I’m Tired Of The Birther Nonsense But The MSM & Left Can’t Get Enough Of It

July 31, 2009 / 12:08 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Why are so many in the media touting a stupid Kos poll*? Could it be…..Journolist?

*Hint: It’s not the Right leaning media promoting this theory. Oh wait, I remember, try to discredit critics of your policies by painting the opposition with the “crazy” brush.

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  • fuster

    Way to go, Melissa! Right-wing nutjobs are going around talking all about this and of course, of course, it’s so damn embarrassing that other right-wing less nutty folks decide to blame it on …..anyone but right-wing nutjobs.

    Of course, you’ll have a great explanation about how the birther bill in the House has 11 Republican co-sponsors. Gohmert of Texas most be a liberal journalist, right? Bill Posey, is a lefty too, right, Melissa?

    Yep, it’s all lefties and only lefties talk about it.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25471.html

  • democratsarefascists

    I’m not a birther, but I’m amazed at how ignorant their critics are of the issues being raised.

    When confronted, or simply asked what they think about this point or that, it’s clear they have no idea what they’re talking about.

  • fuster

    I’m pretty ignorant of what issues they’re raising.
    How can that be, since Melissa says that lefty journalists are incessantly raising them?

    Maybe you, DAF, can list these important points, (not that you believe them, of course).

  • http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog Morgan K Freeberg

    fuster,

    I’ll just jot down here really quickly what I suspect you already know:

    The “birthers” look ridiculous because, and only because, they have been named. What are they trying to say, that Obama was born in Kenya? You have to assert far, far less than that to be labeled a “birther.” To take my position, that Obama was probably born in the United States but He should still produce the original birth certificate — that’s plenty enough to do the trick.

    But without tempers inflamed, I think most reasonable people would say yes…that just makes sense. If the document does exist, let’s quit relying on people saying they’ve seen it, and produce it. All we’ve seen so far is a paper copy from an electronic record from another paper copy that other folks say they’ve seen, that we can’t see. Well, there might be some valid reasons to object to that.

    What are the anti-birthers trying to say?

    Stop asking questions, you’ve seen the “short form,” it’s legit because people say so, Obama is so awesome, you’re a racist for daring to question anything, and you’d better believe what we want you to believe or else we’re going to make fun of you.

    Oh and by the way, let’s all obsess about what nutty people these birthers are, whenever Obama’s approval ratings take a dip. For months. Years. Meanwhile, don’t you dare ask why Obama won’t spend twenty bucks producing the original document…the answer is, it would be a waste of money, these birthers are SO fanatical they’d never believe that either…even though we haven’t personally met any of them and neither have you.

    Stop asking questions or we’ll call you a racist.

    I think the anti-birther position is just a little bit sillier.

    But I’m biased. I’m a “birther,” I think, even though my belief is that His Holiness was born in Hawaii. I’m going to abstain from making fun of those who believe otherwise. So I think that makes me a quasi-birther. An omni-birther. Lacto-ovo birther? Birther-oid?

  • fuster

    Morgan, who would have the original document and why aren’t you people satisfied with a copy?

  • http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog Morgan K Freeberg

    The existence of the original document is verified and a matter of fact.

    Why, other than the obvious political cheap-shot (which is what it is), go to these extraordinary lengths to avoid showing it?

  • O Bloody Hell

    > Morgan, who would have the original document and why aren’t you people satisfied with a copy?

    Demonstrating either ignorance or prevarication. In other words, you’re either too ignorantly stupid to be expressing an opinion or a lying pos. Which is it?

    It’s not a “copy” vs. “the original” that’s the debate here.

    It’s a “short form” vs. “the original long form” that’s at issue. If you don’t know that, then you’re stupid, it’s hardly a hidden detail. If you do know that, then you’re clearly lying in an effort to fool anyone who doesn’t know. As a result, I call “Shenanigans!”

    The “copy” is of the short form. People want to see the long form — and it’s getting to be as much because of the enormous resistance to seeing it that is getting put up as because of any real concern with what is on it. Very few people actually believe it will reveal Obama as not a Constitutionally legitimate PotUS. Aamong other things it would demonstrate far, far too much prescience by his parents, since PotUS is about the only thing it could possibly matter to, and, well, they were hardly the type that actually believed enough in the American system to imagine that little half-black Barry-in-swaddling-clothes could become PotUS in a mere 50 years.

    It’s become kinda like Kerry’s military records. He’s obviously lying about something on it, because it presumably would be a major embarrassment.

    And it’s getting to the point where it’s something that IS within the public interest to know… and considering the proctoscope being relentlessly applied to Sarah Palin’s life, activities past, present, and possible future, it’s real interesting to see how little anyone in the press or the left can muster for something that ought to be required public knowledge in order to even throw your name out as a serious candidate for PotUS.

    All this information — including Obama’s writings as a grad student/law student, as a lawyer, and as a “community organizer” should have been public knowledge over a year ago, and if the media did not suffer from Cranio-Rectal Insertion Syndrome (CRIS) it would clearly have long since ferreted out this information and made it public.

    .

  • Mr. Griffith

    Both the left and right have embarassing fringes. No doubt about it.

    But if ~70% or so of white southerners have doubts about Obama’s place of birth then that is a reportable item. And it may not even be the fringe?

    It isn’t exactly dominating the news. That’s left for Michael Jackson and Kim Kardashian’s dating life. As an MSNBC newsman recently said “healthcare isn’t good for ratings.”

  • fuster

    Dear Bloody whatever, yes asking a question in hope of receiving information is indicative of ignorance.
    Stupidity, I’m less likely guilty of and when you say “too ignorantly stupid to express an opinion” that’s a demonstration that such a condition isn’t one you really honor but in the breech.