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Dispatches from Birtherstan - 27 April 2011

For the most part, our listening posts outside of birtherstani were picking up more of the same old swill. We had Franklin Graham's non-stated but obvious support for the tribble mobility scooter named Donald Trump. More of Anderson Cooper's interview with Trump, including Trump's statement on Obama's college records, and his belief Obama's long form birth certificate was missing or non-existent.

The Pest and eFail whines at Anderson Cooper, while also whining that Obama never released any of his records, like a birth certificate. The Independent of Arizona finds USCIS records for Obama, Sr. that mention his having a child born in Hawaii. And World Nut Daily whines that the State of Hawaii has "slammed the door" on people wanting their long form birth certificate. CNN talks with Gov. Jan Brewer, and Jesse Jackson points out that the birtherstani may be a bit racist.

Which was pretty much a normal day for birtherstan. Until the morning of 27 April, when a inbound Predator drone launched from Reality made a tactical strike on birtherstan, dropping a 10 megaton State of Hawaii Long-Form Birth Certificate, (complete with request and custody chain), upon the birtherstani.

The effect was immediate, with signs the birtherstani are separating into separate factions to deal with this strike. The de Vattelist brigade seems to be attracting the most followers, under the leadership of Joseph Farah's pornstar mustache as he tries to fall back and regroup. Meanwhile, a crackpot team of denial experts, accompanied by Dr. Orly, attempt to explain away the long form. Trump and others attempt to troll for Obama's college records next, while Trump tries to claim victory. The Teahaddists go "SCARY" "NOT A CITIZEN" "SCARY" "WAHHH! HILLARY!!"

Philip Berg climbs out from the Indonesian Citizenship bunker to try and rally the free-range PayPal donations to his side. The sane part of the GOP is desperately trying to catch the last train out of birtherstan. The Pest and eFail adds their spin, while Miki Booth has fainting spells over the idea that the doctor who delivered Obama may have touched her lady parts during delivery as well. Dr. Kate listens to the wisdom of the sewage ponds and tries to rally the de Vattelists. Swiftboat liar Jerome Corsi tries to pimp his now obsolete book. Lakin's groupies seem to recognize Obama as President enough to offer Lakin a pardon.

And finally, the Daily Kos points out the documentation that many of the birthers really want.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 26 April 2011

And the listening stations outside of birtherstan report today that we have confirmation that Inmate Lakin's sentence was affirmed by the US Army. Racism? Among birthers? The deuce you say. Both CNN and Fox News say that yes, Obama was born in the United States, cope.

Anderson Cooper debunks Trump - repeatedly. Franklin Graham is trying to be the Grand Mufti of Birtherstan. Dr. Kate gives some idea of when she started to go crazy, though evidence shows it was much earlier. Fitzpatrick is rehashing debunked stories, while Carl Swensson hints that Fitzpatrick is even less stable than feared.

Sharon Rondeau is seeing the State of Hawaii in her breakfast cereal. Colorado comes up with a birther bill, Connecticut shoots one down. And Reince Priebus is trying to keep birtherism from splashing on the GOP.

22 April - The Army Times confirms that Inmate Lakin's sentence was affirmed.

"The commander of the Military District of Washington is affirming the six-month prison sentence of an Army doctor who disobeyed deployment orders because he doubted President Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief.

A spokeswoman said Friday that Army Maj. Gen. Karl Horst has approved the findings and sentence of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin’s court-martial in December.

Lakin was sentenced to six months at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for refusing to go to Afghanistan."

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 14 April 2011

In today's dispatches, some of the inmates at the Pest and eFail seem to think "United States" means "united except for that unamerican Hawaii, can we throw them out of the club?" The head of the RNC isn't a birther, but doesn't want to offend the insane part of his base. Papers in Phoenix poke fun at that state's birther bill. Donald Trump has a "great relationship" with "blacks", even though he finds their support of Obama "scary".

World Nut Daily is worried the undead marmoset bearer is going off script, while their lack of things like "ethics" and "honesty" and "sanity" are called into question. And A 12 year old girl shows more honesty and knowledge of the Constitution than most birthers seem to have.

13 April - Don't you just love the patriots at the Pest and eFail?

"Bob Porrazzo says:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 5:32 AM
Folks, if I may inject something here…Hawaii shouldn’t even be the 50th state…
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/HAWAII/hawaii.html?q=HAWAII/hawaii.html"

"Harry H says:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:55 AM
I agree with Bob Porrazzo’s comment that Hawaii should never have been made a state, and I support independence for Hawaii. Don’t know the technicalities involved in rescinding statehood, but Hawaii is not united to America by geography or culture and should be set free. It can take its fraudulent favorite son with it."

