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The Greatest Conspiracy of All

By | 08.05.09 | 10:00 am

This thread at the Right Side of Life, keying off of a FreeRepublic.com thread, is actually a pretty useful look at the way facts bounce off of the “birther” community like so many eggs off of a Humvee.

David Wiegel (sic) is a regular poster at the 

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Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light

By | 08.04.09 | 12:44 pm

It’s been a bad 24 hours for the “birthers,” but that hasn’t slowed down the monster FreeRepublic.com thread on the forged “Kenyan birth certificate.” Jemian cracks the code:

I was thinking today that the Aussie doc might be the fake one. THEN, I read the story about Hillary going

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FreeRepublic.com Founder Attacks ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate’ Forgery

By | 08.03.09 | 9:30 am

The FreeRepublic.com forums have been roiled by conservative activists debating whether or not the Kenyan “certified copy of registration of birth” released by Orly Taitz is genuine. Jim Robinson, the Fresno, Calif.-based founder and owner of the site, has chimed in with his own view that the document is More…

Will the Hawaii Resolution Calm the Birthers?

By | 07.28.09 | 9:40 am

Greg Sargent asks whether the unanimously passed Hawaii statehood anniversary resolution in the House will “reveal how absurd it is for Lou Dobbs to continue to turn CNN’s airwaves over to birthers.” We don’t know how it will affect the birthers themselves, but the reaction from FreeRepublic, a More…

Obama Birther Soldier is a FreeRepublic Poster

By | 07.14.09 | 12:45 pm

Maj. Stefan F. Cook, who is refusing to be deployed because of his belief in conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s citizenship, is a member of, and frequent poster at, the conservative Website FreeRepublic.

Cook, who posts under the name “roaddog727,” revealed his identity in a post about the More…