In today's dispatches, the Poodle-Brained Therese Daniels is off her meds again. The birthers try to call out Michelle Bachmann. DSV World Nut Daily continues it's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sewer. Devvy Kidd thinks that doing the same things that have failed the birthers in the past will reap some results.
The Obama 2012 campaign has a new treat for donors, and the birthers are hopping mad about it. Esquire shows the birthers what a sense of humour looks like. The birthers reply with a complete and total failure to understand. And the Pest and eFail continues their long-standing tradition of publishing whiney, tantrum-filled letters.
17 May - Ah, hell hath no fury than a disgruntled birther.
"Michele (Bachmann)
Don’t even waste your time running for president.
Your failure to speak out about Obama’s election fraud, identity fraud, his lifetime of crime, his ongoing trashing of the U.S. Constitution, communist policies, his ongoing lies to the American people, overt racism and usurpation of the presidency, precludes you from having any credibility as a candidate on the national stage. You know full well that Obama is a fraud and a criminal and you continue to stand on the sidelines and feign ignorance.
As such, you will not get the vote of the Constitutionalists (AKA BIRTHERS) and I can also assure you that there will be a concerted effort to symbolically target someone such as yourself until the truth is revealed."
All that just to say "Wahh! You won't board the crazy train with us!! Wahh, we thought you were our friend, wahhhh!!!"
"On the other hand Michele, you could do something very patriotic and very courageous: You could step up to a microphone tomorrow and announce to the world that you are demanding a congressional investigation into Obama’s crimes against the American people! You could do that!"
Yes, you could already make yourself an even bigger political laughing stock than before!!
17 May - At Dr. Kate's, the Poodle-Brained one goes off on a tear again. She reposted something she wrote and posted elsewhere after the White House Corespondent's dinner.
"usapatriots-shout May 17, 2011 at 5:46 pm
THIS WEEK IS PIVATOL—THE SPARKS SHOULD FLY FROM TRUMP!"
Well, what we eventually saw was Trump flying away from running.
Yeah, that was good, wasn't it?
"Last night’s pitiful performance by the White House and Barry revealed it all. "
Funny, almost everyone in the reality based community thinks he rather effectively handed Trump and the birthers their asses.
"The silver plated turd can’t even lead a second grade class to the bathroom and he is running around the world on Air force I like a loose cannon. "
Projecting much?? And what is it with the people at Dr. Kate and their scatological fixation??
"Obama aka Sotoero and his gangstas’ are making one stupid blunder after another. "
"Gangstas'", eh?? Racist much??
"It began last week when the Tarot Card Fool released another forged copy of his certification of live birth."
Funny, the State of Hawaii doesn't agree with you.
"Then the king and queen appeared on their god mother Oprah’s program repeating their lies saying Oblabla produced the birth certificate, "
Yeah, how dare they disprove the lies you've been spewing about them!
"Then he ran that demeaning America video with that .50 forged COLB continually flashing on top of America’s monuments. Was he attempting to use subliminal hypnosis upon the viewers? That entire video wasn’t just strange—IT WAS SUSPICIOUS!"
I thought it was hysterical personally.
"Let us not forget the short piece from the LION KING. What was the real message he was trying to send with that? That he was born in Kenya and is the MESSIAH? "
No, I think the message he was sending was he doesn't take you fools seriously.
"Obama’s blunders from April 27 to April 30, 2011 disclose a frightened regime that is getting backed into a corner without any more intellectual ammunition left to fight the tsunami wave of pressure coming forward regarding his eligibility."
Which is why the birthers poll numbers have been shrinking.
"This week will be a pivotal week. Obama just used up all his ammunition against Mr. Trump and the eligibility challengers. Now is the time for Donald to show the world what’s he got. He needs to sock it to them."
And instead the tribble mobility scooter decided he had better things to do. Oh dear, sucks to be you.
17 May - At this point I think World Nut Daily and the birtherstani need to lease DSV Alvin to see if there's a level they won't stoop too. Because Swiftboat Liar Jerome Corsi is now parroting the Pest and eFail / Ladyforest story about dead infants.
