Obama birth conspiracy

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 that take the position that he is [...]

Ben Smith points us to the lawsuit that original Barack Obama “Birther” Phil Berg has filed against … well, not everyone in the movement, but pretty close. The defendants in his long, incoherent-as-always filing:
Orly Taitz a/k/a Dr. Orly Taitz a/k/a Law Offices of Orly Taitz a/k/a Orly Taitz, Inc; Defend our Freedoms Foundation; Yosef Taitz; [...]

The Republican National Committee passes along a local news write-up of an anti-stimulus protest in Denver that brought together hundreds of party operatives, moms with children in tow, anti-illegal-immigration activists and self-described libertarians, as well as  the people who are to anti-Obama activism what the 9/11 Truthers were to anti-Bush protests.

Far-right anti-Obama blogger Pamela Geller got all misty watching the farewell address of “the last American president.”
We do not have a President-elect that loves this country, or one that grew up in America, that cherishes the constitution, that plays it straight. The President elect is an internationalist, not an America firster.
Look, let’s leave aside the [...]

Apropos of yesterday’s post about the derangement of Alan Keyes, I’ve been reading Taylor Branch’s majestic civil rights history, “Parting the Waters,” and noticed this passage about the naming of Martin Luther King Jr., whose father had been born “Mike” but changed his and his son’s name to “Martin” after a trip to the Holy [...]

I ignored the phony (aired on YouTube and nowhere else) Obama birth conspiracy ad that finally got some cult success last week. But I generally keep an eye on Jason “Molotov” Mitchell, the 29-year old conspiracist video artist who cut that ad. This week he interviews Alan Keyes, the laughable kook who lost by 43 [...]

The House and Senate confirmed President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s 365-173 Electoral College win with no objections, confirming what some Republican staffers—their offices occasionally buffeted by complaints from Obama conspiracy theorists—said yesterday. It was the first protest-free ceremony of its kind since 1997, as Democrats rose to protest the Ohio vote count [...]

The risible conspiracy theories about President-elect Barack Obama’s American heritage never really reached the mainstream media. There were some local news reports on the lawyers behind frivolous anti-Obama lawsuits, and some coverage of the first suit that the Supreme Court declined to hear, and that was it.
Lucky for the Obama conspiracy theorists— “birthers,” as [...]