WorldNetDaily beat me to the punch by about 5 months, but what the heck…
Have you seen the sign on the left floating around the Internet? This is apparently old news, but I have been running across the image lately on birther web sites.
Images courtesy of About.com
Are the birthers making up stuff again? Perhaps not.
Consider the following detail from the sign, the words under Kenya:
Now, exchange the letters left to right:
That’s Arabic for “Hawaii.”
Photoshopped Punked again.
Yes, yet another YouTube video with edited audio. The grandmother tape ain’t nothing compared to this one. However, this is an edited version of an edited version. Link to the original edited version at the bottom of the article.
Update 2:
The video above was made by taking a humorous spoof made by ObamaSnippets.com, and removing the context which clearly identifies it as a joke. The resulting faked and stolen video (above) is then presented as the truth and thereby turns a spoof into a fraud.
Unfortunately it’s all to easy to make a fake video nowadays.
Thanks to an email, presumably from a birther, telling me that the authentic Kenyan birth certificate of President Barack Obama has been found. The certificate is the old Bomford hoax, but what was interesting was what WorldNetDaily said about it in their article titled Is this really smoking gun of Obama’s Kenyan birth? (August 2, 2009). They wrote:
WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical.
I did a double take when I saw that. Why? Because WorldNetDaily said 4 days later (August 6, 2009) in the article Obama birth doc update: Kenya sources weigh in:
…an authentic 1961-era Kenyan birth certificate obtained by WND shows distinct differences. (more…)
I’ve written about this before, and I thought I had put it to rest. The “birth certificate” filed by Fred Hollander in the Hollander v. McCain lawsuit is a fake. It is not only a fake, but it is an obvious fake. Anybody can see that is a fake just by looking at it.
Just so everybody, “WTF?” and “Scott Brown” included will see this issue put to rest about there being a John McCain birth certificate, look and see. When you click on the image it will appear larger in your browser but the image is likely bigger than your screen. Use your browser’s magnification tool to make it full size.
McCain fake birth certificate showing obvious flaws. Click to enlarge.
Fake McCain birth certificate highlighting all the additions. Click to enlarge.
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin
We covered it here on Obama Conspiracy Theories: Another military officer refuses deployment over birth certificate. Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an army physician, has gone birther. Lakin has his fund-raising fan web site, Safeguard our Constitution where he says: “In 2008, after pressure from news media, President Obama’s rival, candidate McCain, produced an original birth certificate from the Panama Canal Zone”. [Emphasis in the original.]
That’s not true.
Why did Lakin say this? Is he intentionally attempting to mislead the public into thinking McCain released a birth certificate and Obama did not? Is Lakin clinically insane and delusional? Or is he just too damned lazy to verify the information with which he is attempting to subvert the government of the country he swore to defend?
If you’re a birther, chances are you believe that McCain released a birth certificate (and you may even be able to post a link to it). If that’s what you believe, then you’re in the lazy category.
What is the truth about the McCain certificate?
First, let’s look at what McCain did. Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs wrote:
The McCain campaign has declined to publicly release his birth certificate, but a senior campaign official showed me a copy.
We do not know what Dobbs saw, whether it was a hospital souvenir, a consular birth certificate, or something issued by the Canal Zone health department. Whatever it was, Dobbs called it a “copy” not an original, because originals are always retained by the jurisdiction where the birth is registered. Dobbs didn’t even say “certified copy.” Dobbs said that the document states that McCain was born on the Coco Solo submarine base. Remarkably, McCain’s birth is not listed in the birth index of the Canal Zone health department. But just as was the case with President Obama, the birth was listed in the local newspaper.
I got this really stupid email today. Normally I try to stay clear of policy issues, and I will do this here, only pointing that the comment is a crock.
ON “ABC-TV” Monday October 12, 2009
DURING THE “NETWORK SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE”…. OBAMA WAS ASKED: “MR PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW ‘UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM’ THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON ??? ?” THERE WAS A STONEY SILENCE AS OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER IT !!!
There was no reference and no video to look up, but one can see on the face of it that it’s a fake. The first mistake is the use of “program” instead of “plan.” There is no “universal health care program” in the Health Care Reform Act. It continues the employer-financed care that most people have, including President Obama and Congress. It provides other options for those who do not have insurance, but it doesn’t mean a change in plans for people that already have insurance.
Before publishing this, I checked around to be doubly sure. FactCheck.org was all over it last August, and I found it debunked on snopes.com and Politifact.com. I may have to rename my site: Obama Conspiracy Theories and Apocryphal Quotes.
By the way, I replied to the sender with documentation on it being debunked and did I get an apology? Did I get one hint of remorse from the person who sent this? Yes! I did get a kind note back saying he should have checked first.
HOPE, do you believe it? There is HOPE!
I’ve turned off comments on this article cause I really don’t want to talk about health care policy on this blog.
The Freepers are at it again and Citizen Wells is all over it, this time with a claim that the person who helped forge the COLB has come forward. Here’s the post. [Despite claims that this article had been "scrubbed" from the Internet, I had no problem finding it on the Free Republic site.]
Chanise Foxx, free republic
*** Update below March 7, 2010, 10:06 ET ***
“HUGE NEWS AT FREEREPUBLIC!!!
“My name is Chanise Foxx. I work at a office supply store in Kenwood, IL. After nearly 3 years of silence and death threats to me and my family to stay quiet, I am compelled to come forward and tell the world my secret.
“I helped Obama campaign staffer Divorah Adler create a fake birth certificate for use in the famous Fact Check story to prove the world of Obama’s birth in the 2008 election. Divorah approached me in early 2007 and held onto the birth certificate until she released it in August 2008.
“As I’ve been making fake IDs part-time for local college students for about eight years now, faking a birth certificate was actually quite easy. Our first step was to get our hands on someone else’s birth certificate from Hawaii. We then created the stationary to match…”e had to create an embossed stamp and rubber signature stamp for Hawaiian officials. With the help of a high-resolution scanner at the store, I did most of my work at night when the place was vacant…”
Did you catch the obvioius mistake? Obama’s COLB was released in June of 2008, not August. Another problem, is that is no Kenwood, IL–it’s only a neighborhood. 411.com didn’t turn up any Chanise Foxx either nor does Google have any reference to the name in the past.
It turns out that this is a recycled spoof. [Scroll down the the picture of Chanise.]
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