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The Shutdown's Radical Birther Streak That the Press Can No Longer Ignore - (color and underline emphasis added)
The Huffington Post
Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America
10/15/2013
Carefully selected and presented, highly biased excerpts (LOL):
... claim that Barack Obama wasn't born in America and that he's an undercover Muslim, Klayman told cheering activists in Washington that the president "bows down to Allah." He announced that Obama's "not the president of 'we the people, he's a president of his people," and that Obama needed to "put the Quran down."
... when local police arrived to secure the area they were greeted with calls of "brown shirts," while one demonstrator commented the scene "looks like something out of Kenya."
... right-wing truck rally in D.C. was organized by a proud online birther, and that attendees to the far-right Value Voters Summit in Washington over the weekend were invited to hear addresses by birther exhibitionists Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi.
If anyone's surprised that a proud and unapologetic birther (in 2013!) was front-and-center at a right-wing anti-Obama rally this week, or that the birther charade plays a central role in government shutdown activism, then they haven't being paying close enough attention to the conservative movement in America.
... Obama's an African-born impostor who's ineligible to be president or to command the U.S. military.
... key, powerful players involved in the GOP shutdown movement think the president was born in Kenya, or at least have deep suspicions?
... his parents 'might've announced that by telegram from Kenya.'"
*Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC): ""2012 is the time we're going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is,' Meadows said to applause at a June 9 tea party rally. 'We're going to do it!'"
*Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL): He "told supporters he would back a bill to investigate the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate."
*Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas): "One of the things I always questioned was the documentation of the president, whether that was fraudulent," he explained."
*Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) : "Let's go back and revisit some of these things because Americans have questions about not only the IRS scandal but also about the president's validity."
* Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas): "I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this, on the whole birth certificate issue."
*Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC): "There's no question President Obama's hiding something on his citizenship."
*Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO): "I have doubts that it is really his real birth certificate."
View the complete article at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-b...b_4100760.html
The Huffington Post
Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America
10/15/2013
Carefully selected and presented, highly biased excerpts (LOL):
... claim that Barack Obama wasn't born in America and that he's an undercover Muslim, Klayman told cheering activists in Washington that the president "bows down to Allah." He announced that Obama's "not the president of 'we the people, he's a president of his people," and that Obama needed to "put the Quran down."
... when local police arrived to secure the area they were greeted with calls of "brown shirts," while one demonstrator commented the scene "looks like something out of Kenya."
... right-wing truck rally in D.C. was organized by a proud online birther, and that attendees to the far-right Value Voters Summit in Washington over the weekend were invited to hear addresses by birther exhibitionists Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi.
If anyone's surprised that a proud and unapologetic birther (in 2013!) was front-and-center at a right-wing anti-Obama rally this week, or that the birther charade plays a central role in government shutdown activism, then they haven't being paying close enough attention to the conservative movement in America.
... Obama's an African-born impostor who's ineligible to be president or to command the U.S. military.
... key, powerful players involved in the GOP shutdown movement think the president was born in Kenya, or at least have deep suspicions?
... his parents 'might've announced that by telegram from Kenya.'"
*Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC): ""2012 is the time we're going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is,' Meadows said to applause at a June 9 tea party rally. 'We're going to do it!'"
*Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL): He "told supporters he would back a bill to investigate the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate."
*Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas): "One of the things I always questioned was the documentation of the president, whether that was fraudulent," he explained."
*Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) : "Let's go back and revisit some of these things because Americans have questions about not only the IRS scandal but also about the president's validity."
* Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas): "I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this, on the whole birth certificate issue."
*Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC): "There's no question President Obama's hiding something on his citizenship."
*Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO): "I have doubts that it is really his real birth certificate."
View the complete article at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-b...b_4100760.html