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[8bitagent]

Remember when Obama said it's "silly season" during the 08 Presidential campaign? Well folks, it's silly season alright...and it feels extremely ripe for a dangerous time period. As in, shark attack/missing intern dangerous.

There's TWO big stories that are dominating the news:
The Obama "Birther" (certificate) movement
AND
Gates/Crowley Cambridge Mass. incident.

Hardly anything is being talked about besides this.
Now youd THINK the Republicans would be talking about LEGITIMITE reasons to criticize Obama...noooooooooo...

For a week now the mass media and blogosphere has replaced Michael Jackson obsession with "Birther" obsession, and obvious take on "9/11 Truther". But unlike the questioning of the official 9/11 narrative,
the "Birther" movement has reached a fever pitch crescendo with virtually every right winger online, on radio, on tv and even capital hill selling this pack of lies.

The theory? Obama is not an American citizen and was born in Kenya, thus invalidating his presidency and making him an illegal alien...because, a darky foreign CAN'T be president in the eyes of a large part of AmeriDUH. See folks...

Obama used a time machine to plant a 1961 Hawaii Newspaper
birth announcement and a fake birth certificate, hiding the fact...he was really born in Kenya! *cue maniacal laughter*

The SAME right wing that has gone out of their way to demonize "conspiracy nuts" who question 9/11, the war's origins and Bush's elections are now aggressively pushing the most laughably debunked conspiracy meme imaginable

Whats WORSE, is that the left is conflating birthers with questioning 9/11, calling people like myself dangerous nuts

Here you can see what seems like a smart guy going apeshit over
BOTH "birthers" and everyone questioning 9/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-cohen/why-the-birthers-matter_b_243647.html

[Nordic]

It's just the corportocracy going into Distraction Mode in a big big way to avoid talking about the mass looting of our money by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve, and about reforming health care.

Just Business As Usual for the corporotocracy.

Why are you watching this stuff? Just turn it off.

They can't milk Michael Jackson very much more, so they've moved on to new "stories".

[harflimon]

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The belief in coincidence is the prevailing superstition of the Age of Science.

[treeboy]

I reckon the folks over at SPLC agree with you

SPLC President Calls on CNN to Remove Lou Dobbs from Air, Cites Newsman's Support for Extremist-Inspired 'Birther' Claims

The following is a letter from SPLC President Richard Cohen to CNN President Jonathan Klein.

July 24, 2009

Jonathan Klein
President
CNN/U.S.
1 Time Warner Center
New York, N.Y. 10019-6038

Dear Mr. Klein,

As an important and respected news organization, CNN has a special responsibility to ensure the accuracy of its reporting. We have written to you before about our concern that Lou Dobbs repeatedly fails to live up to this standard in his reporting on immigration. Now, Mr. Dobbs is again trading in falsehoods and racist conspiracy theories, questioning President Obama's American citizenship.

On the July 15 edition of "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Mr. Dobbs questioned the official certificate provided by the president and the State of Hawaii and complained that President Obama has not made public the "original document." On his radio program, Mr. Dobbs has repeatedly questioned the president's fitness for office, demanding he "show the documents" and, at one point, jokingly suggesting President Obama may be "undocumented."

The truth about the president's birth is not in dispute. It has been verified by Factcheck.org, among many other serious news organizations, and his official birth documents have been made public. CNN itself has repeatedly reported on the falsity of the claims of the "birthers," and the network's esteemed legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, recently called those claims "a joke." As you know, even Mr. Dobbs' frequent fill-in anchor, Kitty Pilgrim, debunked the birthers on the July 17 edition of Mr. Dobbs' own CNN show. The fact that Mr. Dobbs suggests otherwise on CNN — while real CNN reporters tell the truth — is both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.

As he has in several other instances, Mr. Dobbs, in taking up the birthers' claims, is adopting an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that originated on the radical racist right. As Gawker.com has reported, this particular conspiracy theory was first developed by an open anti-Semite and circulated by right-wing extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president of the United States. Among its adherents was neo-Nazi James von Brunn, the alleged murderer of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this June. Von Brunn had helped spread the birthers' claims on the Internet and attacked the "dishonest & conspiratorial Media" for not taking them up.

This is not the first time Mr. Dobbs has pushed racist conspiracy theories or defamatory falsehoods about immigrants. We wrote you in 2007 to bring to your attention his utterly false claim that 7,000 new cases of leprosy had appeared in the United States in a recent three-year period, due at least in part to immigrants. (The real number, according to official statistics, was about 400. Mr. Dobbs took his spurious information from the late right-wing extremist, Madeleine Cosman.) In addition, Mr. Dobbs has reported as fact the so-called Aztlan conspiracy, which claims that undocumented Mexican immigrants are part of a plot to "reconquer" the American Southwest. He has suggested there is something to a related conspiracy theory that claims the governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada are secretly planning to merge into the "North American Union." He has falsely claimed that "illegal aliens" fill one third of American prison and jail cells. And Mr. Dobbs has routinely disparaged, on CNN's air, those who have had the integrity to point out the falsity of these and similar claims.

Respectable news organizations should not employ reporters willing to peddle racist conspiracy theories and false propaganda. It's time for CNN to remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves.

Sincerely,
J. Richard Cohen
President

[justdrew]

I actually had thought Alex Jones was smarter than to go into this birther BS. As far as I'm concerned he's just moved from the possibly-good pile into the problem pile. too bad, I kinda liked his shtick with the bullhorn once upon a time.

[jingofever]

[orz]

[justdrew]

[Nordic]

[Nordic]

Well, 9/11 did a lot of things, including providing major cover for the Bush/Cheney cabal as far as their conspiring with Enron to rip off just about everybody, including extorting the State of California for huge bucks AND stage a coup in the Governor's office.

All these things, if you look into them now, are just enormously criminal, a grand conspiracy beyond a shadow of ANY doubt! Yet they were just immediately forgotten when those buildings fell down.

And the cabal moved onto even greater crimes.

Amazing.

They capped the eight years off with Paulson's raping of the treasury.

And Americans just sit back and take it.

[justdrew]

[Canadian_watcher]

FWIW, (and not really on-topic, I'll admit, sorry)
but I was cured of Alex Jones when he had Kevin Trudeau on and pretty much French-kissed him out of the pure joy of finding out Kevin was quote, "a semi-regular listener"

I was really enjoying Alex up till that point.

[8bitagent]

I just saw this Chris Matthews special last night. The guy devoted so much time to discussing the theory that Obama was some sort of manchurian candidate, with a fake birth advertisement placed into a 1961 newspaper. I mean wtf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y84vLIwQRhM

Of course they go on to say that people who question 9/11, talk about bilderberg or one world order stuff are the ones promoting the birther stuff. The the whole notion of "conspiracy theory" has really taken foot, JUST like when the BBC recently had a special going on and on and on with how "7/7 theories are destroying the fabric of the UK"

Not that the mainstream news ever talked about key core issues, but my goodness...wtf? Devoting so much time to going over 'hanging chad' like menutia detail ad nauseum. Is this really what the mainstream news has come down to?

Yet notice how the media wouldnt give the time or day to do any real investigating into JFK/RFK/MLK, 9/11, etc.

[DrVolin]

I must say that the latest official statement by the Hawaian officials is much clearer than the one they made a few months ago. Now, on top of confirming that they have seen the documents, they confirm that he was born in Hawaii, something they stayed away from in their initial statements.

[Alfred Joe's Boy]

Joe Cannon at Why the Obots need the birthers: