Classical Values —
... leaves doubts as to whether an authentic Hawaii birth certificate exists for Obama. Rather, the failure to release the document fuels the theory - true or not - that the Obama family, shortly after Obama's birth overseas, returned to Hawaii and registered at the Hawaii Department of Health the original Obama birth certificate that had been issued by the doctor and hospital that delivered Obama in Kenya. No, it doesn't, because the State of Hawaii has officially certified that the place of birth was in the city of Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, in the state of Hawaii on August ...
The Rule of Law
The Democratic Daily —
... Desperate, sad, and a reminder that the rule of law matters. Keyes is a glory-hogging a*hole, of course, on a par with Theodore Nugent and that Godzilla from Wasilla. Obama, as the son of an American citizen is an American citizen, just as John McCain (born in the Canal Zone) is. But the phony birth certificate smear? Disproven here and ...
Right Wingers Challenge Obama's Birth Certificate
Drudge Retort —
"and millions of Americans still have citizenship eligibility questions" LOL! www.factcheck.org Update Nov. 1: The Associated Press quoted Chiyome Fukino as saying that both she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original birth certificate. Fukino also was quoted by several other news organizations. The Honolulu Advertiser quoted Fukino as saying the agency had been bombarded by requests, and that the registrar of statistics had even been called in at home in the middle of the night. Honolulu ...
'Joe the Farmer': Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
Hyscience —
... Are
you afraid that if you were even to raise the subject with your friends
that they will think you wear a tinfoil hat, because Factcheck.org, the final arbiter of truth in the universe, said so? ...
Why The Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
Nice Deb —
... Are you afraid that if you were even to raise the subject with your friends that they will think you wear a tinfoil hat, because Factcheck.org, the final arbiter of truth in the universe, said so? ...
Why The Barack Hussein Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Are you afraid that if you were even to raise the subject with your friends that they will think you wear a tinfoil hat, because Factcheck.org, the final arbiter of truth in the universe, said so? ...
For running questionable anti-Obama ad, Chicago Tribune wins Media PUTZ of the Week
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... that makes finding regular elements of the paper much more difficult. Don't be fooled by the hometown paper aspect: the Chicago Tribune is still a Republican paper, even though its endorsement of Obama was the first ever for a Democrat. The Chicago Tribune willingly accepted an ad against a person who legitimately was elected president of the United States of which the ...
Slothful Friday blogging
The Sideshow —
Born in the USA: FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed [Obama's] original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said. This still doesn't shut ...
Nationality Act of 1940: Nipping wingnut memes in the bud
Angry Bear —
... Although Donofrio v. Wells is in some sense actually before the Supreme Court it almost certainly isn't going anywhere. First there is no longer any serious question about where Obama was born, his office has a certified and sealed official copy of his birth certificate. FactCheck.org has clear photos (~2 meg jpgs) showing this in much better detail than the scanned version normally circulating the web. Born in the USA. Second it would appear that even if Donofrio v. Wells was somehow upheld it would only apply to New Jersey. And third the NJ Attorney General seems to have ...
Berth, Sir Tifficutt?
The Democratic Daily —
... that Obama was born in Kenya, and might possibly be a citizen of Indonesia….
To which I note:
Well, look. The type is clearly justified, but no typewriters could justify in 1961. If you look closely, you’ll see Dan Rather’s fingerprints all over it.
And, there still is an actual Flat Earth Society. To the extent that solipsism doesn’t rule o’er all, the evidential case is pretty well cut and dried:
Fact Check DOT Org (updated)
Obama’s birth announcement in the Honolulu ...
Another Obama Isn't Eligible To Be President Suit Dies At The Supreme Court
Ace of Spades HQ —
... by birth is established by the mere fact of birth under the circumstances defined in the Constitution. Every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States, and needs no naturalization. See? Two types of citizenship only...birth and naturalization, there's no third choice according the Supreme Court. If you accept that Obama was born in the US, then he's eligible. Now there are some who don't accept the ' short form Certificate of Live Birth ' that Obama has offered up and want to see his original ...
