Truthers to the left of me, truthers to the right

Truthers to the left of me, truthers to the right
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
Did you know that Sarah Palin-haters are still trying to prove she didn’t give birth to her youngest son, Trig? These tinfoil hat-wearers are as obnoxious and unhinged as the 9/11 Truth cultists who insist that America engineered the jihadi attacks on itself. The presidential campaign may be over, but there’s no expiration date on Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Jack Bogdanski, a law professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, stirred up Trig Trutherism again this week with a post on his website exposing “Sarah Palin’s fake pregnancy belly.” Armed with frontal photos of Palin’s stomach, Professor Bogdanski declared: “The March 26 photo is the smoking gun. There really is no chance that there’s a baby in there who will be born 23 days later at six pounds birth weight. And there really is no chance that the child grew so suddenly over the following two weeks…Sarah Palin is not the mother.”
We’re all obstetricians now!
This nonsense began with left-wing Internet rumors that Gov. Palin was really Trig’s grandmother and that she was covering up for the “real” mother of Trig – her teenage daughter, Bristol. The conspiracy was hyped by The Atlantic’s resident excitable womb-chaser, Andrew Sullivan, and later amplified by “respectable” journalists like CNN/Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz. As the fever swamps roiled, an Alaska TV reporter, Cherie Shirey, stepped forward to squash the paranoia with a statement to the liberal Huffington Post:
“These internet rumors are very bizarre. We worked with Governer Palin many times in 2008. Our reporters worked her on location and in the studio and I worked with her myself. She was definitely pregnant. You could see it in her belly and her face. The whole idea that Sarah Palin wasn’t pregnant with Trig is completely, absolutely absurd.”
Shirey was ignored. Profile shots of a heavily pregnant Palin taken in April 2008 didn’t satisfy the Fake Belly! mob, either. The disclosure that Bristol was in fact pregnant with her teenage boyfriend’s child did not quell the insanity. Neither did a health assessment from Gov. Palin’s personal physician affirming her five pregnancies nor did contemporaneous hospital accounts of the birth nor did Palin’s accounts of nursing Trig.
It’s only a matter of time before someone accuses Palin of planting fake breast milk on her pump.
The plain truth will never mollify a Truther. There’s always a convoluted excuse – some inconsequential discrepancy to seize on, some photographic “evidence” to magnify into a blur of meaningless pixels – that will rationalize irrationality. Palin could produce Trig’s umbilical cord and it still wouldn’t be enough.
Alas, Trutherism thrives on both the left and right. Which brings us to the spate of lawsuits challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court considers one of those suits filed by New Jersey citizen Leo Donofrio, who maintains that Obama is not a “natural born citizen” because his father held British citizenship.
There may be a seed of a legitimate constitutional issue to explore here (how is the citizenship requirement enforced for presidential candidates, anyway?) And at least Donofrio concedes that Obama was born in Hawaii. But a dangerously large segment of the birth certificate hunters have lurched into rabid Truther territory. The most prominent crusader against Obama’s American citizenship claim, lawyer Philip Berg (who, not coincidentally, is also a prominent 9/11 Truther), disputes that Obama was born in Hawaii and claims that Obama’s paternal grandmother told him she saw Obama born in Kenya.
Berg and his supporters further assert that the “Certification of Live Birth” produced by Obama was altered or forged. They claim that the contemporaneous birth announcement in a Hawaii newspaper of Obama’s birth is insufficient evidence that he was born there. (Did a fortune-teller place it in the paper knowing he would run for president?). And they accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being part and parcel of the grand plan to install Emperor Obama and usurp the rule of law.
I believe Trig was born to Sarah Palin. I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on U.S. soil. I believe fire can melt steel and that bin Laden’s jihadi crew – not Bush and Cheney – perpetrated mass murder on 9/11. What kind of kooky conspiracist does that make me?
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Here’s an excerpt of Philip Berg’s 9/11 Truther manifesto for all of you who have made him your new hero:
“It is time for the nations of the world to come forth and take the leadership because of the failure of the United States Government and the States where crimes were committed on 09/11/01, where no thorough investigation and indictments occurred, to investigate, arrest and prosecute the people responsible for the murders on 9/11/01, specifically including George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. ”
“Bush and his cronies made 9/11 happen or let it happen. And, if they let it happen, then they made it happen. Either way, they are responsible; and more important, they have completely and unequivocally covered-it-up!”
