Posted on 08/04/2009 11:41:38 AM PDT by steve-b
Journalist are often sent to places — a war zone, a natural disaster, or a crime-ridden slum — that are physically scary. Those assignments routinely win prizes.
Sometimes they may be asked to cover a story that is intellectually scary. Those assignments are less dramatic but can reveal more about human nature.
Perhaps the most intellectually scary assignment I have had in recent years was to cover a meeting of the so-called "9/11 Truth Movement" in the East Village, New York.
This gruesome assortment of conspiracy theorists insists that the attacks on the US of September 11, 2001 were an inside job.
It is easy to mock this deluded gang of ageing hippies, anarchists and anti-Semites.....
America is now again witnessing the advent of a crackpot movement in the so-called "Birthers".
This group insists, despite ample evidence to the contrary, including a birth certificate and two contemporaneous birth announcements in Honolulu newspapers, that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore constitutionally ineligible to serve as President....
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Good. Better you libs be scared thean me. When we get mad it is serious. They have awakened a sleeping giant and do not understand.
BOO!!!!
There is a conspiracy afoot to make this fact public. Don't tell anyone...
;-/
Go back to sleep Mr. Bone, and don’t worry, the Muslims have got England under control, everythng’s okay, we’ll take care of our own country.
lol, Bone, James Bone, shaken, very shaken
Also, Jamie, dear, ZerO could put all the "birther" stuff to rest by simply presenting his valid birth certificate. He's never done that, you know, Jamie dear.
steve-bone, brother of bone, james bone.
Wonder how these “anti-birthers” get a copy of Obama’s birth certificate when he never released the actual BC....
Argh, you beat me to it!
I usually just tell them that if they are going to throw a tantrum, I am not going to listen to them. And I don't give them an audience if they cannot compose themselves.
So this pencil headed idiot is afraid of a bunch of powerless people? I still remember this shrieky little voice calling in to C-Span after Dan Quayle trashed Al Gore in the 1992 veep debate, saying “Dan Quayle scared me.” It sounded like Lucille Ball doing her Tilly the Dog impression.
you can have the next one, lol, you know it just gets cwazier and cwazier you wabbit
Funny how these "anti-Birther" columnists are so quick to ridicule those that ask logical questions and expect The Constituion to be upheld. It is also funny that the "anti-Birthers" base their belief that 0bama is qualified, on absolutely nothing but his flimsy word.
When the real truth comes out, I expect each of these libs to eat their words!
Where?
We just want to see it.
August 3, 2009, Politics
Why Most Journalists Are Democrats: A View from the Soviet Socialist Trenches
I thought FactCheck.org were the people who actually produced the original COLB which caused all of the controversy. They later admitted that the COLB was given to them as a file and that they were not sure of it’s veracity, didn’t they? I don’t remember them actually ever mentioning that they had actually examined Obama’s original birth certificate.
Another thing, birth announcements mean nothing. I was born in Orlando, FL on July 4th, 1962. The following week, there appeared a birth announcement for me in both the Boston Globe and the Lawrence Eagle Tribune. Both of these papers are in Massachusetts. These two birth announcements, placed by both of my sets of grandparents do not prove that I was born in Massachusetts.
Back during a time when people left calling cards and wrote thank you letters, this announcement process was customary and often executed by grandmothers and grandfathers out of pride, regardless of where the child was born. In my case, my grandparent’s address was used so the local paper would deem it newsworthy from a local point of view and actually print it. My guess is the address shown in both of Obama’s birth announcements, just like in my case a year later, were his grandparents’ address. Yes?
So, we are back to square one. Nothing proven, lot’s of smoke and Obama sitting on the truth. So, who exactly is crazy here?
Ample evidence EXCEPT for the one document that would close the deal.
Truthers relied on suppositions that could never be proven. You can knock the Birthers down with one punch IF you throw that punch. So far, the President has been willing to keep this pot on simmer.
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