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‘Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless’

By | 08.06.09 | 1:18 pm

It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original forgery and a mocking declaration:

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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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Surprise: Orly Taitz Still Lying About the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate’

By | 08.04.09 | 2:06 pm

Via Alex Koppelman, I see that Orly Taitz has unleashed another incoherent, vicious rant in response to the demolition of the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” she submitted to California and Florida courts. Predictably, she passes on the chance to say who provided her with the forgery. I’ll deal with More…

David Bomford Talks About the Forgers Who Used His Birth Certificate to Smear Obama

By | 08.04.09 | 10:36 am

PM, a series on the Australian Broadcast Channel, tracked down David Bomford, the man whose Australian birth certificate was used as the basis for the forged “Obama Kenyan birth certificate” that Orly Taitz posted online Sunday.

The key bit of the interview:

DINA ROSENDORFF: Looking over the documents in

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WorldNetDaily Responds to Hoax Accusation

By | 08.04.09 | 10:09 am

The editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily left a comment at TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota Independent, taking issue with the statement that the site “has been accused” of publishing hoaxes in the past, such as “poorly written and unauthenticated emails” allegedly between Barack Obama and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

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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…

Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’

By | 08.03.09 | 7:34 pm

[Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for "birther" debunking.]

One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther”-debunkers passes on quite the discovery: a 1964 “certified copy of registration More…

WorldNetDaily: We Had ‘Journalistic Responsibility’ to Post Forged Document

By | 08.03.09 | 1:58 pm

WorldNetDaily has put out a news release on its, uh, “scoop” about the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” that Orly Taitz has filed in court as proof of the president’s foreign ties. WND, says editor-in-chief Joseph Farah, is “working with document experts in the U.S. and with sources More…

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…

Karl Rove: The Kenyan ‘Birth Certificate’ Is ‘Likely a Forgery’

By | 08.03.09 | 9:11 am

President George W. Bush’s political strategist put up a tweet this morning that’s a reflection of both how much play the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” is getting, and how embarrassing it is for opponents of President Obama.