Posted on 11/22/2008 11:54:21 AM PST by SgtSaunders
This week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda's #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. "The report has not been confirmed by the State Department," they all said, but they reported it anyway. Last week, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told viewers that three "anonymous" insiders of Sen. McCain's campaign said that Sarah Palin was, in essence, a diva and a dunce. He - and dozens of others who picked up the story on other channels - never identified, or even verified, the sources of the quotes, but they reported them anyway. Contrast these shabby examples of "journalism" with the legions of identifiable, verifiable and credible sources who for months have been investigating the disturbing allegation that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency because he has failed to meet one of the three requirements that the U.S. Constitution mandates, specifically that he provide proof of his "natural born" U.S. citizenship. What follows is a partial list of people and organizations that have challenged Obama's eligibility. Further on I will comment on how egregious the media's failure to cover this story has been. And last, I will speculate on the reason for the cover-up of this full-blown scandal.
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So what do you all think is the reason big name conservatives are not being front and center with this?
WHY would Rush and Hannity and others being ignoring this? They ignore nothing else about O. I’m having trouble understanding why they would be silent on this??
The MSM I understand why. But not the Right.
Basically because his American citizenship was never formally renounced.
He originally had US citizenship via his mothers parentage. Upon moving to no-dual citizenship allowed Indonesia and having his father declare him an Indonesian citizen, no feedback concerning loss of citizenship was provided to the US.
When Hussein returned to the US, he was an Indonesian citizen which the US knew nothing about yet he still had his US citizenship.
Read the article. Everything makes sense but that sudden suggestion out of left field that everyone has clammed up because President Bush, the most powerful man in the world, is forcing them to because of nuclear blackmail by Islamists.
Maybe, but it’s a far stretch, and I’m afraid it discredits everything else. I was going to send this out to my list, but I can’t do so with that in it.
Maybe it’s the Little Green Men from Area 54 that are making Rush and Sean stay silent. But I doubt that, too.
I really don’t know why the big names are ignoring this unless it is because it is so far fetched they just don’t believe it. In my opinion they are afraid to touch this because so many people on the left keep implying that it is a ridiculous claim....and they don’t want to be put into the category of “far out wacko’s”. But one has to wonder just how much investigating they have done as to either prove or disprove the allegation......
Some just don’t want the tag “conspiracy theorist”....the MSM has so much control over this country in what people hear and think it easily tags someone and then it sticks whether valid or not.........
“Everything makes sense but that sudden suggestion out of left field that everyone has clammed up because President Bush, the most powerful man in the world, is forcing them to because of nuclear blackmail by Islamists.
Maybe, but it’s a far stretch, and I’m afraid it discredits everything else. I was going to send this out to my list, but I can’t do so with that in it.”
Dittos. It sounds too crazy. I was going to ping a few folks until I read that part...lol.
So, he was not born in Kenya?
Thanks, Rushmore Rocks.
Ping. Check out the article; it’s long, but has interesting points that may have been overlooked, previously.
My understanding is that if he were born in Kenya, he would still be an American citizen but not a natural born citizen.
Well, I can think of at least a couple of reasons why Rush and Sean may be refraining from touching it.
One is that it does really sound crazy until you look into it in depth. But surely that could be solved simply by reporting that a lot of people are bringing lawsuits, but refraining from saying whether or not they think the charges are true. Surely it’s news that there are so many suits, some by prominent people. And it seems legitimate to ask WHY DOESN’T OBAMA SIMPLY PRODUCE HIS BIRTH RECORDS? Why spend hundreds of thousands on legal fees when all he has to do is cough up a real birth certificate? So I’m not sure that’s enough to explain their silence.
The second is that Obama has warned them that he will nail them if they touch it, perhaps by imposing the Fairness Doctrine on them. Would Rush and Sean back down in the face of such credible threats? I don’t know. But they might go cautiously.
Certainly it’s enough to explain Fox News, and therefore maybe Sean. Murdoch was badly burned by clinton, and he has shown a number of times that he is unwilling to put his empire on the line again against such threats of regulatory and IRS persecution.