New Troll-Suit Challenges Barack Obama's & John McCain's Eligibility
Politics Daily —
... Christina Cedeno points out, there has never been any challenge like this made to any other candidate. Why Obama? What is it about him that makes them question the legitimacy of his native birth? Hmmmm. These "birfers," as they're apparently being called now, don't have even the tiniest fig leaf to hide behind. There's no good reason to have asked about Obama's birth certificate in the first place, let alone to still question it after it has been produced, verified, and certified. They might just as well sue NASA, demanding proof that the ...
Obama, One More Time
The Republic of T. —
... I take this as sign that the Obama administration knows the kind of people they’re dealing with. After the amount of bandwith burned over Obama’s birth certificate, not to mention ...
Occam's butterknife
The Reaction —
... , at the evidence they are demanding: the evidence already on record and verified. His birth certificate has been furnished, verified by the Registrar of Vital Statistics and the Health Department of the State of Hawaii and by an independent group. Let me say it again: The director of Hawaii’s Department of Health confirmed Oct. 31, 2008 that Obama was born in Honolulu. ...
Richard Shelby Goes There, Suggests Obama Is An Illegal President
Swampland —
... First off: Despite the protester who regularly screams at me about Obama's birth certificate when I approach the White House gates, there is no serious doubt that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. None. Nada. Zippo. Hawaiian state officials have said there is no doubt--they have the paperwork. Factcheck.org has seen and touched a copy of Obama's birth certificate. The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed, without comment, a lawsuit alleging otherwise. The rest is just unsubstantiated conspiracy.
And honorable U.S. Senators are supposed to steer clear of ...
GOP Sen. Shelby Questions Obama's Citizenship
TPM Election Central —
... The conspiracy-mongering that Barack Obama is secretly a Kenyan citizen who has hidden his real birth certificate has now found its way into the utterances of a United States Senator: Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama.
"Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate," Shelby said on Saturday, in response to a constituent's question at a public event. "You have to be born in America to be president."
Click here for FactCheck.org's debunking of this whole business.
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Senator Richard Shelby Undermines Our President in Wartime
Firedoglake —
... ) last August when FactCheck.org examined the certificate of true birth and provided additional documentation. Senator Richard Shelby needs to stop giving aid and comfort to America's enemies, especially while our President leads warfighters on two battlefronts left to him by his predecessor. It's one thing to disagree publicly about policy, and the Senator knows that. It's quite another thing to publicly question whether our President meets the Constitutional qualifications to hold the office he was resoundingly elected to in November. ...
Cullman Times Stands Behind Shelby Story
News —
... who viewed the statement as an intentional questioning of Obama's citizenship after such talking points were thoroughly vetted over the course of the campaign. Jonathan Gaffeo, a spokesman for Shelby, questioned the validity of the reporting in a statement. "The Cullman Times article contains an incomplete account, and therefore a distortion, of Sen. Shelby's comments regarding President Obama's citizenship. At the town hall meeting in Cullman, Sen. Shelby laid out the Constitutional qualifications for the Presidency and said that, while he hasn't personally seen the ...
The Birth Certificate That Wouldn't Die
Politics Daily —
... on the actual document itself, the claim is that the eyewitnesses are lying. The bar is forever raised by the doubter to the point where only first-hand, empirical proof will suffice. In other words, unless a time machine is suddenly invented, enabling the skeptics to travel back and actually witness Obama's Hawai'i birth (or JFK's murder, or the moon landing), then, hey, you never know. To my mind, the definitive take-down of the birth-certificate conspiracy can be found at FactCheck.org. Salient bit: ...author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks ...
CPAC audience roars with applause when speaker suggests Obama wasn’t born in U.S.
Think Progress —
... is attending the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference today. Earlier this afternoon, Cliff Kincaid, head of a conservative group Accuracy in Media, introduced Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Kincaid suggested that President Obama is a communist, then suggested Obama was not born in the United States — to which the crowd cheered wildly. Watch it:
Despite the fact that it has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked, radical conservatives continue to peddle the ...
CPAC Attendees Wear Signs Saying, “Kick Me, I’m A Republican”
Comments from Left Field —
... about that, either.
