Posted on 07/24/2009 5:19:58 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Bad idea. I sympathize with him wanting to protect CNN from negative press but the surest way to feed a conspiracy theory, needless to say, is to try to suppress it. This is like Roger Ailes issuing a communique ordering Fox News not to cover 9/11 Truth. What is he hiding?
TVNewser has learned CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein sent an email to a handful of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” staffers last night regarding the coverage of the so-called birthers and the validity of Pres. Obama’s birth in the U.S.
In part, Klein writes, “It seems this story is dead- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn’t really have a legitimate beef.” Klein asked CNN researchers to dig into the question of why Obama couldn’t produce the original birth certificate. The researchers contacted the Hawaii Health Dept. and confirmed that paper documents were discarded in 2001 when the department went paperless. That reportedly includes Pres. Obama’s original birth certificate.
Dave Weigel, who’s been tracking the Birther phenomenon for months, floats a new story today about Team McCain having investigated the rumors last year and found nothing to them. Possible lines of Birther attack: McCain’s vetters were too dumb to find the smoking gun; even if they found the smoking gun, McCain’s eligibility was also in question at one point due to his being born in Panama so he couldn’t use it; McCain’s a RINO and wanted to lose so even if he did find the smoking gun, he probably destroyed it to help Obama out.
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Lies damn lies shame on the Hawaii scum suckers.
Hmmm...
The MSM:
Obama already released his birth certificate
Obama already released his birth certificate
Obama already released his birth certificate
Obama already released his birth certificate
Obama already released his birth certificate
Obama already released his birth certificate
Ummm, we finally admit it wasn't his birth certificate but ummm, stop it anyway because the original was destroyed.
Obama may very well have been born in the US but the media owe a lot of people an apology. They lied over and over and over again about just what Obama released.
Oh?
I hope Lou tells Klein to stuff it and walks over to Fox!
That alone should rekindle the whole conspiracy. So, the much vaunted copy of his actual birth certificate that was filed by the campaign and displayed for months on a website as the genuine birth certificate was not the real deal after all?
CNN president to Lou Dobbs: Stop covering the birth certificate story
Huh.
Lou....keep chewing on the Birth Certificate.... The bigwigs to pound sand.
“Stop covering” the story? Who is breathing down CNN’s neck?
We knew when this first came up they would come up with something good.
Hasn't this latest news about discarded paper just hit the news in the last few days?
Why wasn't it mentioned earlier?
Fox needs to swap Whoraldo for Dobbs. Then they both would be a home.
I think this is obfuscation.
As another FReeper has posted, Hawaiian law forbids the destruction of ANY data on file.
Even if the paper form was discarded, they still HAVE to have it on microfilm.
The original has much more data, such as hospital and doctor’s name and signature.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u358/zczc3185/Birth_cert_coats_7c.jpg
To CNN: Stop covering up the birth certificate story!
Well maybe they should use the term “discontinued”. Every reference I’ve seen uses the term, “discarded”.
Or is there fire? Setting aside the interesting story about what his family said early on, etc., plenty of interesting questions have been surfaced as a result of the continued quest to see the one-eight-oh ... whoops, that was an earlier hidden document fiasco, sorry ... the actual long-form birth certificate.
We learned that there is NO rigorous process to actually ensure a candidate is actually eligible to serve - no one seems to have that responsibility. We learned that candidates on some state's ballots were not constitutionally eligible for the office they sough - granted they had no chance of winning but it begs the question "what if?" We learned that apparently no one in America has "standing" to ask the eligibility question. We also learned lots about "standing" and how the courts choose to dodge the tough ones. We learned, thanks to Bill Clinton's tutelage on parsing, that all statements about the certificate are carefully couched in legal terms and use lots of words to say nothing actually of substance.
The only thing we DIDN'T learn are the bona fides of the man currently sitting as POTUS.
Wow, that makes me feel better. ELECTRONIC BIRTH RECORDS! Great! They could NEVER be faked after the fact!
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