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A conspiracy site with White House press credentials revives a debunked birther story
WaPo ^ | March 10, 2017 | Philip Bump

Posted on 03/10/2017 10:43:07 PM PST by Seizethecarp

On Thursday evening, precisely 49 days, five hours and 11 minutes after Barack Obama was no longer the president of the United States, the conspiracy-enthusiastic site Gateway Pundit posted a new story: "Breaking: Malik Obama Tweets Alleged Barack Obama Birth Certificate In Kenya" Gateway Pundit never met an anti-Obama or anti-Hillary-Clinton story that it didn’t like. On any number of occasions, the site’s articles have been demonstrably false, as collated by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters. Despite that — or perhaps because of its ferocious defenses of then-candidate Donald Trump over the course of 2016 — an employee of the site was recently granted credentials to join the White House press corps in the briefing room for daily administration briefings. The site’s story about the new birth certificate was written by Jim Hoft, the founder of the site. It’s little more than a write-up of a tweet from a man named Malik Obama, who is the half brother of the former president and who, over the course of the past year or two, came to embrace Trump and the online community that supported the Republican nominee for president.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bathhousebarry; birthcertificate; birthers; first100days; gatewaypundit; homosexualagenda; jondecker; kenya; liberalagenda; lucianwintrich; malikobama; mediamatters; obama; orlytaitz; russianstooges; soebarkah; washingtoncompost; whitehouseinsider; wintrich; x44
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1 posted on 03/10/2017 10:43:08 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

For the record...


2 posted on 03/10/2017 10:44:54 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

Regardless of the veracity of the story, the fact remains that the guy who calls himself Obama still hasn’t proved his identity enough to satisfy a liquor store clerk.


3 posted on 03/10/2017 10:48:03 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Seizethecarp

Gateway Pundit Reporter ACCOSTED, HARASSED — Screamed At in White House Press Room: “Nazi… White Supremacist!”

 

 

 

4 posted on 03/10/2017 10:53:18 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Seizethecarp

I have the SSN barry soetero uses...it was granted to a white man born in Connecticut in the 1890s. maybe I will post it..you can use federal websites, like the selective service, to verify it...he is an illegal alien using a fraudulent SSN.....


5 posted on 03/10/2017 10:55:05 PM PST by thatdewd (I'm tired of watching stupid people do stupid things stupidly.)
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To: Seizethecarp

And so it begins........... again

Great, love it. Finally, put a stake thru the heart of this fake a..hole


6 posted on 03/10/2017 10:55:09 PM PST by Noob1999 ( r re)
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To: Seizethecarp
as collated by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters.

The most dishonest, lying site on the Net. If Media Matters says it's false, you might want to consider that it's likely to be true.

7 posted on 03/10/2017 10:57:36 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Media Matters is owned by George Soros. You know, the Nazi collaborator. That is has credibility to liberals shows you where they are.


8 posted on 03/10/2017 11:05:02 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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The Obama Administration released a forgery — something that is normally considered a crime.


9 posted on 03/10/2017 11:20:44 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Seizethecarp
On any number of occasions, the site’s articles have been demonstrably false...

Says Philip Bump, without displaying any evidence of self-knowledge, some guy who works as a correspondent for the disgraced Washington Post, a site that on any number of occasions has published articles that have been demonstrably false.

Gateway Pundit never met an anti-Obama or anti-Hillary-Clinton story that it didn’t like.

Cough, cough - the disgraceful Washington Post has never met an anti-Bush or anti-Trump story that it didn't like.

Do these 'journalist' employees (such as Philip Bump) of fake corporate "news" outlets have a clue? Obviously not.

10 posted on 03/10/2017 11:43:06 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: thatdewd
I have the SSN barry soetero uses...it was granted to a white man born in Connecticut in the 1890s. maybe I will post it..you can use federal websites, like the selective service, to verify it...he is an illegal alien using a fraudulent SSN.....

042-68-4425?

Why are you so bashful about publishing it?

If it belonged to a guy born in the 1890s, that guy is likely either dead and gone or a minor celebrity due to advanced age (in which case, you need a link).

If, as is almost certain, he's indeed dead and gone, that SSN should show up in the SSDI. Does it?

If not, you are FOS!

11 posted on 03/10/2017 11:45:18 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: thatdewd

It is said he uses lots of different SSNs.
That Conn SSN he uses is very well known all over.
Doesn’t pass eVerify


12 posted on 03/10/2017 11:46:00 PM PST by PraiseTheLord (T)
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To: Seizethecarp

He wasn’t born in Kenya. Red herring. He was born in Canada.


13 posted on 03/11/2017 12:26:29 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Seizethecarp

I have no idea where Obummer was born, Kenya, Washington, Hawaii or somewhere else.

But I’m 95% certain that his so-called “birth certificate” is a fake, a fraud, a forgery, just like the man himself.


14 posted on 03/11/2017 3:28:31 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: Yaelle

He wasn’t born in Kenya. Red herring. He was born in Canada.
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Here we are after all these years, still guessing about the bonafides of someone who claimed to be qualified to be POTUS. It will turn out to be the most disgraceful chapter in the history of the U.S.


15 posted on 03/11/2017 3:34:32 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Seizethecarp

I never knew the WaaaaaaaaPo was so against fake news.....


16 posted on 03/11/2017 3:47:50 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: SpaceBar
Regardless of the veracity of the story, the fact remains that the guy who calls himself Obama still hasn’t proved his identity enough to satisfy a liquor store clerk.

True, but dredging up "birth certificates" that were discredited years ago does nothing to support that.

17 posted on 03/11/2017 3:53:52 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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True, but dredging up “birth certificates” that were discredited years ago does nothing to support that.


I am not so sure. If President Obama had noting to hide, why did the White House put forward a birth certificate that was an obvious fraud?

The more time and energy the left takes to fight this story, the more it makes me consider that there is fire somewhere in all the birth certificate smoke.


18 posted on 03/11/2017 4:01:38 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I am not so sure. If President Obama had noting to hide, why did the White House put forward a birth certificate that was an obvious fraud?

A lot of people don't believe that. And presenting another obvious fraud of a birth certificate does nothing to make the case that he was born elsewhere.

19 posted on 03/11/2017 4:08:56 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Seizethecarp
"On any number of occasions, the site’s articles have been demonstrably false..."

Is the WaPo referring to itself, here? (Or maybe the NYT...)

20 posted on 03/11/2017 4:11:25 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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