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“Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it. You’re not going to make a big deal about this are you? It’s just an Internet joke.” – …

Arizona’s GOP-dominated legislature has passed its bill requiring all presidential candidates to provide proof of being born in the United States in order to have their names placed on the ballot. Lawmakers in 10 states introduced birther bills in their state legislatures at the beginning of this year’s sessions, but the Arizona bill is so far the only one to …

Britain’s Daily Mail tabloid reports that the latest conspiracy theory sweeping wingnut blogs is that the president has had secret brain surgery. In pictures, Obama appears to have a long scar which goes up the side of his head and over his crown. Some conspiracy theorists claim they are scars that you would see on someone who has had brain …

“Even before Gail Collins was with the New York Times, she has written nasty and derogatory articles about me. Actually, I have great respect for Ms. Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent. Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level. More …

Today World Net Daily published a lengthy column claiming that Barack Obama had been photoshopped into the top photo with his white grandparents. Because he couldn’t have been with them in New York City and in Kenya/Indonesia/Pakistan at the same time. However Media Matters points out that in fact it’s WND’s image that is photoshopped, as evidenced by the fact …

Tomorrow Donald Trump will meet with Arizona state legislators to discuss their pending bill which would require the submission of a birth certificate in order to be placed on the state presidential ballot. Lawmakers in Arizona confirmed their plans to meet with Trump at his invitation, and Rep. Carl Seel, whose bill is one of those pending in the state …

Thrilled about his newfound birtherism, Fox News has hired Donald Trump to join the cast of Fox & Friends, where he will appear on Mondays. Most mainstream Republicans would love to see the birther issue dead and buried before the 2012 elections, but Trump doesn’t want to appear to let go. And the “Fox and Friends” pulpit will allow him …

“I think Mr. Trump’s position on this has been a pretty common-sense one, and honestly, I can’t understand why President Obama wouldn’t have released his birth certificate before now to put an end to this once and for all.” – GOProud chairman Chris Barron, who says the president’s nationality is not among his group’s priorities. Politico’s Ben Smith comments: “Trump, …

At today’s Tea Party rally in DC.

“A lot of the so called birthers, these are great people, these are really great American people. These are hard working, unbelievable, salt of the earth people. I’m proud to be, I mean I’m very proud of it. I don’t like the term ‘birther.’ I think it is a demeaning term to the people that believe that he should have …

“Hey look, you have no doctors that remember. You have no nurses — this is the president of the United States! — that remember. That ad that was placed in the Houston paper — that was placed in the paper days after he was born. So he could have come into the country. You know what I get a kick …

World Net Daily founder Joseph Farrah is soliciting contributions for the airing of the below commercial so that Jerome Corsi’s birther book becomes “the biggest publishing event of the year.”

“He grew up and nobody knew him. You know! When you interview people, if ever I got the nomination, if I ever decide to run, you may go back and interview people from my kindergarten. They’ll remember me. Nobody ever comes forward about Obama. Nobody knows who he is until later in his life. It’s very strange. The whole thing …

Tea Party-backed GOP state Rep. Mark Hatfield has introduced a bill stipulating that President Obama must provide his birth certificate in order have his name placed on Georgia’s 2012 ballot. The bill has the signatures of 94 members of the 180-member House, including that of one Democrat, Glenn Baker of Jonesboro. At minimum, the bill will suggest make for some …