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(Politifact) Obvious "Back on June 27, 2008, PolitiFact published a story we hoped would put the whole Obama birth certificate controversy to rest. Oh, how naive we were."   (politifact.com) divider line 674
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Jmast7 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:28:18 AM  
I'm actually kind of amazed Gibbs took a question from WND. Sure, you can laugh at him, but it's a complete waste of time.

 
Hagbardr [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:39:39 AM  
The people pushing this story aren't really in the "fact based community". They just like to say they are.

 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:20:17 AM  
Jmast7: I'm actually kind of amazed Gibbs took a question from WND. Sure, you can laugh at him, but it's a complete waste of time.

I watched a YouTube video of him taking that question. Looked to be the last question of the day. Maybe he just needed a laugh & took it for the hell of it, knowing it'd be easily refuted WARRGARBL.

 
patrick767 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:25:56 AM  
You can't cure stupid, Gibbs. These morons don't deserve a response and it won't phase them. Give it up.

 
patrick767 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:26:52 AM  
Meh. You can't cure stupid, Gibbs Robert Farley.

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 02:33:33 PM  
[aww_jeez_not_this_shiat_again.jpg]

 
Donald_McRonald 2009-07-02 02:38:01 PM  
[facepalm.gif]

 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 02:43:10 PM  
This strikes me as a piss-poor conspiracy. Where are my secret, shadowy groups vying for world domination? Where are my multitude of suspects each with their own convoluted motive?

 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 02:55:48 PM  
Birthers: ZOMG!11!!!! WHERE IS OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE???!!!11!

Hawaiian Governor Lingle: Uh, Here it is.

Birthers: ZOMG!11!!!! WHERE IS OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE???!!!11!

 
tallguywithglasseson [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 02:59:37 PM  
Confronting conspiracy theorists with evidence doesn't help anything, any evidence presented is just considered further evidence of a deeper conspiracy.

Just ignore them, they're worthless wastes of life.

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 03:25:59 PM  
Yesterday's thread ha a lot of people wanting to know the name of the attending physician for some absurd reason. I'm sure that this is all coming from some birfer website somewhere, but what the hell difference does that make?

For one, there's a good chance that the attending physician is dead now, and even if he isn't what the hell do they need that information for? Are they going to send a wingnut blogger to his house to ask if they prayed to Barack Obama Sr.'s moon god or something?

 
PenguinTheRed [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 03:31:12 PM  
Even if there is anything to this, how can anybody possibly think that invalidating the election would in any way be a good idea? Whatever rioting and mayhem you could picture, at the very least it would put Biden in the Oval Office, which should send chills down anybody's spine.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 03:43:05 PM  
More than a year later, the debate continues to rage on the Internet among the "Birthers" movement

I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

 
Sgt Otter [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 03:57:09 PM  
House of Tards: Yesterday's thread ha a lot of people wanting to know the name of the attending physician for some absurd reason. I'm sure that this is all coming from some birfer website somewhere, but what the hell difference does that make?

For one, there's a good chance that the attending physician is dead now, and even if he isn't what the hell do they need that information for? Are they going to send a wingnut blogger to his house to ask if they prayed to Barack Obama Sr.'s moon god or something?


HE CAN'T REMEMBER THE ROUTINE BIRTH OF A HEALTHY BABY NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO!!! WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU LIBTARDS NEED?

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 03:59:22 PM  
Doctor Funkenstein: More than a year later, the debate continues to rage on the Internet among the "Birthers" movement

I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.


I made a movement earlier that had greater intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills than your average birther.

 
Donald_McRonald 2009-07-02 04:03:50 PM  
BKITU: Doctor Funkenstein: More than a year later, the debate continues to rage on the Internet among the "Birthers" movement

I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

I made a movement earlier that had greater intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills than your average birther.


Where is your foodbaby's proof of citizenship????

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 04:14:20 PM  
Donald_McRonald: BKITU: Doctor Funkenstein: More than a year later, the debate continues to rage on the Internet among the "Birthers" movement

I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

I made a movement earlier that had greater intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills than your average birther.

Where is your foodbaby's proof of citizenship????


The paperwork involved is long gone, I'm afraid.

 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 04:20:00 PM  
PenguinTheRed: Even if there is anything to this, how can anybody possibly think that invalidating the election would in any way be a good idea? Whatever rioting and mayhem you could picture, at the very least it would put Biden in the Oval Office, which should send chills down anybody's spine.

