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Sarah Palin: Birther

By | 12.04.09 | 6:21 am

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

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Your Week in Birthers

By | 12.01.09 | 12:01 pm

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…

Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson Breaks With the Right

By | 12.01.09 | 11:19 am

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…

Bachmann and WorldNetDaily, Together at Last

By | 11.18.09 | 9:10 am

My profile of WorldNetDaily made the case that the conservative Website, which opinion-makers brush off as a conspiracy hub, is actually incredibly influential on the right. Here’s some evidence for that argument.

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More on Chuck DeVore

By | 11.16.09 | 2:37 pm

Toward the end of my lengthy interview with California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore — my second interview to date with the conservative GOP candidate for U.S. Senate — I asked him to respond to a Huffington Post story that made much out of his friendship with part-time Obama birth More…

Orly Taitz: Dismissal of Other Birther Suits Helps Me

By | 11.13.09 | 11:02 am

Orly Taitz, who really should be worrying about the final judgment ordering the U.S. Attorney to collect $20,000 from her, has filed a new sheaf of nonsense arguing that the long-awaited dismissal of Phil Berg’s birther lawsuit proves that her lawsuits really have legs.

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Orly Taitz: If the Military Was Smarter, It Could Have Prevented Fort Hood

By | 11.10.09 | 9:17 am

Orly Taitz, who really seems to be staring down the end of her 15 minutes of fame, has filed a motion of reconsideration in Barnett et al v. Obama et al, her California “birther” lawsuit that was dismissed on Oct. 29. It’s the usual Taitzian ramble of made-up More…

Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama

By | 11.06.09 | 11:04 am

Conspiracy-theorist Website WorldNetDaily posts the inevitable “connection” between Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, and it possesses the same level of rigor and responsibility we’ve come to expect from the leading source of disinformation that the president wasn’t born an American. Under the headline “Shooter More…

Birther Soldier Makes Good

By | 10.21.09 | 3:49 pm

Back in February, 1st Lt. Scott Easterling wrote a widely distributed open letter questioning President Obama’s citizenship and announcing his intent to join one of Orly Taitz’s lawsuits.

“I implore all Service-members and citizens to contact their Senators and Representatives,” wrote Easterling, “and demand that they require Mr. More…

MSNBC Analyst Goes Deep Into Birtherism

By | 10.20.09 | 12:51 pm

Bo Dietl, an MSNBC analyst and Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council (appointed by former Gov. George Pataki), unleashed a disturbing, ill-informed rant about President Obama’s citizenship during an interview today with Don Imus.

It’s important to stop and note that Dietl, while over-the-top, is More…