ABC News’ Call Bullshit on Obama’s Excuse Why He Released Birth Certificate: It Wasn’t Ryan’s Budget, He Was Deflecting Coverage of the Economy…
Every once in a while the MSM does its job.
ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports:
The president said he was prompted to act “two weeks ago, when the Republican House had put forward a budget that will have huge consequences potentially to the country, and when I gave a speech about my budget and how I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit, during that entire week the dominant news story wasn’t about these huge, monumental choices that we’re going to have to make as a nation. It was about my birth certificate. And that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here.”
But the president was wrong.
According to Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, that week the dominant news story was without question the economy.
The ridiculous claims about the president’s birth certificate actually was the No. 4 story for the week — receiving about one tenth of the coverage devoted to stories about the economy.
According to Pew’s PEJ: “Hardly dipping from the previous week’s level of 40%, news about the economy was the top story in all media sectors studied, from cable TV to the Internet. And the particularly high level of coverage in cable (53%) and radio (52%), two politics-heavy platforms, indicated just how politically loaded the debate about federal spending was.
“Much of the coverage consisted of analysis of the speech Wednesday by President Obama, one that based on listening to many press accounts renewed support for the President among much of his liberal base. Obama was also the dominant newsmaker in 13% of stories — double that of the previous week — a bigger share than any week since January 24-30, when Obama gave the State of the Union. (To be a dominant newsmaker, someone must be featured in at least 50% of a story.)
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No, I think Zero is right. Everything is about him.
Me, me, me, me, I, I, me, me, me, I, I, I, me……
Ok, enough of me talking about me.
Now you can talk about me.
My favorite part of yesterday’s “Birth Certificate Release-a-palooza” was when Barry said we had so many more important things to focus on then flew off to do Oprah’s show and then on to New York for a DNC fundraiser. Best part, for sure.
This ass-clown will let us twist in the wind with gasoline prices until he thinks the time is ripe for him to gain votes from changing his mandate to a drill baby drill policy.
We can expect this selfish child-man to play nothing but politics for the next 20 months.
He cares about NOTHING but his re-election.
I will be watching how he responds to the southern states tornado disaster since none of them support his fucked up policies.
And the lefties Katrina was political. Just hide and watch.
Gulf Oil spill II
Jake Tapper does his job. The others, not so much.
He released the fake, photoshopped BS BC because:
1. The USA Today poll
2. Trump
3. In May, the Ninth Circuit Court is actually hearing arguments on the issue.
4. May 17th, Corsi’s book is released.
As Corsi put it… Obama blinked.
LYING LIAR!
It’s interesting to see the usual MSM lapdogs are starting to wise up to what a two bit fraud Obama is. So even his birth certificate release couldn’t knock attention off our economy’s dismal performance on his watch. While I believe most of the MSM will fall in line behind Obama as November 2012 draws nearer, it’s obvious that to a lot of people “The Thrill Is Gone.”
The strategy of Central Planning assumes that the ‘Expert Planners’ actually be experts in their respective fields.
There is a problem with implementing this plan in a political setting. People that are good at seizing control of a factory are not necessarily the best people to run the factory. Those are mutually exclusive skill-sets.
Central planning also fails when someone becomes irreplaceable. (not accountable to share holders) If a person cannot be fired, he stops cooperating with others.
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huerfano
Totally agree. All-time classic!
Tapper walks a tight-rope/fine-line/hot-coals over at ABC. He does his job, one of the few in the Alphabets that does. More should (and could) do it … As good as Tapper can be, he should/could do it more boldly. He does have moments of confrontation in the WH press room with the WH Mess Secss.
It ain’t good when your formerly faithful network asskissers start abandoning you– evidently Jake Tapper’s boss ISN’T George Stephanopoulos…….
Steve Jobs of Apple Computer is trying to calm the controversy over the iPhone tracking capability, and has now released his own birth certificate.
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Certificate is a fake. Normally fraud means prison time.
Does he still walk on water?
You decide.
1. http://youtu.be/rQ2Gv_q-DJ8
2. http://youtu.be/2eOfYwYyS_c
Hate to think it, is WZ behind the curve?
Or just not “scouring” below the surface?
