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Media's Hillary-didn't-start-the-birther-thing narrative sure collapsed quickly
CANAda Free Press ^ | 09/19/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 09/19/2016 9:27:08 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Result: Total meltdown.

We told you on Friday about how and why the media suddenly decided to return to the Obama birther story. It wasn’t because it suddenly became relevant again. It wasn’t because Trump brought it up. And it certainly wasn’t because any new information came to light. The media suddenly started asking Trump about this again for one reason and one reason only: Trump is soaring in the polls and they’re panicking, looking for a way to save Hillary.

So they decided to bring back to life one issue that they were sure they could hang on Trump in a damaging way. Let him say he doesn’t think Obama was born in the U.S., they attack him for being a crazy conspiracy theorist. Let him say he was, they attack him for his “flip-flop.” They returned to the issue because they figured Trump couldn’t wriggle out no matter what he said.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: birthers; clinton; donaldtrump; hillary; hillaryclinton; media; mediabias; msm; naturalborncitizen; obama; trump
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To: Sean_Anthony

These people can’t handle the facts. THERE ARE VIDEOS of this! Idiots.


21 posted on 09/19/2016 9:52:23 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
What HAS become irrelevant, is the Congress.

Funny, how the dictionary definitions have dropped the linkage of congress to groups of ravens and babboons.

Interestingly, the sixth and seventh definitions of "congress" still seem to apply.

Ciao!

22 posted on 09/19/2016 9:55:17 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Sean_Anthony

bkmk


23 posted on 09/19/2016 9:55:20 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Does haggary still use e-mail?


24 posted on 09/19/2016 10:02:51 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: DiogenesLamp
But most of them knew so little about the issue that they were unaware that Hillary's campaign staff started it back in 2008. When the evidence that the Hillary campaign was behind the whole thing started coming out, they realized this would end up damaging Hillary instead of helping her.

I wish that were true. Readers of FR are much better informed than most, as we see both the conservative and leftist views of various issues (and criticize both).

But, the average person is completely unaware of Asher's claim about Blumenthal. The lamestream media won't discuss it, because it's counter to their narrative. It will get dropped now, but only because new events have pushed it off the front page. However, I doubt it made much difference.

It's too bad that Asher doesn't have a "smoking gun", such as an email/document or even recording of Blumenthal pushing various anti-Obama narratives during the 2008 primaries. Larry Johnson has also posted an article confessing he pushed Blumenthal's propaganda:

Confessions of a Hillary Insider

But while he links to his anti-Obama blog postings during that period, he doesn't publish any evidence that it was sourced by Blumenthal.

Look at the summary of the stuff Sid sent him:

  1. Information surrounding the corrupt business relationship between Barack Obama and Tony Rezko.
  2. Information about Barack Obama’s ties to Palestinian radicals.
  3. Information concerning Barack Obama’s longstanding ties to the American terrorist, Bill Ayers.
  4. Information concerning Barack Obama’s close ties to radical clerics–i.e., Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger.
  5. Information concerning allegations that Barack Obama was not a natural born citizen.
  6. Information concerning Barack Obama being adopted by Indonesian Muslim Lolo Soetoro.

This is virtually every personal attack against Obama that was leveled during the 2008 election. Every one of them originated with Sid Blumenthal, who is known as Hillary's hatchet man.

And, it's clear that Obama knew about it. He forbid Hillary from hiring Sid at the State Dept. So, she instead put him on the Clinton Foundation payroll.

The lamestream media will try to parse this and say that Sid "wasn't working for Clinton's campaign". But, that's not much different that arguing over the meaning of "is".

If you read the comments, someone asked Johnson to post the emails from Sid, and he says "not planning on it". But, he does link to this email from Sid to Hillary on another subject that confirms Sid was exchanging emails with Johnson, and that Hillary had to know about it.

State Department Dumps Hundreds of Hillary Clinton Emails Hours Before Nevada Caucuses

Frankly, I think Breitbart or someone in the conservative media should make a public call for Johnson to release the emails from Sid, to shut up Sid. He is being given a pass on this, because no one is putting up hard evidence.

Just another piece of evidence that the existing status of media needs to be regulated by the Voters. We must create laws to make it impossible for one party to have control over the media system.

Be careful what you wish for. In the hands of someone like Obama or Hillary, it would turn into an attack on conservative media.

25 posted on 09/19/2016 10:03:13 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: bigbob

Yeah...there a lot of shameless partisan hacks. And just as many whose enterprises are in peril if they don’t stay on the party line. ( favors are seldom free in a regulatorian oligarchy) And, doubtless, some who are just scared of their name appearing on the Arkancide roster, or being ensnared in Federal prosecutions ....the fall guys for the real crooks in the Capitols who opened locked doors for them.

All Capone was small ‘taters by comparison.


26 posted on 09/19/2016 10:03:19 AM PDT by dasboot
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To: Sean_Anthony

Most important: Trump is soaring in polls with African Americans. Tying Trump to the “birther” questions, they believe, makes him seem further racist.


27 posted on 09/19/2016 10:04:37 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

I am not tired of winning. I want to see a lot more Trump victories


28 posted on 09/19/2016 10:05:12 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Not only was it fun to watch, but it dramatically helped Trump.