You're giving these guys way too much credit.

 
furiousxgeorge [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 04:29:07 PM  
For one, there's a good chance that the attending physician is dead now

So the entire cover up is to keep the public from knowing Obama murdered him?

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 04:36:26 PM  
furiousxgeorge:

So the entire cover up is to keep the public from knowing Obama murdered him?


OMG! I HAVE TO ADD THIS TO THE OBAMA DEATH LIST!

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 04:39:57 PM  
Doctor Funkenstein:
I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.


Begs your pardon begs:
i248.photobucket.com


/Descent *truly* is the highest form of patriotic

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 04:46:05 PM  
BKITU: Donald_McRonald: BKITU: Doctor Funkenstein: More than a year later, the debate continues to rage on the Internet among the "Birthers" movement

I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

I made a movement earlier that had greater intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills than your average birther.

Where is your foodbaby's proof of citizenship????

The paperwork involved is long gone, I'm afraid.


[insert golfclap]

I lol'd.

 
SkinnyHead [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:02:42 PM  
Rather than ridicule the 400,000 citizens who have asked to see the original Certificate of Live Birth, why doesn't Obama just authorize release of that document? His stubborn refusal to do so is perpetuating the issue.

 
beerrun [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:23:57 PM  
House of Tards: Doctor Funkenstein:
I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

Begs your pardon begs:



/Descent *truly* is the highest form of patriotic


Self pwnage protest signs are the best!

You'd think they could at least write a small draft on a piece of paper to get the spacing right, catch any spelling/grammar errors and then copy it on a poster board.

But then where would the LOLs come from?

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:25:33 PM  
SkinnyHead: Rather than ridicule the 400,000 citizens who have asked to see the original Certificate of Live Birth, why doesn't Obama just authorize release of that document? His stubborn refusal to do so is perpetuating the issue.

Because you won't accept that either?

Because he has better things to do?

Because he has provided enough legal documentation to prove native citizenship to everyone except the same types of lunatics who think the moon landing was a hoax?

Because an internet petition by WND (a petition which they have not released, by the way most likely because I.P. Freely signed it several times), that has roughly as many signatures as the state of Montana has people is not exactly a burgeoning issue?

Because the other 300 million American people don't feel the president should jump through hoops every time a bunch of conspiracy theorists come up with some crazy charge?

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:27:30 PM  
beerrun: House of Tards: Doctor Funkenstein:
I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

Begs your pardon begs:



/Descent *truly* is the highest form of patriotic

Self pwnage protest signs are the best!

You'd think they could at least write a small draft on a piece of paper to get the spacing right, catch any spelling/grammar errors and then copy it on a poster board.

But then where would the LOLs come from?


They are so oppressed by the Marxlamofascist Obama that they can't even afford to buy $2 worth of stencils at Home Depot.

 
Peter von Nostrand 2009-07-02 05:28:51 PM  
BKITU: [aww_jeez_not_this_shiat_again.jpg]

Donald_McRonald: [facepalm.gif]

I'll see those and raise you a...

[now_is_the_time_on_sprockets_when_we_dance.jpg]

 
SherKhan 2009-07-02 05:29:33 PM  
Birfers make me feel smrt.

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:29:35 PM  

Even this should be all the proof you need:

In researching the story, he went to the microfilm archives and found the birth announcement for Obama. Actually, he found two of them, one in his Honululu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961, and in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the next day. They both said the same thing: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4."

But here's the thing. Newspaper officials he checked with confirmed those notices came from the state Department of Health.

"That's not the kind of stuff a family member calls in and says, 'Hey, can you put this in?'" Hoover explained.

 
3825968 2009-07-02 05:29:55 PM  
Came for Superallah, leaving disappointed

 
brainiac-dumdum [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:31:18 PM  
Equal time for nut jobs as a form of amusement

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:32:04 PM  
assets.236.com

 
budsterr 2009-07-02 05:32:06 PM  
img2.pict.com

 
axemanking 2009-07-02 05:32:33 PM  
I don't know which group is worse, the birthers or the 9/11 inside job kooks.

 
Overfiend [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:33:00 PM  
C'mon people. Get over it. Obama is our president, like it or not.

/didn't vote for Obama
//Can't we all just get along?

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:33:03 PM  
budsterr: img2.pict.com

img32.imageshack.us

 
Fart_Machine 2009-07-02 05:33:15 PM  
SkinnyHead: Rather than ridicule the 400,000 citizens who have asked to see the original Certificate of Live Birth, why doesn't Obama just authorize release of that document? His stubborn refusal to do so is perpetuating the issue.

He didn't provide a DNA sample to prove he wasn't a reptilian either. WTF is this guy's problem?

