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The same people who distrust Factcheck, namely birthers, also distrust the MSM, even Fox, so I don't see how distributing copies of it to ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and the rest would satisfy any of them.

Likewise, the birther controversy has been largely confined to the internet, so I really don't see the imperative of reaching people without online access, who most likely hadn't even heard of the controversy.

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Curiosity, you are getting funnier and funnier by the day. I think you are starting to lose your sense of reason, that is, you don't seem to be thinking topics through very carefully before you write about them at this website. It looks more and more to me that you are more worried about winning an argument than you are about in looking at the Obama birth certificate controversy in an honest way.

For example:

1. CBS 60 MINUTES show: Can you really equate a copy of Obama's birth certificate being displayed on internet site FactCheck with a copy being discussed and dissected on the CBS show 60 Minutes, where they will probably have document experts who discuss how they put the Obama birth certificate through all kinds of tests.

2. NBC DATELINE show: I can't wait for investigative show DATELINE, like CBS 60 MINUTES, putting Obama's birth certificate, probably Obama's short form, through all kinds of tests and questioning some of the best document people in the country about Obama's birth certificate as they hold up the copy in front of the tv camera.

3. ABC 20/20 show: 20/20, like 60 MINUTES and DATELINE, will surely do a detailed discussion about every item on the Obama short form birth certificate that they too hold up in front of the camera for all the world to do. Again, they will also discuss Obama's birth certificate issue between now and election day Nov. 2012.

4. FoxNews: And do you realize what kind of exciting shows people like Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly, Chris Wallace and Geraldo would have if they had a copy of Obama's birth certificate in hand and up close? They would probably have a panel of experts on their shows to discuss Obama's birth certificate on just about every one their shows from now until election day Nov. 2012.

5. Trump: Have you been hiding in a cave the last few weeks? Because if you had not, you would have seen and heard Trump suddenly put the Obama birth certificate into the mainstream media news world-wide as a serious topic.

6. That is, if the Obama birth certificate controversy was at one time only an internet controversy as you say above, then Trump has changed all that because he has now made sure that it is also a full-blown mainstream news controversy. It also looks like the Trump Obama birth certificate controversy is not going away any time soon from being a hot topic in the world-wide mainstream media news.

7. So, again, your idea that Obama's birth certificate being displayed on FactCheck is just as good as being displayed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and FoxNews is funny to the point of being, as former President Clinton recently said, "ludicrous."

I agree with you that giving it to FactCheck had a different effect than would giving it to ABC, NBC, and the rest of the MSM. However, I don't think giving it to the MSM would convince anyone who isn't already dead set against voting him anyway no matter what he does. So he understandably hasn't bothered.

As to Trump, well, that's a relatively recent phenomenon, but it hasn't really changed the MSM's appraoch to the issue. Yes, it has them talking about it more, but it hasn't made them take it seriously. That's because there is already enough evidence in the public domain to prove Obama's eligibility beyond reasonable doubt, so the story is more about Trump's being an oddball more than anything else.