You know, there are 1,102 sailors within USS Arizona, 54 sailors in USS Utah, and 34,000 veterans that rest in Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery. Why don't you ask them how "American" Hawaii is??

Afterthoughts

Thinking about it overnight, I realized something. Something that's gonna piss off the PUMA kitties.

Coakley made the exact same mistake Hillary Clinton did. She went into the race thinking it was a done deal, that she was the inevitable winner, and went on cruse control the entire race. Her entire campaign was tainted by this thought, that they didn't have to work for the win. Even down to allowing her opponent to define her rather than challenging that definition.

And like Hillary Clinton, by the time Coakley realized she had a fight on her hands, it was too late. Even at the end, when the polls saw her tanking, it seems like Coakley figured "the internal polls say otherwise" and put up a token fight at best

Brown, on the other hand, took a page from Obama's playbook. He posed himself as a change candidate, defined the opposition, and worked hard for his win. (It's telling that some of his supporters were calling him the "White Obama" - shades of the "great white hope"!)

Better the wake up call now than in the mid-term elections or in 2012, but damn it, the Democrats have got to stop with the circular firing squad, have got to listen to the voters and not the corporations, have got to stop trying to play nice, have got to stop fretting about "60 vote supermajorities" and "bipartisanship".

Because here's a newsflash - bipartisanship only works when the other side is willing to work with you. And the GOP has made it their stated goal to do everything they can to cause this administration to fail. They're not interested in playing nice or fair or even in the rules.

So guess what Democrats - you still have a majority in the house and senate, so for the Gods' sakes USE IT!! Freaking grow a pair and a spine, because right now you're acting like a herd of castrated jellyfish with the leadership skills of a wet dishrag.

See Liars and Birthers, only in Kenya..... (Birther Update)

(crossposted from the original at Bad Fiction)

""But why would people so woefully lacking in the basic facts of an issue think they were the best informed? Social scientists call the phenomenon "pseudo-certainty." I call it "being a fucking moron." - Al Franken, (later Senator Al Franken, D-MN)

The birthers get a second wind, with Kreep and Dr. Orly parting ways just before her radio meltdown. And Dr. Orly also is pimping a "Kenyan Birth Certificate" that even people at "Free Republic" calls her an idiot for believing in.

You guys just now figured that out??

See Liars and Birthers, only in Kenya..... (Birther Update)

""But why would people so woefully lacking in the basic facts of an issue think they were the best informed? Social scientists call the phenomenon "pseudo-certainty." I call it "being a fucking moron." - Al Franken, (later Senator Al Franken, D-MN)

The birthers get a second wind, with Kreep and Dr. Orly parting ways just before her radio meltdown. And Dr. Orly also is pimping a "Kenyan Birth Certificate" that even people at "Free Republic" calls her an idiot for believing in.

You guys just now figured that out??

The Rocky Birther Picture Show - Birther Update

(Crossposted from Bad Fiction)

The media coverage of the birthers continues, none of it good. The GOP realizes they have a problem on their hands, and proceed to try and blame the Democrats for the Birthers and their behaviour. Dr. Chiyome Fukino of the Hawaii State Department of Health all but screams "HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII YOU DOLTS!". Dr. Orly ignores her clients to bask in the media limelight, Joseph Farah of World Nut Daily is still a lying weasel, Polarik may have been outed, and we hear from Flowbee Johnson of "Whitey Tape" fame.

23 July - And Salon says what my blog and just about every other anti-birther blog out there has been saying for months now - Sarah Obama NEVER said Obama was born in Kenya.

"What Liddy was referring to is actually an affidavit filed by a street preacher named Ron McRae, who conducted an interview with Sarah Obama, the second wife of President Obama's grandfather, through a translator. (Sarah Obama is not the president's biological grandmother, but he calls her "Granny Sarah.")

In that interview, Sarah Obama does in fact say at one point that she was there for her grandson's birth. But that was a mistake, a confusion in translation. As soon as a jubilant McRae began to press her for further details about her grandson being born in Kenya, the family realized the mistake and corrected him. And corrected him. And corrected him. (The audio is available for download here.)

No matter, though, because people who believe in a conspiracy theory simply hear what they want to hear. So some Birther sites have posted transcripts and YouTube clips that end abruptly with the mistranslation and don't include the corrections. McRae, for his part, included the full translation in his affidavit -- he thinks it's all just part of the conspiracy. "Some few younger relatives, including [translator Vitalis Akech Ogombe]," McRae wrote in his court filing, "have obviously been versed to counter such facts with the common purported information from the American news media that Obama was born in Hawaii."

