rssMSNBC Analyst Goes Deep Into Birtherism
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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Bo Dietl, an MSNBC analyst and Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council (appointed by former Gov. George Pataki), unleashed a disturbing, ill-informed rant about President Obama’s citizenship during an interview today with Don Imus.
It’s important to stop and note that Dietl, while over-the-top, is not a political nobody.
According to MSNBC, he ran security for the 1992 and 1996 Republican National Conventions, and 23 years ago he ran for Congress in New York. He lost that election, but he’s led a very successful career in security and become regular cable news guest. And in this interview, he bought into two of the stupidest pieces of “evidence” in the birtherverse — a 2004 Kenyan newspaper story that referred to then-candidate Obama as “Kenyan-born,” and a rumor that a Kenyan village was building a monument on Obama’s supposed birthplace.
“If this is not true, let’s end this!” Dietl yells, holding up printouts of the bogus stories. “That’s the paper from Kenya, we got to step up!” After Dietl accuses a skeptical Imus of “going aboard the socialist patrol,” his microphone is cut, and he keeps on screaming.
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Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
He's just pissed that the Obamas named their dog after him.
And that the dog is smarter than he is.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
Wait 'til he gets his hands on Orly's porn stash…
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
God, i love the birthers.
Just when things get a little slow, someone implodes with a bang.
I espeically love that they cut his microphone off, yet he continues to rant.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
According to Wickipedia: “Dietl was also given the secret Kentucky Fried Chicken recipe to safeguard while the company's internal security was being revamped.”
OMG is that the plot????
This whole thing is a secret plot by the Kenyans to seize the Chicken Recipe!!!!
Oh, the humanity.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
No one touches Orly's stash!
Even Orly only touches her stash under very special conditions.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
The clues were right under our noses! But I'm not sure it is the Kenyans who are after the recipe. “President Barack Hussein Obama” anagrams to:
“As Bo D. skins a pure Arabic hen meat”.
We are such fools not to have seen this. This must be the scandal that is about to break, and lead to Obama's resignation.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
Here's video of an MSNBC host waving printouts just like Dietl (scroll to the end). It's ironic that Faithers complain about Dietl relying on printouts when they do the same.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
Of the story that Obama was born in Kenya the National Review comments: “The theory that Obama was born in Kenya, that he was smuggled into the U.S., and that his parents somehow hoodwinked Hawaiian authorities into falsely certifying his birth in Oahu, is crazy stuff.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmJhMzlmZW…
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
I'm not waiving printouts. Any of the other birfer bashers on here waiving printouts?
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
It depends on what you print out. Printing out a copy of a government-issued birth certificate and contemporaneous birth announcements in two newspapers is a little more convincing than the crap you nuts come up with. For example, I have a criminal record printed out in front of me that purports to show that you raped and murdered a little girl in the early 1990s. If you provided a long-form copy of your background record, you could clear up these allegations immediately!
Comment posted October 21, 2009 @ 10:41 am
@24AheadDotCom: Brendanm's evidence is disturbing if true … I think you need to come clean immediately and prove that you did not rape and murder a little girl in the early 1990s. Why have you not done so yet? What are you hiding?
Comment posted October 21, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
Orly update:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21368635/DOC-29-Rhode…
She has filed an appeal to her fine.
LOL.
Comment posted October 22, 2009 @ 2:05 am
AND, Kerchner-v-Obama was just tossed out of a NJ court.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21406205/Kerchner-v-O…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
I googled Bo Dietl & this interesting story in the NYPost was near the top:
Back when he was still an NYPD detective, celebrity private eye Bo Dietl betrayed prosecutors by selling sensitive information to the Gambino crime family, a mob snitch told the feds, according to an FBI report obtained by The Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bo…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
I googled Bo Dietl & this interesting story in the NYPost was near the top:
Back when he was still an NYPD detective, celebrity private eye Bo Dietl betrayed prosecutors by selling sensitive information to the Gambino crime family, a mob snitch told the feds, according to an FBI report obtained by The Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bo…
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