Here is the latest example:
ThinkProgress is attending the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference today. Earlier this afternoon, Cliff Kincaid, head of a conservative group Accuracy in Media, introduced Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Kincaid suggested that President Obama is a communist, then suggested Obama was not born in the United States — to which the crowd cheered wildly.
[...]
Despite the fact that it has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked, radical conservatives continue to peddle the ...
A glimpse into the mind of insanity
The Reaction —
... conservatives these days (and most days)? At the CPAC conference yesterday -- and what a gathering of the fucking crazy that is, year after year -- Cliff Kincaid, head of the right-wing group Accuracy in Media (one of the world's great misnomers), insinuated that Obama is a communist who was not born in the U.S., repeating one of the many viruses currently coursing through the right-wing insanitarium. As Think Progress notes, this lie "has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked, but of course the truth never stops ...
Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
SteveAudio —
... with others issued in the same time and place, and the embossed seal and signature don't show through very well on the scanned front image made available on the Internet because they were applied to the back of the original document, not the front. Those who have actually touched and examined the original certificate have verified and documented that it bears all the elements of a valid certificate of live birth. ...
Missouri Birther Caucus: discredited Obama myths should be written in the Constitution
Fired Up! Missouri —
... And not just future candidates -- Cooper wants the Secretary of State to independently verify the citizenship status of every previous presidential candidate.
Of course, Cooper and his 15 co-sponsors only really care about the birth certificate of one presidential candidate: Barack Obama. Right-wing Republicans have been obsessed with Obama's birth certificate and citizenship for months, but their half-baked ideas have been shot down again and again and again. The facts haven't slowed all of them down yet, though, and Cooper is ...
Obama's Wikipedia Page Lacks References to Ayers, Birth Certificate
Politics Daily —
... Additionally, Jeremiah21 wrote about the thoroughly discredited invented "scandal" regarding Barack Obama's status as a "natural born citizen," which likely indicated a lack of sincere research to the editors: ...
Rep. Cynthia Davis joins Timothy Jones in Birther conspiracy lawsuit
Fired Up! Missouri —
... alleging that Obama is actually an Indonesian man named Barry Soetoro (no joke). Right-wing Republicans have been obsessed with Obama's birth certificate and citizenship for a long time, but their half-baked ideas have been shot down again and ...
Cynthia Davis now calling for a federal trial to prove Obama's citizenship
Fired Up! Missouri —
Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-Pluto) won't give it up. As we've been reporting for a while, Davis, Rep. Tim Jones and other members of the Missouri Birther Caucus have been pursuing a discredited, debunked and otherwise laughed-at theory alleging that President Obama isn't actually an American citizen.
Today, Davis has signed a letter stating her belief that Obama is "usurping the office of President" and asking for a jury trial to verify Obama's citizenship. She also wants the governments of Pakistan, ...
Chief birther conspiracist claims five State Reps lined up for St. Louis event
Fired Up! Missouri —
... which legislators, beyond Mike McGhee (R-Odessa), are exepcted for the St. Louis event. Reps. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) and Cynthia Davis (R-Pluto) are also on record as supporting Taitz' wacko lawsuits. McGhee was one of 16 State Representatives who wanted to address their bunk conspiracy theory with a constitutional amendment in March.
And while Barack Obama has provided an official, certified copy of his birth certificate, it's been tough to ...
Rep. Neugebauer: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Obama Is A Citizen
Think Progress —
... and various right-wing media outlets, FactCheck.org has extensively researched the issue and provided Obama’s birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser, a copy of the certificate with a raised seal, and the stamp of Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka. ...
Honolulu Star-Bulletin refuses to run WorldNetDaily’s ‘birther’ ad attack against Obama.
Think Progress —
... that many in the conservative media — including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Fox Nation, the Washington Times, and the LA Times’s Andrew Malcolm — “have advanced various versions of the discredited myth that Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate, is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, and is not eligible to be president.” Among those pushing this false myth is the right-wing site WorldNetDaily (WND), which last night ...