HT: http://www.barnhardt.biz/
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I can’t believe I’m quoting Bubba Clinton, but “it’s the economy, stupid.” Thanks for the BC, Barry, but until you can balance the budget and shut off the Niagara Falls-sized-spending you clowns have opened up, I really don’t care what paperwork you release. Hit ‘em long & straight today, you dipshit – I’m sure you will be in an “offsite meeting” for around 4 hours.
Sick to death of this man-child. Totally agree with huerfano about the hypocrisy of yesterday. Must focus like a laser as I board Air Force One for a day of campainin” and complainin
Republicans howl for the President’s birth certificate, to prove he is an American…
In a completely unrelated note- completely unrelated, mind you- a survey shows that about half of Republicans are more loyal to the Confederacy to America.
Jake Tapper reminds me of Rafael Belliard the infielder from the Atlanta Braves during the 90`s. Nothing much to report about him, then out of nowhere he hits it out the ballpark. And what a home run that was!!!!
Rino’s suck: “Certificate is a fake.”
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It doesn’t matter. We have no more information today than we had two weeks ago. Absence of evidence is not evidence of anything. If the BC is not proof of his eligibility then it’s not proof of his ineligibility either.
Official documents contain security features so that their authenticity can be verified. The security features in our money ensure that it is not counterfeit. Since it’s impossible to establish whether the BC was faked or not (absolutely no security used), the whole thing must be thrown out as erroneous data.
Best case scenario: The birth certificate is meaningless. It’s a distraction.
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“a survey shows that about half of Republicans are more loyal to the Confederacy”
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I saw a survey yesterday that showed that 99.9% of liberal trolls were pathological liars.
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What MSM is surprised zero lied again? Obama wanted everyone focused on the fake birth certificate so he could skirt by on the economy and the budget.
This man does everything for a reason and always to hide what his true agenda is. I fucking hate this traitor the faster we get his illegal ass out of the White House and under federal indictments for a million unconstitutional actions the better.
Can’t wait for the wookie to be limited to green bologna sandwiches and 2-dollar rubber flip-flops.. I just hope they have a stripped jump suit in gargantuan ass size. No more lobster, Champaign and caviar for you Bitch.
Obama is going to look stupid as hell running around in an Infants preemie size jumpsuit.. I also hope he gets a Huge Red neck American loving room-mate who is in jail for murdering American hating Muslims scum.
No GAY sex for our fluffier and chief that would make his stay Way to pleasant, when ever he slams his head to the ground and sticks his ass up in the air to pray to Satan,and that his room mate kicks the shit out of him and impales his head into the cinder block.
The release of the president’s long-form certificate proving his birth in Hawaii will not stop the attempts to discredit Obama’s leadership. The so-called “birther”/tea baggers movement veils a much more basic challenge to Obama’s legitimacy and it is that the challenge has to do with his race and not his legitimacy. It’s no surprise then that Donald Trump, the example of a bloated, egocentric , self centered bigot and racist, has already moved on to questioning the grounds for President Obama’s admission to Harvard. No rational person doubts the intellectual gifts of the president. They’ve been on display for decades. It’s hard to imagine a movement demanding proof that President George W. Bush was admitted to Yale or to Harvard Business School on the basis of his academic performance. The point is not to question Obama’s intellect. The point is to suggest illegitimacy.
Can anyone explain this: If two Mexicans citizens cross the US border and deliver a baby, is that baby a “natural born citizen”? If yes, why do some continue to argue that Obama’s father was a Kenyan, so that makes Obama not a natural born citizen?
Also, what about Obama’s time in Indonesia? Was he made an Indonesia citizen, and did he thereby lose his American citizenship? Did he get it back when her returned to Hawaii? And what about his legal name change to Barry Soetoro? Did he ever legally change it back? I think his passport records are more interesting than his college grades.
@Liberal: I would really be interested to see a link to that survey you are claiming. Can you back that up, or are you just flailing your gums like most libs?
SoCal–I doubt the intellectual gifts of the president.
Anyone who calls himself a “constitutional scholar” ought to have more than substitute teaching an L1 course for a few years. Where are his scholarly publications? What guest lectures has he given? What cases has he argued in front of high courts? He was not even tenured faculty at U Chicago. Anyone who has spent years in academia knows that someone lacking these credentials is not considered serious. Graduating Harvard Law does not a priori make you a constitutional scholar or a gifted intellectual.
@SoCAL: Why is it with you folks that everything is about race? For folks that are supposed to be “color blind” you sure bring it up often enough. Why is it that you are so sure that every time someone disagrees with Obama about something, or questions something about him that race is the determining factor? Could it be that in the back of your mind you see it as a factor, so you assume that everyone else does?
Or are you just so locked into that leftist liberal mindset that says all conservatives are racists that you can’t wrap your brain around the concept that some folks might disagree on some other basis?
Really, you are starting to sound like a broken record.
If I were berry, I would seriously reconsider running for re-election. With a super majority of Republicans coming in the Senate and House coming in 2012, how do you say IMPEACH!
In the meantime, I am with Ann Barnhardt. berry and his wookie should be arrested immediately. How did Ann put it so well (paraphrasing), “I don’t want to low level communist agitator running my country!”
If two Mexicans citizens cross the US border and deliver a baby, is that baby a “natural born citizen”?
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Only since the US Supreme Court case, ‘Plyler v. Doe’ (1982), and not by the actual substance of the case.
The determination for birthright citizenship was a footnote in the opinion published by Justice Brier (spelling?).
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“attempts to discredit Obama’s leadership”
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@ SoCal
“No rational person doubts the intellectual gifts of the president. They’ve been on display for decades.”
Can you give me an example? We have not seen ANY of his school records. Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams From My Father.” Jon Favreau (and other speech writers) wrote “Audacity of Hope.” The 2 or 3 essays that are attributed to berry are (as Christopher Hitchens would say) not written in any known language.
Please answer my questions specifically. Also word of advice here….. You ought to suggest that over at Media Matters, a course should be offered entitled, “How to Have an Independent Thought Process.”
@ SoCal
“No rational person doubts the intellectual gifts of the president. They’ve been on display for decades.”
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Decades, huh?
Okay, show us strong examples of actual solid accomplishments he’s achieved in said “decades”. and you cannot use “being successfully elected”. I mean, so was Al Franken, but Al actually wrote and produced comedy that resulted in some entertainment at one time. And I’ll wager Al has a b.c. and college transcripts to share. (don’t mistake this example as endorsement of Franken, btw)
Also, show everyone in these “decades” where Obama has actually done anything to create and grow wealth for others (not himself as he has been ‘taken care of’ his whole life), and NOT just gotten into positions where he has simply collected it from others.
And BHO did this (((YES THIS IS HUGE NEWS))
Effects us ALL!!
BY STEPHEN POWER
“The Obama administration moved Wednesday to expand federal jurisdiction over waterways across the U.S., an act environmentalists said would restore protection to millions of acres of wetlands but which business groups fear would make it harder to build malls, homes and other establishments.
The administration’s proposed interpretation of its jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, announced jointly by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, aims to revise the definition of waterways and wetlands subject to federal regulation.
The question has ramifications for oil companies, cattle ranchers and coal …”
SUBCRIBER CONTENT from WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704099704576288954076262250.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
Got a mud puddle in your yard??
Oil Cos/Farmers/Ranchers/Coal/
Law Of The Seas
The FINAL NAIL!!
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Here is the link:
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/04/many-still-fighting-civil-war.html
From the article-
“Less than half of GOP voters in Georgia, North Carolina, and Mississippi are glad that the North won the Civil War:
-In Georgia 47% of Republicans are content with the Union victory, while 31% wish the South had won. Democrats (58/17) and independents (54/19) are both strongly supportive of the North, making the overall numbers 53/23.
-In North Carolina GOP voters are almost evenly divided on the outcome of the war with 35% glad for the North’s victory, ”
So yeah, about half of Republicans are love the Confederacy more than America.
Democrats, by contrast, love America and hate the traitors of the Confederacy.
Liberal, no, their loyalty is to America. I can understand if it’s a concept that would elude you.
Rinos Suck,
Thanks for those vids, they’re well done and easy to understand.
The BC fake is viral. Hopefully it becomes another Dan Rather moment.
Good for ABC News. That is a shocker.
Obama probably thinks the only economic impact is on the price of arugula.
@Liberal: I think you are overgeneralizing here.
In all cases, more of those Republicans polled were “happy” or “content” with the Union victory. This should make you happy! Instead you focus on those who wish the South had won. I should point out that just because they might wish the South had won, for whatever reason, this does not logically translate into “loving the Confederacy more than America.”
You also need to look at the states in question. I can easily understand how people in Georgia might feel this way. Have you never heard of Sherman’s march through Georgia? While you might feel that the scorched-earth tactics Sherman used were justified (after all, these were traitorous, racist bigots, right?) I am sure that those on the receiving end were less than happy. Such things tend to span generations and are remembered in family histories.
Mississippi was the site of some fierce fighting as well; so was North Carolina.
Additionally, back then, many people believed that they had the right to secede from the Union. They had entered voluntarily after all. In the South, the Civil War (which is a misnomer anyway, since it wasn’t a “civil war”, but rather a “war of secession”) is known as the “War of Northern Aggression.” Many in the south fought because their state was being invaided. I noticed in stats that 11% of blacks wish the South had won. One of the people in the comments opined that “they must have misunderstood the question.” Not necessarily so. There were blacks who wanted to fight for the south against the north. Some, even though slaves, felt a sense of “patriotism” for their state, and wanted to fight the “invaders.” Southern leaders were understandably hesitant at the thought of arming slaves.
Keep in mind too, that back then, people felt more “patriotism” toward their state than they did the United States as a whole. Robert E. Lee, for an example, turned down Lincoln’s offer of command of the Union forces, not because he “loved” the Confederacy more than he did the Union, but because Virginia had joined the Confederacy, and he was a Virginian.
This whole issue is much more complex than people want to make it out to be today. The survey is interesting, but one shouldn’t read too much into it. It would be even more interesting to find the reasons why people answered the questions as they did. But of course, survey data never contains that sort of information.
Keep in mind too, that AFTER the war, the South was devestated. The North was much more interested in retribution than they were in reconciliation. This probably has a lot to do with people remembering the war long after it ended, and probably wishing it had ended differently.
@Liberal:
First, you’re brain-dead if you think for one second that the civil war was actually about slavery. It was about taxes and tariffs on the cotton they sent to the north. The signing of the emancipation proclamation was only a caveat, it was done more to piss off the southern plantation owners so that they couldn’t make so much money off of cheap labor. I’m not for slavery one iota as no man should serve another in that manner but you need to get your history straight as it makes you and the author of your “hit-piece” look stupid.
“Here is the link: http://publicpolicypolling……”
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PPP? Isn’t that the same one that the DailyKOS uses?
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In examining both the new BHO COLB with the Nordyke twins COLB you will notice the odd alignment of “P.M” following the time of birth in box 5b. Although curious to my eye, at least it is the same on both documents.
What IS odd though about the BHO document is the mis-alignment of “August 4″ with the following “, 1961″. Why would anyone adjust the typewriter between typing the day (4) and the following comma? If the comma and year were ‘pre-filled’ then why would the time in box 5b align with the year and not with the month and day? Could the month and day have been altered?
For comparison, there are several other commas on the BHO COLB which you can see align more closely/properly with the immediately preceding character. (boxes 1c, 7c, 11, and 16)
Just askin’…
The P.M. alignment occurs because the “M.” is printed on the form with space for the person filling in the form to put a “P.” or an “A.”.
The other stuff – not so sure about. Waiting to hear a good explanation. The video at this link is of interest in this matter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g30VCl_cgk&feature=player_embedded#at=62
None dare call it treason.
Anybody remember “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
He’s a fraud. Time for the agitator to go to prison.
Barry needs to be handcuffed and arrested.
Obama is a usurper, backed largely by Middle Eastern oil money.
The bastard is illegitimate in more ways than one.
The enemy within, but tomorrow is the Royal Wedding, and also American Idol is winding down, Dancing with the Stars is getting good.
At least we don’t have to worry about the Amazing Race, now that the cowboys are out.
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