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Maddow Challenges Romney’s Use Of Trump While He Insists Obama Is A ‘Kenyan Usurper’
Mediaite.com ^ | May 26, 2012 | Frances Martel/Rachel Maddow

Posted on 05/27/2012 7:48:01 AM PDT by Seizethecarp

Donald Trump is many things, but in the political world, he has made his recent name on being a birther. This argued Rachel Maddow last night, giving him credit for being a great asset to Mitt Romney’s campaign but questioning the morality of having a birther be a great asset to one’s campaign. What to do, Maddow asked, when “the single best known household name to speak up” for you also thinks the President is a “Kenyan Usurper”?

“Nobody can be responsible for the views of all their supporters,” Maddow noted, arguing that if you, the viewer, had wacky beliefs and also liked Romney, that wasn’t really his problem. “But Donald Trump is not you– he is a prominent part of the Romney campaign.” Romney, she concluded, was “raising money off of Donald Trump… while Donald Trump is simultaneously preaching that President Obama is secretly not really the President,” and those two facts are not severable.

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MSNBC, known to take copy directly from the White House, has sent out Maddow to attempt to shame Romney into denouncing Trump in the best Alinsky fashion by making it politically incorrect to be associated with a "birther" like Trump (warning to all other public figures of over-the-top shaming if they dare to challenge Barry's eligibility).
1 posted on 05/27/2012 7:48:10 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

Who names their son Rachel in the first place?


2 posted on 05/27/2012 7:53:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: Seizethecarp

If Rachel Maddow is whining about it, Trump must be doing something right.


3 posted on 05/27/2012 7:55:08 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Seizethecarp

All Romney has to say is we are still in a free country and Donald Trump has the right to his own opinions.


4 posted on 05/27/2012 7:56:35 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Seizethecarp
Also, when asked about his own opinion on Obama being born in Kenya or Hawaii or wherever, he needs to reply;

"My thoughts on this matter are still 'evolving'"

5 posted on 05/27/2012 7:58:06 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Seizethecarp

Commie usurper things are now coming into focus with the Arpaio investigation. The new blockbuster is that obama sr is NOT obama dad, it was a “cover” story. The mother ann dunham had traveled to kenya and had lil’ barry there. The real dad is frank marshall davis or paul robeson etc. Obama was Soetoro at Occidental college, went to pakistan for many months and returned as “barack obama kenyan”, this is when his hawaii birth records were “updated”. He identified to the book publisher as born in kenya from 1992 through early 2007 when he ran for usurper of USA.


6 posted on 05/27/2012 8:00:12 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Seizethecarp

I’d like to hear Gov. Romney say: “Well, his official biography provided to his literary agent stated quite clearly he was born in Kenya and I haven’t heard anything from him to refute that, so you’ll have to take this matter up with the President.”


7 posted on 05/27/2012 8:03:36 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Seizethecarp

Oh please, please, please can we play name the nuttiest supporter of Obama or Romney? Obama wins by a long shot (and with a much longer list.)


8 posted on 05/27/2012 8:04:50 AM PDT by kdubs
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To: Seizethecarp

“Hey Giraffe Neck. STFU!”


9 posted on 05/27/2012 8:05:47 AM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: Seizethecarp

Rachel Maddows

10 posted on 05/27/2012 8:10:54 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: Seizethecarp

Folks, Consider the source, Ms Maddow!!! No one watches and no one listens!!! end of story. Whar a butthead, deadbeat. And.....amazing, she actually believes she is smart. Sad piece of humnaity, just like Obama, useless.


11 posted on 05/27/2012 8:15:49 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: kdubs

Mitt is fixin to get burned.

Mitt Romney, All the brains and half the charm of Joe Biden.


12 posted on 05/27/2012 8:19:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Better yet, Romney should admit that he (Romney) is not certain that Obama was born in Hawaii until he sees a bona fide copy of the BC.

He should also make the statement that the entire nation has the right to know Obama’s, and any president’s, personal history.


