“Obama has yet to prove he’s a citizen” – Rush Limbaugh
The clip of Matthews making a congressman admit to Obama’s citizenship is getting a lot of play right now. The better question is why Chris Matthews is covering it? This is news? I’m wondering if our media has now decided that every single crackpot idea should be put on TV and publicized. Obviously, the answer is yes. Ratings mean money in TV land. But it’s turning our news channels into “Inside Edition” type venues.
I remember very well during the primaries when the unhinged fringe, supposed Hillary supporters, tried this one. Positing that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. A., writing post after post trying to prove it, while walking closer and closer to the cliff. Their crackpot cousins in the Republican Party won’t let it go.
Marc Ambinder wondering if the GOP should take this issue more seriously. They are in Tennessee.
Rush Limbaugh knows a good dog whistle when he hears one. I remember back in the 1990s when he claimed WJC had murdered someone over drugs, with Jerry Falwell delivering propaganda against Clinton of a similar nature as well. Rush thinks he’s got a rallying cry.
He continued, “Barack Obama has yet to have to prove that he’s a citizen. All he has to do is show a birth certificate. He has yet to have to prove he’s a citizen. I have to show them 14 different ways where the h— I am every day of the year for three years.”
With an article at WND having a corresponding petition for people to sign saying “Demand the truth by joining the petition campaign to make President Obama reveal his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate!” If you think that’s bad, watch this video of a town hall meeting where the birthers go wild (Rush supplies the transcript) when Republican lawmaker Mike Castle states Obama is a U.S. citizen. It’s the stuff of the “Twilight Zone.”
I took a look over at memeorandum today. This tale of nuttiness is listed, but so are innumerable negative stories about Pres. Obama, but also about Democrats. Get a load of this headline on health care: Obama’s Ominous Implication: Euthanasia on the Elderly.
There is a full on assault on Barack Obama right now that is getting louder and louder, but also includes all things Democratic. It’s not at Bill Clinton hunting stage, but the right is working on it. It’s the ramp up for 2010 and beyond and it’s likely to get a lot uglier.
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