"The researcher found documentation for Virginia Sunahara's birth on the morning of Aug. 4, 1961, at Wahiawa General Hospital in Wahiawa, Oahu. She was the daughter of Hawaii-born Tomio Sunahara, a postal clerk of Japanese ancestry who fought for the U.S. in World War II, and his wife, Clara.
The infant developed complications and most likely was transferred to Kapi'olani Women and Children's Medical Center in Honolulu, although the hospital could have been Queens Medical Center. She died on Aug. 5, 1961.
WND contacted Virginia's mother Clara, 83, who is living in Wahiawa on Oahu.
Clara told WND by telephone she did not have Virginia's birth certificate and she was not interested in applying to the Hawaii Department of Health to see what birth records might be on file regarding her daughter."
In other words, "Leave me alone you pack of ghouls!" Mind you, the birthers will simply claim she was threatened or bribed.....
Seriously, how freaking crazy, sick or deranged - hell, how freaking subhuman do you have to be to call an elderly woman and harass her about the child she lost as an infant fifty years earlier??
17 May - The Pest and eFail reposts the latest from bottle redhead Devvy Kidd.
"My column Wednesday May 11 has brought a ton of email with questions about a legal process known as Quo Warranto.
I must repeat that I am not an attorney nor have I had any legal training."
Since when has ignorance of the law stopped a birther?
"However, I can read and I have spent the equivalent of months in reading time on all the lawsuits filed regarding Obama/Soetoro’s birth certificate and the issue of natural born citizen."
You have noticed how they all failed, right?
"There are many superb legal analysis dealing with the issue of standing for plaintiffs in those lawsuits. If a person really wants to understand this issue, you have to spend the time doing the research and evaluating the submissions by attorneys involved going back to 2008. There just isn’t any other way to understand complicated legal issues."
You have noticed how all those "superb legal analysis" were rejected by the courts, right?
"I provided foot notes for very important legal analysis by lawyers who are experts in constitutional law and the subject matter. I selected those four as they were germane to that column. Once you read them, one can fully understand why I used them."
So what four legal experts did you find?
"Over the past 2 1/2 years, I have continued to read postings on the following sites: Leo Donofrio, Mario Apuzzo, Stephen Pidgeon and Dr. Orly Taitz, as well as filings by Cort Wrotnowski."
*LAUGH!* You based your article on the legal writings of a poker player who thinks he's an avatar of god, a DUI attorney, a religious right lawyer with a failure record, and a dentist with a law degree from an on-line law school???? Every single one of which have had their birther lawsuits rejected by the courts?? You have GOT to be joking!
"All attorneys (except Cort) involved in cases against Barry Soetoro. Many of their filings in federal court have been posted so we can learn the arguments and law."
You might want to focus on learning the arguments and law from the other people involved in those cases. Like Roger West, David DeJute, Judge Carter, Judge Land, Judge Lamberth, and Judge Glass, among others.
"Perhaps Dr. Keyes could sit down with some of the great attorneys involved in those citizenship cases like Stephen Pidgeon and Mario Apuzzo and discuss going for a straight federal Quo Warranto."
Perhaps they can. It would be fun to see their legal arguments shot down in flames again.
18 May - The Barack Obama campaign unveils a new gift for donations:
Stay caffeinated for campaign events (and everything else) with a limited-edition Made in the USA mug. Donate $15 or more to get yours.
And from the letter by Julianna Smoot, Deputy Campaign Manager:
"Last year, the President said, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead."
This is about as close as we can get.
If the facts can't make these ridiculous smears go away, we can at least have a little fun with it.
And then we'll get back to the important work of supporting the President as he tackles real problems like high gas prices, the deficit, and unemployment."
Oh, and they also have a t-shirt, just in case you don't want the mug.....
What would have been cute was a comment that the t-shirt was "just right for that fashionable layered look".
The birthers are going to get pissed off, because not only will they see this as a personal attack against them, but it also shows the President doesn't take them seriously.
