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Taitz headed back to DC for protest

By on February 8, 2013 in Birther events, Orly Taitz

Orly Taitz carrying anti-Obama protest signAfter her last dismal showing in DC (two supporters), Orly Taitz is once again headed to the the Federal District [Link to Taitz web site] to picket the Supreme Court and lobby Congress, calling attention to her case, Noonan v. Bowen, scheduled for conference at the Supreme Court next Friday, February 15. Orly has high hopes for a much larger turnout, perhaps as many as 5 people this time (from Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, California and Nevada).

I would go and support you on Tuesday at 11, but I have to stay home and picket my nose.

Joe Arpaio: live feed

By on February 24, 2012 in Birth Certificate, Birther events, Birthers, Joe Arpaio, WorldNetDaily

In a partnership with WorldNetDaily (WND), Western Center for Journalism, and Article II Super PAC, Vattelevision is pleased to announce that it will provide complete video operations and support for live-streaming video of the March 1 press conference in which the initial findings of Maricopa County’s Cold Case Posse investigation into the eligibility of Barack H. Obama will be released.

I don’t pretend to understand the relationships here. The aptly-misnamed “Birther Summit” in the hyperlinks seems to be run by a group called Vattelevision (perhaps a name that will enter the vernacular as a synonym of “myopia”) and then there is the Article II Super PAC, and the Article II Super PAC legal defense fund. Joseph Farah is behind both WorldNetDaily and the Western Center for journalism. I looked up “front organization” in the Wikipedia for help. So whether we’re looking at 5 organizations here, or just 2, is a question worth considering.

Understanding the relationships is not necessary to report the story, and that is Vattelevision plans to provide live streaming coverage of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s press conference next Thursday, March 1.

The Phoenix New Times reported last November:

We spoke to Arpaio yesterday afternoon. His surprise for the "birthers": Hawaiian twins and microfiche.

"No one has talked about microfiche. The controversy has been over the birth certificate — maybe the numbers are not in sequence, or it’s been forged; I can go on and on," Arpaio explains. "To help the president of the United States, let’s go to the microfiche."

I don’t know where Arpaio is going to get his hands on any microfiche, or anything else that’s not accessible others – and that issue, the lack of any ability for an Arizona County Sheriff to investigate anything in Hawaii, leads one to ask why Arpaio is doing this, and what he could possibly add to what’s already known.

I hope WorldNetDaily’s participation doesn’t signal that Arpaio’s report will be the same kind of fact-less innuendo-driven political smear characteristic of WND’s reporting.  It seems to me that WorldNetDaily wouldn’t invest itself into an issue where they didn’t already know the outcome. If Arpaio just recites content from Jerome Corsi’s books, then it will energize the birthers and boost WND site visits, but be roundly put down by everyone else, just as Corsi’s books have been.

I’m not hopeful. Energized birthers can be really insufferable.  I think it’s time to put on the mud guards.

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SNL comedian goes birther

By on September 2, 2011 in Alan Keyes, Birther events, Birther Politics, Birthers, Jerome Corsi, Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

After watching Jon Steward and Steven Colbert, one might jump to the conclusion only liberals have a sense of humor. Not so. Comedian Victoria Jackson, noted for playing a clueless dumb blonde on Saturday Night Live, reprises that role in real life according to the Juneau Empire newspaper. Jackson was in town along with failed Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, promoting an event of the Alaska Restoring Liberty PAC. The event was part of a stopover of the WorldNetDaily Tea Party cruise to Alaska.

The paper said:

imageJackson [pictured right] said she only recently got involved in politics and discovered that Obama was a communist. She endorsed Miller’s call for tea party members to get involved in efforts such as serving as local poll workers, which she said now are “mostly old hippies.”

Another report from the Alaska Dispatch said:

Miller was joined at the event by conservative personalities Jerome Corsi and Victoria Jackson, both of whom leveled strong criticism of President Barack Obama, claiming respectively that his birth certificate is a forgery and that he’s actually a communist.

Jackson herself wrote an article at birther website, and cruise sponsor, WorldNetDaily. The article is inexplicably titled “Make me a Liberal,” but then one can never take a WorldNetDaily headline seriously. It is not clear why most of the WND photos of Jackson have her upside down. I guess the implication is that anyone capable of doing a handstand must know what they’re talking about.

