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‘Where Else Is She Supposed to Go?’

By | 02.23.10 | 11:02 am

Spencer Kornhaber follows up on the story of Orly Taitz seeking … something from the United Nations as she faces various shadowy threats to her crusade to declare President Obama illegitimate. Jonathan Levy, Taitz’s attorney (and fellow graduate of the correspondence William Howard Taft Law School), explains the More…

The Original Birther Makes the Rounds at CPAC

By | 02.19.10 | 5:45 pm

It’s been almost exactly 18 months since Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter, filed a lawsuit demanding that his state keep Barack Obama off the presidential ballot until he provided satisfactory proof that he was born in America — something Berg said Obama couldn’t do. More…

Fraud: The Movie

By | 02.12.10 | 9:57 am

Your daily dose of unsettling anti-Obama filmmaking — “Fraud,” a movie with a trailer and not much else, consisting of interviews with attendees of the 9/12 march on Washington and found footage of images such a small girl waving a “where’s the birth certificate?” sign.

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Joseph Farah: Birth Certificate Theories Are ‘Popular Because of Us’

By | 02.10.10 | 2:11 pm

After Andrew Breitbart criticized World Net Daily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah for using his speaking slot at the National Tea Party Convention to raise questions about President Obama’s citizenship, I chatted with Farah about why and how he wanted the media to cover his pet issue.

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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.

After he introduced the evening’s closing entertainment More…

Birtherism Comes Cheap

By | 01.26.10 | 9:21 am

Stephanie Mencimer answers a question that, as an occasional chronicler of the birther movement, I’ve had for some time. When they claim that the White House is spending millions of dollars to thwart their lawsuits, are they blowing smoke? Well, yes.

[C]onsider a case filed by one of the

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Rep. Nathan Deal Asked About Birtherism in Gubernatorial Debate

By | 01.21.10 | 4:30 pm

Quite a catch by Jason Pye–Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), who has waged a fairly under-the-radar campaign to demand President Obama’s birth certificate, was asked about it at a gubernatorial forum. Incredibly, Deal doubled down.

I don’t have any issues with his birth certificate, and I really don’t think it’s

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[UPDATE] Scott Brown Recognizes Birther Candidate for Congress

By | 01.21.10 | 2:28 pm

[UPDATE: Dan Kennedy, who had questioned the Brown team on this, learns that Hudak trumpeted an "endorsement" from Brown without actually getting one. I've changed my headline to reflect that Brown, at the very least, thanked Hudak for helping with an 11th hour rally.]

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Rep. Nathan Deal’s Birtherism, Investigated

By | 01.07.10 | 5:55 pm

On the subscription-only site Politijab — an essential source for anti-birther news — the ironically named “bogus info” posts a recollection of his/her conversation with Rep. Nathan Deal’s (R-Ga.) chief of staff. It’s the longest account anyone has of why Deal has sent a letter to the White House More…

WorldNetDaily and Palin, Together At Last

By | 01.07.10 | 10:32 am

I was surprised that Sarah Palin, who has twice passed on chances to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, agreed to keynote the National Tea Party Convention. Undoubtedly the Tea Party event has more to offer her financially–tickets for her speech, as I reported last month, are selling More…