And again, the transcript goes:

"MCRAE: Could I ask her about his actual birthplace? I would like to see his birthplace when I come to Kenya in December. Was she present when he was born in Kenya?

OGOMBE: Yes. She says, yes, she was, she was present when Obama was born.

MCRAE: When I come in December. I would like to come by the place, the hospital, where he was born. Could you tell me where he was born? Was he born in Mombasa?

OGOMBE: No, Obama was not born in Mombasa. He was born in America.

MCRAE: Whereabouts was he born? I thought he was born in Kenya.

OGOMBE: No, he was born in America, not in Mombasa.

MCRAE: Do you know where he was born? I thought he was born in Kenya. I was going to go by and see where he was born.

OGOMBE: Hawaii. Hawaii. Sir, she says he was born in Hawaii. In the state of Hawaii, where his father was also learning, there. The state of Hawaii."

So even with McRae trying to lead them on, it STILL says Hawaii.....

And let me get this straight. The birthers demand written evidence of the birth certificate, but are willing to accept a translated verbal account from his STEP-Grandmother?? Not surprising, they're quite willing to accept Polarik even though there's no evidence he really exists or has the skills and education he claims either......

Misfired Brain Cells - Birther Update

March rolls around and the birther belfrey battery continues. Orly gets new suckers for her military case and continues her international media tour. Berg and Donofrio mutters dire warnings about Dr. Orly, the tea bag brigade has to deal with the birthers riding on their backs. The usual treasonberries are hard at work wiping their rears on the Constitution they claim to uphold and respect, and regular conservatives are trying to figure out what to do with the birthers they helped create.

23 February - CNN also spanks Sen. Richard Shelby

25 February - Leo Donofrio also decides to spank Dr. Orly about her recruiting military personnel

"I hoped the issue would go away, but it didn’t. This week an active military officer signed a consent form to be a plaintiff in a future law suit brought by Orly Taitz. Besides erroneously reporting that the officer had defied a Presidential order, the officer’s name was released and inflammatory and contemptuous statements were also released via World Net Daily, Orly’’s blog and the Drudge Report.

I complained vehemently and eventually the incorrect headline which grossly and erroeneously stated that the officer had defied a Presidential order was changed at all three sources.

Unfortunately, the damage had already been done. Review the following statement by the officer:

“Until Mr. Obama releases a ‘vault copy’ of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office – an impostor…”

This statement should never have been made public. If Orly Taitz is going to solicit active military to join her potential law suit and sign consent forms thereto, then she should be charged with the responsibility of knowing the exact punishment her clients will be subjected to, and she should be protecting them from any unnecessary jeopardy.

There was absolutely no need for contemptuous language to have been uttered as such language is clearly in violation of Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which states:

Article 88—Contempt toward officials

a. Text of statute.

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Maximum punishment. Dismissal, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 1 year.

Clearly, calling the President an “imposter” and a “usurper” is contemptuous language by any possible definition of the word."

Obama Supporter? "No Candy for you!"

Mich. woman: Supporting Obama? No treats for you

"GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. -- A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighborhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters.

Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., handed out candy Friday only to those who shared her support for the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate Sarah Palin. Others were turned away empty-handed.

TV station WJBK says a sign outside Nagel's house warned: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."

Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama "scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."

Fax and phone messages left at numbers for Nagel were not returned."

You know, I'd be just as annoyed if it was an *Obama* supporter that did something this mean-spirited. BTW, a check on this person's name shows she was a RNC delegate from Michigan. Quote:

""You judge a book by its cover, and we've been waiting for that chance with her," said Nagel, dressed in a hockey jersey like the rest of the Michigan delegation. "We want to see how tall she is, if she wears heels, how she wears her hair. That's stuff us Republican women need to know."

When Palin finally did make her introduction, Nagel approved of what she saw -- and heard. Nagel once coached a high school speech and debate team, and she liked how Palin defended her family without sounding defensive. She stood up on her red folding chair at the end of Palin's speech and leaned in to take a picture. "She started with the family and then moved on, just like everybody should do," Nagel shouted above the roar of the crowd. "She's a woman, and she showed she's tough. She attacked Obama. She touched on all the issues. We love her."

Doubtless the PUMAs are lauding this woman for her bravery in turning away trick-or-treaters.

(Video here)