Birtherism

WATCH: Rachel Maddow Annihilates Romney, Trump

Posted 05.30.2012

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Rachel Maddow raged against GOP candidate Mitt Romney and birther extraordinaire Donald Trump on Tuesday. Maddow, who reported the breaking news that ...

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WATCH: Donald Trump Goes On Epic Birther Rant

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 05.29.2012

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Donald Trump is determined to have "birtherism" front and center in the 2012 presidential election, calling it the "most important thing" just hours b...

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Rebirtherism

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.26.2012

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Things are so thoroughly screwed-up these days that it's incomprehensible that any sort of raging against the dying of the light will make one bit of difference. Case in point: birtherism -- the conspiracy that simply will not die.

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GOP Chairman: 'We're Not Sherlock Holmes'

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party chairman is asserting the controversy surrounding Herman Cain isn't harming the party's chances to defeat Barack Ob...

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Controversial Arizona Sheriff Defends Birther 'Posse' To Birther Activist

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.28.2011

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Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio addressed his 'Cold Case Posse' looking into President Barack Obama's birth certificate at an Arizona tea p...

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Late Returns: For Perry, There's An Upside In Going Birther

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.26.2011

At first blush, Rick Perry's brief foray into birtherism sure looked to be another unforced error from a hapless candidate who's gone from frontrunner...

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Trump Praises Perry On Controversial Issue

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.26.2011

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Donald Trump said Texas Gov. Rick Perry's flirtation with the birther issue would help him in the Republican presidential primary, in an interview wit...

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Karl Rove Weighs In On Perry's 'Nutty' Association

Posted 12.24.2011

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Republican strategist Karl Rove weighed in on Rick Perry's recent flirtation with birtherism Monday, warning the Texas governor and GOP presidential c...

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Smiley Face Birtherism

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 12.04.2011

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If you magnify Hawaii State Registrar Alvin T. Onaka's stamped signature 800 times, "the distinct form of a smiley face can be seen on the side of the 'A' in Onaka's first name.

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Esquire Sued By Birthers Over Deceptive Satire Of Birther Deception

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.29.2011

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Just over a month ago, Esquire Magazine's Mark Warren published an item on the magazine's Politics blog titled, "BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book...

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Donald Trump's Not Running; But Trumpism Still Is

Cliff Schecter | Posted 07.16.2011

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Trump may have just "dropped out" of the Presidential race, but who he is and what he represents in our culture is as important as ever.

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No Place To Hide: A Buddhist Perspective On Birthers

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 07.03.2011

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I agreed that the questioning of the president's birth place was a conscious form of race baiting, and I considered that day a very sad day in this country, illuminating a great deal of divisiveness, bigotry, and ignorance.

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Bringing Birthers Into the Fold

Silpa Kovvali | Posted 07.03.2011

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People aren't pointing at the birther issue to rephrase their hatred of the president. They're pointing at the Constitution to hide their xenophobia.

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Here's Your Dr. David Sinclair Conspiracy Theory

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.28.2011

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If there was anything to feel good about in yesterday's dramatic birth-certificate reveal, it was probably the fact that the news brought some joy to ...

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CNN's Ed Henry Asks Jay Carney Birther Questions 1 Day After CNN Broadcasts 'Definitive Investigation' Of The Matter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2011

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On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had to address the mind-numbing birther issue, because Franklin Graham had spit some birther nonsens...

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WATCH: George Stephanopoulos And Michele Bachmann 'Settle' The Obama Birth Certificate Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2011

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Hey everybody, did you hear the news? The whole Obama Birther conspiracy has been resolved! Actually, it was put to rest many, many years ago, but the issue reached a new level of resolution on Good Morning America, when George Stephanopoulos brandished Obama's Certificate Of Live Birth at Michele Bachmann, to which the congresswoman replied, "Well, then that should settle it." The whole interview sounds just like Frost/Nixon -- if the only thing at stake were getting a politician to demonstrate the minimum amount of rational thought possible.

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America's Personality-Based Political Divide

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 06.15.2011

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Many factors are conspiring to reinforce and intensify a fundamental rift in Americans' political self-identification based on deep-seated personality characteristics.

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WATCH: HuffPost's Alex Wagner Discusses Donald Trump On MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 05.31.2011

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HuffPost's Alex Wagner appear on 'The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell' on Thursday night to discuss Donald Trump's recent embrace of birther-ism. "...

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Donald Trump Will Win News Cycles With Birtherism [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.28.2011

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The big 2012 news today is, naturally, pure malarkey from Donald Trump, who has inexplicably decided to base his reality-teevee campaign solely on birtherism. Trump practices birtherism of a modified limited hang-out style -- rather than promote the idea that Obama has swindled people, he is just "raising the question" about why Obama doesn't just answer the question, and by the by, have you noticed that Obama seems to have shown up out of nowhere? The biggest problem with this is that it's been tried before.

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Late Returns: Gingrich Takes Us Down A Familiar Path

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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At long, long last, one of the presumed contenders for the 2012 nomination is planning to formally enter the race, sort of. That person: Newt Gingric...

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WATCH: 'King Of The Birthers' Launches 2012 Campaign Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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We're still about a year away from the first caucuses and primaries of the upcoming presidential campaign season, but in New Hampshire, begun these 20...

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Birtherism Is Alive and Well

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Politico reports, Birtherism, the claim that President Obama was not born in the U.S. and is therefore in office illegitimately, is alive and well ...

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GOP Congressional Candidate Tim Walberg: We Could Impeach Obama Over Birth Certificate

Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Walberg, who's running for his old seat, said at a town hall event this week that President Obama could be impeached for not showing his birth certificate.

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Fox News Military Analyst Comes Out As Birther

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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August's slow-news period would have seemed to me to be a prime period for some sort of Birther flare-up, but just past the deadline comes the news that Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney has signed an affidavit in support of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin.

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New Poll: Less Than Half Of Republicans Believe Obama Was Born In U.S.

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The story below includes references to polling conducted by the firm Research 2000. The reliability and accuracy of Research 2000's po...

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