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Rare Non-Orly Taitz Birther Smackdown

By | 11.12.09 | 12:57 pm

Phil Berg, who by my lights is the original “birther” attorney — he filed a lawsuit challenging then-candidate Barack Obama’s citizenship in August 2008 — has been dealt a serious blow in his quest to overturn the results of the presidential election. The Court of Appeals for the Third District More…

Forged Kenyan Document Splinters ‘Birther’ Movement

By | 08.03.09 | 7:58 pm

Jon Chessoni, a first secretary at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington, can’t understand why his office gets so many baseless questions about whether Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

“It’s madness,” said Chessoni on Monday. “His father, in 1961, would not even have been in Kenya. When this matter first More…

A Quick Response to #TCOT

By | 07.28.09 | 5:22 pm

The #TCOT Report homepage is currently given over to a huge picture of me and this charge, which I’ll just reprint below:

Meme Wars: “Transparency Dodger” David Weigel of Washington Independent Falsely Labels #TCOT Co-founder With “Birther” Meme

Weigel is same “journalist” who played a role in launching

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G. Gordon Liddy: Obama Was Born in Kenya

By | 06.04.09 | 11:17 am

Glenn Greenwald passes along a clip of Richard Wolffe discussing his new Barack Obama biography, “Renegade,” on G. Gordon Liddy’s talk show, in an interview that rather quickly dovetails into Liddy’s conspiracy theories about Obama’s citizenship.

LIDDY: You mentioned distractions. One of these distractions right now is these lawsuits

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SCOTUS Won’t Hear Obama Citizenship Case

By | 12.08.08 | 12:29 pm

In a very unsurprising move, the Supreme Court has decided not to hear a challenge to President-elect Barack Obama’s eligibility for the nation’s highest office, The Associated Press reports.