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Jon Stewart Rips into Birthers
Washington Post ^ | 7/23/09 | Garance Franke-Ruta

Posted on 07/23/2009 10:32:48 AM PDT by steve-b

In the past week, there has been growing attention online and on cable television to the so-called "birther" movement of people who believe, against all the evidence, that President Obama was not born in the United States.

Last night, comedian Jon Stewart brought his viewers up to date on the high points of that undernews narrative, to use the Mickey Kaus phrase (earlier used by William Safire) for that odd amalgam of rumor, myth, speculation and actual facts that circulates as word of mouth and online....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bho44; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; conspiracytheory; enemedia; jonathanleibowitz; kenya; kenyabelieveit; kenyan; midget; muslim; obama; obroma; usurper
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1 posted on 07/23/2009 10:32:48 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: steve-b

“All the evidence” - you mean “no evidence”


2 posted on 07/23/2009 10:33:53 AM PDT by wac3rd (80 Carter/Obama 08)
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To: steve-b
against all the evidence

Against what evidence?

3 posted on 07/23/2009 10:34:01 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: steve-b

The Washington Post actually thought material on Comedy Central was worthy of a full story?

We must be getting under their skin.


4 posted on 07/23/2009 10:34:04 AM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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To: steve-b

I missed the episode where he ripped into McCain-birthers.


5 posted on 07/23/2009 10:34:05 AM PDT by rvoitier ("The law allows what honor forbids." -- C. C. Colton)
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Hey stevey, did you get all tingly up your leg when the midget jonny went after the birfers?


6 posted on 07/23/2009 10:34:07 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: steve-b

Look for the suicide rate to skyrocket.


7 posted on 07/23/2009 10:34:44 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Well, Jon Stewart is very very liberal. He doesn’t have the same target as he had when Bush was pres. So he’s reduced to marginalizing any critics of this president.


8 posted on 07/23/2009 10:34:59 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Jon Stewart is a pompous jerk...can’t stand him or his show. The whole faux news thing just irks me...


9 posted on 07/23/2009 10:35:35 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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Oh, goody--Liebowitz is on the warpath. He reminds me a lot of Perez Hilton--but I understand he only seems gay.

So he thinks he can turn his aging meth-head, butt-head audience into anti-birther shock troops?

Birthers (this term is new to me this week) have grown legs. Everyone is wondering now.

10 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:00 AM PDT by Mamzelle (No cure for the common scold)
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I'll show him mine if he will show me his.

Proud to be a "birther".

11 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:10 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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As if Jon Stewart amounts to a hill of beans.

He’s a comedian. Any serious politician who ends up on his show should consider another line of work.

You’d have to be out of your mind to end up on that show.

As such, he doesn’t even understand the constitution. If he’s got kids, and they play baseball, he ended up needing their birth certificates. There’s zero evidence of where this guy was born, where he went to school, how he got to Indonesia, etc.

Obama can solve this in an hour. Jon can give himself a rectal exam for all I care. If he needs help bending back that far, many would love to help him out with that.


12 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:16 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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So why doesn’t someone ask why Obama supporters are spending millions on lawyers to avoid discovery on this issue? All they have to do is produce a “Real Birth Certificate”. It’s as simple as that.


13 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:24 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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He’s got a copy of the Kenyan birth certificate?


14 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:34 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Dilbert San Diego

NBC Nightly News did a segment on the BC story too. It was terribly slanted! I think Obama’s machine is giving out the talking points to their MSM buddies. Birthers MUST be onto something!


15 posted on 07/23/2009 10:36:39 AM PDT by freemama
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Question :

Has Obama spent money fighting this stuff in court when he could simply release the Hawaii BC or hasnt he?

If so Why?


16 posted on 07/23/2009 10:37:38 AM PDT by woofie
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I am not a birther, but this is a biased description for what's supposed to be a straight-news story:

people who believe, against all the evidence, that President Obama was not born in the United States

First, the issue of evidence is itself disputed. Saying "against all the evidence" begs the question.

Second, what unites "birthers" is their desire for Obama to show the original Hawaii birth certificate (not the CLB). They don't ALL necessary believe, affirmatively, that he's foreign-born (although some do); but ALL believe he should come forward with the original certificate, if only to put the questions to rest.

17 posted on 07/23/2009 10:37:52 AM PDT by pogo101
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Jon Stewart is he still on the air? He’s so 1999 and not all that young anymore.


18 posted on 07/23/2009 10:37:58 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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Jon Stewart. Well they are certainly bringing out the “Big Guns” aren’t they?


19 posted on 07/23/2009 10:38:36 AM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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Just show the GD birth certificate dipstick, and it’s all over.

Tired of hearing the left wing buttheads talk crap when all Obama has to do is prove it.

Talk all the crap you want, Make fun of birthers, it aint going away an it will get stronger as the polls drop.


20 posted on 07/23/2009 10:38:42 AM PDT by Venturer
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