…That an event such as 9/11 was desired by powerful Administration figures, including Cheney and Jeb Bush, the President’s brother, is a matter of record, as the Project for the New American Century’s [PNAC] blueprint for worldwide U.S. dominance entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” stated that the program they advocated could win popular support only with the help of a “catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor” which (we are supposed to believe to be coincidence) came to pass just 8 months after many of the co-signers of the PNAC document assumed high positions in the new Bush Administration in January 2001.
As President John F. Kennedy stated, “Things do not just happen; they are made to happen.” There has never been an investigation of 9/11 that had not concluded, before it even began, that the Official Story convicting Osama bin Laden and absolving the Administration and the military of complicity of anything worse than “intelligence failures,” which thereby made the outcome a foregone conclusion.
It is time that the men who had the motive, means and the opportunity to commit the terrible crimes of 9/11, and who have profited by it politically as well as financially, be exposed for their role and held to account.
The world has suffered since the horrific acts of Bush and his cronies on 9/11, that being the events of 9/11 and the aftermath, the illegal act of war against Afghanistan and Iraq that has caused the death and injury of hundreds of thousands, including thousands of U.S. troops; the destruction of property and the enormous costs involved.
Saddam was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death after being convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill him in 1982. This number of killings that Saddam Hussein was found guilty of is far less than Bush and his cronies caused to die on 9/11.
The 148 Iraqi deaths for which Saddam was tried pales in number to the 750,000 dead at the hands of George W. Bush as a result of this illegal invasion of that country which includes babies, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, elderly grandmothers and grandfathers, killed without remorse by George W. Bush and his war profiteering supporters.
Bush continues the war in Iraq to keep the world’s attention there and not on the atrocities caused by him on 9/11, including the possibility of Bush sending up to 40,000 more troops to Iraq, even though a majority of the American people are against this increase.
The world must act now because our own government has failed us. We cannot relent until real justice is reached. Only by exposing the truth of 9/11 and revealing how it was used as the “trigger event” to justify the neocon’s imperial policy can we put these events in proper prospective.”
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More conspiracy-mongering: A Politico writer speculates that Justice Clarence Thomas distributed Donofrio’s application for conference as some sort of payback for Obama’s opposition to Thomas. Grow up already.
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Michelle Malkin, December 5, 2008 (in the post above):
It’s not just a “citizenship” requirement, which is sufficient to be a Senator, it’s a “natural born citizenship” requirement, which is necessary to be President.
Michelle Malkin:
You acknowledge that the “Certification of Live Birth” was “produced by Obama”. It was not produced by the State of Hawaii; it was produced by, and at, the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago.
After writing a #1 bestselling book on the Obama “Culture of Corruption”, why do you accept anything that comes from Team Obama?
Even if you believe that the “Certification of Live Birth” produced by Obama is authentic, don’t you think that due diligence requires that we get a certified authentic copy of Obama’s original birth certificate from the State of Hawaii?
If the data on the two documents matches, great!
If not, this is bigger than Watergate.
I simply cannot comprehend how or why you accept without doubt anything that comes from Team Obama.
Do you know why? It’s because all that was required to create a “Vital Record” of Obama’s “Hawaiian birth” was the sworn statement of one of Obama’s relatives. His Grandmother could have given a sworn statement, and that would have led to the newspaper announcement. But if that is the “original Vital Record” of Obama’s birth, something is very “fishy”…
Why? Because Obama claims to have been born at Kapi’olani Medical Center. If that is true, then the “original Vital Record” of Obama’s birth should be a hospital birth certificate, not a sworn statement from one of Obama’s relatives.
Nice smear, Michelle. It didn’t take “a fortune-teller… knowing he would run for president”, and none of the “birthers” claim that. All it took was a relative of Obama’s who wanted to ensure he would have the benefits of U.S. citizenship. The newspaper announcements are proof of nothing more than that, and not even a 16 year-old could get a job at McDonald’s with a newspaper announcement instead of a state-issued birth certificate. Obama has never released a state-issued birth certificate directly from the State of Hawaii. That is a fact, and you should not trust anything less than a state-issued birth certificate.
But that’s not even the main point!
