39% Of Republicans Want More Birther Coverage

A Pew poll finds that a plurality of Republicans are not embarrassed by the Obama birther conspiracy. In fact, they wish the media spent more time on it.

"Republicans are ... inclined to say that the allegations have received too little attention," the poll reports. "Nearly four-in-ten Republicans (39%) express this view, while 27% say they have received the right amount of attention and 26% say they have gotten too much attention.

"If anything surprised me, it's how many people have heard about this," Michael Dimock, an associate director at the Pew Research Center, told the Washington Independent. "When we put the question in, we said to ourselves, well, Lou Dobbs has covered it, and it's been discussed on the Internet. For 80 percent of people to have heard something about this is pretty high."

The White House expressed exasperation Thursday morning with the whole thing, after a poll found that only 53% of Virginians were sure President Obama was born in the U.S.

"You couldn't sell this script in Hollywood," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters.

"Tell me if you've heard one that's this totally crazy," Gibbs said. "A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child -- who there's not a passport for -- so is in cahoots with someone...to smuggle that child, that previously doesn't exist on a government roll somewhere back into the country and has the amazing foresight to place birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers? All while this is transpiring in cahoots with those in the border, all so some kid named Barack Obama could run for President 46 and a half years later. You couldn't sell that to the WB."

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[AbstractImp]

I want more "Birther" coverage so their ignorance can be exposed and their sources can be fully revealed.

[flossophy]

Birther brew-ha-ha = A|in$ky Rule #24: Make use of local wh|pping boy.

[DemocraticVoter]

Anyone willing to associate themselves with Republicans right now has to be crazy -- what reasonable moderate person would even consider voting for a Republican after all this.

[Hamneggz]

To some degree it is true to say that the republican party is a coalition of corporate spin doctors and those under the sway of priests, the religious right. This was not always true, but increasingly it is the case. The priests, or ministers, are themselves acting out a cultural meme they don't comprehend, and are easily manipulated by expert ad men. The corporations have more than enough money to hire the very best creative minds and pay them enough to overcome ethical scruples. At this point almost everything coming out of the republican party is corporate spin, a lot of which is guerrilla marketing. It is mainly directed at the stupid, one half of the people are below average intelligence, and at the ignorant, who choose ideas based on how they make them feel. That's why a lot of this stuff looks odd to intelligent informed people.

[SEQUOIABISON]

Well lets not accommodate them by printing every statement they make on HuffPost or any other intelligent publication. This is National Enquirer material, along with two headed cows and Martians seen in LA.

[emerarudo]

Now the American Independent Party is attacking President Obama.
I've seen this myself as I was driving up HWY 5 NORTH.

"One of our supporters up near Redding put up a highway billboard saying approximately "Show the Birth Certificate" with our URL on it." #TCOT5:41 PM Jul 27th from web
https://twitter.com/AIP_CA

* Name AIP of CA
* Location California
* Web http://www.aipca.org
* Bio American Independent Party CA Chair-Vice Chair National AIP-Markham Robinson. Polife-Con­servative-­Constituti­onalist 707-359-4884 AIPNews.comcom @BraveLad #TCOT

2,049 Following 1,936 Followers

[PWM]

A party of losers.

[BlueFloyd]

I am assuming this is the first time these folks have ever questioned the legitimacy of the president vis a vis his birthplace and citizenship. oh, by the way, it is our first black president. so please somebody tell me why i shouldn't think these 'birthers' are r. a . ci. sts whether or not they can freely admit it??

[peachykeen]

Hasn't the Republican Party totally humiliated itself enough already??

[gbee]

Apparently not.

[samilli3]

not a wise move...but if they want it..give it to them...bec­ause no weapon formed against the President shall prosper. It will fall flat in their face

[IcedTee63]

When will the Lunacy end for the Right?

[taptaptap]

Hey kids, let's all play! You too, can make your own genuine fake birth certificate:

http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/

[Chris Cody]

Look at the three populist movements of the right this year: First, the tea bagger movement that had people protesting Obama's taxation when in fact the majority of them had their taxes LOWERED by Obama already. Second, the insane birther movement of this article. And most recently, the "we don't want socialized medicine and keep your government hands of my Medicare" crowd. How do you even begin to try to talk to people who are self-contradictory and completely clueless? Facts and data mean nothing to them. At first I find all of this funny, but then, it is truly sad and I even fear that these irrational people will finally resort to violence.

[Maxamillionair]

..so naturally the Huf Po as well as all other media, will be all over it like white on rice...aga­in. are we sure the people polled here weren't media execs? this has always been a media driven thing anyway.

[Bronxdude]

The average American refuses to accept that the Republican Nation is at war with the working-class, which is why republicans support the status quo and vehemently oppose single-payor healthcare, public education, government oversight, minimum wage hikes, worker rights, access to higher education, middleclass tax relief, and, in general, any legislation that would jeopardize the continuation of a credit-dependent, employer exploited, unhealthy, downtrodden, underpaid, debt-laden, undereducated and permanent class of laborers. Similar to exploited sharecroppers, it’s in the best interest of republicans to keep the working-class hopeless, oppressed, unhealthy, undereducated and debt-laden. Republicans staunchly supported the bailout of Wall Street to protect their own assets, but opposed the bailout out the automobile industry, which employs thousands of middleclass Americans. The republican aristocracy opposes any kind of governmental oversight that will interfere with their pursuit of exploitive capitalism; republicans would like to abolish the Departments of Agriculture, Transportation, Interior, Education and The Food and Drug Administration, because these agencies advocate for workers. Just like feudal lords, the Republican Nation requires a formidable army to protect their financial interests, which is why republicans defend unrestrained military spending. According to the CBO, the Iraq War will cost $2.6 trillion over 10 years; health insurance for every American would cost $1.2 trillion over the same period. Republicans want to keep America angrily divided by class and race. Universal health insurance provides hope and would elevate the standard of living for every American, something republicans don’t want.

[ThermoChemist]

: )

Good post (...points were well stated)..!

[PWM]

Excellent post. One of the best.

[Sweetbay]

Wow. Good job with this post..

[awryly]

I agree. You are fighting a much-needed civil war. No less important than the one you fought in the 1860's.

[Bronxdude]

The Reagan deregulated, for-profit medical culture has methodically raped America, while complicit, lying and self-serving republican­s—silenced by payoffs, kickbacks and special interest—acquiesce. Only true competition will lower the cost of medical care. Since obstructionistic republicans support the systematic plundering of the middleclass by ruthless insurance corporations, this is why we need the government between the public and parasitic health insurers. Everything doesn’t have to make a profit. Republicans want you to remain sick and uninsured because there is profit in illness. When compared to the second quarter of 2008, profit for UnitedHealthcare increased by a whopping 155 percent, yet premiums continue to climb 4 times faster than wages. Real competition will end the monopolistic and greed-driven stranglehold enjoyed by morally corrupt insurers. Restricting choice and access drives up cost, increasing profit for health insurers, while working-class Americans continue to die. As it stands right now, without real marketplace competition, unregulated insurers like UnitedHealthcare not only dictate the cost of healthcare, but where, when and how medical care is doled out. Sleazy republicans who sleep with insurance executives are relying on biased, distorted and flawed research concocted by the Lewin Group—a subsidiary owned by UnitedHealthcare—to create lies to sabotage healthcare reform. Contrary to republican fear mongering, the WHO ranks Canadian Healthcare as one of the best in the world, while America ranks twenty-ninth among industrialized nations when it comes to providing affordable healthcare for every American.