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Birther Site: "Kenyan" Certificate "Probably Not Authentic"
Wow, it's looking like even big-time Birthers don't buy the forged "Kenyan" birth certificate. Check out this new report from World Net Daily -- written up by Jerome Corsi, one of the most prolific Obama conspiracy theorists, no less:
NEW YORK - The Kenyan birth document released by California attorney Orly Taitz is probably not authentic, according to WND's investigative operatives in Africa, though officials in Nairobi do not rule out the possibility President Obama may indeed have been born in their country.
WND obtained several samples of Kenyan birth certificates in use around Aug. 4, 1961, the date of Obama's birth, showing differences from the Taitz document.
Apparently, it turns out that early 1960's Kenyan birth certificates don't look even remotely like birth certificates from Adelaide, Australia.
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Not that it matters, see, because when Soetoro adopted Barry he ceased to became an Indonesian citizen, so he is still ineligible to be President. And if you knock that argument down, there is another one waiting in line to pop up.
August 6, 2009 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whoops. "ceased to became" should just be "became." Poor editing, that.
August 6, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
A Missouri moronic voter
August 6, 2009 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huh?
What's with the personal insult?
August 6, 2009 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
You need to tune your snark-meter. It's a little off today.
August 6, 2009 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Probably not authentic"?
Right.
Just like Orly Taitz is "probably" crazy.
August 6, 2009 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
WOW! WND has investigative operatives in Africa? The New York Times better watch out.
August 6, 2009 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who are these officials in Nairobi who believe President Obama may indeed have been born in their country? And why do they believe this? Wishful thinking?
August 6, 2009 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I noticed that as well. What do you want to bet that "officials in Nairobi do not rule out the possibility..." means that when the WND got through to the asst. secretary to the vice-minister of records, he hung up on the WND reporter mid-way through the asking of the question.
August 6, 2009 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
They also do not rule out the possibility that Elvis Presley was born there nor could they rule out the possibility that Obama's mother was actually the Tooth Fairy. Turns out, you can't prove a negative.
August 6, 2009 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unlikely. That would imply that Kenyan officials ever answered their phones, or were even in their offices, which, based on my experience with Kenyan officials, is untrue.
August 6, 2009 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
My favorite phrase "...though officials in Nairobi do not rule out the possibility President Obama may indeed have been born in their country." And they also did not rule out that Anwar Sadat, Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brando, or Marilyn Monroe may indeed have been born there either. These people really keep stretching.
August 6, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Also not ruled out: Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan, Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller, Marion "John Wayne" Morrison and, of course, Chuck Norris.
August 6, 2009 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Also not ruled out: Sara "Wasilla Hillbilly" Palin, Roy "Niangua" (now that sounds like he's from Kenya fer sure) Blunt, Michele "Anoka" (now that sounds like she's from Kenya fer sure 2) Bachmann, Dick (distantly related to BHO) Cheney.
August 6, 2009 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Officials in Nairobi will not rule out the possibility that I was born there.
Say, do they have universal healthcare?
August 6, 2009 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Zing!
August 6, 2009 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well since TPM has obviously assigned Kleefeld the fruitbat beat, here's a thought
Send Eric to report on WND's WND's investigative operatives in Africa,
R Teabagger Thugs able to get instant updates on their i-phones???/
Inquiring minds want to know Eric
August 6, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean teabagger thugs buy and use a product designed, built and sold from a lefty place like the Bay Area, by a company Al Gore is on the board of, and who supports equal rights for gays?
August 6, 2009 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point.
Guess the secret's out.
ACORN has installed special software which identifies teabag Patriots and uses the GPS function to report location so that the user can be identified for transport to one of the secret ACORN re-education camps funded by the stimulus.
Damn Biden needs to get those bucks out into the field
August 6, 2009 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought they were FEMA run camps? Another layer to the onion of conspiracy? ;)
August 6, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eric Kleefeld...TPM Investigative Operative
August 6, 2009 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you look very carefully at pictures of the grassy knoll in Dallas you'll clearly see Barack Obama was there.