Michelle, to be undoubtedly a “natural born citizen”, one must be:
1) Born on U.S. soil
2) Born to a U.S. citizen father
3) Born to a U.S. citizen mother
Obama has openly admitted that he doesn’t meet condition #2, and that AT BIRTH he was a British subject. That alone disqualifies him from being a “natural born citizen” of the United States.
And you completely ignore that birth on U.S. soil is not sufficient to make someone a “natural born citizen” of the United States. My concern is not about Barack Obama’s citizenship. My concern is that even with Hawaiian birth, Obama was born a British subject, which became Kenyan citizenship, which he held until his 21st birthday. That is not “conspiracy theory”. That is undisputed fact, admitted by Barack Obama’s own campaign, on their “FightTheSmears.com” web site. Again, this is undisputed. Regardless of where Obama was born, he was born with foreign citizenship, which raises serious Constitutional doubts about whether or not he is a “natural born citizen”. That is not just my opinion; that was the opinion of the Supreme Court in the 1875 case of Minor v Happersett:
You are focused on the wrong thing. You chose to focus solely on Obama’s birth location and assumed that if he was born a citizen per the 14th Amendment, then he was born a “natural born citizen”. That is a faulty assumption. The 14th Amendment was already part of the Constitution when the Supreme Court said, “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that.” In other words, neither the 14th Amendment nor any other part of the Constitution defines “natural born citizen”. The Supreme Court also made it clear that the 14th Amendment does not resolve the “doubts” about whether people in Obama’s situation (born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents) can be considered “natural-born citizens”.
You also failed to verify the birth document of the President-elect. It is not acceptable to “outsource” this to an unelected, unaccountable, untrustworthy third party. Annenberg Political Fact Check is neither elected by, nor accountable to, “We the People”. Annenberg Political Fact Check claimed that they had examined Obama’s “original birth certificate”, but that is untrue. They examined a “Certification of Live Birth” (a completely different document from the original birth certificate), a document that was produced by and at the Obama Campaign Headquarters in Chicago.
Ignoring this issue will not make it go away. It has only gotten more serious as time has gone by. To put this issue to rest, once and for all, here are the two simple things that must be done:
1) Congress must inspect a certified copy of Obama’s original birth certificate, sent to them under seal directly from the State of Hawaii. (Just as was done with the certification of the Electoral College vote)
2) Ask the Supreme Court to clarify the meaning of the Constitutional phrase “Natural Born Citizen”, so that it can be clearly seen whether or not Barack Hussein Obama II is Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President and Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.
This is a serious Constitutional issue.
Michelle Malkin said:
1) Obama is not a “natural born citizen” because HE HIMSELF was born a British subject. And he admitted so on his “Fight the Smears” web site.
2) Thanks to the persistent efforts of “MissTickly”, who forced Dr. Fukino into making her second Press Release, Leo Donofrio is now engaging the Hawaiian officials:
It appears that a cover-up bigger than Watergate is currently underway in Hawaii in order to protect the man currently acting as President…
QUESTION: Which government organization was the first to say:
Is your answer, “The Hawaii State Department of Health”?
Sorry, that answer is not a winner.
Sunday, June 27, 2004
The Standard Ltd
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P.O Box 30080, 00100 GPO, Nairobi-Kenya.
Michelle, you said:
That is not true. When a U.S. Senator claimed “Mr. Donofrio’s case concedes that President Obama was born in Hawaii”, here is what Leo Donofrio had to say:
The quote from Leo Donofrio in my last comment can be found in the bold yellow print here, in this comment on Leo’s blog.
The Indiana Court Of Appeals said:
But even those who agree with what the Indiana Court Of Appeals said must admit the following:
There were 1,075 people involved in the election, certification, and swearing-in of Barack Hussein Obama II:
538 Electoral College Electors,
435 Representatives,
100 Senators,
1 Vice-President, and
1 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Not a single one of them inspected a hard copy Certificate of Live Birth for Barack Hussein Obama II, to verify that he was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Hawaii as he has claimed.
All 1,075 of them, representing all three branches of our federal government, had sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution, but failed to do so. Not a one of them did their due diligence to ensure that “a President shall have qualified”.
Even those who agree with what the Indiana Court Of Appeals said, must admit that a Quo Warranto case is necessary, since not one of those 1,075 people upheld their sworn oath to support and defend their Constitutional responsibility to ensure the President-Elect qualified.
