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‘Birthers’ Latch Onto Forged Kenyan Birth Certificate

By | 08.03.09 | 8:50 am

On Sunday night, the online community of “birthers” erupted after Orly Taitz released a photo of a “Kenyan birth certificate” for Barack Obama. The “birther” movement quickly divided between the credulous — people who believed that the new certificate was genuine — and skeptics who believed that their movement was More…

Mythbusting the Honolulu Newspaper Birth Announcement

By | 07.24.09 | 6:26 pm

Conservative blogger Tom Maguire takes issue with my story today, specifically the part about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign checking the record on Barack Obama’s citizenship and coming away satisfied.

Barack’s mom and maternal grandparents had a strong incentive to create a paper trail documenting

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The Sarah Obama Myth

By | 07.24.09 | 9:22 am

I’ve addressed the rumor that one of President Obama’s African relatives “was there” when Obama was born before, most recently in my story today, but Alex Koppelman has a good take-out in Salon. G. Gordon Liddy has repeatedly said Obama was “born in the Kenyan More…

Townhall.com and Birtherism

By | 06.26.09 | 9:04 am

I usually skip the advertisements that Townhall.com sends its readers, from unaffiliated conservative groups that buy their lists. But this one was a doozy. PatriotUpdate.com appealed to Townhall.com readers with a series of “jokes” about the president’s citizenship.

Email below the fold.

Frank Gaffney Is on the Case

By | 06.09.09 | 9:38 am

Via Ben Smith, we find Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney pulling out his hair and rending his garments about President Obama’s Cairo speech. Gaffney has previously cited “evidence” (what evidence, he didn’t say) that the president was “born in Kenya,” but he’s a reliable agitator for More…

The Washington Times Gets the Scoop on Obama’s Muslim DNA

By | 06.05.09 | 3:41 pm

I guess I see what Washington Times mainstay Wes Pruden is trying to say here, but there could be a less Cecil Rhodes-ian way of expressing it.

Mr. Obama’s revelation of his “inner Muslim” in Cairo reveals much about who he is. He is our first president without an

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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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Leak re Obama’s Aunt Endangers Her and Her Family

By | 11.02.08 | 12:06 pm

By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living in Boston who is an undocumented alien. They may also know that Zeituni Onyango, from Kenya, was denied political asylum by an immigration More…