Rather than go on and on about it, he simply said "Hillary started it. I finished it." Very memorable words. Very powerful words. Trump identifies Clinton as a complainer who doesn't get things done. He identifies himself as a leader who gets results.

Besides that, he was sending a cease and desist order to the media's bringing up biased historical "news".

The media thought they had a game-winning strikeout pitch. Trump blasted it out of the park. By all indications, Trump has the capability to handle anything they throw at him. In other words, the election is likely over.

29 posted on 09/19/2016 10:07:42 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: MikeSteelBe
"Along with the FBI. Obama could rape a nun on the White house lawn while Hillary Strangled someone to death beside him on the evening news, and neither would be prosecuted for anything. There is no rule of law in the banana republic craphole that used to be the USA."

So true, and if they are able to win/steal the election for Hillary, the lawlessness will get so much worse and conservatives and other patriots are going to find themselves actively hunted and removed by agents and proxies for the leftist regime.

30 posted on 09/19/2016 10:08:32 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Democrats’ mendacity, from Obama’s birth fraud to the `rats’ Benghazi debacle to their flooding our country with walking time bombs, can be summarized in three words: “Fake, but accurate”.
Anything to serve their political agenda, like La Raza’s motto: `For us, everything; for everyone else, nothing’ and the MSM is there lying non-stop to serve Clinton and the “progressive” agenda.
Go Trump, win win win! Take America back for the people. Let’s make America great again: restore life, jobs, borders, living within our means, domestic energy, a sane foreign policy and last but certainly not least, the Bill of Rights.


31 posted on 09/19/2016 10:08:52 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

“Birtherism” is the greatest Alinsky ever perpetrated.

They have gotten the American people to reject one of the most valuable safeguards bequeathed to us by the founders.
The natural born citizen clause served us well until we ignored it.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.

Obama even told us on his website he was born a British subject.

Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?


32 posted on 09/19/2016 10:08:55 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“But most of them knew so little about the issue that they were unaware that Hillary’s campaign staff started it back in 2008”
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That’s the thing. They pushed it too hard, everyone in unison, from all angles, thinking this would help Hillary with the black vote that she is losing.

Problem is, social media bit back, and presented facts, presented videos, presented interviews from various talking heads back then, that all contradicted the narrative that they were trying to present.

It gets worse, first they presented it as “anyone who supported the birther issue is a racist, and unfit to be president”. Once that got up to speed, they started ambushing Trump’s people. Trump’s people and himself ju-jitsu’d them and turned it around, not only with the press conference but by standing up and fighting back (the talking heads are not used to that).

Now, it’s been dis-proven, and they are left with “whoever started this is a racist and unfit to be president”, and guess what? 70% of Americans don’t trust the media and probably do agree that Hillary’s folks started this. This leaves them in a bad bad place.


33 posted on 09/19/2016 10:11:33 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Kenyanesian Usurpation was brought to you by BOTH parties.

The Constitution says natural born citizen.
That means one who is naturally an American because they couldn’t be anything else, born here of citizen parents.
Everyone in DC wanted that changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
The Senate passed a resolution declaring McCain a natural born citizen because he had TWO citizen parents, even though he was born in Panama.
Then Obama runs and wins based on just being born here, even though he told us on his website he was born a British subject.
So the standard went from born here of citizen parents to just TWO citizen parents to just being born here in one election cycle without amending the Constitution.
This was done intentionally because Rubio (no citizen parents), Cruz (foreign birth, one citizen parent), Jindal (no citizen parents), and Haley (no citizen parents) were all ineligible and the future of the GOP.

The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because they all cooperated in the violation of the Constitution.


34 posted on 09/19/2016 10:11:43 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Billthedrill

“ow long did it take the average reader with a search engine to find out who was talking about the Birth Certificate issue in 2008? “

Some of us actually remember when her campaign was pushing that issue back in 2008. No Internet necessary.


35 posted on 09/19/2016 10:12:52 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant.")
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To: rightwingcrazy
No Internet necessary.

It is for documented proof. Which, given that this is the notoriously mendacious and legalistic Clintons and their supporters we're talking about here, is necessary. But I remember it too.

36 posted on 09/19/2016 10:16:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Sean_Anthony

Martha Raddatz was still pushing it last night on ABC News. Interrogating Mike Pence about “Where is your evidence?” He said he could only refer her to the news stories.


37 posted on 09/19/2016 10:24:36 AM PDT by Genoa (deplorable)
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To: Sean_Anthony

If the Statue of Liberty had given birth to him on Liberty Island he still wouldn’t be one of us.


38 posted on 09/19/2016 10:25:29 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: justlurking
Be careful what you wish for. In the hands of someone like Obama or Hillary, it would turn into an attack on conservative media.

It can be worse than it is now? How? How is making the media answerable to the voters going to be worse than a completely unregulated left wing media weapon?

39 posted on 09/19/2016 10:28:01 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
Now, it’s been dis-proven, and they are left with “whoever started this is a racist and unfit to be president”, and guess what? 70% of Americans don’t trust the media and probably do agree that Hillary’s folks started this. This leaves them in a bad bad place.

Pretty much how I see it.

40 posted on 09/19/2016 10:29:05 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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