That's for sure! Here is Jake Tapper last night, ignoring the fact that the Hawaii BC produced by Obama has not been authenticated, and bears obvious signs of being a fake.
BLITZER: And if you noticed, Dana, even when he was talking about his grandparents about, you know, his family in Kansas, he mentioned, I don't know about their birth certificate.BASH: Which was also not in the remarks that we got, which also is a reminder that this is really personal for him, because Donald Trump kind of burst onto the political scene questioning his birth certificate all those years ago.
But one thing I --TAPPER: Let me just, time out.
BASH: Yes.
TAPPER: It was a ridiculous attack. I just think anytime the birth certificate thing is raised. President Obama was born in Hawaii. There's evidence he was born in Hawaii. He produced his birth certificate.
BASH: Right. Right.
TAPPER: The whole attack was nonsense.
BASH: Right.
TAPPER: I just wanted to put that note there.
BASH: OK, got it. Done. Noted.
But I lost my train of thought now.
Now, here is Obama, smugly rubbing the public's nose in the BC issue, making a joke of it. And Bash was not going to make a big deal of it, she was just noticing that Obama brought it up sua sponte, it was not part of his prepared remarks, and it was a personal issue to him. She's going to move on, when Tapper interrupts to reinforce the myth.
My point is that propaganda can be a deadly serious and persistent undertaking. Not all of it is the easily found out fabricated trivialities, like yesterday's distraction that Trump encouraged Russia to commit espionage.
Yeah, he produce a copy of the certificate that looks fake and flew to Hawaii to put it under lock and key after all the fuss.