Posted on 09/16/2016 12:55:00 PM PDT by maggief
Hillary Clinton surrogate Sid Blumenthal personally pitched a reporter on the President Obama “birther” story when she was campaigning for president in 2008, a former Washington reporter said Thursday.
The Clinton campaign and the media have consistently refuted Trump’s claim Clinton started the birther movement, which Trump re-upped Friday when he said for the first publicly that he believes Obama was born in the United States. “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” Trump said, drawing a slew of media fact checks almost immediately. “I finished it.”
But former McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief James Asher has backed up Trump’s version of events, saying he was personally pitched the story by a Clinton surrogate in 2008.
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@HillaryClinton So why did your man #sidblumenthal spread the #obama birther rumor to me in 2008, asking us to investigate? Remember?
11:06 PM - 15 Sep 2016 · Maryland, USA, United States
Diss gonna leave a sting bite mark of pain.
Figues, Sid Vicious Blumenthal was always the Clintonista guy for their dirty work.
So journalist James Asher has decisively testified that the Clintonistas were pushing the birther issue in 2008.
What will Shrillarity and her flying MSM monkeys try next?
LOL
Phillip Berg lawsuit is easy to document. Filed in February before primaries. Many references to him being a HRC supporter (democrat)
Why is he revealing this information knowing that Clintons could decimate him or even kill him?
Hillary’s right - Sid Blumenthal will not be the next President of the United States!
Clinton’s 2007 campaign manager Mark Penn circulated a campaign strategy memo in which he suggested attacking Obama for not being “fundamentally American” and targeting then Senator Obama’s “lack of American roots
Back
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Today is so much fun!
Former DC Bureau Chief: Clinton Surrogate Pitched Me ‘Birther’ Story In 2008 (Sid Blumenthal )
Here's a link to December 18, 2007 Hardball with Chris Matthews' transcript (scroll down and hit "Show more text" for this quote:
Matthews: ". . .But didn‘t Hillary dump on Obama a few days ago for playing up his Indonesian roots? So, what is she up to here? Is she pushing how great he is for having been born in Indonesia, or what, or simply reminding everybody about his background, his Islamic background?
The fact that electing Hillary would let this scum Blumenthal back into the White House in a senior position is reason enough to vote against her.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/7-news-stories-2008-prove-hillary-started-obama-birtherism/
7 News Stories from 2008 that PROVE Hillary Started Obama ‘Birtherism’ – Media is LYING!
EXCERPTS
Penn Strategy Memo
Obama’s Somali Garb
In 2008, Maggie Williams, Clinton’s campaign manager at the time, had to issue a statement regarding allegations that a staffer had circulated a picture of Senator Obama wearing traditional ‘Somali garb.’
Clinton spokesman, Mo Elleithee, again couldn’t deny that anyone on Hillary’s staff had sent out the Somali clothing image, instead suggesting that it’d be impossible to determine with a staff of “over 700 people.”
In 2011, responding to a New York Times poll that suggested Republicans believed Obama was born overseas, Politico decided to do some digging on the origins of such an idea. They found that the entire concept started with the Clinton campaign in 2008, with supporters looking for any way they could to stop Obama from winning the nomination.
Not only does this Slate article from 2008 address the Somali dress issue, but it reminds readers that staffers for Hillary’s campaign had begun circulating rumors that Obama was actually a Muslim.
Clinton surrogate and former Senator Bob Kerrey took some heat during the 2008 campaign for calling Obama by his full name and following that up with suggestions that he is Muslim.
Even MSNBC Acknowledged That Birtherism Started With Clinton
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HRC must not have read this story.....
"JOHN GIBSON, HOST: The gloves are off: Hillary Clinton is reported to be already digging up the dirt on Barack Obama.The New York senator has reportedly outed Obama's madrassa past. That's right, the Clinton team is reported to have pulled out all the stops to reveal something Obama would rather you didn't know: that he was educated in a Muslim madrassa.
“The fact that electing Hillary would let this scum Blumenthal back into the White House in a senior position is reason enough to vote against her.”
“Bears repeating.”
Bears repeating again and again......
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