It is my opinion that the Indiana Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Constitution multiple times… not once, not twice, not three times, but four times in just this one sentence alone:
My reasoning is contained in this comment on my blog, in response to an O-bot’s comment. While I am not an attorney, attorney Leo Donofrio said I “did fine” in my comment.
Michelle, I realize you are currently on vacation, and I realize what you wrote in this post, but:
If there is documentary evidence to prove every bit of the “Obama birth narrative”, then it should be a very simple matter to present it.
And if “natural born citizen” means nothing more than “native born citizen”, then it should be a very simple matter to show that with prior legal precedent.
President Ronald Reagan was famous for (among many other things) saying, “Trust, but verify”.
That is all we are asking for, as well.
Please support the efforts of this Lt. Col. to “trust, but verify” that his military orders, which originate from Obama’s decision to send troops to Afghanistan, are legal orders. If Obama is not eligible to hold the office of Commander in Chief, then those deployment orders are illegal orders originating from an illegal usurper of the office.
Did you know that Obama had an adopted older sister in Indonesia?
The MSM never told you about her.
On February 16, 2010, “An American Expat in Southeast Asia” shared some of what was being shared in the Indonesian media. His comments included:
10 days later she was dead.
Follow the link above and the link below to learn more about
HOLIYAH SOETORO SABAH, “LIA”, Obama’s Adopted Sister who Died Suddenly.
On March 21, 2011, Michelle Malkin said:
How is it “extreme” to expect Congress to support and defend section 3 of the 20th Amendment?
Do tell me, Michelle, what did members of Congress do to ensure that the President elect and Vice President elect qualified?
Michelle, please name the members of Congress who supported and defended the Constitution of the United States and current immigration law – the Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986, which requires that:
The I-9 Form refers to the M-274 Handbook.
Here is one of the Q&A’s in that handbook:
Repeating for emphasis…
On March 21, 2011, Michelle Malkin said:
Since when did it become “extreme” to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law?!?
Michelle, what evidence do you, or any member of Congress, have that Obama produced a hard copy birth certificate for inspection by the Congress to prove that he is eligible not only to work in the United States but also to hold the office of President and Commander in Chief?
“Berg and his supporters further assert that the “Certification of Live Birth” produced by Obama was altered or forged.” (This is true and many more people have brought this up before many courts, to no avail.) “They claim that the contemporaneous birth announcement in a Hawaii newspaper of Obama’s birth is insufficient evidence that he was born there. (Did a fortune-teller place it in the paper knowing he would run for president?)”–This is a silly thing to say;it is beneath your intelligence to say it. A birth a announcement, put in a paper by Obama’s granny is not proof of anything; it is not a legal diocument. ‘And they accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being part and parcel of the grand plan to install Emperor Obama and usurp the rule of law.’ No. We simply understand that no one wants to be the one who starts the fire in every major city in the US. We understand how dangerous it is to speak the WHOLE Truth about the Fraud, Felon and Treasonous Usurper, but must you and every other ‘conservative’ pundit/blogger/politician throw informed patriots under the bus to prove that you don’t believe the obvious? Yes, it is obvious and there is so much more wrong with Barry than just a non-existent long form birth certificate…Perhaps you know about his records, protected by $2Mil until he sealed them with Exec. Order 13489? ‘Nothing there’, you say, ‘let’s move on’?
I accept the way things are and choose to ignore this complicity, as long as you don’t throw salt in the wounds you have helped to create.
I will remain a loyal reader and supporter. That doesn’t mean I can’t stick up for myself and millions of More Than Birthers.
God Bless You, I Took The Red Pill and everyone else who defends our right to point out a monumental crime perpetrated right under our noses and with the complicity of the Repubs and the media.
David Horowitz said “So what?” when confronted by these FACTS. He, like everyone who knows the truth is fulfilling the prophecy that ‘nothing will be done’. I have nothing but bile for cowards such as he.
Only Donald Trump, so far, has the courage to bring this up in front of a camera. I was not a Trump fan until I found out about that. Perhaps others will sprout a pair and then Humpty Dumpty will fall from his throne so that we can get to the task of restoring our beloved Republic. THAT’s why we keep on asking: WHO IS BARRY SOETORO?