Posted on 03/26/2011 3:22:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A coalition of peculiar media forces apparently led by Donald Trump appear to be working to make President Barack Obama’s birth certificate a major 2012 campaign issue, and all signs point to Sean Hannity hopping on the bandwagon. After dedicating a significant amount of time on his radio show earlier this week to the matter, he brought it up once again on TV in the context of Trump’s potential 2012 bid, calling the entire ordeal ‘odd.’
The discussion began on his “Great American Panel,” where Republican strategist Dee Dee Benkie was urging viewers not to completely dismiss Trump as a viable presidential candidate. This allowed Hannity to bring up the birth certificate, which Trump had been demanding to see, and Hannity noted merely asking the question had helped Trump’s poll numbers: “he’s now in a tie for 5th place, two points behind Sarah Palin.” Panelist Ron Daniels scoffed at the idea that being anywhere near Palin on the polls was a good thing, and dismissed the idea that Trump even wanted to be President. “It’s a publicity stunt,” he concluded.
But Hannity was far more interested in pursuing President Obama’s birthplace struggles, wondering aloud yet again why the President has yet to produce a long-form birth certificate. He took his now-typical line of attack, noting that Dick Cheney had to prove his residency and that President Chester A. Arthur had one attorney after him proclaiming he was born in either Ireland or Canada. That said, Hannity clarified that he personally had no questions as to whether the President was American, but he did not consider himself a worthy arbiter of that.
Legal analyst Peter Johnson agreed that “there is a way to put this to bed”– showing a birth certificate that would be adequate to those who believe the conspiracy– and that the White House has not produced said certificate raised questions. Daniels objected, noting correctly that the White House in fact has published President Obama’s birth certificate several times, but the copy presented was not sufficient. To that, Hannity concluded the discussion articulating what many exposed to the birther debate regularly lament: “let’s get out of this. This is stupid.”
The segment via Fox News below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
BIRTH PLACE STRUGGLES? I have been having them since March of 2007, before that thing in the WHITE HUT was even selected. He wasn’t elected, he was selected.THE MSM,SOROS, MAGIC NEGRO fix was in, even Hillary couldn’t get a handle on the Chicago Alinsky thugs.He was illegally certified by Nancy Pelosi. Bad, bad, bad.We can vote em out or shoot em out. Take your pick.
Are ya an undercover troll cop??? LOL! I plead the fifth................
All one need do is go back to the little confab prior to super Tuesday, which was held at Feinstein’s Georgetown townhouse, where the hilda beast was told that Barry would be the democrap party nominee because he could win and she could not if she exposed his illegitmacy to hold office. Hillary could not win without the black block vote and she was told to sit down and shut up, leaving her supporters dangling in a nasty democrat fart wind while Barry the Bastard was promoted ytet again to a job he is not and could never be qualified to hold and function credibly. Hillary at least would have had the sinkEmperor’s resources to call upon, but Barry the bastard had only the sleazy homo, Rohm to call upon ... and a host of commie Mao lovers he holds as superior to Americans.
I guess *ucktooth doesn’t want anyone to see the long form.
Ruin “us”, eh?
Nothing, except that you waited until the MSM had already labeled those asking the question as kooks, and the Administration had time to screw the country badly, AND likely enough, to create a convincing forgery.
Dipsh*t.
Hillery could have saved the nation and proved herself a patriot.
Instead she folded like the fat -uck she truly is.
Now we have to vote them out and then continue prying out their sleepers for another 10 years.I hate the Obama bastids.
Are you retarded? I just said y’all should demand it rather than go down the “it’s a setup and a forgery path.”
Yeah, “us.” And by “us,” I mean conservatives, and in particular I mean FReepers.
Many have said that Hillary and Barry are cut from the same socialist cloth. I would disagree: Barry actually dislikes the America he perceives and wants desperately to bring it to an end, destroy it and make ‘whitey’ pay and institute anything in its place; whereas Hillary is a dyed in the nasty wool socialist and who wants to end the Republic and institute a planned federal oligarchy with the democraps at the helmn in perpituity. Hillary is an Alinskyite, Barry is just a shiftless son of ‘affirmative action’, stupid in the main, and lost in the job.
Bucky doing his thang for the Democrats.
Ah, I hadn’t read every comment on the thread yet.
“Us” conservatives.
Okay.
:-)
I know underneath it all you really like me.
But if those radio and TV sources had done so, and the government had shut down them down, how much do you think we would know about other things Obama and his fellow running dogs have done?
Well actually how would the government legally shut them down> If they did it would have caused an immediate war with the government over violation of the first amendment..people would have to do it before they took away the 2nd amendment...maybe this would be over by now if someone had pursued the question, either by getting it answered or getting shut down and the resulting revolt.
Doing my thang? Asking y’all to be reasonable so as not to screw up the pending legislation is my helping the Democrats?
We’re back to that nonsense? Incredible.
Well some people are concerned that Obama will submit a forgery. Nothing wrong about that since this guy Obama just about lies in every other sentence.
Don’t protest tooooo much for the Lair-in-Chief.
When you first showed up/slithered onto the scene at birther threads, you played both sides of the street. Then you gradually revealed where your kneepads settle and aligned with bashing anyone questioning Barry the Bastard or the Democrap party positioning of the scumrug. You’re a fraud, bucky, a real fraud playing games at FR, pretending to be oh so conservative, even trying to inveigle tea party action and freerepublic conservative action committe arrangements. Whine some more for us, bucky ...
I think there is a resignation among many that it does not really matter. No matter what is proven, there will be an incompetent leftist as President for the next 2 years. The trick is to defeat the Dims in 2012 in the Congress and White House.
Personally, I want to see the clown discredited and proven to be a fraud and a usurper. Many think that a "Constitutional Crisis" will be harmful to the country, I, on the other hand, think one (or more) would be quite refreshing. Two underlying premises of a constitutional crisis are that 1) we have a Constitution and 2) it matters.
Right. I forgot. /s
Do NOT worry LJ, I love yah, and as faras these other FReepers are concerned, they do not hae the hiher intellect capacity to make a cogent connection between Article II of the OCnsttution and pain fact.
Its basicly a problem they have with abstract tought........ Many times thats a result of former drug addiction or parental abuse.They have an impaired mental function, and just completely miss the boat altogether. They just do not , “get it.” Therefore the facts do not mean a damn thing to them, and they cannot think in a sophisticated way to put the facts into a higher abstract process required by constitutional anaysis .
You can’t really blame the poor things, they have problems. Dems would just shrug and call them stuck on stupid.
“Now that states are passing legislation requiring that BCs be submitted prior to getting on the ballots no one has to ask anymore. Urkel will have to put up or not run just like every other candidate.”
Name ONE state that has already passed such a law.
One.
Prediction: a lot of sturm und drang at the state levels, but I’ll be surprised if ANY of them actually get one of these bills passed.
Begging your pardon, sir!
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