Ben Smith has a great catch – the North Dakota Republican Party fronting its website with a joke about the White House party crashers demanding President Obama’s birth certificate.
Here, via Charles Johnson, is audio of Sean Hannity telling a critical caller that questions about President Obama’s birth certificate are perfectly legitimate. The disagreement starts when the caller knocks Hannity for citing WorldNetDaily as a source, given its “birther” content.
HANNITY: Let me ask you a question. What
WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the basis that Barack Obama, having never been the legitimate president, had no right to use TARP funds to restructure car companies.
Continuing today’s unexpected surge of “birther” news, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)–the freshman Republican who has introduced legislation that would demand proof of citizenship from future presidential candidates–is using WorldNetDaily’s “alerts” email list to raise reelection cash.
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Sarah Palin tries to put the toothpaste back in the tube following her “birther” comments yesterday. The full post today on her Facebook page:
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game
Ben Smith catches Sarah Palin indulging Rusty Humphries, a conservative radio host given to obsessing about the citizenship of President Obama, in some speculation about the commander-in-chief’s birth certificate yesterday. Just so there’s no confusion, here’s the transcript:
HUMPHRIES: One of the questions Jason asks is would you make
It’s been a year since I really started covering the “birther” movement in earnest — the news, at the time, was the movement’s ability to get Obama eligibility lawsuits considered by the Supreme Court. It really feels like the movement’s lost steam since this summer, when Orly Taitz briefly More…
Way back in April, I talked to Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs about his very public arguments with fellow “warbloggers” whom, he believed, had gone off the rails. Johnson told me that he’d never considered himself a “conservative.” But last night he put up a scorching post More…
TWI’s David Weigel sat down with Politico’s Ben Smith yesterday for a wide-ranging Bloggingheads.tv diavlog that covered President Obama and Afghanistan, the declining toxicity of George W. Bush, the liberal media and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), and, of course, birthers. Video of the full conversation after the jump.
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…
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