Pat Boone Joins the Birthers
The Political Carnival —
... This is actually from yesterday's news, but it's so worth a quickie: The aging song stylist uses the latest edition of his Newsmax.com column to demand the president’s birth certificate (it’s here, by the way) [...] [A] widely known and experienced investigator, Dr. Jerome Corsi, flew to Kenya in search of a certificate of birth he had reason to believe existed there. But he was detained and stonewalled by Kenyan officials. He couldn’t obtain confirmation but ...
Ed Emery joins the Birther Caucus
Fired Up! Missouri —
... The theory of the false birth certificate has been thoroughly de-bunked by numerous non-partisan groups. But Taitz argues that all of those groups are controlled by Obama... ...
Heck No, He Won't Go
JustOneMinute —
... this one. However, this seems even weirder - what in the world could the obstacle be to releasing a long form birth certificate ( Fact Check was delighted with the short form)? ...
Fox News Legitimizes Birthers
News Hounds —
... has reported, Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate is widely available on the internet. FactCheck.org has also extensively researched the subject. Their conclusion: Born in the U.S.A. But Fox News has started reporting on birthers without noting the baselessness of their claims, and in ways that lend legitimacy to their efforts. With video. ...
Obama birther claims soldier’s revoked orders will have ‘disastrous’ ‘consequences’ for the U.S. military.
Think Progress —
... The reserve soldier who argued he should not have to go to Afghanistan because of far-fetched claims that President Obama is not legally eligible to be commander-in-chief has had his deployment orders revoked. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook filed a request with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia on July 8 seeking a temporary restraining order and ...
Fox Continues Promoting Birther Lawsuit While Ignoring Red Flags Indicating It’s A Hoax
News Hounds —
... lawyer expressed joy at this outcome and they took it as an admission on the part of the military that the president is not, in fact, a legitimate citizen by birth.”
A Fox News producer similarly suggested that the Obama administration was trying to sweep the matter under the rug by posting the banner: After claiming Obama not U.S. Born soldier has his order revoked.
Once again Hannity failed to point out that Obama’s birth certificate has been produced, that FactCheck.org, (hardly a liberal or Democratic organization) has concluded that Obama was “Born ...
Is “Birther” Thread On Fox Nation Deliberate Lie Or Unintentionally Inaccurate?
News Hounds —
... USA. In the bizarro and very hypocritical world of right wing politics, Cook is seen as a hero to all those patriotic Americans who just can’t accept that we have an African American Democrat in the White House. Hence, the “birther” movement which creates the kind of rhetoric that, if used against a Republican, would elicit cries of “treason!" So we shouldn’t be surprised that Fox Nation is fully on board with the “birthers” whose belief that Barack Obama is not a citizen has been debunked – something you won’t see on Fox Nation. But in the case of today's Fox Nation "birther" ...
Dobbs wonders whether President Obama is undocumented.
Think Progress —
... President Obama has, in fact, presented a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate that includes a raised seal and the signature stamp of Hawaii state registrar, Alvin T. Onaka. While guest-hosting Lou Dobb’s own television show, CNN’s Kitty Pilgrim said there is “ ...
Matthews To GOP Rep. Advancing ‘Birther’ Myth: ‘You Are Feeding The Whacko Wing Of Your Party’
Think Progress —
... the discredited myth that President Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen. These so-called “birthers” claim that Obama hasn’t produced his a valid birth certificate to prove that he is eligible to be president. ( ...
Lou Dobbs Joins Birthers
NJDC Blog —
... about the president’s place of birth have been asked and answered many times since before the election, and the president’s birth certificate says he was born in Hawaii. The state’s Republican governor and other officials have backed that up. CNN has fully investigated the issue, found no basis for the questions about the president’s birthplace, but the controversy lives on, especially on the Internet.
Despite overwhelming proof to the contrary (see: birth certificate and birth announcement) provided during the campaign, the ...
CNN not responsible for Dobbs radio show
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Rainey's piece follows Dobbs' bashing the "national liberal media" -- and specifically the LA Times -- on his radio show Tuesday. In looking at Dobbs' claims that there are still questions to be answered, Rainey spoke with Brooke Jackson, director of the Annenberg Political Fact Check, which debunked the theory last August. ...
