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CPAC Crowd Applauds Suggestion That Obama's Birth Certificate is a Fake
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Barack ObamaApparently the birfers (or as I always preferred "birthers") are not only lurking on the internet. A loud (but hopefully small) contingent of them showed up at CPAC today. Watch this short (and hopefully totally out of context) video of America's Survival's Cliff Kincaid as he suggests that Obama might not have been born in Hawaii. (h/t Think Progress via tweet by allahpundit) I want to stress that in my heart of hearts, I do not believe this fabricated conspiracy theory is representative of all, or even most of the thoughtful conservatives who ...
CPAC audience roars with applause when speaker suggests Obama wasn’t born in U.S.
Think Progress —
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. Watch it:
Despite the fact that it has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked, radical conservatives continue to peddle the ridiculous myth. Last weekend, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) noted that he had never ...
It Gets Worse On The Right
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
From CPAC:
Hat tip: TP.
The Stupid Party
Balloon Juice —
Daniel Larison once again points out the obvious:
It seems to me that conservatives and Republicans have assumed the GOP is the natural governing party, at least regarding the Presidency and to some extent as it relates to Congress since ‘94, which is why so many have continued to insist that America is a “center-right nation” in face of mounting evidence that it is not and hasn’t been for a while. Symbolic gimmickry does stem in part from a lack of confidence, but it is more the product of a movement and party that have ceased to understand, much less address, most of the pressing concerns of working- and middle-class ...
Brainster's Blog — Moron Birthers at CPAC Yet another example of the dementia that has infested the conservative movement lately.
A glimpse into the mind of insanity
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings Just how fucking crazy are 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 ...
CPAC: Is This the Image Republicans Want to Project?
Patterico's Pontifications —
Ah, CPAC.
First you have Cliff Kincaid suggesting Obama may not have been born in this country:
And a roar of approval and lots of clapping.
Then you have John Bolton talking about the possibility of an American city being nuked, making the point that this prospect is not a tiny threat — and saying: “pick one at random, Chicago . . .”
Which gets laughter and plenty of clapping.
This is great, because this is how we want Republicans portrayed to the country at large. I think ...
Agita Alert: Cliff Kincaid Suggests Obama Not Born in US to Applause from CPAC
Ace of Spades HQ —
Agita Alert: Cliff Kincaid Suggests Obama Not Born in US to Applause from CPAC It's the kind of throwaway line guaranteed to get laughs and applause. But is it worth it? Nope. We conservatives are already alienated from the rest of the country by about a 65/35 split on a lot of critical issues. We're already marginalized. We really don't have to increase the marginalization by pushing silly nits like this. There are a lot of issues we can potentially win on -- but this ain't one of them. I view this as unserious stuff when we'e got to be deadly serious indeed. John Bolton's Mustache of White Bushy Justice was unable to control its host organism and let out a joke about ...
