Category Archives: Understanding the birthers

Inside the birther mind

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Dr. Conspiracy

Thanks to Straight.com for pointing out this 2009 video they found of Phil Wolf, the car dealer who garnered world wide attention with a billboard depicting Barack Obama wearing a turban and captioned “President or Jihad?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmaes5-Mg8g This article is … Continue reading →

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Political scientist: views of Obama tied to “racial resentment”

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Dr. Conspiracy

Never ready to jump ahead of the evidence, I have resisted making the birther movement all about race. Now, political scientist Alan Abramowitz of Emory University reports that while racism is hard to measure in the polls, responses on how … Continue reading →

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Birthers and racism

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Dr. Conspiracy

I just finished the Salon.com article, Is Obama “American” enough for the far right now?, which seems essentially an argument that birtherism is a form of racism. The authors, Andrew Burnstein and Nancy Isenberg, set up the view that they … Continue reading →

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