Stewart to Dobbs: 'Do you even watch CNN?'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Yesterday, I noted that Lou Dobbs has been giving the "birther" conspiracy theory plenty of time on his radio show and on CNN, while the issue continues getting discussed on other cable news shows.
Now, Jon Stewart takes a look at that coverage, which includes Dobbs' fill-in host debunking the story, and poses the question: "Do you even watch CNN?"
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Dobbs swings back at critics: "limp-minded, lily-livered lefties"
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Lou Dobbs last night for raising questions about President Obama's birth certificate days after his own show debunked the "birther" conspiracy theory. ...
Matthews vs. Liddy
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... of the week. This time it was G. Gordon Liddy being presented with documentation that Obama was born in the United States, and still not buying it. ...
CNN Prez: 'Birther' story is dead
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... CNN President Jon Klein emailed some "Lou Dobbs Tonight" staffers last night regarding the debunked "birther" theory, informing them that "it seems this story is dead." ...
So Now 'Birthers' Are Racist?
JustOneMinute —
... from his mother and/or maternal grandparents assuring the authorities that a smiling and happy baby Barack was delivered at home, no physician attending. As to the truth, who knows? As to why Obama won't release the long form, again, who knows? As to why the NY Times won't even clarify the nature of the dispute or explain why the long form is relevant, well, that is obvious. Folks who want to dive in would do well to start here . MORE: Why would the grandparents lie? Fact Check can't imagine, saying this: It is less distantly possible that the ...
CNN’s Howard Kurtz Criticizes CNN’s Lou Dobbs For Giving Airtime To ‘Birther’ Conspiracies
Think Progress —
... was born there in 1961?
CROSSLEY: It absolutely is not responsible.
Watch it:
As one of the top media critics in the country, Kurtz has been criticized for not commenting on Dobbs’ birther obsession in his Washington Post column. As has been noted by many, the birther claims that President Obama wasn’t born in America are groundless.
but he don't know nuttin bout birthers no babies!
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... the truth about the president's birth is not in dispute. it has been verified by factcheck.org, among many other serious news organizations, and his official birth documents have been made public. cnn itself has repeatedly reported on the falsity of the claims of the "birthers," and the network's esteemed legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, recently called those claims "a joke." as you know, even mr. dobbs' frequent fill-in anchor, ...
CNN?s Howard Kurtz Criticizes CNN?s Lou Dobbs For Giving Airtime To ?Birther? Conspiracies
The Hollywood Liberal —
... the air, talk about these claims, demand proof, when we have seen a copy of the birth certificate? When Hawaii officials say that Barack Obama was born there in 1961? CROSSLEY: It absolutely is not responsible . Watch it: As one of the top media critics in the country, Kurtz has been criticized for not commenting on Dobbs’ birther obsession in his Washington Post column. As has been noted by many , the birther claims that President Obama wasn’t born in America are groundless . Kristol on Obama: ?He is an arrogant man.? On Fox News Sunday, the pundit ...
Inhofe: The birthers ‘have a point,’ ‘I don’t discourage it.’
Think Progress —
Recently, the birther movement has gained greater notoriety, with CNN’s Lou Dobbs promoting the discredited myth and right-wing activists confronting members of Congress. Though the conspiracy theory has been thoroughly-debunked, some Republicans continue to feed “the wacko wing” of the party. For instance, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) recently told Politico that he thinks the birthers “have a point”:
But as if to illustrate the touchiness of the subject, Hoekstra quickly added: “Not that this isn’t ...
Kurtz calls birther claim 'ludicrous'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
POLITICO's Lisa Lerer and Daniel Libit take a look today at how the GOP is handling birthers, the conspiracy-minded conservatives who question whether President Obama is a US citizen.
It's only Republican lawmakers dealing with the issue, but the media, too. CNN's Lou Dobbs has been pushing the issue -- enough for CNN president Jon Klein to ruled the issue "dead."
And yesterday on "Reliable Sources," Howard Kurtz -- who's been quiet on the matter -- questioned how the media's been handling this ...
