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only a few elected Republicans making utterly innocuous remarks, such as Representative John Campbell (R-CA), who responded to a question about whether Obama was born in Hawaii by saying, “As far as I know, yes.” In liberal-land, that’s enough to be labeled a “birther.” 4
Salon’s leading “birther in Congress” was Representative Bill Posey (R-FL) for simply having said he wouldn’t “swear on a stack of Bibles” that Obama was born in Hawaii. I wouldn’t swear on a stack of Bibles that Dennis Kucinich was born on Planet Earth, but apparentlynow Republicans are deemed to believe anything they don’t heatedly denounce.
The smoking gun of Posey’s alleged “birther” belief is that he introduced a bill that would require presidential candidates to produce their birth certificates. Inasmuch as it is a constitutional requirement that presidents be natural-born citizens, this is hardly an outrageous proposal.
But consider what Posey did not do.
He did not attempt to void a presidential election—as Senator Barbara Boxer and a handful of House Democrats did in voting not to ratify Ohio’s votes in the 2004 election based on the Left’s conspiracy theory about rigged Diebold voting machines. 5
Posey did not say, “I believe it” of the birther theory, as DNC head Terry McAuliffe did of Michael Moore’s more ludicrous conspiracy theories in his movie Fahrenheit 911. 6
He did not hold mock impeachment hearings covered by CSPAN in the House basement—as Democratic congressman John Conyers did for the impeachment of George Bush. 7
But liberals demanded that elected Republicans like Posey do more. They were called on to attack birthers and thereby pointlessly alienate people who might vote for them. Before Republicans tell birthers they’re wrong, how about the Democrats get around to telling their black constituents that O.J. did it? How about the Democrats issue an official proclamation stating that they believe Tawana Brawley was lying and her advisers were malicious frauds? How about asking the Democratic congressman who represents Durham, North Carolina, to comment on whether he believes the Duke lacrosse players were guilty?
It would be a big step if Democrats would simply stop kissing Al Sharpton’s ring. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spends 55 minutes of his every show demanding that elected Republicans vilify the birthers. But then he invites on as an honored guest Al Sharpton—perpetrator of the Tawana Brawley hoax. Maybe Matthews could kick off the conspiracy-squelching extravaganza by denouncing Sharpton’s role in that charade.
For years, Al Sharpton, leading actor in the Tawana Brawley hoax, had veto power over all Democratic presidential candidates. If thereever comes a time when Republican presidential candidates have to get the blessing of the head of the birther movement to run, I’ll say: I’m wrong—Republicans are as crazy as the Democrats.
It’s not just that your average liberal is more likely than a conservative to believe in laughable conspiracies—although that is clearly true. The difference is, the conservative media denounce their nuts. They don’t hold hearings on deranged theories or attend the loons’ movie premieres. By contrast, the Democratic Party champions its crazies, appearing with them in public and holding congressional hearings to investigate their screwball theories.
The Democratic Party has a hand-in-glove relationship with Michael Moore, crackpot documentarian, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is chockablock with demented conspiracy theories, including:
• the 2000 election was stolen
• the Bush family clandestinely spirited the bin Laden family out of the United States after the 9/11 attacks
• Bush went to war in Afghanistan not to avenge the 9/11 terrorist attack but to help the Unocal Corp. obtain a natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan
Again, Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee , attended the glittering Washington, D.C.,
Salon’s leading “birther in Congress” was Representative Bill Posey (R-FL) for simply having said he wouldn’t “swear on a stack of Bibles” that Obama was born in Hawaii. I wouldn’t swear on a stack of Bibles that Dennis Kucinich was born on Planet Earth, but apparentlynow Republicans are deemed to believe anything they don’t heatedly denounce.
The smoking gun of Posey’s alleged “birther” belief is that he introduced a bill that would require presidential candidates to produce their birth certificates. Inasmuch as it is a constitutional requirement that presidents be natural-born citizens, this is hardly an outrageous proposal.
But consider what Posey did not do.
He did not attempt to void a presidential election—as Senator Barbara Boxer and a handful of House Democrats did in voting not to ratify Ohio’s votes in the 2004 election based on the Left’s conspiracy theory about rigged Diebold voting machines. 5
Posey did not say, “I believe it” of the birther theory, as DNC head Terry McAuliffe did of Michael Moore’s more ludicrous conspiracy theories in his movie Fahrenheit 911. 6
He did not hold mock impeachment hearings covered by CSPAN in the House basement—as Democratic congressman John Conyers did for the impeachment of George Bush. 7
But liberals demanded that elected Republicans like Posey do more. They were called on to attack birthers and thereby pointlessly alienate people who might vote for them. Before Republicans tell birthers they’re wrong, how about the Democrats get around to telling their black constituents that O.J. did it? How about the Democrats issue an official proclamation stating that they believe Tawana Brawley was lying and her advisers were malicious frauds? How about asking the Democratic congressman who represents Durham, North Carolina, to comment on whether he believes the Duke lacrosse players were guilty?
It would be a big step if Democrats would simply stop kissing Al Sharpton’s ring. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spends 55 minutes of his every show demanding that elected Republicans vilify the birthers. But then he invites on as an honored guest Al Sharpton—perpetrator of the Tawana Brawley hoax. Maybe Matthews could kick off the conspiracy-squelching extravaganza by denouncing Sharpton’s role in that charade.
For years, Al Sharpton, leading actor in the Tawana Brawley hoax, had veto power over all Democratic presidential candidates. If thereever comes a time when Republican presidential candidates have to get the blessing of the head of the birther movement to run, I’ll say: I’m wrong—Republicans are as crazy as the Democrats.
It’s not just that your average liberal is more likely than a conservative to believe in laughable conspiracies—although that is clearly true. The difference is, the conservative media denounce their nuts. They don’t hold hearings on deranged theories or attend the loons’ movie premieres. By contrast, the Democratic Party champions its crazies, appearing with them in public and holding congressional hearings to investigate their screwball theories.
The Democratic Party has a hand-in-glove relationship with Michael Moore, crackpot documentarian, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is chockablock with demented conspiracy theories, including:
• the 2000 election was stolen
• the Bush family clandestinely spirited the bin Laden family out of the United States after the 9/11 attacks
• Bush went to war in Afghanistan not to avenge the 9/11 terrorist attack but to help the Unocal Corp. obtain a natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan
Again, Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee , attended the glittering Washington, D.C.,
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