I don’t know if Fox has ever reported on anything accurately.  Their journalism reflects their propensity to give their viewers what they crave rather than report the news.  That’s not a news organization, that’s a reality show.

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WTF:

“In my opinion, any mandate coming from government is not a good thing, so obviously … there will be more the explanation coming from former governor, Romney, on his support for government mandates … Even on a state level and even a local level, mandates coming from a governing body, it’s tough for a lot of us independent Americans to accept, because we have great faith in the private sectors and our own families … and our own businessmen and women making decisions for ourselves. Not any level of government telling us what to do,” – Sarah Palin, tweaking Romney on the day he announced his candidacy.

Would someone like to translate this inane, second grade gibberish?

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God Bless Fox News for reporting on what is really important. The president finally decided to put the Guinness down, leave Europe, and pay his respects to those lost in the devastating tornadoes in Joplin.

Fox breaks the REAL news.  That news wasn’t the terrific, humbling, unifying speech given by the president.  It wasn’t the moving ceremony conducted by the city of Joplin.  It was the fact that the president may, or may not have been chewing gum during the service.  Watch the very socialist, Kenyan-like behavior below:

I’m sure it was watermelon flavored too.  Trifling.

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Jerome Corsi’s new book, ‘Where is the birth certificate?’ | is #6 on the New York Times bestseller list. 17% of Americans still believe Obama was “definitely or probably” not born in the U.S., even after he produced his long-form birth certificate.

No matter the evidence to the contrary, Americans will still chase dragons and unicorns.  That 17% have lost all privileges to participate in grown folk discussions.  Corsi is a peddler of invective, and bases his suppositions on theory and straw-man logic.  The simplicity of this issue cuts quickly to the core of white fright.  It won’t die.  Are partisans this jelly-headed, they conflate lunacy with actual journalism?

Corsi is the herder, and he continues to keep his herd in line by churning out this crap.  The most unfortunate thing is people keep buying it.  They don’t know any better.  Sheep never do.

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Everything else seems to be on the table–Why are rappers coming to the White House?  Where is your birth certificate?  Why are you playing basketball?  Everything of course but jobs and things that affect real people.  This is quite possibly the most bizarre attack yet though, and it says quite a bit about their mindset. This isn’t political dissent. This is strictly comedic fodder, and it makes them look even more parochial and silly than ever.

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“With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. … You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be,” – Senator Rand Paul.

If only Rand Paul could be someone’s slave.  I’m sure he would cease making reckless analogies such as this.

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The straw grasping begins:

Taitz thinks that the birth certificate should peg Obama’s race as “Negro” and not “African.” “In those years … when they wrote race, they were writing ‘Negro’ not ‘African’,” Taitz says. “In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn’t one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or ‘Negro’.

It no longer matters what is presented.  Crazy will be crazy, and shills such as Taitz and Joseph Farah will continue to cultivate their culture of hatred to pursue their narrative.  In the end, we should all resign ourselves to the fact that the Birther Conspiracy is now a part of American lore like the Kennedy assasination, aliens in Roswell, and 9/11 truthers.

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President Obama has played his card:

The White House has released the long form of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate in response to festering questions about whether he was born in the U.S.

The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country. Therefore, the President directed his counsel to review the legal authority for seeking access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting.

Joseph Farah, maniacal birther, countered by doubling down on crazy:

We look forward to reviewing it like so many other Americans do at this late date. But it is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very skeptical public concerning Barack Obama’s parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life.

And so it goes.  I’m not shocked at the response.  Nothing short of the president stepping down, and revealing himself as an African socialist would be good enough for this bizarre crew.  Even in the face of evidence already presented by the president, Farah continues this lunacy.  Why doesn’t he and other birthers simply say what it is that’s driving them?  It’s not the origin of his birth, it’s the prevailing belief that he is an agent of Islam.  Obama is engaging in the most nefarious duplicity ever seen in American history.  He must be outed–not simply because he couldn’t have been born here–but because he is a Muslim.  In this instance, facts mean nothing.  That’s clearly disturbing.

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Allen West proves his disdain for women. Again.

He is becoming quite the caricature.  Those with no talent, foresight, and ability make it more apparent by their constant need for the spotlight.

Anyone can push wedge issues.  That’s why West does it.  He has no ability to lead on any real, substantive ground.  I hope he enjoys this last year and a half in office.  And I hope he’s polishing his resume.

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Donald Trump is the latest to take the birther bait.

“Obama has produced his birth certificate. There were announcements that ran in two contemporaneous Hawaiian newspapers at the time. The head of the Hawaiian medical records has announced, ‘I have seen the long form you all want.’ I don’t know why the long form is considered more credible than the short form. They’re both from the same office. The State Department accepts the short form or as we call it, the birth certificate,” – Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity.

Ann Coulter, voice of reason.  I would hardly consider Coulter a fan of the president.  That’s what makes birtherism comical and frightening.  It’s the myth that won’t die, even in the face of mountainous evidence debunking it at every level.  It’s the story only rednecks, conspiracy theorists, and attention whores, lend credence to–because their one pulsing brain cell lacks the ability to cogently argue any other point related to actually moving the country forward.  It’s the theory knowledgeable and rational conservatives debunk as nonsense. They believe it knocks their party off message, effectively labeling them kooks.  And they’re right on target.

Bitherism is a virus of inexplicable measure, and it has injected itself into the bloodstreams of the majority of the conservative base.  It’s as much narrative driven as it is circus, eliciting foaming  mouthed reaction from the most rabid right wingers.  With many high-profile conservatives refusing to denounce the lunacy– and some tacitly lending credence to the more vocal nuts–the lions are getting their red meat, and choking on it.

It continues to perplex me that this story– one I initially wrote about two years ago–still has legs.  Legs that seem to be propelling the myth higher.  But at what cost?

Conservatives must know the damage pushing this meme can do not just to their chances of recapturing the white house, but to their brand as a legitimate alternative to liberal policies.  Forward thinking Americans are loathe to support conspiracy theorists and panderers to the lunatic fringe.

The clang of birther noise has now managed to make it’s way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where President Obama addressed it for the first time along with it’s new spokesman Donald Trump.  The president called it a “losing strategy,” and he’s right.  It’s a potential long term disaster, for reasons just outlined.

The most amazing things about this bizarre mess, is the paper trail.  Yes, there is a paper trail, but it exists not as the smoking gun.  It exists to support what every American should already know–the president was born here.  Period.  Despite this, Trump will continue to perpetuate the myth.  He’ll continue to waste his money on private investigators.  Blogs will continue to publish bizarre ad hominem attacks on the president and his family.  They will continue to create phony Kenyan birth certificates to buttress their theories.  And weak-kneed conservatives will continue to bow down to the rabid, ignorant wing of their party. They will continue to prop up the idea that the president of the United States is a Kenyan Muslim, bent on subverting American power and coalescing it into some sort of socialist Muslim cabal.

We entertain this story at our peril.  Conspiracy theories–whether it’s the truthers or the birthers–diminish our capacity to lead, to define an agenda, to pace the world as we’ve always done, and to command the respect befitting the United States of America.

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