Gibbs: Birth Certificate Controversy is “Made-Up Fictional Nonsense”
Political Punch —
... or Factcheck.org, those in the business of gauging the truth have definitively stated that President Obama was born in the U.S., in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. The campaign last year provided a copy of his ...
Gibbs Slams the 'Birthers': Obama's a Citizen
The Caucus —
... asked him, “Is there anything you can say that will make the ‘birthers’ go away?” You know the ‘birthers’ — a fringe element that insists that President Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate isn’t enough to convince them that he was born in the United States? They’ve been getting a lot of air time recently on the Internet, where conspiracy theories live and flourish. And CNN’s Lou Dobbs earlier this month was the target of heated criticism for appearing to give credence to a rumor that has been widely discredited. “I almost hate to indulge in such an august setting as the White ...
Gibbs on Birthers: Nothing will convince them
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... when Hawaii’s Health Department went paperless eight years ago, so there may be no long-form still available to produce. Even so, whatever they have on record is sufficient to warrant an official state certificate attesting to his birth in Honolulu , which is good enough for me and for 95 percent of the rest of the population although YMMV. I do a lot of dumping on Birthers so in the spirit of reconciliation I’ll direct you to the most credible person on their side that I know, the always thoughtful and insightful ...
Inhofe blames Obama for birther conspiracy theory
Daily Kos —
... Inhofe, suffice it to say, is full of crap. The White House -- and the Obama campaign before it -- has thoroughly debunked these conspiracy theories to the satisfaction of independent observers. ...
Silly Summer News and Iran's Slow Boil
Swampland —
The news tends to go small in the dog days of summer. At the White House today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fielded a half dozen questions (of various formulations) about the kind of beer President Obama would drink when he meets with Skip Gates and the embattled Cambridge Police Officer. (No clear answer. POTUS, who is not much of a drinker, drank Bud once.) Other ( non )questions about the birthplace of Barack Obama, a sort of ultra-potent conspiracy catnip, have leaked into the White House briefing room and onto cable news, a sudden discovery of the obvious nothing. (A DVD ...
MoveOn, immigration group target Dobbs
Michael Calderone's Blog —
As Lou Dobbs continues pushing the "birther" story on CNN, the network is getting plenty of negative attention.
Jon Stewart mocked him on The Daily Show, while both Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter took shots at Dobbs for pushing a debunked conspiracy theory.
But it's not only media figures criticizing the network. Today, MoveOn.org sent members a petition for CNN president Jon Klein titled, "CNN: Deal with your Lou Dobbs problem."
Meanwhile, Greg Sargent reports that immigration group ...
WaPo reporter: Birthers get media attention because ‘there is no videotape of Obama being born.’
Think Progress —
... While it is unclear how video of Obama’s birth would prove he was born in Hawaii (do doctors and nurses who deliver babies in Hawaii wear leis?), actual proof (birth certificate and ...
The Original, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
From Factcheck: FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said. Here's where they say it is: ...
Roy Blunt sides with the birthers
Daily Kos —
... Birthers on the Hill video, this one featuring Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO and a GOP Senate candidate) claiming that President Obama has not yet supplied a birth certificate proving he was born in Hawaii (he has): ...
So You Think You Can Douche: Hannity, Dobbs, And Beck Compete For Dubious 'Daily Show' Honor (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... things like, "You suppose he's un... no, I won't even use the word undocumented, it wouldn't be right." Since then, and despite OVERWHELMING evidence that President Obama is in fact a citizen, he has kept demanding to see a birth certificate, as if showing it to all those other people doesn't count. ...
O'Reilly Gives Bernie Goldberg a Platform to Blame Obama For Birther Controversy
News Hounds —
... issues -- oh, excuse me, “document issue” – meaning, I guess, he’s an illegal immigrant and should be deported, just as soon as he posts all his grade school artwork and Little League batting records and Boy Scout badges and Ivy League transcripts and Law Review articles and Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate records on the internet. Although O’Reilly just mentioned it on the Factor two nights ago, he failed to note last night that proof of President Obama's Hawaii birth certificate is on the internet for any inquiring minds that want to know. ...
