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Meet the Birthers
Who are these people, really?

—By Rachel Morris and Daniel Schulman
| Sun Aug. 9, 2009 7:21 PM EDT


Photo courtesy of Fearless Blogging.

Ann Coulter thinks they’re "cranks." Right-wing radio kingpin Michael Medved prefers to call them "nutburgers." Their ranks include a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, a Clinton conspiracy
theorist, a habitual presidential candidate, and a professional poker player. They’re convening amateur grand juries and suing the President—not to mention suing each other.
Meet the birthers: people who believe, despite truly overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and has illegally usurped the presidency.

[.. here, with basically the beginnings of more on most all inside is a list the prominent birthers featured in this 4 page Mother Jones article..]

[ page 1 ]

Orly Taitz
...more than anyone she has vaulted birthers—their preferred nomenclature is "doubters" or the "eligibility movement"—into the public eye.

Philip Berg
...a 9/11 Truther who hopped the birther train after a brief detour with the PUMA crowd

Alan Keyes
...perennial candidate, anti-gay crusader, and anti-abortion activist
is nevertheless perhaps the birther movement's most credible member

Carl Swensson
A Georgia-based activist, Swensson is spearheading a novel but legally meaningless tactic:
convening "citizen grand juries" to file "presentments" indicting Obama for fraud and treason.

[ page 2 ]

Dr. Ron Polarik
Polarik (not his real name) claims to be a "document imaging" expert.

Andy Martin
Who started the rumor that Obama was a secret Muslim? Martin, whose
real name is Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona, usually gets the credit.

Joseph Farah
Farah made his name in the conservative movement pushing conspiracy theories about the death of Clinton
associate and former White House counsel Vincent Foster. Now his right-wing website, WorldNetDaily...

Jerome Corsi
You may remember Corsi, co-author of Unfit for Command, for his
leading role in swiftboating Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 election.

[ page 3 ]

Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan
Sullivan, an Air Force veteran, unsuccessfully sued North Carolina's secretary of state and board of elections in an attempt to block the
state's electoral college votes, on the grounds that Obama was ineligible to hold office due to questions over his birthplace. This was
not Sullivan's first time going up against the government. In 2003, he sued the Bush administration, claiming the Iraq War was illegal.

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III
Fitzpatrick was once a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, but departed after being court-martialed in 1990 for improper use of Navy funds. (He claimed he
was the victim of a vendetta.) Today, he is one of a small group of figures with military ties who have challenged Obama’s authority as commander in chief.

Leo Donofrio
Donofrio is a retired lawyer and professional poker player who, according to Bluff magazine, competes under the moniker
"Jet Schizo." A bipartisan birther, he tried to get both Obama and McCain removed from the New Jersey ballot last year

[ page 4 ]

Chuck Norris: He penned an open letter to Obama saying that while he considered "it a bit of a groundless stretch not
to believe" the president was born in Hawaii, he still wanted to see Obama's original birth certificate just to be sure.

Lou Dobbs: The CNN host and professional nativist has been the
most prominent MSM figure to bestow a sliver of credbility on the birthers

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.): ... You have to be born in America to be president."

[ incredible he didn't know that was not true ]

Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.): The freshman congressman sponsored a bill that would require presidential candidates to
submit their birth certificates for verification that they're US citizens. Yet, in late July he was one of 378 lawmakers who voted
unanimously to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood, and, yes, recognize it as Obama's place of birth.

[ shudder ]

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): In late July, Blunt told blogger and Democratic activist Mike Stark: "What I don't know is why the
president can't produce a birth certificate. I don't know anybody else that can't produce one. And I think that that's a legitimate
question." Just the same, a spokesman for the minority whip told a reporter that Blunt believes Obama is indeed a natural born citizen.

Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.): At an August meeting of the Tulsa Republican Club, Sullivan remarked: “It’s a very frightening
time. I see Barack Obama is creating an enemies list of people who oppose this miserable health care plan. I think that’s frightening.
That’s from a guy that can’t even show a long-form birth certificate. I think we all ought to be prepared to fight that.”

[ there is more on all of them, except the last three, and Chuck Norris (think it was), inside ]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/meet-birthers

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About 1.5in down in yours the articles revealing that Cruz's claim to being eligible for the presidency is in fact shakier than Obama's ever was were
good ones .. i wondered (well not really) why the birthers were so quiet these days, then decided to out the list above .. one of your articles here ..

Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president: A Harvard Law professor close-reads the Constitution
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/20/ted_cruz_is_not_eligible_to_run_for_president_a_harvard_law_professor_close_reads_the_constitution/

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Toward the bottom of yours, a Rick Perry guy, Mike Bickle, such a ridiculously deluded and vicious
anti-Semitic Christian crusader, as such any reasonable person would never hope to realize exists today
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-welcomes-endorsement-mike-bickle-who-believes-oprah-forerunner-antichrist

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This (7 down in your link list) Thom Hartmann Book of the Month Review, with a mention of Pastor Niemoller, is well worth the read

They Thought They Were Free, By Milton Mayer (1955)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=24778873

This (16 down) worth a reminder

Victoria Jackson On Fox News: Obama Is A Communist, Rush Limbaugh Should Run The Country (VIDEO)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=36332552

Haven't seen Limbaugh in the news lately, there was a 2009 question about him .. it's 19 down ..

Is Rush Limbaugh trying to encourage a military coup against Obama? UPDATED
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=39252802

Oh! LOL 2009 Dallas .. 23 down ..

Texas tidbit.. Rookie Dallas cop tickets woman for driving while not speaking English -- UPDATED
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=43125574

OOps! .. 26 down ..

Christian Zionists lobby for US attack on Iran
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=46972940

Ah, only one farther down, in the context of the 'creeping Fascism'
point of your post observations as this one are important

When Glenn Beck spits 'progressive' does anyone else hear 'Jew'?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=47185263

This 32 .. Are Far Right Politicians Inciting Violence?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=53887297

41 down .. January 21, 2011 11:29 AM
Terrorism directed at 'liberal' and 'government' targets since July 2008:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59055212

47 .. The Right-Wing War on American Law .. is important ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=64771214

55 .. Ron Paul: Not a Civil Libertarian .. he influenced many people ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=70444302

56 .. gotta give the band an outing

Little Shell Pembina Band .. one sovereign citizen group.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=73207417

oh, at 57 a few individuals mentioned here, The Rise of Right Wing Hate
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=78913997

at 60 the .. Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=88485649

and 61 .. You just can't make this crap up on how crazy these Republicans are. .. End times right around the corner!
George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=93870098

That's a good place to end this trip.

Dunno, it just felt like a decent idea to have those birther names in the open, could be useful for someone.