Even more glaring, now most states (all maybe?) required a birth certificate to get a simple driver’s license. (But it isn’t a big deal when running for President.)
“Notice who’s missing from her list?”
Michel Savage has picked up on the story and, of course, we have been trying to get it ‘out there’ — even before he did!
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“WHY would Rush and Hannity and others being ignoring this?”
Yesterday I posted a thought: They may believe that this case is so strong that there’s a chance SCOTUS will act to have Hussein disqualified. Maybe they think that if they covered it on their shows, the MSM would have no choice but to come out in full attack mode. MSM would annihilate Donofrio, et al., start with the character assassination, etc. Maybe the conservative talk show people think we have a better chance of winning if they lay low, DON’T draw attention to it, and let SCOTUS do their job with the facts that exist. (FWIW.)
I see where Leo's website blogtext dot org is STILL DOS. VERY INTERESTING...
I am with you MayflowerMadam - I posted the below on another thread yesterday:
“IMHO, I continue to believe we are far, far better off without the LSM putting their heavy left slant on this. He would be tried and exonerated by the media long before it got to SCOTUS.
If the media were all over this right now, and let’s fantasize for a minute that they were “Fair and balanced”, riots and civil unrest would already be happening in the urban streets...influencing public opinion AND SCOTUS to disregard our constitution.
Let it play out below the radar and if we get what we SHOULD out of SCOTUS, the media will get on board. Just make sure your ammo is dry!!!!!”
A DEAFENING SILENCE
It is no mystery that the leftist media have refused to mention this potentially looming Constitutional crisis in virtually all of their print and electronic coverage. Having shilled for Obama for the past two years - dismissing his longtime radical associations, obfuscating his radical voting record, and taking a pass at their jobs of vetting a presidential candidate - their failure to cover the most explosive story of the 2008 campaign speaks volumes about collusion of the highest order.
Then there are the late-night comics, as well as snarky “humorists” like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, who take pride in being irreverent and “outing” both people and subjects that others avoid. Not a word.
But what about the failure of the powerful conservative media - how to explain their total blackout of this story? Let’s look at their reactions:
Fox News: Total Silence. Did the healthy shares that Saudi Arabia bought of Fox influence the network’s non-coverage of this story? After all, it’s no secret which candidate the Saudis endorsed! We know that TV shows, including Fox, are on a seven-second delay, the better to bleep out offensive or inappropriate material. Doesn’t it strike Fox viewers as strange that not one of their outspoken guests, even once, mentioned this story? Who warned them not to?
Rush Limbaugh: Total Silence. Why has the Excellence-in-Broadcasting’s “Dr. of Democracy” - the man who eats sacred cows for breakfast - not touched this story?
Mark Levin: Total Silence. Why has this popular radio host, commonly known as “the Great One,” abandoned his well-deserved reputation as a Constitutional scholar to studiously not address this Constitutional issue?
Laura Ingraham: Total Silence. Here is another radio powerhouse and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas taking pains not to mention this case...not a word!
Bill O’Reilly: Total Silence. Yes, the guy who claims he’s “just looking out for the folks”...voiceless!
Sean Hannity: Total Silence. The iconic radio and TV host who tackles every controversial subject under the sun...missing in action!
I could go on and on, but you get the picture. The very people - the so-called loyal opposition - who should have been shouting this story from the rooftops for months on end went mute. Ordinarily they would be the first to tell you that our Republic has no more precious document than the U.S. Constitution - a document that set the stage for the greatest experiment in human freedom since the beginning of recorded history. People like me - and multi-millions of others - are aware of what happens when the “salami tactics” of tyrants are employed in the service of leftwing ideology.
First, there is a charismatic character promising “change” and “hope,” but who changes his tune once in power. Second there is a whittling down of the laws of the land and the arrogant dismissal of the documents on which the nation was founded. Third there is the blacking-out of all media that disagree with Dear Leader’s message. And fourth there is the rounding-up and incarceration - or worse - of all dissidents.
This is not theory. This is history. But while both left and right media thought it appropriate to comment at length about Obama’s seven-page Questionnaire for those seeking work in his administration - a probing that makes a Pap Test, mammogram, colonoscopy, and endoscopy in one visit seem mild by comparison - not one of these cowardly journalists has asked the simple question: Mr. Obama, where is your birth certificate?
