rssOrly Taitz on ‘The Colbert Report?’
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:27 am
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According to a post on her blog, birther lawyer extraordinaire Orly Taitz is going to be on The Colbert Report this week. She just wrapped an appearance on the syndicated radio show On Point, and I think the media hits are revealing something about the birther movement—its leaders discredit themselves when they open their mouths. Taitz, in particular, has made enemies of several other birther lawyers thanks to her constant legal blundering and her crazed appearance on mainstream TV and radio shows.
Here’s a video of Taitz arguing with me back in December. (I’m off-camera.)
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Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
Orly says on her blog now that Eric Cantor has joined her Facebook Page. Dave, do you think this could be true?
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
I think you guys are true heroes of the United States of America, I pray that we get our great country back someday.
James Soh
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
The Ms Ostella that Taitz is providing as backup is suing her butt. How funny!
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
What a waste of energy. Taitz is one ditzy chick. Btw, has anyone seen her BC? And where did she learn English?
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/?p=3367
She'll be taping in NYC on this Tuesday. Personally, either Stephen Colbert or his character will LOVE Dr. Taitz and play right along with her.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Hard to tell, Orly has been proven a habitual liar who lacks even a first year law students understanding of the legal process.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
Colbert will do his usual routine and make her look like the complete raving lunatic she is, only he will do it in such a way that she will be unable to realize it. Then she will claim that she has convinced him.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 6:33 pm
Ohhhhh thank you God thank you God thank you GOD that these crazies keep getting on TV! Yay!
How much do these people make by going around and being all crazy in the public?
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 6:56 pm
Is the the precedent being set for Arnold Schwartzenegger to run for US President? I sure hope not.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
LOL I thought she was Kristin Wiig from SNL… and that name… hilarious!
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 12:27 am
The ACLU are the true heroes of American jurisprudence.
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 12:52 am
Wow. I miss Sarah Palin's clarity of thought and concision of expression already.
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 12:54 am
I learned more about American law by reading the backs of instant oatmeal packets than Orly Taitz knows. In fact I also read that the earth is 4.3 billion years old there.
Oatmeal taught me more than an online lawyer or a former Republican Governor. Instant Oatmeal, at that!
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 1:12 am
Hey instant oatmeal rules. I start my day with it. Unfortunately I know I am getting old because I actually found myself debating getting the high fiber oatmeal.
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 7:07 am
Dude, they have pills for that if you're THAT worried about it. Go for taste, use supplements for everything else.
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 10:27 am
If you find yourself telling someone to “go for taste,” and you're talking about instant oatmeal, it's probably time to live it up a little. Dust off the ol' credit card and go have some wild crazy fun. Order an ice cream sundae and eat it with your shoes off and your shirt untucked.
It's now or never!
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
I suppose that is true. I'm in that in between stage. Old enough to read nutrition labels, young enough that I don't have a doctor telling me I can't eat something anymore.
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
That was beyond fabulous! I went to that event on a lark hoping to get a few giggles from Phil Berg and lo and behold there was Orly!!! Ive been hooked ever since!
Comment posted July 29, 2009 @ 4:56 am
hahaha she is so dumb. i just watched the colbert report and she looks like a complete moron. she compared obama to HITLER and STALIN. i found myself feeling almost sorry for this girl as she sat there saying the most outrageous things without realizing colbert was being sarcastic. wow.
Comment posted July 29, 2009 @ 5:20 am
bloody brilliant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgtTXMknTuE
I keep thinking this is gonna end like a Yes Men punking or something. She is too perfectly stupid. A dem's dream conservative supporter. It's like getting a candidate getting an endorsement from NAMBLA. LOL
Comment posted July 30, 2009 @ 1:00 am
Orly's CNN appearance, her Colbert appearance and the Crazy Eileen video have so completely embarrassed the birfers that they will not recover. Any previously sympathetic politician will be fleeing from the birfers now.
My favorite part of the Colbert interview was when Orly stated that unless Obama Sr rose from the grave and became a naturalized American citizen, then she won't ever believe that Obama is eligible to be POTUS.
Bravo, Orly, Bravo!!
And Orly's comment to her supporters before the show aired demonstrated that Orly knew the interview did not go well for her.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
From David Hahn, “Publisher, StatePaper.com ” August 5, 2009.
Publisher: Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate
At StatePaper.com, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as “racist,” “birther,” or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being “too liberal” or an “Obama lover” by some of our most prolific critics.
But, here is the issue:
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of our country. Article II of the Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen. Without reciting them here, there appears to be some serious questions raised about whether President Obama was born in the United States or Kenya. We have not checked sources, but there are reports that some witnessed his birth in Kenya.
The President's campaign staff and then his administration have released and placed on the internet a “Certificate of Live Birth.” We do not dispute the validity or correctness of that document as others have tried to do, suggesting the use of computers to alter seals and names. By releasing this document the President agrees that the claims about his status as a natural born citizen is an open, important, public issue.
But, this “Certificate of Live Birth” is simply not the best evidence that the President and his administration could offer to lay to rest any doubt about his status as a natural born citizen.
Barack Obama is a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School. All law students study the body of law we call “Evidence.” One of the core tenets of American law is the “best evidence rule” which requires the production of original, or certified copies, of original document to prove a fact. Abstracts and summaries are not original documents.
The President has offered an abstract (Certificate) of his birth, but not an original birth certificate which would be the best evidence of his birth. We need the best evidence so that it can do what the best evidence is meant to do; dispel the doubts about a fact. We need to see the Birth Certificate. That's the one that is often handwritten and signed by the doctor.
Lawyers and legal thinkers will, obviously, argue the finer points of the “Best Evidence Rule” and its applicability to this matter. But, that misses the point. The notion of “Best Evidence” is solidly-grounded in law. This is an important public matter and it seems now that the President has started down the path of offering some evidence (Certificate of Live Birth), he should offer the “best evidence” (Original Birth Certificate) which is the source document for his birth. The document behind the document which has been released. This is what is needed now in the court of public knowledge.
The fact in question here is the constitutional qualification of the President of the United States to hold office. With a simple nod, the President could offer the American people the best evidence, the source document(s), as he learned about at Harvard, and dispel those who question his birth as a natural born citizen. His failure to provide this best evidence, when it could be so easily done, raises only more questions, which fuels an ugly public debate.
And now we've got a “Liberal” Nebraska newspaper advising Barry to cough up his birth certificate.
If he can. Think Colbert will be mocking up an impression of our TelePrompTer-in-Chief taking the Fifth?
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 6:59 pm
During the 2008 election, then Senator Obama published a statement at his website which said that his birth status was ‘governed’ by the British Nationality Act of 1948. Can you please tell me, and the American people, how a person governed – at birth – by British law, can be a natural born citizen of the United States and thus constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States?”
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