August 4, 2009
Updated list of birth certificate posts
Gene Robinson of the Washington Post comments on the “birthers” on Morning Joe. He did an accompanying article in his column because it was barry’s birthday. I wonder if he realizes the words he used are just as bigoted as someone going after Muslims, Jews, Blacks or Lesbians. Switch out “birther” with any of the preceding and what do you hear?
Eugene Robinson: ‘Birthers’ take cake for looniness, paranoia
He is in his 50′s and writes:
If there has been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the “birthers,” I’ve missed it.
Joe Scarborough asks him about the various conspiracies: Bush41 buying cocaine from South America to distribute to people of color in south central LA, meeting the Ayatollah in Paris to tell him to hold the hostages until Ronald Reagan gets into office, Michael Moore and Bush 43 & Osama Bin Laden’s family, JFK assassination.
And he responds that the birthers are “particularly stubborn, persistent and loud crazies who have gotten currency for this bizarre conspiracy theory” and that it was the president’s birthday so he couldn’t resist.
Here are some of his written words from his blog post:
Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy?
He knows it is not paranoid fantasy and if he doesn’t than he’s just plain stupid.
And of course it has to be the right wing.
Yet it persists, out there on the farthest fringes of the right-wing blogosphere.
Mentions Lou Dobbs. Has to discredit any media member who isn’t following the party line:
Oh, and also on CNN, which is usually a little closer to reality.
And here GENE outright lies.
It has been definitively shown that there is not a scintilla of truth, or even the slightest ambiguity, in the whole “birther” idea.
LIE.
Officials in Hawaii have attested again and again that Obama was, in fact, born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961.
LIE.
When the “birthers” demanded to see his birth certificate, state officials produced it.
LIE.
Journalists have looked at this complete nonstory from every angle and concluded that it is, in fact, a complete nonstory.
LIE.
There are no such things as “journalists” in the MSM. They have all been corrupted.
Then he brings up the newspaper notices that mean absolutely nothing. No one vetted where they came from, no barry’s name, no actual place of birth and the address – the only verifiable fact – barry was never verified to have lived there.
There are probably people out there who think the world is flat, and they’re not worth writing about.
He did, didn’t he?
Then he brings up the KOS poll that was ridiculously non-scientific. I have to post that. And then he mentions Lou Dobbs who has said all along that he believes barry was born in US but because barry claims transparency he should just produce it.
Also beyond the Outer Limits of sanity is CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who has been giving prime-time exposure to the “birther” lunacy — even while denying that he believes in it. Dobbs’ obsession with the “story” has embarrassed the network, which has tried to position itself as untainted by political bias. CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein has pronounced the story “dead,” but insists it’s legitimate for Dobbs to examine the alleged controversy, though in fact no controversy exists.
Funny that within 24 hours, Klein changed his tune. Also proven is CNN’s little factcheck with KITTY PILGRIM was a complete and utter menagerie of lies. And “Beyond the Outer Limits of sanity”? Follow the link above and listen to what Dobbs said. He said he believes barry is a citizen – but just produce the birth certificate. How is that the outer limits of anything but logic?
And then the inevitable built in excise for everything barry does – birthers are racists.
Is this an orchestrated campaign to somehow delegitimize Obama’s presidency? Is the fact that he is the first African-American president a factor? Is it that some people can’t or won’t accept that he won the election and serves as commander-in-chief?
Maybe, maybe not. Trying to analyze the “birther” phenomenon would mean taking it seriously, and taking it seriously would be like arguing about the color of unicorns. About all that can be said is that a bunch of lost, confused and frightened people have decided to seek refuge in conspiratorial make-believe. I hope they’re harmless, and I hope they seek help.
Frankly, that pisses me off. What kind of a moron – a Pulitzer Prize winning moron – doesn’t realize that it’s barry’s fault the “birthers” exist? Had barry actually released his birth certificate and if it actually said he was born in Hawaii – this would be a complete non-issue.
It’s shocking to me who are these Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. Mo Dowd won one and she is a confirmed plagiarist.
And instead of telling barry to just release it, GENE hopes American citizens the lost, confused and frightened people who have decided to seek refuge in conspiratorial make-believe with a legitimate – yes LEGITIMATE – question are harmless and get help.
I look with great satisfaction to when these “journalists” are proven corrupt and barry is proven to be a fraud. It just may be that I will be looking from beyond.
