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‘We Don’t Want Donald Trump’ Facebook effort successful

By | 05.05.11 | 4:33 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

The jubilant postings on the Facebook page “We Don’t Want Donald Trump to Drive the Indy 500 Pace Car” tell the story: “Awesome news!” and “VICTORY!” and “Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye.”

More than 17,000 people had joined the social media effort aimed and removing real estate mogul and More…

Tom Tancredo: Obama withheld birth certificate to embarrass GOP

By | 04.29.11 | 3:42 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Former Colorado Congressman, right-wing icon and talk-radio host Tom Tancredo says he guessed right on the birth certificate. In April of last year on the Alan Colmes radio show, he told listeners President Obama was intentionally delaying release of his birth certificate so that the birther movement would burn hotter More…

Pawlenty to GOP: Stop the birtherism

By | 03.29.11 | 3:25 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, said Tuesday billionaire Donald Trump needs to stop questioning President Obama‘s birth location.

Rumored GOP candidate Trump reiterates ‘birther’ rumor

By | 03.28.11 | 6:45 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Rumored 2012 GOP candidate Donald Trump isn’t backing away from his questioning of Barack Obama‘s birth certificate. Instead the New York businessman is doubling-down by demanding that “this guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn’t.”

Ann Coulter Winks at the Birthers

By | 02.24.10 | 8:01 pm

The conservative author who makes a living offending liberals takes a tiny step into the land of Obama birth certificate theories with a throwaway line in her new column.

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Orly Taitz in Nashville

By | 02.06.10 | 3:28 pm

NASHVILLE — The woman dubbed by the Orange County Register as “queen of the birthers” arrived at the National Tea Party Convention today and did what she always does: hustle around talking to reporters and trying to get media coverage. Pictured below: Taitz talking to Lydia DePillis of The New More…

Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention

By | 02.06.10 | 11:00 am

NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama’s citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives in back of the room grumbling audibly about what he was hearing.

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Joseph Farah’s Big Birther Speech

By | 02.05.10 | 10:10 pm

NASHVILLE — WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it on jokes and meandering observations about the citizenship of President Barack Obama. The strangeness started with a joke about an “international medical convention” where an More…

A Year That Abounded With Fears Unfounded

By | 12.25.09 | 1:00 pm

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While one might have expected Washington to recover some civility after the mudslinging of the campaign season, the year instead saw the rise of the “just asking” paranoiac style on Fox News, the return of serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey, and the accusation “You lie!” hurled at the More…

GOP Rep. Garrett: ‘I Agree’ That Obama Should Produce Birth Certificate

By | 11.18.09 | 2:52 pm

It’s been a little while since a good confrontation between a birther and a member of Congress, but here’s one from last week: a constituent of Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) asking his congressman why Republicans won’t do anything about the “eligibility issue.” It makes for awkward viewing, as Garrett’s More…