Here’s Jackson’s video program that we can expect soon:

You will have to anxiously await my video of Joseph Farah explaining his youthful encounter with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn; my video of Joe Miller explaining the Murkowski mess (she is voting with the Obama agenda – a true liberal in RINO clothing); my video of Native Hoonah fisherman filleting fish and admitting they voted for Obama and Murkowski because they didn’t know any other candidates (they got Internet three months ago); my video of Jerome Corsi explaining HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research) and contrails; and my video of Aaron Klein (kleinonline.com, ABC Radio), author of "The Manchurian President," discussing Israel. There is no technical way for me to get the videos through cyberspace from this remote location.

Birther offers $5,000 for old newspaper

By on August 18, 2011 in Birther events

According to news reports, the Birther Summit is offering $5,000 for a copy of an original Honolulu newspaper announcing Barack Obama’s birth. Summit director Dean Haskins said:

the only evidence anyone has actually seen of the birth’s announcements has been copies of microfiche versions of those newspapers, and they contain suspicious anomalies

The papers in question are: Aug. 13, 1961 edition of The Honolulu Advertiser or the Aug. 14, 1961 edition of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Haskins, of course, says that the newspaper wouldn’t prove anything. Sure it would: that birthers are crazy.

I just hope some hoarder from 50 years ago has a copy, so at least someone will benefit from birther stupidity.

Angry birthers storm state capitol

By on August 14, 2011 in Birther events, Videos

A mob of angry villagers with torches and pitchforks is scheduled to storm the state capitol in Atlanta tomorrow at 10:00 am. This rally is the brainchild of birther activist Carl Swensson of Rise Up America; it’s purpose: to demand that Georgia pass a “birther bill” (a law requiring states to get birth certificates from presidential candidates) even though Barack Obama has released his birth certificate already. Swensson says that the rally will be “loud” but “peaceful.” Capitol police have stated that the pitchforks will not be allowed on the capitol grounds.

It’s interesting that Swensson on his Pitchfork Conservative blog selects the pitchfork image from American Gothic rather than the image that came to my mind, as shown in the YouTube video above.

The depiction of Obama as Frankenstein’s monster has appeared before, and GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann characterized recent health care legislation as Obama’s “Frankenstein.”

According to Atlanta attorney Loren Collins, there were 12 angry villagers that showed up.

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Photo courtesy of Loren and The Fogbow. Note that not all 12 participants appear in the photo.

Birther Summit names names

By on July 19, 2011 in Birther events

According to a press release from Dean Haskins of The Birther Summit, a combination birther strategy meeting, rally and march, and a game of “pin the tail on the Congressman” scheduled for March 29 – 31 2012, the list of initial dignitaries is now available. They are, ta da:

Hyperlinks point to articles on this site. Some names are familiar to me, and some not. Fortunately the Birther Summit web site has some brief biographical information on each. If they all show up, this could be the biggest birther rally of all time.

I’d be willing to pay BIG BUCKS for a bootleg video tape of the strategy session where they work out their “unified, cohesive message.” Conspiracy theorists don’t usually get along well together.

Birther summit: mountain or mole hill?

By on July 12, 2011 in Birther events, Birther Merchandising, Birthers

BirtherSummitDean Haskins called for a “birther summit” between a select group of top birthers and Senator Lindsey Graham (and other members of Congress) in an open letter reported here earlier. I don’t know how that’s going, but he is proposing a general “activist meeting” on the Birther Summit website.

The Summit, billed as a three-day event, consists of meetings, a rally, and then a visit to individual members of Congress.

I must admit that until I saw Haskins’ name buried on the About page, I was having trouble deciding whether to believe the website is legitimate, or an elaborate spoof. Working against the site are some comments that I am sure anti-Birthers would consider themselves hilariously funny to have said:

…national leaders and spokespeople of the eligibility movement will hammer out a unified, cohesive message to issue to Congress and every citizen of this country.

and

DAY 2 will start with a massive rally at which many of the previous day’s conference attendees will address the huge crowd assembled to make our presence known to Washington and the rest of the country.

The obligatory PayPal button is prominently displayed and there is a store for Birther Summit merchandise (mugs, t-shirts, and tote bags).

The only name mentioned as a participant in the summit is LTC Terry Lakin. The appearance of Lakin’s photo in military uniform on this political activist and fundraising site is highly irregular, and against military regulations if Lakin approved it. A hurried reading of the web site doesn’t suggest that Lakin approves of any of this; however, one of the Facebook “likes” for the site is from Marco Ciavolino, the trustee of the Terry Lakin Action Fund.

It sounds to me like Mr. Haskins is trying to make himself into a leader of the birther movement, largely through wishful thinking.