13 posted on 05/27/2012 8:19:29 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Seizethecarp
With the new proof of Obama marketing himself a a Kenyan born writer. He was the first birther, they should respond by throwing is back at him.
14 posted on 05/27/2012 8:19:33 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Seizethecarp
Obama has failed to prove that he is a natural born citizen of this country. There are still many unanswered questions and missing records. The fake birth certificate the white house put up on their website is kind of suspicious. Also the fake draft card and social security card are questionable.

Undoubtedly Obama's records will be sealed for fifty years when he leaves the presidency. But the real shame will be on the failed journalists of the media when the truth eventually comes out.

15 posted on 05/27/2012 8:20:29 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: Seizethecarp

Does this mean Mr. Maddow has changed his mind and no longer intends to vote for Governor Romney?


16 posted on 05/27/2012 8:21:34 AM PDT by Marylander (Offendiphobia)
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To: Seizethecarp
obama's ineligibility is the Trump card.

Pull that string and the entire unholy, progressive tapestry comes unraveled.

Of course, the left knows the danger and has fought tooth and nail to keep that loose string as short and as protected as possible.

Too bad for them such poorly woven crap won't stay together for long and one really good yank on that string and it's over. Nothing can stitch it together again.

Fools that they are, I've got to give them and their enablers here credit for keeping such a frayed mess together for this long.

Only true believers, money and fear can pull that off.

17 posted on 05/27/2012 8:21:46 AM PDT by GBA (To understand what is happing to America and why, read The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn)
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To: Seizethecarp

Does this mean Mr. Maddow has changed his mind and no longer intends to vote for Governor Romney?


18 posted on 05/27/2012 8:22:04 AM PDT by Marylander (Offendiphobia)
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To: Seizethecarp

I was just doing last weeks NYTs crossword and one of the answers was “Hawaii”.

The clue?...”Obama’s Birthplace”


19 posted on 05/27/2012 8:23:14 AM PDT by digger48
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Last time Trump was bringing up Obama's background his poll numbers started going down. People were listening, then Corsi was to release his book....Suddenly a PDF BC and Bin Laden was killed.

Seems they are trying to get out in front of this again. Corsi claims more info is coming, Trump is questioning again, Especially with Obama pamphlet.

20 posted on 05/27/2012 8:27:46 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Seizethecarp

I’ll put Donald Trump’s comments up against Jeremiah Wright’s anytime. All Romney has to do is say that and the libs will shut up about it. Of course, Romney already says Wright is off-limits.


21 posted on 05/27/2012 8:31:13 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: Seizethecarp
What to do, Maddow asked, when “the single best known household name to speak up” for you also thinks the President is a “Kenyan Usurper”?

This guilt by association ploy is brought to you by the same people who claim that it is wrong to bring up Obama's long-time association with Wright, Ayers, Rezko, and various and sundry other America haters, low-lifes, drug dealers, Islamist radicals, Commies and crooks...

22 posted on 05/27/2012 8:37:48 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who names their son Rachel in the first place?

LOL! I couldn't stop laughing at that one!
23 posted on 05/27/2012 8:38:06 AM PDT by Ocean_Living
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To: freedumb2003

I think that Maddow fellow looks like Fred Savage and Wil Wheaton myself.


24 posted on 05/27/2012 8:40:32 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: Seizethecarp

THE QUESTION NO LIBERAL WILL DARE TO ANSWER:

Was Obama lying about being born in Kenya from 1991-2007?

Or is he lying NOW?

They will call you every name in the book, but they won’t answer this question. Try it for yourself and see.


25 posted on 05/27/2012 8:45:01 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who names their son Rachel in the first place?

[SFX: Snot bubble] CaptSkip: Laughs
26 posted on 05/27/2012 8:45:29 AM PDT by CaptSkip
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To: oldbrowser
Undoubtedly Obama's records will be sealed for fifty years when he leaves the presidency.
That which is sealed can be unsealed. But I think the Ruskies, Chicoms and others know the whole story of Barry. Just waiting to use it at the right time.

