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Obama's Knee is a Citizen
So, this is perhaps the greatest thing that happened all week, and that’s in a week when Glenn Beck shut down his show. Jack Cashill claimed that this photo of Obama with his grandparents was a fake one:
And that this much fuzzier one is the real one that the “fake” one was made from. But as Media Matters noted, they forgot while creating the “real” picture to take out Obama’s knee.
Or replace Grandpa’s hand, for that matter. Adam Serwer wonders what this bad photoshop job was supposed to prove anyway. I think this is indicative a new period in the evolution, where the racist underpinnings of it are becoming more overt. This is the phase where Birthers are going to start denying that Obama’s mother and maternal grandparents are actually related to him. Previously, most attention has been paid to conspiracy theories around his father, and now they’re moving on to conspiracy theories regarding his mother. They’re nipping at the edges of just saying this he faked his maternal line, with this picture, for instance, or Trump claiming there are no childhood pictures of Obama. This is just a move in that direction.
Lulz.
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I’ll be honest: this is the best summary of the Birther movement I’ve seen in a long time.
Image is Facebook status which reads:
Ok i an not racist but obama needs to get the hell out of our country and in back to his he hasnt done shit but make alot of ppl mad and offended i want our religious right back butyou know he can do what he wants because i will always have god in my life and there is nothing he can do to take that away from of i love you god:)
(via Where’s the birth cert?)
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You know you want one!
(via It’s Come to This: Obama Campaign Now Selling Birth Certificate Merchandise)
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![Also applies to Teabaggers and Presidents!
[Crayons of different flesh tones. All the crayons say “we need to see your proof of citizenship” except for the lightest, which says “welcome to Arizona”.]
(via Supreme Court to rule on Arizona immigration law)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw5qirOBwK1qgm6edo1_250.jpg)
Also applies to Teabaggers and Presidents!
[Crayons of different flesh tones. All the crayons say “we need to see your proof of citizenship” except for the lightest, which says “welcome to Arizona”.]
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Birthers' Pants are On Fire
So, the president is a citizen, and most of the claims to say that he’s not are made up. Which leads me to ask: what could possibly motivate people to make up stories about Obama’s illegitimacy?*
Truth-O-Meter items
We’ve published 18 Truth-O-Meter items on various claims about the birth certificate and collected them on this page. It’s worth noting that we’ve found most of the claims to be False or Pants on Fire.
Some of the significant ones:
Donald Trump earned a False for his claim that Obama’s grandmother said he was born in Kenya.
Donald Trump earned a Pants on Fire for his claim that classmates did not remember Obama.
A Texas state legislator earned a False for saying Hawaii’s governor can’t find anything that says Obama was born there.
A chain e-mail earned a Pants on Fire for a claim that Obama’s college transcript indicates he was an Indonesian citizen.
A chain e-mail earned a Pants on Fire for saying that Obama’s middle name is Muhammed.
A chain e-mail earned a Pants on Fire for saying that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had agreed to hear a case about whether Obama is eligible to be president.
*Hint: RACISM
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