18 May - Esquire has a little bit of fun at Corsi and Farah's expense
"In a stunning development one day after the release of Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President, by Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah has announced plans to recall and pulp the entire 200,000 first printing run of the book, as well as announcing an offer to refund the purchase price to anyone who has already bought either a hard copy or electronic download of the book.
In an exclusive interview, a reflective Farah, who wrote the book's foreword and also published Corsi's earlier best-selling work, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak out Against John Kerry and Capricorn One: NASA, JFK, and the Great "Moon Landing" Cover-Up, said that after much serious reflection, he could not go forward with the project. "I believe with all my heart that Barack Obama is destroying this country, and I will continue to stand against his administration at every turn, but in light of recent events, this book has become problematic, and contains what I now believe to be factual inaccuracies," he said this morning. "I cannot in good conscience publish it and expect anyone to believe it."
When asked if he had any plans to publish a corrected version of the book, he said cryptically, "There is no book." Farah declined to comment on his discussions of the matter with Corsi."
And just to make sure they don't have a repeat of the San Diego Reader article:
"UPDATE, 12:25 p.m., for those who didn't figure it out yet, and the many on Twitter for whom it took a while: We committed satire this morning to point out the problems with selling and marketing a book that has had its core premise and reason to exist gutted by the news cycle, several weeks in advance of publication. Are its author and publisher chastened? Well, no. They double down, and accuse the President of the United States of perpetrating a fraud on the world by having released a forged birth certificate. Not because this claim is in any way based on reality, but to hold their terribly gullible audience captive to their lies, and to sell books. This is despicable, and deserves only ridicule. That's why we committed satire in the matter of the Corsi book. Hell, even the president has a sense of humor about it all."
18 May - The problem is that Joseph Farah has no sense of humour when it's himself or World Nut Daily being made fun of.
"A major national publication that endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008 today published a completely fabricated news story claiming Jerome Corsi's new best-selling "Where's the Birth Certificate" has been disavowed by the publisher, taken out of stores nationwide and refunds given to any and all customers."
Though to give Esquire credit, it was just as factual has most of what World Nut Daily publishes.
"WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah confirmed he never spoke to Esquire. "Never uttered these words or anything remotely resembling them to anyone. It is a complete fabrication."
And if anyone knows complete fabrication, it's Joseph Farah.
"Farah said the Esquire attack is "a prima facie example of libel and attempt at restraint of trade."
"This is an astonishingly reckless report by a company that has demonstrated its total disregard for the truth," said Farah. "I don't know who Esquire's anonymous sources are, but I can only guess that their address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
The concept of parody continues to elude the birthers I see.
"We are exploring our legal options right now," said Farah. "There is no question of damages from this irresponsible attack. This book was released yesterday. Our author is in day two of a media tour. This report is playing havoc with a bestselling book – and there is little question that is the intent."
Oh sure. And explain in court why the release of the long form didn't damage the book before release, or why the sales numbers on the book went into free-fall afterwards.
18 May - And the Daily Caller comments on Farah's hissy fit.
"An article on Esquire magazine’s website, claiming that the publisher of Jerome Corsi’s new book about President Obama’s birth certificate is pulling it from bookstores, may have been written as a parody, but not everyone is laughing.
The Esquire story, written by Mark Warren, spread across the Internet moments after being posted on the magazine’s website Wednesday morning. Esquire has said it was a joke and Warren told TheDC he has no regrets about posting it.
“He is an execrable piece of shit,” Warren said of Corsi."
18 May - Someone at the conspiracy site Nesara News didn't get the memo about Donald Trump leaving the race.
"Just wait until Trump gets past the birth certificate and onto the issue of Barry O's use of a stolen SSN. You will see leftist heads exploding, because they will have no way of defending Obama. Although many Americans do not understand the meaning of the term "natural born citizen," there are few who do not understand that if you are using someone else's SSN it is a clear indication of fraud."
18 May - The LA TImes reports on the Obama campaign's latest fund-raiser.
"A fundraising e-mail sent to supporters Wednesday morning offers up—for the donation of $25 or more—a “Made in the USA” T-shirt , featuring a picture of the president on the front and an image of his recently released long-form birth certificate on the back—a tweak at those who think Obama was not born in the United States and therefore not eligible to be president.
