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Glenn Beck on birther issue: 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
World Net Daily ^ | 01/04/2009 | Drew Zahn

Posted on 01/05/2010 1:52:27 PM PST by autumnraine

On the air today, popular radio host Glenn Beck mocked "birthers" and claimed there is a concerted campaign to get those questioning Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility onto the airwaves – a strategy Beck said would actually benefit Obama.

"There's always games being played behind the scenes at a talk radio show," Beck said. "Rush has always called them seminar callers. But instead of being coy with the seminar callers or with you, I'm just going to expose the game that is going on. Today there is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers on the air."

"I have to tell you, are you working for the Barack Obama administration?" Beck scoffed. "I mean, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

The ongoing dialogue then spun off into ridicule as Beck caricatured those who question the sitting president's eligibility with straw-man arguments reminiscent of jibes made by Obama's apologists in other news outlets.

Beck defined birthers as people who believe Obama was born in Kenya or other foreign country, was raised as a Manchurian candidate and somehow brainwashed Hillary Clinton into not exposing his fraud. According to Beck's running joke, birthers believe someone – maybe Obama's KGB "control" – preemptively placed Obama's birth announcement in 1961 Hawaiian newspapers with a "roadmap" of getting an African man into office.

As for Obama producing a long-form birth certificate to actually prove his place of birth, Beck questioned, "Why do that when these people ['birthers'] are so discrediting themselves?"

Get the must-wear clothing item for 2010! "Where's the birth certificate" T-shirt!

The radio host further argued that by distracting the public from actionable issues, "birthers" have become "a dream come true" for Obama, an ideal situation akin to the fantasies of adolescent boys after Hollywood bombshells.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beck; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; gb; glennbeck
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To: Hodar

‘I believe he is utterly incompetent; removing an incompent fool does not put out the fire, but does consume considerable time and energy - which allows the fire to do even greater damage.”

HE is an idiot. His handlers, however, are not. Who paid for the idiot’s Harvard degree? Odds are, they would also have the knowledge of this.


121 posted on 01/05/2010 3:23:12 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: little jeremiah

Beck has either not looked closely at the debate, or since there is no smoking gun in neon lights he doesn’t think it’s an issue. In either case, he has put off a good sizable number of his audience with his caustic viewpoint.


122 posted on 01/05/2010 3:23:24 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: mad_as_he$$
There is witness accounts and news stories in Kenya.

Source, please. I don't care about the witness accounts, just the news stories.
123 posted on 01/05/2010 3:23:55 PM PST by aNYCguy
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To: little jeremiah
You were saying ...

They’re out in full force today.

The vast majority of Free Republic was always where people like Beck and Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are -- they are normal people...

It's only the strident loud posting of the Obama Derangement Syndrome crowd that makes them look bigger than they are..., like the little barking dog that runs around the big dog, making a lot of noise... :-)

124 posted on 01/05/2010 3:24:15 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: bigbob
”, the whole birther thing makes us look like lunatics. Idiots.

Not one person in real life has ever said to me birthers were lunatics. I hear he is not a citizen. The only place I read birthers are lunatics is online anonymously.

125 posted on 01/05/2010 3:27:02 PM PST by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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To: Red Steel
You were saying ...

I see your back being wacky... and oh yeah LoL!

Well, with ten years of posting and about 27,000 posts, why would you think I would go away from Free Republic. I've been here all along... but you just haven't been reading my posts...

And it's been nice to not have to contend with the Obama Derangement Syndrome crowd, I must admit... but good things never last forever...

126 posted on 01/05/2010 3:27:02 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: little jeremiah
They’re out in full force today.

Yeah, I noticed when I saw three of the usual Dem After-Birthers commenting on three different topic threads within ten minutes of each other where they don't usually post... something was/is up.

127 posted on 01/05/2010 3:27:10 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: chris37
Yes chris37, natural born citizen is not equal to citizen.
Why are you and I the only ones on this thread to understand this? This is the important result of Wong Kim Ark, which acknowledges the uniqueness of the Vattel definition.

Is this point too subtle for most citizens, or for Free Republic readers? Are respondents to this issue drawn from Obama supporters? This is all about insuring allegiance, an issue which should resonate with Free Republic readers.

I notice that when I state the facts, I very seldom get arguments. If every other Freeper feels enrollment records or birth certificates - long forms - which we will likely never see are the key to protecting our republic, why don't they contest my factual assertions?

