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Here’s the birth certificate!
One of the dumbest questions asked by birthers is “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” Amid unfounded rumors that candidate Obama’s middle name was “Mohammed,” his campaign released his birth certificate in June of 2008. Perhaps you’ve seen it?
Birthers have tried to deny this simple document ever since. First, they denied that the document even existed in paper form, and that it didn’t have the seal of the State of Hawaii. Staff from FactCheck.org actually took photos of the original paper document, but those were denied too.
The cost of birtherism–Part 2
In the first installment of this topic I talked about legal fees assessed birthers bringing frivolous lawsuits. This time I present a commercial example.
Donald Trump is a well-known birther, who doubled down with a highly-publicized pre-election offer to donate $5 million to charity if Obama released some college records that likely don’t still exist. Whether universally true or not, birtherism is associated with racism in much of the public mind, and Donald Trump’s birther antics triggered a grass roots effort to remove Trump-labeled merchandise from Macy’s department stores. Macy’s is standing by Trump who frequently appears in its advertising, even though a “Dump Trump” petition targeting Macy’s stands at 674,117 as of this writing.
YouGov’s BrandIndex shows a precipitous drop in loyalty rating for Macy’s among women, compared to its competitors. Ted Marzilli, speaking for the opinion research web site wrote:
Petitions and protests against Donald Trump’s strong association with Macy’s, including his clothing line and frequent advertising appearances, seem to have taken a toll on Macy’s Recommend score amongst US women.
This is not a good thing around Christmas time. The stupid, it costs.
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Being the good guy you wish you never weren’t
I’m keeping my pledge to ignore Donald Trump, but I’m not ignoring the chorus of voices on Twitter saying #ThanksDonald for dropping that silly demand for Obama’s college records and passport, and giving the $5 million to help disaster relief on the east coast of the US ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Now if it were only true.
Obama admits growing up in Kenya (sort of)
He let it slip on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night.
Obama explains why Trump is always trying to put him down:
This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya. We had constant run-ins on the soccer field. He wasn’t very good and resented it. When we finally moved to America I thought it would be over.
Trump drops other shoe
It really wasn’t with Donald Trump in mind that I named the latest occasional open thread, “Waiting for the other shoe to drop;” nevertheless, it seems appropriate now, as there has been so much antwitterpation of Donald Trump’s “October Surprise” revelation about Barack Obama.
It turns out that birther concern troll Trump isn’t revealing anything about Obama beyond an offer to donate $5 million to charity if Obama releases his college and passport records. Big Bird could probably use the money right now. Trump is reported to have a net worth somewhere around $3 billion, so his offer amounts to .1% of his riches. I think Obama should hold out for a lot more money plus Romney’s tax returns.
So what is the reaction on Twitter? Samples from #trump:
- Somewhere right now, Barack Obama is laughing so hard milk is coming out of his nose.
- Donald #Trump is a national treasure. Do you know how hard it is to be the village idiot in a place as big as New York?
- Hey Democrats, let’s do it #Trump style and put out a reward for anyone willing to turn in Mitt Romney’s missing tax returns.
- Obama asks James Bond for help with Trump’s offer: http://youtu.be/FQw6u8oKHdo
- Obligatory Donald Trump mockery: Hey, #trump , I’ll donate $500 to the charity of your choice if you let me yank on your head ferret.
- That’s a Clown October Surprise, bro
- Willard Mitt Romney: October surprise: I’m a member of cult that wears robes behind closed doors and worships men on other planets
- I will donate $5 million to charity if Donald Trump will disclose what that thing is on his head
- #pointless and #trump are trending
- Remember that time when Geraldo opened up Al Capone’s vault and found nothing but some dusty bottles? That’s what this feels like.
- #Trump I’m mostly offended that you’d dangle $5mil over the heads of helpless people! As if their plight is a game!
- Exactly. Treating money like it is nothing when you could do tons of charitable works with it.
- Only a billionaire megalomaniac would attempt 2 bribe a President by withholding donations to charities #trump
- Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people #trump
- Donald Trump gets caught on tape pretending he has $5,000,000 dollars. His accountant demands answers… #trump
- Remember: It only counts as a letdown if you were expecting more.
- Someone should make a Kickstarter to offer #Trump 5 million to shut up about #Obama already.
- Donald Trump to announce plans to leap off Empire State Building, using his hair as a parachute #trump
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