But the real shame will be on the failed journalists of the media when the truth eventually comes out.
This truly astounds me. The story of how Obozo manufactured his past, only to become President, and the "Natural Born Citizen" requirements, are the story of a lifetime. I can't believe any real journalist wouldn't persue it.
27 posted on 05/27/2012 8:47:37 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (Our humin president is epidemy of changing his own pants. The future is of children.)
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To: Seizethecarp
Trump also has said Obama would go to war with Iran in order to get reelected.

current Headline on Drudge

WAR DRUMS: WE'RE READY TO STOP IRAN (Panetta)

28 posted on 05/27/2012 8:50:23 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Seizethecarp
Maybe she should comment on Timothy Adams Master Theses.

Timothy Adams was the Chief Elections Clerk for the City and County of Honolulu, 2008.

http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2074&context=theses

Not well written for a Master Theses, but that does not make the facts any less!

29 posted on 05/27/2012 8:50:37 AM PDT by saywhatagain
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Those on the left, especially the feminist hard core left, think she is absolutely brilliant, those on the right with an R next to their name are AFRAID to come on her show, and she is so smart as a Rhoades scholar . . . it is sickening to hear them blather on about her/him. It really angers them to call her Rachel Madcow. LOL


30 posted on 05/27/2012 8:52:16 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Gingrich/West 2012)
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To: frankenMonkey; All

“This truly astounds me. The story of how Obozo manufactured his past, only to become President, and the “Natural Born Citizen” requirements, are the story of a lifetime. I can’t believe any real journalist wouldn’t persue it.”

Obama history, whether he was US born, or not, is that he will lie to anyone, at any time, about anything, if it advances whatever his agenda is AT THAT MOMENT IN TIME.

No Non-Fox Mainstream journalist in today’s Radical gay-Run Media DARES to cover this Orwellian Prez, lest they be black-listed, branded a RACIST, fired, their family threatened with violence, and they become unemployed, looking for a new media job in the Obama Economy.

There are enough examples of people this has happened to to send the message out, LOUD AND CLEAR.


31 posted on 05/27/2012 8:52:16 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: LucyT; melancholy; null and void; Brown Deer
ping...

to CONDITION RED in the White House basement as Maddow reads copy drafted there attempting to shut down Trumps “birther” declarations in the run-up to Arpaio’s next presser...

32 posted on 05/27/2012 9:06:35 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

Gunga-Lagunga!

"Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."

...so at least they still got that going for them - which is nice.  [CarlSpacklerVoice -OFF]

 

TOSS THE Czar/Tsar/Caesar SALADIN in 2012


33 posted on 05/27/2012 9:15:49 AM PDT by OldEarlGray (The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sterilized with Tea)
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To: OrangeHoof
Romney already says Wright is off-limits

But the lefties can bring up a hazing mittens committed back in high school?

I am a birther, but what is more important to me is what is in Zero's college admittance and scholastic records - did he get admitted as a "Foreign Student".

Although I am a birther and believe both parents have to be US citizens, we are never ever going to win this argument since HI will not cooperate. The college records should be the main attraction - when Americans see what I think is in there THEY WILL NOT REELECT THIS CLOWNISH BUFFOON, this Dear Reader, this Liar-In-Chief.
34 posted on 05/27/2012 9:18:04 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who names their son Rachel in the first place?

Its OK. His middle name is SUE!

35 posted on 05/27/2012 9:21:29 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Ocean_Living

haha. me too on that one. welcome aboard ocean living, you’ll find lots of laffs here. some of the funniest and wittiest people on the planet can be found right here.

reminds me, time to donate..


36 posted on 05/27/2012 9:21:29 AM PDT by americas.best.days...
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To: Seizethecarp
I'd like to see Mitt stay away from the issue of the BC during the campaign.

Just stick with the economy. That and all the spending O is doing and what that means to the country in the long run.

Then after Mitt gets elected, I want to see a vigorous investigation by the AG. And if they can prove with out a doubt, to a courts standard of evidence, that he was not eligible to be President... O and everyone that helped him defraud this country, goes to jail for treason.

I absolutely mean it.

The founding fathers designed the constitution so that whom ever is President doesn't have split loyalties. Some tie to a foreign country that would cause the President to not always act in the best interest on the United States. Period.