“Last year, the president said, ‘I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,’” writes deputy campaign manager Julianna Smoot. “This is about as close as we can get.”
The bid to raise money off of birtherism also needles author Jerome Corsi, whose book “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” was released Tuesday, a top seller on Amazon.com despite the fact the White House released a copy of the long-form birth certificate three weeks ago.
“There's really no way to make this stuff completely go away,” the Wednesday email reads. “The only thing we can do is laugh at it -- and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke.”
18 May - World Nut Daily, like most birthers, really honestly don't seem to understand when they're being made fun of.
"The Obama presidency today ramped up its attacks on critics, offering online an opportunity for constituents to buy a T-shirt or a coffee mug with an image of the Obama "Certificate of Live Birth" released several weeks ago as well as a portrait of Obama, stamped "Made in America."
In an email dispatched from BarackObama.com this morning, Julianna Smoot proclaims, "You'll like this one."
She's right, we did.
"Just an hour earlier, a national magazine, Esquire, had published a fabricated report attacking the Corsi book.
Esquire, which endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008 claimed in the fabricated story that the book had been taken out of stores and was being "pulped."
The magazine later claimed it had "committed satire" but not until after a long list of major news organizations apparently accepted the report as correct and contacted WND Books for reaction."
*Snork*
"If what Barack Obama released is really a valid birth certificate that answers all the questions about this controversy, why is the Obama campaign in attack mode on Jerome Corsi's bestselling book?" asked Joseph Farah, CEO of WND.com and chief of WND Books."
Because he did and you're still trying to pimp a discredited book full of lies??
18 May - And in the Pest and eFail's tradition of whiney letters.
"It seems notable to me that not only does the attorney attempt to endorse your retention of information but she also attempts to vouch for the accuracy and sufficiency of the information (before ever having seen it) – both of which actions seem strange and at odds with reality. What the attorney deems “legally sufficient evidence of birth in Hawaii” may be correct insofar as HI and its needs, desires, and laws are concerned, but that is not the issue here. As you surely should know the United States is composed also of 49 other states (or possibly 56) and the HI-intensive meaning certainly means nothing to these other states. "
No, but the "Full Faith and Credit Clause of the US Constitution does.
"Their interest, instead, is the legally sufficient evidence under the U. S. Constitution of an individual being a “natural born Citizen” a horse of a completely different color from a law crafting “citizenship” by a State for their own internal purposes even while they were only a Territory and striving to gain as many “citizens” as they possibly could; thereby engendering all sorts of “creative” natality laws, documents and requirements."
Hawaii was a State when Obama was born.
"Unlike attorney Judith L. Corley I am writing you on behalf of the American People as I know them and have known them for many years. My “Letter of Authorization” is, quite simply, a request for the honest and complete truth which has yet to be evinced from the State of HI about the simple matter at hand which you must surely know is not a request for any sort of a document created administratively by the DOH that shows"
Well, you could check the records at the state DOH website and see for youself
"It is preposterous to believe that you as the Director of DOH can restrict this information forever from the American people since it is their inherent right to have as complete a set of knowledge as possible about their top political leaders."
It's called "HIPPA". Look into it.
"Your State – along with many others – benefits greatly from tourism and it would indeed be a shame to have an internal decision such as this make the State a pariah and looked down upon in years to come because you chose to withhold such vital information from the rest of America for such narrow reasons."
Yeah, they may lose tens of tourists from the mainland.
"I therefore ask you on behalf of many, many millions of Americans of all colors and creeds and political persuasions and individual pursuits and outlooks – and even some too young to yet vote – to release a complete set of all information in your vital statistics files about this man so that history may judge both the man and your State correctly. "
"To hell with State and Federal privacy laws, I want to see those records, damnit!! I'll figure out some way to dismiss them mind you, but I still want to see them!!"
"Pamela Barnett says:
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM
We need a lawsuit against Hawaii.. Hopefully, someone will file one. There is enough there to sue over. The standing would be under common law fraud where standing does not need to be established."
