Birther Maven Orly Taitz Brags Of Friendship With Michele Bachmann

Last night, Orly Taitz, the lawyer who has positioned herself at the top of the "Birther movement" bragged on her blog that she had made a new friend on the Facebooks. Whoever could it be? Why, it's Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann! On the face of it, this should surprise no one.

But here's the curious thing! I have been out to Orly Taitz's Facebook page this morning and there's no evidence that they've become Facebook friends. What could be going on here? There are a few possibilities.

1. I am terrible at searching Facebook.

2. Michele Bachmann, or proxies on her behalf, befriended Taitz, and then thought better of it, which would be an unprecedented demonstration of cognitive thought from Bachmann, or her proxies.

3. Bachmann has merely joined some random Orly Taitz group or fanpage, which sort of isn't the same thing as becoming Facebook friends, but whatever, I'm not going to go leafing through every crackpot Facebook group to penetrate the mystery.

4. Orly Taitz and Michele Bachmann have attached two tin cans to a string and hung this apparatus in their respective domiciles, and are calling this arrangement "Facebook."

Full disclosure! Only a few days ago, I myself, passed on the opportunity to become Taitz's Facebook friend. Yes, I declined because she is, in a word, CRAZY, but also because she failed one of my other Facebook friending criteria -- no middle aged women named after Internet memes. I do have five mutual friends with Taitz, who I believe are all her "ironic" friends, including MSNBC host Ed Schultz.

Anyway, with Bachmann and Taitz, the standard "birds of a feather" saying applies and, like I said, that Bachmann and Taitz are on each other's radar is not something that shocks. If you want to be concerned with who is friending Taitz on Facebook, attention should be focused on mainstream GOP figures like House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and RNC Chair Michael Steele. Their names appear on Taitz's Facebook page where Bachmann's does not.

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Comments

[jaslyn]

09:59 PM on 08/01/2009

What kind of out of the holler name is Orly Taitz? Does she think the world is flat like Bachman does?

[Josh Popichak]

09:53 PM on 08/01/2009

Why not just brag that you've become friends with Godzilla, or Charles Manson? 'Fess up, Orly Taitz, you fibbed. You're a fibbing fibberer, and you've been exposed. Now how does that feel?

[Ronju01]

08:39 PM on 08/01/2009

Only in America, a Russian emigrant challenging our President's birthright !! Why because he's half black !

[aquarius64]

08:26 PM on 08/01/2009

Let's keep up the fight against these birther k *oks! And let the GOP continue to be preceived to be puppets of a radical fringe. It will result in a 2nd term for Obama and the Dems to be in power for a long time.

[Khirad]

05:40 PM on 08/01/2009

Anyone get Victoria Jackson vibes from this one? Who is more unbalanced, is my question?

[FantasticFourFan]

05:02 PM on 08/01/2009

Can I get a law degree from the back of a matchbook too?

[underoath]

04:37 PM on 08/01/2009

This whole birther deal is just sad , i thought we were a smarter society than that.

[Dolmance]

04:21 PM on 08/01/2009

Is that grifter even a citizen, coming here to slander our President and whip up the racist fringe in America to bring down our government? If she's not, somebody should pull her green card and send her back to whatever catbox she crawled out of.

[teepeeyoyo]

04:01 PM on 08/01/2009

lol...All of this will result in a second term for the President....keep it up, you all are doing a great job.

[US1st2009]

03:49 PM on 08/01/2009

no surprise that taitz is a citizen of the country with which we have an unspecificed "special" relationship that never seems to be explained to us American citizens who send $3 Billion tax payer dollars a year for undisclosed reasons and purposes especially since they are a wealthy country; israel.

[airco]

03:43 PM on 08/01/2009

The more we give these wingnuts airtime, or publicity on the HP or any other publication, the more we are legitimizing their views. We all know (at least 99.9% of the American population) that these birthers are half brained wacos. Do not wast anymore time on them please!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Prakosh]

02:54 PM on 08/01/2009

How did she get into the country? Don't you have to do something that no one here is qualified to do.

She doesn't seem to have any skills that Americans don't have.

Certainly we have plenty of lawyers and dentists!

How did she get a license to practice law in California?

How did she get a license to practice dentistry?

How did she get a stint on the Stephen Colbert show?

[julia23]

05:46 PM on 08/01/2009

How come she doesn't know blue eye shadow like that went out in the 80s?

[bitohistory]

07:47 PM on 08/01/2009

"school bus driver blue" ?

[Anonani]

02:36 PM on 08/01/2009

Bill Maher is correct. Those of us who believe that the birthers are possessed and driven by a rabid desire to overthrow the President of the United States must take this attack on him as a very serious matter. We will not standby idly ignoring them or just laughing at them. We will take them on at every possible opportunity. We've learned a lot about what happens when you sit back thinking and behaving as if reason will prevail. Reason does not prevail the ignorance seeps into the water and before you know it the entire water source is tainted. We will not allow any tainting to go on here....NEVER AGAIN!

[HDR]

06:04 PM on 08/01/2009

Why not! There was a blanant attempt at a coup aganist Clinton with the whole adultery scenario. And that was before the hypocrisy of it all.

[SmallChange]

11:52 AM on 08/01/2009

All I can say is water seeks its own level. Apparently HP needs aritcles like this to occupy the space to fill in for the lack of real journalist essays. Come on true journalist contribute to HP they are in dire need.

[jde]

11:31 AM on 08/01/2009

Let Orly Taitz know how you feel about her birther conspiracy.

Her email, as posted on her home page [e-mail]

Don't go to her blog. Firefox reports it as an attack site.