Even Oliver Stone thinks these people are nuts.
August 6, 2009 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahhhh hahahahahahahaha
WND investigative operatives .... oh, my sides. Can you just imagine what brand of gutter dwellers WND would employ as "investigative operatives?" I wonder how much they have to pay bail bondsmen every year.
When will someone do a book about Corsi, et. al. and finally relegate them to the trash heaps they so richly deserve?
August 6, 2009 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Dog" The BC Hunter. ;)
August 6, 2009 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm kind of HOPING Chuck Norris was born there. That might get rid of him in short order. At least in terms of endorsing presidential candidates. He can still do his infomercials for fitness crap though.
August 6, 2009 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
The best thing about the Bruce Lee movie Way of the Dragon... he beats Chuck Norris to death.
August 6, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just looked at the WND story. Oh my god, how this guy calls himself a journalist is beyond me.
"But an authentic 1961-era Kenyan birth certificate obtained by WND shows distinct differences," Corsi scribbles. Distinct differences? How about they're not anywhere near the same! Talk about understatement.
"Kenyan government officials interviewed by WND sources in Kenya ..." Corsi vomits. Unnamed government officials "interviewed" by unnamed WND "sources." Can you get any murkier? I mean, could there be any less chance of verification?
And now, WND presents information debunking the Taitz document that has been on the Internet for a week, only WND presents it as though it has just been discovered:
"... a key difference in the Taitz document. In 1961, Mombasa was a part of Zanzibar, not the Coast Province of Kenya. The area was later ceded to Kenya.
Moreover, the African nation was the Dominion of Kenya until December 1964, after declaring independence in 1961. Kenya was not officially the Republic of Kenya until some 10 months after the Feb. 17, 1964, date on which the Taitz document purportedly was certified. "
No shit! We've been saying that for days, you morons!
Seriously, the Left needs to get MUCH more aggressive in dealing with these Right-wing hacks. Third-hand information from anonymous sources? Really, Farah and Corsi? Really?
August 6, 2009 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
WND and Oily Taints - Lou Dobbs fighting with Don Imus - Pat Buchannan fighting with John Bolton. Obama has got wing-nuts fighting wing-nuts all over town. The Kenyon Plan (TKP)is working, just as plotted, some 4 decades ago!
August 6, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I graduated high school with Joe Farrah. He was a leftist radical (in the '70s, when the movement had already faded), which demonstrates, imo, that a person's politics is often more reflective of their personal psychology than fealty to any particular ideology.
August 6, 2009 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually a good number of the neo-con right started out as far-left radicals, some even Trotskyist such as Irving Kristol (often dubbed the godfather of neoconservatism and father of Bill Kristol).
August 6, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
You realize, of course, that this won't deter them in the least. There is no irrefutable evidence, no reliable authority, and certainly no amount of common sense and just plain logic that will change the birthers' minds. Anything and everything that contradicts their conspiracy theories is just another part of the conspiracy.
Taken to its logical extent, every person in the world is in on it. I know I am.
August 6, 2009 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he meant to type "WND's investigative operatives in my ass".
Corsi seems to pull most of his info from those operatives.
August 6, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where's Little Green Footballs to discredit this like they did with the clumsily-forged Bush National Guard documents in 2004?
August 6, 2009 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
When will Tina Fey pull off an impression of the head of the Birther's movement?
August 6, 2009 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that one should go to Amy Poehler, if she get the Russian accent right..
August 6, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
This just in, officials in Nairobi can't rule out the possibility Jerome Corsi may indeed be a wanker.
August 6, 2009 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I'd say that's been pretty well established.
August 6, 2009 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
WMD & WND, probably not authentic?!
August 6, 2009 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
What, Oily Taint a liar???
August 6, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Orly Taitz is Sasha Baron Cohen.
August 6, 2009 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I recently bought the domain names eflavender.com/.org/.net
(Seriously!)
Any good ideas?
August 6, 2009 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can some good Californian citizen make anethic complaint to the CA bar and get her ("Oily" Taitz) reprimanded or suspended.
August 6, 2009 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink