I took a look at Orly's website. Too bad about her spelling, capitalization and grammar! Someone might get the impression that she is unprofessional.

Oily Taints is the most broadly comedic conservative to appear on the scene in, oh, the past 11 months or so. What I love most about broadly comedic conservatives is that they don't know they're broadly comedic.

Totally off topic, but these Evony ads are some wierd, wierd stuff. I realize that TPM has rather little control over the ads that run on this site, but to the extent that anyone can do something about it, I would submit that the "start your journey now, my Lord" ad is in really poor (read "sexist") taste.

Any day now, the Orly Taitz character will pull off "her" wig and mask and reveal "herself" as Sacha Baron Cohen.

Wait, I just bought some Yellowcake uranium from these people. Are you saying that that isn't right either? They showed me the paperwork!

The GOP really needs to be taken to task over this - they encouraged, nutured, and raised this monster. Time for them to fully own it. They've collectively proven themselves too stupid to be trusted with anything sharper than a sponge.

Why I spit my chips all over the bar last night -

While having a beer and chips, I overheard two black girls talking about the birthers and the fact that Obama is receiving 4 times the number of death threats than any other President. One of the girls said, "If they are getting this excited about Obama, can you imagine what would have happened if Al Sharpton had won?"

That's when the chips got launched, because I can imagine!

This is all so ridiculously simple to resolve!
All Barack H(you know the rest) Obama has to do is sign the following document on live television (this can be carried be all three major networks simulataneously... I recommend around noon so that time zone issues can be avoided):

I Barach Hussein Obama II swear (or affirm) that I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, considered to be a State of the Union, to an American mother and a Kenyan father, so, technically, I am a citizen of the United States. And even though I ran for public office before I signed this document (affirmation) I hold this to be retroactive to November 3, 2008.

If he sings this on national TV, THEN I'll be satisfied.

I think it's time for the administration to start messing with the birthers. Obama should send Taitz a poor quality audio message confessing to holding an Iranian passport. Gibbs should start making ambiguous comments which are easily interpreted as supporting the birther position.

And then there's Biden. He should do an interview where he says "come to think of it, I haven't seen his birth certificate either" and maybe follow it up by musing "so if it turns out he wasn't born here does that mean that I would become president or would it be McCain?".

Birthers clearly aren't going away. Obama might as well have a little fun with them.

This story is truly hilarious. Stephen Colbert was brilliant with her; she never had a clue what was going on.

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There's the right, the far-right, the fringe & now the tattered fringe. When you get all the way out there to the end & there's no sanity left at all, you find, with eyes wide open & whig on tight, Orly.
With credentials like hers, who could doubt her?
A Dentist, Real Estate broker, document authenticator & forger, now lobbyist & crusader. Phony & liar aren't really jobs so she can't fake those onto her resume, although she might be able to spin those into actress & yarn weaver.
She could also step up her game & become a birther/deather. Throw in a few teabags & you have a complete, verifiable, right-wing nutjob.

"Is it just me or do others get a hint of the uncanny valley when they see pictures of Orly?"

It is not just you, and thank you for the link. I did not know there was a technical term for that. I experience the same sense of "There's something wrong with her" looking at Ann Coulter and Boy George.

I would totally do her!

Isn't today the court date for Taitz's hearing on this "birth certificate?"

I think some of the hate against Orly thats coming from you sitedwellers is understandable dis-like you have against dentists in general, and speciafically those with political agendas and those with unverifiable credentials from the Mideast. OK I GET all the bad stuff youve got against unlicenced dentists! SO Go to someone with an American degree then! BUT pay attention to her argument! Thats all Im asking.

Sorry Lestatdelc... I've been snarking all the while.

IMHO, these pinheads, of which Orly is the pointiest, are just channeling their general hate through a convenient valve; i.e. the intersection of the "natural born citizen" clause and the understandable ambiguity inherent in the phenomenon of state records going digital. These guys just love it when people who would normally ignore them are cornered by circumstance into paying attention to them.

Sorry for snarking not clearly enough!

Many complexities here, all pathological and deeply psychological.

For many birthers who are merely partisan they want to believe that something is amiss in that they cannot see how 60% or more of the nation didn't see the world their way.

For many veiled racists they use birther talk akin to how the old polite South used the term 'boy' instead of the slur that open racists used.

Then there are the zealots. Orly is as much a Muslim bigot as she is a racial bigot and has the law and the idea of citizen all twisted like a pretzel.

She holds that because Obama's father was not natural born or naturalized Obama is not a citizen holding that both parents must be of citizenship---that of course is incorrect. Then she holds because of the adoption he lost his citizenship which of course is not held in case law. Then she holds that Obama was secretly born abroad and that a vast left wing conspiracy exists to defraud the world of an illegitimate leader.

As the debunking continues though I think we will see emerging deeper more sinister right wing forces at work, possibly the same crew that forged the Niger Uranium Memos that the Bush Admin picked up and then pointing back to a very dark side of American spooks and what nots.

I want to see Jesus' birth certificate. Until then, no more of this "Son of God" crap, okay?

Only good thing I can say about her is that it's nice to hear from a batshit insane Israeli who, for once, doesn't have an American accent.

By the birther's logic (oxymoron alert!), I, and many other second and third generation Americans, must not be a citizen either because my paternal grandfather was born in Italy. He thought he'd become one by marriage because my grandmother was born in America in 1901. Unfortunately she couldn't prove it because birth records were pretty sketchy circa early 1900's and Pennsylvania could not provide a copy of her birth certificate. I found all the associated paperwork while going through my father's things.

Damn! I was going to switch parties and challenge Palin in 2012. You betcha!

The birthers (and neocons) aren't interested in facts or truth. Their fantasy world was destroyed last November and now they are doing doing anything they can to bring their delusions back.

The birthers are just out and out crazy. You can't reason with crazy. You just get out of the way, and make sure they don't hurt anyone.

The neocons Republicans aren't crazy. They know the truth, but they are hoping to distract their base from their own neocon Republican failures. You can't reason facts and truth with these guys either. These guys don't really care.

It is now well past time for the Democratic Congress and the President, and the Democratic leadership to stop treating these people as if they are reasonable. These nutjobs need to start learning some tough love.