[2ndDivisionVet]

You had to know this was how they would play Ann Coulter's remarks: Wait until Chrissy Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz start their rants.

[1rudeboy]

As opposed to how some of us played Coulter’s remarks?

[Ikemeister]

One thing you have to remember about Coulter. Last year, she said she would support Hillary over McCain. McCain is a loser, but Hillary?

[bvw]

Is Coulter becoming a younger horizontally challenged version of Helen Thomas?

[Carley]

Spending too much time with her pal Bill Maher

[McGruff]

Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

If the limits of his journalistic abilities are to post Freeper comments I don't think we have to worry about anyone reading them.

[TheThinker]

Ann can't be right all the time.

Besides, she might just be distancing herself to give birthers more credibility in the greater public as she has always been a lightning rod of controversy.

Or maybe she's just tired of being a lightning rod.

[DogBarkTree]

Ann must be trying to join the Peggy Noonan Irrelevant Blonde Bimbo’s Club

[tlb]

>>>And naturally, the Freepers are losing their minds over Coulter’s apostasy.

So what’s the problem? The quotes are real are they not?

If ANYBODY has earned the benefit of the doubt it should be Anne. But respectfully disagreeing with her was beyond most posters. The lynch mob is on perpetual hair trigger. It’s one of the worst aspects of FR circa 2009. It didn’t use to be so deranged.

[Venturer]

What is amusing to watch is the media making excuses for not vetting the Obama in the first place.

There are other things bsides the birth certificate. His Occidental records, Who paid for Harvard Bill Ayres, Frank Davis, they ignore all of this.

I dont know what is with Coulter, It’s her business what she chooses to believe,I believe personally that Obama is legitimate but the father’s name on the certificate is different than what we are led to believe.

It really doesnt matter what we choose to believe, the fact is that Lawyers are being paid to keep it from view. There has to be a reason. No one pays lawyers for doing nothing.

[kcvl]

It's an honor to be called names by this guy who claims to be a journalist.

Ed Brayton is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb.

[PowerPro]

I disagree with Ann’s position on this but I’m not about to demonize her here.

From what she’s seen, this is the conclusion she’s drawn and she is comfortable in her views.

I however see a long string of inconsistencies that require further investigation regardless of what conclusions are reached at the end of that investigation.

But Ann is pretty solid on almost every issue (like 99.9%) so rather than tossing her overboard, I’ll adhere to Reagan’s 11th commandment instead.

[TexasCajun]

And it's not only his long-form birth certificate, it's all his college records as well that he is hiding.

And what's was up with the Passport-Gate? ...Joe Biden run passport office was breached and Obamah's records were accessed in 2008. ...subsequent, the only witness was murdered while sitting in their car.

Considering how Big Media went after George Bush's kindegarten records, they are complicit in hiding any record that would disparage the candidate they helped elect.

[libh8er]

I am disappointed in Ann. All we ask for is the occupant of the WH provide proof that he fulfills a constitutional requirement to be its legitimate occupant.

[Just another Joe]

I invoke the Ann Coulter rule of Free Republic!

[afraidfortherepublic]

I stopped reading and watching Ann Coulter a long time ago.

[Nosterrex]

Ann Coulter is about promoting Ann Coulter, nothing else. She knows that controversy sells her books and lands her speaking opportunities. If any of you are hanging your hat on Ann Coulter, you are setting yourself up for a fall.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Rather than “vet” the media, and I (sadly) include Coulter, would rather “fret” over who is raising the Birth Certificate question...than actually deal with the BC (and any ensuing, Constitutional fallout.

I (along with others) have been called a tin foiler, a kook, (thanks Ann) and now a “crank...” But have any of us seen any of the asked for (justifiably so) documents? No college transcripts; no writings from Harvard; no calendars from his I’ll Senate says; no legislation from his time as a US Senator...and everything (double top secracy style) starts back with the Birth Certificate—long form with Seal.

As I see it, all those who call themselves conservatives, who so easily dismiss CertificateGate are toting Dixie Cups, running along side the media carrying the big, heavy water buckets for Barry...catching the little slooshes..to keep everything running smoothly for The One.

[so_real]

I love Ann; she is a wonderful American. Yet I am a birther, and a proud one at that.

Foreign nationals, not having yet committed themselves and been naturalized into the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship, are ill-equipped to foster a sense of national pride, honor, and dignity for America into their offspring. They have not yet committed themselves to respecting and protecting the core principles and values upon which this mighty nation was founded hundreds of years ago. How could they possibly instill into their children what they are uncommitted to possessing themselves? They cannot.

The "natural born citizen" requirement is meant to be preservative of the society our Founders envisioned, a game plan that has resulted in *the* most successful empire in history. We the People, including Ann, ought to be grateful they possessed the foresight to include such protection and honor it. Mr. Obama is living prove of the rushed and radical changes toward socialism that can be driven by a man having little sense of national pride in the seat of our greatest power. Foreign nationals do not beget 'natural born citizens'. It is just that simple.

Ann can't know all things. And she has had her eye on other topics. I'm confident that if she took the time to do the research, she would immediately join the "birther" ranks. Until then, she will only see the "birth certificate issue" touted by the media. And, to be honest, if I thought this truly were only about a missing paper birth certificate, I'd tend to shy away from getting involved with the "birthers" too.

I did my research; I understand the ramifications of tossing the Founder's protections aside; I am a "birther".

[marron]

I love Ann.

And I still want to see his birth certificate and I still want to know what citizenship he claimed when he was in college.

He seems to be within his rights to refuse to answer me. And I’m within my rights to keep asking. He can keep refusing to answer, and that in itself speaks volumes.

[SvenMagnussen]

Chair of the Democratic National Committee and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has filed an Affidavit certifying Obama as eligible to hold the Office of the President of the United States.

Not only that, Obama sworn an oath with his right hand raised and his left and on the Bible.

Why would any Republican or Independent question that?