This kind of ties in with another subject; requiring ID cards to vote! Illegals should never be allowed to vote. Ever. For one they are compromised by their illegal status. They can be easily blackmailed and manipulated. Second, they are foreign nationals. Which means their true loyalty lies with their home country and they will vote in the best interest of that country and not the US.
37 posted on 05/27/2012 9:23:19 AM PDT by Ocean_Living
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To: Seizethecarp

Trump can solve this problem easily enough.

He says that he has no affiliation with the Romney campaign, that he’s just a patriotic American determined to do all he can to prevent the Kenyan Usurper from winning another term.

If that happens to benefit Milquetoast Mitt, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.


38 posted on 05/27/2012 9:27:27 AM PDT by mojito
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To: biggredd1

It makes me feel good to hear/see that the many dots I have seen/recorded as to Obama’s history are also dots being connected by other people.


39 posted on 05/27/2012 9:34:26 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Seizethecarp; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; ...


CONDITION RED in the White House basement as Maddow reads copy drafted there attempting to shut down Trumps “birther” declarations in the run-up to Arpaio’s next presser...
40 posted on 05/27/2012 9:34:39 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who names their daughter Stanley?


41 posted on 05/27/2012 9:35:42 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Ocean_Living
“Then after Mitt gets elected, I want to see a vigorous investigation by the AG.”

Corsi claims that in mid-June, Arpaio will drop an eligibility bombshell so huge that it will break through the MSM blockade currently preventing inatentive American average citizens from becoming aware that Barry's BC was forged.

Barry may try to “wag the dog” with an attack on Iran do derail the Arpiao Posse, just as he did by holding off on whacking Osama until the killing could be used to deflect damage from Corsi’s last book. But a tipping point may be reached with the next Arpaio presser. Stay tuned!

42 posted on 05/27/2012 9:36:44 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: biggredd1; Seizethecarp

I’m finding it a bit hard to believe that Dunham would travel all the way to Kenya (not in the service of the U.S. government) to give birth to a kid who had an American father.


43 posted on 05/27/2012 9:42:56 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: oldbrowser; Seizethecarp
If these items are fake (birth certificate, draft card, Social Security card) then BO can be charged with wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1343), since he was using these things to solicit campaign contributions.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/43mcrm.htm

44 posted on 05/27/2012 9:48:41 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Let’s see no we have a faggy excuse for womanhood defending a faggy illegal potus who was not even born here against one of the few lone voices not afraid to tell the truth!
I guess “strange” is in the eye of the beholder.


45 posted on 05/27/2012 9:48:41 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: Seizethecarp

Like her employer, the militant lesbian is a domestic terrorist. Plain and simple... And I think she relishes in that role.


46 posted on 05/27/2012 10:20:51 AM PDT by JoshuaLawrenceChamberlain
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To: Seizethecarp

Did Maddow challenge Chris Hayes when he made his shameful comment about being uncomfortable with fallen soldiers being called heroes ?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888486/posts

There are no words to describe such a sickening comment.


47 posted on 05/27/2012 10:21:13 AM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: Brown Deer
Thanks for the ping. The born-in-Kenya booklet really bothers them; otherwise, the WH and their pet ‘journalists’ would give it a good leaving alone. Trump bothers them too, because he is smart and savvy in the use of media to shape opinion. The combination of that damning booklet, Trump taking up the cause and Apaio refusing to back off must be causing naked panic in the WH. No wonder Obama is starting to act and speak more erratically. It's going to be hard for even Jarrett to keep him glued together through Nov. If Mitt hurts Obama’s feelings in the debates, look for a major public meltdown.
48 posted on 05/27/2012 10:28:46 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: FreeAtlanta

You should be a political consultant. You are very good.


49 posted on 05/27/2012 10:30:46 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: opentalk

I think you’ve got it right, i.e. that Obamao is the original birther since he’s the one that allegedly claimed to be born in Kenya. Personally, I think that he was born in Hawaii, but used the false claim to get advantages for himself. Hey Confused Won, so show us your college entrance applications, financial aid applications, selective service records, social security records and original summary biography for that book and then we’ll see the truth. Until then, Usurper is the best title for you.


50 posted on 05/27/2012 10:33:46 AM PDT by BMCinSC
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