Obama birth status story sparks storm of Web traffic and comments

Ledger Enquirer ^ | July 17, 2009 | Chuck Williams

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When Ledger-Enquirer reporter Lily Gordon wrote a short story Monday afternoon about a U.S. Army major filing a suit in federal court to stop his deployment to Afghanistan, she was not prepared for the reaction.

The article sparked the highest volume of traffic ever by a single story in the history of ledger-enquirer.com, including written threats against the newspaper.

“All I did was a write a story on an open public document and it set off a powder keg,” Gordon said Friday.

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Drip, drip, drip - PING.

[b4its2late]

Wanting a deluge.

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U.S. Army major filing a suit in federal court to stop his deployment to Afghanistan,
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I CAN’T STAND IT!!!!! ( Yes, I am shouting!)

The very first sentence is already a deliberate LIE!!!!!

The major sued to have his orders clarified as lawful. He WANTED TO SERVE LAWFULLY!!!!

The people who write this stuff are either very stupid or evil.

[Kartographer]

[reefdiver]

zer0 will have a long weekend. Lots of splaining to do.

[Spok]

I’m starting to think if the ‘Bama could prove he’s American born, he would have by now. It’s his silence that’s selling this story.

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[ncfool]

THE HEAT IS ON! as Obama’s ratings go down so will this issue go up.

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Is that guy wearing wooden clogs?

[MarkT]

Its called “Occam’s Razor.”

[penelopesire]

Looks like word is getting out and at this point, you have to be wearing a tin foil hat to believe that Obama is NOT hiding something major from the American people.

[Kartographer]

He’s an Obamanaut reporter trying to stop the lead of truth about ‘Zero’.

[TheZMan]

Occam's Razor would state that a massive conspiracy to elect a fraudulent president is the unlikely answer, wouldn't it?

[b4its2late]

LOL. I like that one. Got the shoes and the whole enchilada (a little spanish lingo there).

[KarinG1]

"The chatter had the feel of a righteous cause -- almost a religious cause -- because some people hate this president,” Holden said.

In the past everybody has always liked the president, so this is another first for zer0.

[mojitojoe]

He's a liar and a fraud squatting in the WH. He will never willingly show any of his hidden documents because he knows he will probably be taken away kicking and screaming and put in prison. The greatest scam ever in the history of this country .......... and the perpetrator,is sitting in the WH.

[Madistan]

Wooden shoes, or clogs. Take your pick :)
Must be Dutch art.

[PghBaldy]

Why? It gets picked up by a rinky dink paper? He’s not gonna do anything unless forced. I have my doubts about him, but everything that counts is ignoring or mocking the story.

[erkyl]

READ the article. They make it sound like the reporter’s life was threatened, and it insinuates that the conservatives were the ones doing the threatening. A very malicious article, to my eyes. Am I reading it wrong?