Although almost certainly fake, with the help of the MSM it has almost completely defused the birth certificate issue.
Not just ‘the media’, there is a small army of obamanoids working sites like FR to squelch even the discussions of the items on the fraudulent thing. On this very thread there are at least two working hard to foment anger nad ill-tempered responses to the clear obfuscatory crap their spewing at every factual post. We had a couple of such zotted a while back, but many remain active.