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The Morphing Obama Biography and the Skeptics
American Thinker
Cindy Simpson
6/5/2012
Excerpt:
"An odd taboo has been created on noticing that the president of the United States has a biography that can adapt itself to the needs of the moment. Go too far in raising an alarm, and be labeled "birther" and shunned in polite society.
The credit for creating the "birther" label was claimed in 2008 by columnist David Weigel:
Weigel was also the most notorious "JournoLister." In case you've forgotten about that left-wing media cabal, this Daily Caller article described the JournoList's coordinated efforts to bury the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 campaign. (Although JournoList was disbanded in 2010, the mainstream media, in remarkable unison, have covered up the recent revelation that Wright was bribed $150,000 to keep quiet.)
The sarcastic "birther" post was written by Weigel long before the Breitbart discovery of the literary agency biography that claimed Obama was born in Kenya. That portion of the biography's claims survived for over 16 years through multiple other updates. Likely, many in the circles of publishing, Chicago politics, and Obama's college and early career days had heard or read about a Kenyan birth somewhere. Which leaves open the possibility that Weigel and his fellow JournoListers tripped over the story, or were slipped a tip, early in the campaign, and chose to utilize Alinksy tactics in case such tidbits oozed through any cracks in the preferred narrative.
The name-calling has been very effective. Even worse, the media uses the birther label (as it often does with "Tea Partier") interchangeably with "racist." Recently, Geraldo Rivera spent a full segment of his radio show to inform listeners that the "obsession" with Obama's birth certificate is, "at its heart, a racial issue."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/..._skeptics.html
American Thinker
Cindy Simpson
6/5/2012
Excerpt:
"An odd taboo has been created on noticing that the president of the United States has a biography that can adapt itself to the needs of the moment. Go too far in raising an alarm, and be labeled "birther" and shunned in polite society.
The credit for creating the "birther" label was claimed in 2008 by columnist David Weigel:
I think I originally coined the term "Birthers" to describe the people who think the state of Hawaii and its time travel machine are concealing the truth about Obama's birth on the roof of a mosque in Kenya. It's not just the reference to 9/11 "truthers" that I like. It's the callback to the John Birch Society, id est the "Birchers."
Weigel was also the most notorious "JournoLister." In case you've forgotten about that left-wing media cabal, this Daily Caller article described the JournoList's coordinated efforts to bury the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 campaign. (Although JournoList was disbanded in 2010, the mainstream media, in remarkable unison, have covered up the recent revelation that Wright was bribed $150,000 to keep quiet.)
The sarcastic "birther" post was written by Weigel long before the Breitbart discovery of the literary agency biography that claimed Obama was born in Kenya. That portion of the biography's claims survived for over 16 years through multiple other updates. Likely, many in the circles of publishing, Chicago politics, and Obama's college and early career days had heard or read about a Kenyan birth somewhere. Which leaves open the possibility that Weigel and his fellow JournoListers tripped over the story, or were slipped a tip, early in the campaign, and chose to utilize Alinksy tactics in case such tidbits oozed through any cracks in the preferred narrative.
The name-calling has been very effective. Even worse, the media uses the birther label (as it often does with "Tea Partier") interchangeably with "racist." Recently, Geraldo Rivera spent a full segment of his radio show to inform listeners that the "obsession" with Obama's birth certificate is, "at its heart, a racial issue."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/..._skeptics.html