The Birthers Got "Punk'd" With Fake Certificate
It now looks like the forged "Kenyan" Obama birth certificate that was briefly promoted by the Birthers -- actually an altered copy of a decades-old South Australian birth certificate -- was deliberately designed as a prank on the Birther movement itself, Dave Weigel reports.
An anonymous person has put up an Internet posting showing photos of the document, against a bedsheet background that matches the photo promoted by Orly Taitz. One of the photos shows a crumpled up certificate with the following message written on it: "YOU'VE BEEN PUNK'D!"

The forgery was apparently created using fine cotton business paper, an inkjet printer, an old manual typewriter, and a fountain pen. The supposed government seal is actually an imprint made with an old two-shilling coin. (Pre-decimal British money can easily be purchased from souvenir vendors or on eBay.)
As the anonymous poster says: "Punkin' the Birthers: Priceless."


















Obama was not born in Hawaii. He wasn't born in Kenya, either. He was actually synthesized (maternal birth is sooooo primitive) on the planet Zordon some 1368 earth years ago.
All this is part of the master plan. You will soon all be food for Zordon's cats.
August 6, 2009 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay!
Just as long as your not gonna tell us later that we got punked, too, alright?!
August 6, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go ahead and laugh. You won't think it's so funny when you're looking at the inside of a can of Zordon Meow Mix.
August 6, 2009 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
As long as there is a generic equivalent of Zordon Meow Mix, I will be happy!
:D
August 6, 2009 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meow Mix (Zordon or Earth Kitty's Best) comes in a bag, not a can. Just like hammers.
And in your taunt, it would be better to say one would be on the inside of a can looking out.
Your application for Birth Document Creation Specialit II is therefore rejected.
August 6, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmph. Shows what you know. You've obviously never been to Zordon. Almost all goods are packaged in Xytanium cans for the obvious reason that xytanium is impervious to gravity. Storing them and transporting them is effortless. Their spaceships and local transport vehicles are, of course, made of xytanium, too.
August 6, 2009 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mmmm...zordon meow mix....
August 8, 2009 2:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
For a minute, I thought you were going to say he was actually synthesized by an intense accumulation of mitochondrial DNA in his mother's womb - the Adrian Skywalker effect.
August 6, 2009 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anaken
August 6, 2009 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anakin.
August 6, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
h/t
August 7, 2009 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Midi-chlorians
August 6, 2009 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords and wish to point out that my vast experience fitting contents into Meow Mix cans would make me far too valuable to our new and benevolent masters for me to end up inside of one.
/suckup
August 6, 2009 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
If this is what happened, what little credibility Taitz had (close to zero, to be sure) has been completely obliterated.
August 6, 2009 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Would it help if you knew she discovered a way to whiten teeth for under ten dollars by combining Australian and Kenyan ingredients.
August 6, 2009 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Orly Taitz is a prime example of the dangers of huffing nitroux oxide. Oxygen deprivation has some pretty bizarre manifestations.
August 6, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
"nitroux" is the French version of "nitrous"....
August 6, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Knew it. I just knew it. You're a latte-sipping, wine drinking, volvo driving liberal who knows FRENCH. You're probably from Kenya, to boot.
August 6, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
You forgot my Birkenstocks and actually, it's Cameroon, not Kenya.
August 7, 2009 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's just call her for what she is - a racist russian isralei.
August 6, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops. Israeli.
August 6, 2009 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
My response to Orly Taitz is cribbed shamelessly from Burt Reynolds, when he was asked to respond to a comment from Joan Rivers:
"I have a standing rule never to get in an argument with a female impersonator".
August 6, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keith Olberman "accidentally" referred to her as Orly Taintz and when called to his attention by one of his guests, he came back well, it applies both ways. I loved that line
August 6, 2009 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that we have this issue sorted out, it's time to finish working on health care, poverty, etc. The Borgen Project has some good information on the cost of addressing global poverty (borgenproject dot org).
It only takes $30 billion annually to end world hunger!
Yet... we are spending $550 billion annually on the defense budget.
August 6, 2009 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, I needed a moment of reality.
I keep noting that the 533.7 billion Pentagon budget could surely be cut 33.7 billion to help fund health care reform.
Obama was saying in the presser that's about what we still need to cover health care reform.
Any problems, get ahold of Winslow Wheeler and Franklin Spinney. They will find it in short order.
August 11, 2009 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just wish the pranksters had crossed the streams and said, "You've been Posted!"
August 6, 2009 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Failz. Taits dus et."
August 7, 2009 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now, how long will it be before any Faux News talking head has to step down for running with this birth certificate story.... Well, how much longer did Dan Rather stay on after he was "punked"?
August 6, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can you really blame Orly. I mean after all, she got a totally legitimate email from the former Nigerian Oil minister who just wanted her help securing a copy of this birth certificate and $345,900,000 in cash that had been unfortunately left locked in a safety deposit box in Somalia. For her trouble in securing the bulk of the cash she was given a 10 percent fee and a copy of the certificate. I mean, who amoung us here would not have jumped at that opportunity.
Excuse me, I have to go check my email...
August 7, 2009 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
ROTFLMAO@
August 7, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does Ashton Kutcher get royalties each time the term 'Punk'd' is used?
In any case, the fact that there is a headline including 'Birthers Got Punk'd' is pretty amazing. Think if you had just arrived in the United States and were trying to learn English and had that to go by!
http://www.enewse.com/
August 7, 2009 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really. Try looking that up in your Kenyan/English,English/Kenyan Dictionary.
August 8, 2009 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
So obvious. See Hitler Playbook, page 17.
August 7, 2009 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama wasn't born, he's a Nexus-6 ...
...just like me,
LK
August 7, 2009 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
As is obvious by her appearance, Oily Taint is a Nexus-5 prototype that developed fatal problems in her logic board and went rogue soon after activation. She was long thought to be in hiding on the other side of Tannhauser's Gate, so her re-emergence caught the authorities by surprise.
Even Batty has been avoiding her, saying "Freaks like Oily Taint give us Nexus-Sixers a bad name."
August 8, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love this tactic.
Maybe could be applied in other areas.
• "Leaked" excerpt of healthcare bill detailing the provision requiring down-syndrome babies be executed at birth.
• Copy of executive order signed by Obama detailing the use of Acorn to alter the census results, and collect personal information about *real* Americans as part of his Master Plan to turn America into an Afro-islami-terrorist-communo-facist devil-worshiping dictatorship, in which the U.S.A will become a satellite of the *nation* of Africa, the Pledge of Allegiance will be replaced with bowing to Mecca at the start of school each morning, handshakes will be replaced by Michelle's "terrorist fist-bump", and everyone will be forced to stand in breadlines to collect our weekly rations produced by government run farms and factories all named after Obama, paying in a new form of currency called the Barackle - the front stamped with Obama's image and the phrase "The One" while the reverse features prominent terrorists Obama has palled-around with such as Osama, Ayers, and Beelzebub.
August 9, 2009 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
That would start a shooting war - it's already been proven that these folks are about as sharp as a bowling ball...
August 11, 2009 8:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
This just keeps getting better and better!
August 9, 2009 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
No it doesn't. An anonymous image posted on a bog does not offer any proof one way or another that this was an actual setup of the birther queen (Orly Taitz) at all. Hell, if I posted an image of a fake document with "punked" scribbled on it" it would in no way prove I was involved in sending it to Taitz to dupe her and other birthers into anything.
The shoddy leaps in claiming this by people is almost as bad as the shoddy authentication by the birthers in the first place.
August 10, 2009 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought the Bush-era forgery fetish was over.
August 13, 2009 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
They're just lying. If they shut up, they won't be on TV anymore, and that's what life's really about.
August 13, 2009 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink