Benjamin Hartman of Ha’aretz conducted a strange, semi-credulous interview with birther/fraudster Orly Taitz, who’s in Israel for a month, and rather disappointed that the birther “phenomenon” has faded, “largely supplanted by the debate over health care.” Hartman buries the lede:

In a classic, Americana twist, the matriarch of the birthers has not ruled out her own stint in politics. “You know I never ran for office, but I would not exclude this as a possibility.”

The rest of the interview consists of Taitz patriotically bashing America on foreign soil.- Taitz claims, for the umpteenth time, that the Obama administration is setting up detention camps for its political opponents. Hartman leaves this unchallenged.

- She alleges that Hugo Chavez is buying up voting machines “in Obama’s hometown, Illinois.” (Hartman’s malapropism, not Taitz’s.)

- She claims that the president is an enemy of Israel and that “he issued an executive order to give $900 million to Gaza with no preconditions.” (A lie; Congress had to approve the money.)

- She claims that “the vast majority of the population [in Israel] is supportive [of her quest]. There are some leftists, and some people in the media who are pro-Obama, but even they in private will say they’re with me.”

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