The media meltdown on Friday over this was fun to watch.
It was fun to see so many from the congressional black caucus come out sputtering over this.
That whole event has all the markings of being a pretty arranged event, with Democrats and the media working together to bring down Trump.
Bit it didn’t work. And now we are back to the real world of real events such as more terrorism. And talking about what pres candidates propose to do about it.
They didn’t anticipate two things:
1) that Trump would use this for a 30 minute promotional diverting their pretend ire about the flip-flop into real ire about getting rickrolled.
2) that Trump would bring up the origins of controversy, putting them on the defense.
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.
-—It wasnt because it suddenly became relevant again.-—
Well, it’s certainly still relevant in my eyes.
There is more evidence he is a Kenyan than born in the USA.
What HAS become irrelevant, is the Congress.
When they see one working like 'black lives matter', they beat it to death.
Hillary attacking Trump for birtherism is like Romney attacking Obama for Obamacare.
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it... Billy Joel
Yet my frickin’ crap-local-newspaper published the AP garbage saying Trump admitted one false story (birther) only to start another one (that Hillary first started the birther argument).
They are shameless partisans yet this is what some people consider to be “news”.
Now news breaks that Sid "Vicious" Blumenthal took the birther story to McClatchy - they went to Kenya, investigated, and could not verify.
So we have Barry himself, Hillary, and Sid, yet the entire thing is wrapped around Trump's neck like a millstone.
Trump put an end to it, so put an end to it.
Republicans flip-flop
Democrats evolve
#MediaLies
The sad thing is that it only takes about 10 minutes to expose the whole thing. Someone on YouTube ran a clip from Hardball where Matthews was highly critical of Hillary, or at least her proxies, starting the birther rumors back in 2007.
There is no excuse for how, well, deplorable the media has become.
As gotcha setups go it was pretty week from the outset, and the Great Trump Rickroll added the one deadly element of ridicule that let the air out of this thing with a sound like a giant whoopie cushion. The fact that it happened at all is proof of just how committed the media are to partisan machination and just how little good they actually have become at it, through a combination of ignorance, overconfidence, incompetence, and an insanely bloated sense of self-importance.
I have to say even having followed this issue pretty closely over the years, and knowing that it was laying there like a smoldering fire waiting for someone to pour gas on it, I couldn’t have in a million years have anticipated how deftly Trump handled it. I don’t know if the timing was luck in that they were attempting to bring it out just as he was planning a big event at his newly-opened D.C. hotel with military Medal of Honor winners endorsing him, but he basically corralled the press into a slaughtering pen, and proceeded to methodologically chop each of their heads off. He had them beaten on so many levels, from leveraging their hysteria to force them to provide live breaking coverage of him getting endorsed by Medal of Honor winners, to the absurdity of them squealing like stuck pigs because they apparently would rather him spend an hour talking about something that they long ago declared as a dead and trivial issue as opposed to his qualifications as commander in chief, to blaming the whole thing on Hillary, which they didn’t even know it them, but do know, turns out to be entirely true, not to mention putting Sidney Blumenthal’s name in the news, which can only be bad for Hillary. He turned what they thought to be his greatest Achilles’ Heel, and used it to tie them into a nice, tight little pretzel from which there was no escape. Epic!
These people can’t handle the facts. THERE ARE VIDEOS of this! Idiots.
bkmk
Does haggary still use e-mail?
Most important: Trump is soaring in polls with African Americans. Tying Trump to the “birther” questions, they believe, makes him seem further racist.
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.
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?