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Now all that people are going to take away from this Lou Dobbs story (in the general public) is that Lou Dobbs was nuts for even giving this conservative any “air time” for being able to “mention” the birth certificate issue in the first place...

Star, I don't see it that way. I see Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/US, as being a liar and a schill who doesn't know how to check the facts of his "researchers". Many of us have contacted the Hawaiian office of Vital Statistics and DHHL ourselves (i.e., we do our OWN damn research) and knew the CNN story was false.

This from the original story:

In part, Klein writes, "It seems this story is dead- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef." Klein asked CNN researchers to dig into the question of why Obama couldn't produce the original birth certificate. The researchers contacted the Hawaii Health Dept. and confirmed that paper documents were discarded in 2001 when the department went paperless. That reportedly includes Pres. Obama's original birth certificate.

The only people with egg on their face from this is Jonathan Klein and CNN -- not the "birthers". Dobbs win, again. And unfortunately for Jonathan and Barack, the story is NOT dead ...

I’m following up on this comment...

“Many of us have contacted the Hawaiian office of Vital Statistics and DHHL ourselves (i.e., we do our OWN damn research) and knew the CNN story was false.”

Now..., I’ve been following the Lou Dobbs story since that particular segment came out. And from all the threads I’ve seen — I have not seen *one FReeper* report any phone call made to the State of Hawaii to contradict the report on the paper copy that Lou Dobbs reported was discarded.

I saw *no one here* ever report that they had contacted the State and specifically had contradicted that report.

NOW..., let me say that there were several who *speculated* (i.e., their own opinion) that it was not destroyed, but no one got *confirmation* from the State of Hawaii that I saw anywhere...

And one additional thing. There was one FReeper who said he was going to call the State today and get confirmation or denial. But I haven’t heard any report back on that one.

And then you said — “Dobbs win, again.”

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The trouble with that is that it was *Dobbs* himself that I reported said that the paper copy was discarded. I was not going by Klein. I was going by Dobbs himself, and I heard *him* say it, with my own ears. I saw the report.

Thus, it’s *Dobbs* who has egg on his face....