The issue is the Constitution. Understand it or continue to lose its protections. Obama is not qualified by our constitution. He provided all the evidence we need. Dual citizenship is not sole allegiance at birth - In the country of parents who are its citizens. I have seen no cogent argument to contest this. The rest say "but what if his father was..., or "His Grandmother from Kenya..." or "The Hawaiian DOH director said he was a natural born citizen...". Those are all interesting questions, but you don't need them answered. He told us he was born a subject of the British Commonwealth. He is not a natural born U.S. citizen. Obama even tells us he is "A Native born U.S. citizen". A native born U.S. citizen is not a natural born U.S. citizen. Obama is being legally careful, but is still illegitimate.

128 posted on 01/05/2010 3:27:46 PM PST by Spaulding
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To: guitarplayer1953
was listening to ctocam last night and remote viewer Dr. Doom (maj. Ed Dames) has pinpointed the birth place of the 1 in Kenya.

Say what now? What does that even mean?
129 posted on 01/05/2010 3:28:27 PM PST by aNYCguy
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To: Star Traveler

And you’re with the protect the Obama non-natural-born at all cost crowd. A good name for that is ‘Kiss Obama’s Rear-End Syndrome’.


130 posted on 01/05/2010 3:33:07 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
You were saying ...

Yeah, I noticed when I saw three of the usual Dem After-Birthers commenting on three different topic threads within ten minutes of each other where they don't usually post... something was/is up.

Always looking for that "conspiracy" I see... and as usual. Glad to see you're in good form today... :-)

131 posted on 01/05/2010 3:33:39 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: autumnraine

I don’t mean to say I told you so...but I told you so.

with the news that the records of all 4 candidates were “checked, Zero is sure his ass is covered.
It will take a mole to get the truth.

BUT, all the Hero worship of Beck was over the top.
I learned a long time ago. Do NOT become a worshiper of shooting star celebs.
Zero is one, Beck is turning out to be one.
He will not jeopardise his cushy gig now.
My Mom use to listen to him. She would get mad at him every so often and stop listening for a while.
Funny she never had a problem like that with Rush.


132 posted on 01/05/2010 3:35:26 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Obama didn't find out who his real father was until some time after he wrote the book

# PG 26, "Dreams from my father."

“I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school. It’s a short piece, with a photograph of him. No mention is made of my mother or me, and I’m left to wonder whether the omission was intentional on my father’s part, in anticipation of his long departure. Perhaps the reporter failed to ask personal questions, intimidated by my father’s imperious manner; or perhaps it was an editorial decision, not part of the simple story that they were looking for. I wonder, too, whether the omission caused a fight between my parents.”

133 posted on 01/05/2010 3:35:36 PM PST by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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To: AzaleaCity5691
Now, the reason why people hop onto Indonesia is that Indonesia does supposedly force you to renounce citizenship from other countries to have theirs.

However, Obama was a minor when he was taken to Indonesia. Minors can't renounce their citizenship, nor can their parents renounce it on their behalf.

134 posted on 01/05/2010 3:36:10 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Spaulding; chris37
"He told us he was born a subject of the British Commonwealth. He is not a natural born U.S. citizen."

Exactly!

Oh, and your not the only two on this tread who get it...anymore.

135 posted on 01/05/2010 3:36:50 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Red Steel; Sherman Logan
You were saying ...

And you’re with the protect the Obama non-natural-born at all cost crowd. A good name for that is ‘Kiss Obama’s Rear-End Syndrome’.

You're just proving the assertions, as usual, of other FReepers who see what these "types" (as the Obama Derangement Syndrome crowd) do...

I see nothing has changed here in the past few months.


I believe it is commonly a liberal tactic to denounce all who disagree as traitors, or cowards, or liars, or butt-kissers.

Post #55

136 posted on 01/05/2010 3:38:39 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
Always looking for that "conspiracy" I see... and as usual. Glad to see you're in good form today... :-)

No...just pointing out not the usual behavior.

137 posted on 01/05/2010 3:38:40 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: aNYCguy
Source, please. I don't care about the witness accounts, just the news stories.

Don't ask. They'll just post another link to that oft-cited African Press story about "Kenyan born Barrack (sic) Obama" (while ignoring the many other African Press articles that list Obama as Hawaiian born, --and spell his first name correctly).

138 posted on 01/05/2010 3:39:33 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Star Traveler
I believe it is commonly a liberal tactic to denounce all who disagree as traitors, or cowards, or liars, or butt-kissers.

I'd like to see that put that to a vote on FR on who fits this description, me or you.

I see you still smarting over the thrashing you took for yesterday's comment.

BTW, why are you on this eligibility thread after such along absence?

139 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:46 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
You were saying ...

No...just pointing out not the usual behavior.

I see...., just like I was pointing out the "usual behavior" in Post #39... :-)

Okay..., let's round up the "usual suspects"...

[ same song, different verse... ]

140 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:55 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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