Republicans: The Party for People Who Are Insane. Southern Republicans by Contrast...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... was strongest in the South and among the 60-plus crowd - presumably because seniors can't log on to the Internet and rely on rumor, word of mouth and right-wing talk radio.
When do we start a serious dialog about the Birther movement being a proxy for racism that is unacceptable to articulate in more direct terms?
Can we please get another, very different opposition party to the Democrats?
Barack Obama's birth announcement published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961: ...
The Goldberg-O'Reilly Birther theory: It's an evil Obama plot to make conservatives look like wingnuts
Orcinus —
... Now, as FactCheck.org's definitive piece on the certificate issue explains, this is in fact the "short form" of Obama's birth certificate, not its long form, which is filled out by the hospital and kept in its records. So why doesn't Obama release the long form? Because Hawaiian law doesn't give him that option: ...
Frank Rich: Teachable beer moment ended with a burp--"Village People populism"
The Political Carnival —
... This bizarre “birther” movement, out to prove that Obama is not a naturally born citizen, first gained notice in the summer of 2008 when it was being advanced by the author Jerome Corsi, a leader of the Swift boat assault on Kerry. That it revved up again as Gatesgate boiled over and Sotomayor sped toward Senate confirmation is not a coincidence. ...
Media Matters releases anti-Dobbs ad
Michael Calderone's Blog —
As I mentioned Friday, Media Matters bought space on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News this week to run an ad criticizing Lou Dobbs for pushing the fringe "birther" conspiracy theory into the mainstream. (But what about the newly-discovered Kenyan birth certificate?)
Although the ad isn't slated to run until Tuesday on the cable networks, the liberal watchdog group released it online today.
Still no word on whether CNN will air it, but I'll update when I hear back.
Chuck Norris Challenges Obama on Birth Certificate
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... that he was born there, that Obama's 1961 birth announcement has been unearthed in Hawaii newspapers, that organizations including FactCheck.org have i ...
Red States Plagued by Birther Epidemic, Health Care Crisis
Crooks and Liars —
... But this disturbing denial of the indisputable truth of Obama's U.S. citizenship is far from the only sign of trouble in red state America. There, the health care systems are in critical condition. ...
Chuck Norris is a birther.
Think Progress —
... Obama, of course, has presented a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate that includes a raised seal and the signature stamp of the Hawaii state registrar. Dobbs has said that Obama might have “ ...
O’Reilly Thinks the Birther Movement is “Nonsense” – But Welcomes Two Hardcore Conservatives To Discuss It Anyway
News Hounds —
... O’Reilly, however, left unchallenged the glaring question, being that if there’s no question of the legitimacy of President Obama’s Hawaiian birth, what difference would it make where in Hawaii he were born? But, for the record, Obama’s birth certificate is widely available on the internet and it states, plain as day, that he was born in Honolulu. ...
Jerome Corsi is an idiot
Dean's World —
Really. A blithering, drooling idiot. so too are Chuck Norris and Lou Dobbs. That is all.
Blunt Stands By "Legitimate" Questions About Obama Birth Documents, Says Journalists Lack "Capacity" to Report On The Issue
Fired Up! Missouri —
... have any capacity to talk about that in a legitimate way, so I'm going to stop talking about it," Blunt told a reporter.
Yes, it's reporters who lack the capacity to talk about Obama's birth place, and not the man who -- in late July 2009 -- still thinks the birthers are asking "legitimate" questions.
If only reporters could figure out if Hawaii has verified Obama's birth certificate. Or reviewed his equally-valid certification of life birth. Or spoken with the Hawaii ...
Senate, Clunkers, Birthers, Missouri And Unintelligent Design
DownWithTyranny! —
... If that wasn't enough, two Hawaiian newspapers carried announcements of Obama's birth in August 1961. (Read the Honolulu Advertiser's item from Aug. 13, 1961, nine days after Obama's birth, here.) The traditional joke that Birther debunkers make is that his grandparents must have placed those announcements because they knew that he'd want to run for president nearly five decades later. The truth, though, is that the notices are even stronger pieces of evidence than that. Obama's family didn't place them-- Hawaii did, as it does for all births. The announcements were based ...
