Commenter donna mentioned this article at the Taitz web site, but when I went looking, it was not there:
It was once there [Google cached version, Before it’s News reprint]. It was a letter of support from the “East Oakland Counsel of Conservative Citizens.” They have a novel theory about why President Obama is ineligible:
We at the East Oakland chapter have been following your case for several years, and we agree that we have the wrong president; he’s ineligible and should be brought to justice. Anyone with any sense can see that just by looking at this impostor.
And lest there be any question about where they are coming from:
It would have been obvious to anyone who viewed the elections of 2008 and 2012, that Obama is a shill for other, more evil powers, and has been inserted in power to advance the goals of those who would institute a truly anti-American multicultural government who will work against the European heritage that we at COCC believe will tear apart this country even more than we’ve seen since the Obama “presidency” began.
So the COCC offered some fund raising, and to send a busload of supporters to Taitz’ court hearing on April 22 in the Grinols case, describing it as a trial and saying that people showing up will influence the Court.
All of that said, the article in question is gone, zapped and erased; it is an ex-article. Now the question is “why?” Could it be that he East Oakland Counsel of Conservatives Citizens never existed? Is this rather one in a long string of attempts to punk Orly Taitz? Is it real, but Orly Taitz upon reflection decided she didn’t want their support? Is it just a technical glitch, or something entirely different?
The article says that the East Bay Bible Church is the COCC meeting place. Is this photo from the church’s Facebook page a clue?
Not finding anything on the web about the “East Oakland Council of Conservative Citizens, ” nor about Taitz’ title variant, “East Oakland Counsel for Conservative Citizens” except as derived from her article, I’d say it was a fake.
In a mass email [link to Taitz web site] to her fans (and to some not fans) Orly Taitz cites a Pulse Opinion Research poll showing her in the lead over all other Republican Senate candidates, but trailing “Not sure” and of course trailing incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein, whose debate coordinator, Sef Greene, said in an email:
It looks like you may end up being the California Republican nominee for Senate in the November general election. While I understand that you wanted to set up some debates before the June primary, this would have been inappropriate given the large field of candidates.
However if, as anticipated, you do become the Republican candidate, I would like to set up three debates to be televised by three major television stations. The debates would take place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.Our campaign would suggest evening debates at 18:00 in order to capture a higher percentage of viewers.
However, there are conditions and one of those is “no Obama eligibility” talk. What should Orly do? This has to be a sore trial for Orly Taitz who wouldn’t be in politics if it weren’t for Obama.
Before I start, I want to state for the record that I have no inside information whatever on this topic. Everything used in writing this article is from WorldNetDaily, and that makes it all the more ironic.
Foggy
Jerome Corsi has written four articles at WND outing (or claiming to out) some anonymous birthers. The first was: Meet ‘PJ Foggy,’ birth certificate fraudster: Disbarred attorney organized ‘birther punking’ scheme about an Internet writer named Bill Bryan (AKA Foggy). WND says Foggy sent (but did not create) an Obot-created fake birth certificate on a flash drive to Orly Taitz’s investigator Neil Sankey, with the intent that she would jump to the conclusion that it was real and look foolish when the certificate was exposed as a prank, and indeed within 5 days Taitz filed this anonymous image in a lawsuit, never mind that the form was from South Australia, not Kenya, and that she had never seen a paper copy. Jerome Corsi wrote about this back in mid June.
Rikker
Rikker was the second Obot to be identified at WorldNetDaily. I don’t know if the identification is accurate, but according to Jerome Corsi, Rikker is “Foggy’s sidekick.” More on Rikker later.
JimBot
Corsi’s third article dealt with an Internet poster named “JimBot” whom WND says is also “neonzx.” A couple of years ago neonzx posted a message on the PolitiJab forum saying that Ed Hale (Plains Radio) had “outed” JimBot and posted a URL pointing to a newspaper article about James A. Johnson, a former chairman of Fannie Mae (pictured right). Based on nothing more than a statement “Ed outed jimbot” and a URL from an pseudonymous Internet commenter, Jerome Corsi spun out a story about the former Fannie Mae chairman running an army of Obots from Pennsylvania avenue. It was bizarre, but the birthers ate it up like Orly Taitz ate up the fake birth certificate Foggy sent her.
I really thought that WND would wise up in a day or so and quietly make this article disappear. Wrong!