 
TheMadChaosopher 2009-07-02 05:33:37 PM  
Under Hawaiian law, it is possible (both legally and illegally) for a person to have been born out of state, yet have a birth certificate on file in the Department of Health.

A. From Hawaii's official Department of Health, Vital Records webpage: "Amended certificates of birth may be prepared and filed with the Department of Health, as provided by law, for 1) a person born in Hawaii who already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health or 2) a person born in a foreign country" (applies to adopted children).

B. A parent may register an in-state birth in lieu of certification by a hospital of birth under HRS 338-5.

C. Hawaiian law expressly provides for registration of out-of-state births under HRS 338-17.8. A foreign birth presumably would have been recorded by the American consular of the country of birth, and presumably that would be reflected on the Hawaiian birth certificate.

 
montex 2009-07-02 05:34:01 PM  
If you want to know what a racist looks like - but they don't know they're racists - just say Hi to a Birther.

 
Pengfish 2009-07-02 05:34:09 PM  
SkinnyHead: Rather than ridicule the 400,000 citizens who have asked to see the original Certificate of Live Birth, why doesn't Obama just authorize release of that document? His stubborn refusal to do so is perpetuating the issue.

And I'll bet he thinks it's hilarious.

 
Lenny_da_Hog 2009-07-02 05:34:37 PM  
elchip: budsterr: img2.pict.com

Pixels, few shops in my time, yada-yada.....

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:34:40 PM  
SkinnyHead: Rather than ridicule the 400,000 citizens who have asked to see the original Certificate of Live Birth, why doesn't Obama just authorize release of that document? His stubborn refusal to do so is perpetuating the issue.

Why doesn't Sarah Palin release the DNA tests proving that she is actually Trig's mother, and not Bristol?

 
Dil Doe 2009-07-02 05:34:52 PM  
SkinnyHead: Rather than ridicule the 400,000 citizens who have asked to see the original Certificate of Live Birth, why doesn't Obama just authorize release of that document? His stubborn refusal to do so is perpetuating the issue.

For the same reason that there's no point in trying to prove that the Jews weren't behind 9/11 or that the government isn't sending radio signals through your fillings. Because people who are 100% batshiat crazy cannot be persuaded otherwise. All you do is lend legitimacy to their cause, which is the last thing anyone needs to be doing.

Besides, how does one "release" an original birth certificate? Let all 400,000 people touch and feel it? Put it in a museum? Send it across the country on a whistle stop tour? The original HAS been inspected, and the results are easily available on the internet. I'd suggest beginning with snopes.

Seriously people, stop smoking whatever it is that makes you so insane and rejoin the reality-based world. It's quite nice here.

 
DaSwankOne 2009-07-02 05:35:09 PM  
Doctor Funkenstein: I don't think stupid qualifies as a movement.

Well then keep clear of the tea parties this weekend. It will help you maintain that belief.

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:35:42 PM  
montex: If you want to know what a racist looks like - but they don't know they're racists - just say Hi to a Birther.

Yup.

 
Jim_Callahan 2009-07-02 05:36:11 PM  
Man, I never thought I'd compliment truthers, but at least their conspiracy is about something relatively important.

 
erewhon 2009-07-02 05:36:17 PM  
AHA! It's a 1961 birth certificate, but it says AFRICAN for "Father's race"!!!1!

In 1961, they'd have said NEGRO!!11!

This PROVES that it is a FAKE!!11!

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 05:38:14 PM  
erewhon: AHA! It's a 1961 birth certificate, but it says AFRICAN for "Father's race"!!!1!

In 1961, they'd have said NEGRO!!11!

This PROVES that it is a FAKE!!11!


I know you're joking, but according to Hawai'i, the father and mother specify the race they want to appear there

 
jake3988 2009-07-02 05:38:15 PM  
Jmast7 2009-07-02 10:28:18 AM I'm actually kind of amazed Gibbs took a question from WND. Sure, you can laugh at him, but it's a complete waste of time.
========================================

I do love that he smacked them down. Also, it just goes to show you how wrong the conservatives are that obama supposedly picks what journalists can go into there. If they let the nutjobs from WND in, they'll let anyone in.

 
eraser8 2009-07-02 05:38:31 PM  
TheMadChaosopher: Under Hawaiian law, it is possible (both legally and illegally) for a person to have been born out of state, yet have a birth certificate on file in the Department of Health.

Every state does...so long as the child is a natural-born citizen. What states do not allow is the registration of just any baby regardless of citizenship status.

 
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