Joseph Romm: The top 5 ways the 'birthers' are like the global warming deniers
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... 1. Both groups believe in a mammoth conspiracy theory. The birthers not only believe that Obama's birth documents are forged and that current Hawaii state officials are lying about them. They have to believe in a conspiracy dating back five decades, as Salon explains: two Hawaiian newspapers carried announcements of Obama's birth in August 1961. (Read the Honolulu Advertiser's item from Aug. 13, 1961, nine days after Obama's birth, here.).... The truth, though, is that the notices are even stronger pieces of evidence than that. ...
Send Better Rebuttal - Andrew Sullivan Gets One Point On the Birther Controversy Exactly Right
JustOneMinute —
... reading introduction come away believing that the Annenberg Public Policy Center asked the State of Hawaii for permission to examie th eoriginal certificate? In fact, the State of Hawaii will only release the document to relatives or partis with a tangible interst (not mere US voters); the Annenberg Center examined the certificate held by the Obama campaign, which they claim (almost surely correctly, in my opinion) to have been issued by the State of Hawaii. This is from the relevant Fact Check report : Sullivans' credibility stumbles out of the gate. He continues with a ...
Waiting for John Brown
The Democratic Daily —
... However, FactChecker.org says it obtained Obama's actual certification of live birth and that the document was indeed real. The site discredited some of the claims of Internet bloggers, such as that the certificate as viewed in a scanned copy released by Obama's campaign lacked a raised seal. FactChecker.org also established that many of the alleged flaws in the document noted by bloggers were caused by the scanning of the document. ...
(Re)Birth(er) of the (Un)Cool: Trent Franks Changes Stand on Obama’s Citizenship
Firedoglake —
... Congressman Franks' press secretary, Bethany Haley, got in touch with Glenn Thrush of the Politico and released a statement. Franks still believes Obama was born in the United States; he just cannot figure out why the President won't put all the speculation to rest by releasing his long-form birth certificate. (You know, the one verified by Fact-Check.org, ...
DeLay has 'no idea' if Obama is a citizen
News —
... a question from Chris Matthews, I said: "Why wouldn't the president of the United States show the American people his birth certificate?" You have to show a birth certificate to play Little League baseball. It's a question that should be answered. It's in the Constitution that you have to be a natural-born citizen of the United States to be president. Do you think he isn't a citizen? I have no idea. For the record, see here, here, and here for proof that Obama is, in fact, a citizen.
DeLay has “No Idea” if Obama is a Citizen
NJDC Blog —
... of the United States to be president.”
Asked Newsweek: “Do you think he isn’t a citizen?”
“I have no idea,” said DeLay.
Normally this post would contain an elaborate section of negative tidbits about DeLay, however it’s best to defer to his Wikipedia page. It speaks for itself with great details of his many scandals, hypocrisies, and right-wing positions.
Note to Birthers: Obama is an American citizen. Your case is “frivolous” and you are ...
Re: Poll: Many doubt Obama born in U.S.
newsobserver.com projects - Comments —
... surveyed said they do not believe Obama was born in the U.S., and 20 percent said they were not sure. The survey found that only 24 percent of Republican voters in North Carolina believe Obama was born in the U.S. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. Conservative critics of Obama contend he is not a natural born U.S. citizen and, therefore, not eligible to be president. But the director of the health department in Hawaii, where Obama was born, has confirmed that Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961, as indicated by his birth certificate. ...
Obama Presidential Library: University Of Chicago Already Angling For It?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... considered.
Dr. Eric Whitaker, a close Obama friend who is an executive at the university's medical center, told Bloomberg Obama wasn't thrilled about the idea when asked about a library at the inauguration. "He didn't know if that would be something he would want to do," Whitaker said, adding that Obama floated the idea of a virtual library that wouldn't idolize him.
Should there be an actual structure, Hawaii may have as good a claim on it as Chicago. Obama was born in the Aloha State and only made Chicago his home after law school. ...
New Jersey GOP representative bows to the birthers
Daily Kos —
... It's really amazing. Garrett couldn't muster the courage to state the obvious and extensively documented fact that President Obama is an American citizen. Instead, he gave in to the birther craziness. ...
