Tag Archives: birther movement

Birthers On The Hill

Firedoglake blogger Mike Stark tries to pin down GOP Congressmen about their position on Obama’s nationality. Most dodge the question.

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Crazy Eileen

Remember the loony red-shirted birther who made international news when she hijacked Rep. Mike Castle’s town hall meeting? It turns out that she is well-known around Delaware as “Crazy Eileen.” Conservative radio host Jared Morris has posted a YouTube clip of her calls. In a call from a January show, on New Year’s predictions, the woman discusses aliens, angels and …

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Gordon Liddy: Obama Is An Illegal Alien

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Today In Mental Illness

Even though two Honolulu-based newspapers printed Barack Obama’s birth announcement in 1961, the loons at World Net Daily aren’t buying it. Because knowing he would one day be our president, the vast liberal conspiracy planted those birth announcements 47 years in advance. Or something.

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Chris Matthews Vs. GOP Birther

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Birthers Gone Wild

Another birther nut went off on Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) last week, screaming, “I want my country back.” Castle assured the woman that the president is indeed a U.S. citizen, but she would not STFU and demanded that the audience stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Which they did.

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CNN On Birthers

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Sean Hannity On Major “Birther” Cook

After he claimed that President Obama is not a U.S. citizen and therefore not authorized to order him to Afghanistan, Major Stefan Cook had his orders to deploy revoked. Sean Hannity is promoting Cook’s lawyers claim that the order revocation is Obama’s admission of being foreign-born.

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Olbermann’s Worst: Major Stefan Cook

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Birthers Win Court Case, Judge To Hear Alan Keyes’ Claim On Obama’s Eligibility

The birthers won a small court victory yesterday when a Los Angeles judge agreed to hear Alan Keyes’ claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to be U.S. president. The case, Alan Keyes, et al. v Barack H. Obama, et al. was filed on Inauguration Day and is one of a raft of suits alleging Obama …

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Maddow: Museum Shooter Was A Birther

The Holocaust Museum shooter was a birther. Shocker.

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CBS To Birthers: Get Bent

World Net Daily is outraged because CBS is refusing to allow their billboard company (the nation’s largest) to sell them space for their “Where Is The Birth Certificate?” campaign. The WND site presently has nine separate posts on its main page alleging that Barack Obama is not a “natural born” American citizen and is therefore ineligible to be president. “Here …

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Birthers Launch Billboard Campaign

Sponsored by Christianist site World Net Daily, the “birthers,” a particularly nasty subset of wingnuts who believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, have launched a national billboard campaign demanding “Where’s The Birth Certificate?” The idea behind the billboard campaign is to make sure Obama cannot avoid this question any longer. He must be asked to …

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This Month In Whistleblower

The wingnuts at WorldNetDaily have devoted an entire issue of their monthly magazine to Barack Obama’s nationality. From WND founder Joseph Farah: “To me, this is a historic issue of Whistleblower magazine. I do not pretend to know where the information you are about to read will lead. But I do know that it is explosive, profoundly important and represents …

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“Birther” Movement Hits Congress

Politico reports that the first Congressional bill requiring that presidential candidates provide their original birth certificates has been filed by Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL). “Opponents of President Obama are raising the birth certificate issue as a means of questioning his eligibility to serve as president,” Posey said in a statement. “This bill, by simply requiring such documentation for future candidates …

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