Confirmation
According to WND, Foggy is a fellow who likes to create trouble among the birthers, and is not above trying to fool them. So, pray tell, why in the world would Jerome Corsi and WorldNetDaily go way out on a limb taking a comment from Bill Bryan (Foggy) on their own web site and turning it into a major new article claiming confirmation of their story that JimBot was really Chairman Johnson? The only answer is that a birther true believer will believe anything, even from an Obot, if it promotes their conspiracy theories! My confirmation bias meter has exploded!
So try to get your arms around this: Jerome Corsi takes the word of a known hoaxer as confirmation for a crazy story (that originated from a man who claims to have shot Big Foot). Now to demonstrate confirmation bias: among the comments where WND found Foggy’s “confirmation” Rikker (the second Obot “outed” by WND) says categorically that WND has misidentified JimBot. Why did WND not consider this negative evidence? They probably were too biased to see it.
The Reality Check Radio program I was on last week had a visit from JimBot (whose youthful voice really doesn’t sound like that of a 67-year-old man) and to keep up appearances, Foggy and RC were fawning all over JimBot and calling him “boss” to keep up the charade. I even played along by asking “where’s my check?” (I’ve been using this running joke for a long time, since nobody pays me to blog about the birthers. It’s like folks who do unpaid volunteer work saying they want their salary “doubled.”) But it’s all a joke. Here’s the show if you’re interested. I think JimBot comes in around 54:50.
WorldNetDaily has been punked. Of course in the Birtherverse, they’ll probably never realize it.
But how do I know for sure that Corsi has been punked and why am I laughing? That’s the tricky part. You see, I have connected the dots and figured out the real name of JimBot, and it isn’t Chairman Johnson. Since it is the strict policy of this web site not to identify people using anonymous names in the Internet, I am not going to disclose it (and none of you commenters say it either, or you will find yourselves in moderation hell faster than you can say “certification of live birth”); besides, I would like to give WorldNetDaily more rope to tangle themselves up in. I will give you one huge hint: Obots don’t lie.
Who’d have thought that Bill Ayers was born in Hawaii to a mixed race couple? Apparently so, as Ayers in a video on YouTube says that he wrote Obama’s best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father. Ayers asked the audience to help him prove it so he could get the royalties.
Some say he wasn’t joking, “just look at his eyes.” Personally, I don’t need jokes like that.
When asked previously about whether he had written Dreams, Ayers responded:
“You’ve all lost your minds,” he wrote. “Best of luck in the twilight zone.”
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:
When the fake Kenyan birth certificate surfaced a week ago, it looked odd. Within hours, problems surfaced, the most humorous was the certificate number 47,044 (Obama was 47 years old and the 44th president). Then when the real birth certificate from South Australia from which the fake one was modeled came to light, the jig was officially up.
One is reminded of the 1924 movie “The Man that Would not Die” as the birthers turned on the innocent Australian bystander, declaring that it was his certificate that was the fake.
Many problems with the Kenyan “certificate” have come to light; however, in the literal minded world of the birthers, one looks for that one image, that one memorable blow, that will finally drive a stake through the heart of this hoax. I hope I have found it.
7 shillings 6 pence
The fake document was dated 1964. In the upper left corner of the certificate is the cost charged for the document, 7 shillings 6 pence. But what was the actual Kenyan currency in 1964, and if I were to tell you, what would be a memorable way to drive the point home? And the answer came to me, so obvious to an erstwhile stamp collector like myself!
1964 Kenyan Stamp, Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog Number 16
It is this Republic of Kenya postage stamp issued in 1964 valued at 30 CENTS! That’s right. Kenya has the decimal currency system. (Scott’s catalogs are available at most any public library for you to easily verify for yourself.)
Let me take another couple of hammer blows into the heart of the fake birth certificate. One might wonder if perhaps an old form was used or somehow the 1961 price was on the form. No joy in Birfistan. Since the 1920′s it was always pounds, shillings and cents, as shown by this stamp from the 1950′s and later shillings and cents.
Kenya Postage, 1950's
There have been so many frustrating episodes where the Obama denialists have found some way to cover their eyes, and cover their ears, and uncover their mouths to say the most outrageous things. But what I have learned from long experience is that there are points where the belief system finally breaks. There are proofs that simply cannot be wriggled out of. This is one.
The fake Kenyan certificates says pence, and there warn’t no damned pence in Kenya, not ever. Now get mad at the people who lied to you.
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