Or were they not cowards but patriots?
SCROUNGING FOR ANSWERS
I’ve written several books, not one of them fictional. And thousands of articles, not one of them based on sinister suspicions or conspiracy theories. But the case of the U.S. media’s complete non-coverage of this major story has gotten me to speculate on what - or who - may be behind this phenomenon. What force could be so powerful as to silence our country’s putative guardians of free speech - the titans of the Fourth Estate?
Perhaps the mystery goes back to 2004, when President Bush won his second term in office and in his first press conference in the White House said that he had “earned political capital and intended to spend it.”
Then - suddenly and inexplicably - he went into a year-long hibernation. He rarely appeared in public and gave no major speeches. Finally he reemerged - albeit weakly - in late November or early December of 2005
Could it be that shortly after the president’s reelection, he and major government officials received highly credible evidence from America’s ruthless Islamist enemies that they had a number of devastating (probably nuclear suitcase) weapons - set up and ready to be activated in as many as six-to-10 of our major cities - unless he (the president) tacked left and played nice for the following two years?
Was America taken hostage?
The president, one could speculate, had only two choices: (1) play “chicken” and possibly sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans and the destruction of major American cities, or (2) opt for the lesser of two evils, the second being to pave the way for a dangerous Trojan Horse - qualified or not - to capture the White House.
Could it be that the media blackout of the most explosive story of any presidential election in American history has been choreographed by none other than the current POTUS - the most powerful man in the entire world? This would certainly explain why President Bush has not “been himself” since January 20, 2005. It would also explain why the all-powerful media have taken his marching orders - including the New York Times, which takes particular pleasure in undermining and sabotaging the president, even when it comes to national security issues.
If this happened, it would have had to involve the highest echelon in our intelligence services, who might have paid personal visits to publishers throughout the United States, as well as to top TV and radio executives, who themselves would have passed down iron-clad orders - to their anchors, broadcasters, even comedians - to follow the blackout order or face Draconian consequences. Clearly, they followed their marching orders.
On November 4 - Election Day - the Dow was above 9,000. It is now plummeting to below 7,000, suggesting that even the “globalists” among us prefer tax cuts and capitalism to tax hikes and not creeping but galloping socialism - or what the esteemed Dr. Jack Wheeler insists is fascism.
Buyers’ remorse is in the air. America has been hijacked. What a price we will pay if the Supreme Court and the Electoral College abandon their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution by capitulating - as the media have - to our enemies. God Save America!
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200811222725/editorial/the-great-birth-certificate-scandal-cover-up-of-the-2008-election.html
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Dang. That’s scary.
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In order to get my U.S. Passport, I had show my Birth Certificate that was issued at the U.S. Embassy in the nation of my birth.
If I needed a copy of my Birth Certificate, I would have to the U.S. State Department, since they are the ones who issued my Birth Certificate. Inside my U.S. Passport, it lists my County of Birth which is a country other than the USA.
Now, we know that Obama has a U.S. Passport and that Passport does list the country of his birth.
During his campaign for President, Obama traveled to other nations where he would have had to show his U.S. Passport to gain entry to those countries as well as to gain re-entry into the U.S.
Now, don't you think that one of the people he showed his Passport to in France, Germany, Israel, Jordan or United Kingdom would have noticed that his place of birth was listed as Kenya as opposed to the U.S?
We also know that Obama’s U.S. Passport file was breached during the campaign. Now, don't you think that at least one of the many people that snooped into Obama’s Passport file would noticed that his place of birth was listed as Kenya?
Finally, why would the Governor of Hawaii seal a Birth Certificate if it did not in fact exist?
If Obama was born in Kenya, his Birth Certificate would be on file at the State Department.
Yep. Pray and let SCOTUS do their job.
Remember when Joe Biden said FDR went on TV in 1929 to explain the market crash to the people...? Talk about a dunce.
You can have a passport w/o being natural born. There are millions who are citizens w/o natural born status.
See post 36.
If Obama were born outside of the USA that fact would be listed on his U.S. Passport.
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