Why don't you ask Dr. Orly? You've hauled her water before, right??
I haven't seen anyone yet debunk the SS number myth that Obama is using the SS number of some French dude. What do you know about it.
"An investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security number (SSN) has been illegally used by Obama: Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425"
I guess he died in Hawaii.
Posted by: good gravy | May 18, 2011 at 03:58 PM
SS numbers are reused all the time. Typically after someone *dies* and when an infant needs one. In 1961 infants typically weren't issued one at birth, unless they needed eligibility for Social Security benefits. Some kids wouldn't have gotten one until 5-6 years of age. Now days, getting an SS # is practically the first thing they do after giving a birth certificate...
SS numbers are like IP addresses, only longer lived. Eventually they will all be reused. Someone in the year 2100 will be born, and be issued the social security # you are using RIGHT NOW. Or that might happen in 2040. Amazing things, that.
Posted by: Some Other Patrick | May 18, 2011 at 04:49 PM
I'm sure they'll all have a good laugh at the health department in Hawaii from that letter. Birthers are dumber than a box of rocks.
Posted by: DaveH | May 18, 2011 at 06:01 PM
SS Numbers are not reassigned after a person dies - at least that is what the Social Security Website says on Q20.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html
Considering the source of good gravy's information, it was most likely pulled out of someone's ass.
Posted by: DaveH | May 18, 2011 at 06:18 PM
The Obama Campaign's letter and Mug & T-Shirt idea is brilliant! Good for them. I think I'll order a set for my wife as a birthday gift.
Posted by: G | May 18, 2011 at 06:28 PM
I didn't get an SSN until I was 12, and I'm a year to the day older than the President.
Posted by: ellid | May 18, 2011 at 07:28 PM
"World Nut Daily, like most birthers, really honestly don't seem to understand when they're being made fun of."
birfers are morons. wnd and their ilk, however, prey on morons and they fully understand when their livelihood is being threatened. in order to keep the scam going, they need to come down hard on anyone and everyone who would dare to tear away the veil, especially anyone in the msm. farah's threats are just another example of right wing fauxrage -- standard operating procedure for working the refs. it doesn't matter if joey doesn't have a case; it's all about scaring off any kind of scrutiny.
Posted by: aarrgghh | May 18, 2011 at 08:17 PM
Excellent debunking of the Social Security fraud nonsense:
http://www.thefogbow.com/special-reports/social-security-number/
Jean Paul Ludwig SS Number was 045-26-8722
Obama's is (was) 042-68-4425. Somehow birthers think that the two numbers are the same.
You can confirm Ludwig's by entering his last name and number into the Social Security Death Index Database:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
This is one of the most baseless birther claims, based on nothing more than wild guesses and an inability to understand how public databases work.
BTW- all indications are that Obama was issued a new SS number in the last couple of years, after Orly started spreading it everywhere in violation of California law. The one above is the one he was issued as a teenager, and he used it on his selective service application, his tax returns, etc. It is the ONLY number which he is verified as having used.
Posted by: obsolete | May 18, 2011 at 09:25 PM
I've said this before, but it bears periodic repetition: WTF is taking the California Bar so long to do something about Orly Taitz?
Posted by: Lawyerwitharealdegree | May 18, 2011 at 09:49 PM
> This report is playing havoc with a bestselling book
So thanks to this nice piece of satire, the birfers now have an excuse why the book is a miserable failure. How convenient!
> Somehow birthers think that the two numbers are the same.
That's what happens if you play telephone - all the birthers have are distorted allegations dressed up as facts and repeated ad nauseam as if they were actually verified.
Some birther posts a theory, another reposts it with some parts missing and some parts added, yet another takes the repost and calls it "fact", and from there it's rolling on its own.
Posted by: The Magic M | May 19, 2011 at 03:20 AM
Awesome post. It saws that women who give birth to respond with complete and total failure to understand.
Posted by: מרפאות שיניים מומלצות בישראל | September 26, 2011 at 11:49 AM