Posted on 04/05/2011 12:42:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I WAS NESTLED in my bedroom on Sunday evening happily watching one of my favorite reality-TV shows, when I started feeling guilty, almost like I was cheating. Not on my husband, mind you, but on Barack Obama.
There I was, an ardent Obama supporter, watching real-estate mogul Donald Trump's trainwreck of a TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice." I knew I should jump up in righteous indignation and change the channel to something else, but I didn't.
I was wrong, wrong I tell you.
I should have been boycotting The Donald instead of mindlessly enjoying the spectacle of Meat Loaf's on-screen maniacal meltdown and "Real Housewives of Atlanta" co-star Nene Leakes' expressing wariness about castmate Star Jones.
After all, Trump has done more than anyone lately to reignite the ridiculous birther debate. You know, that crazy, right-wing lunacy that refuses to accept the fact that Obama was born in the United States. Trump, who has been publicly flirting with the possibility of running for president in 2012, has been making the media rounds, publicly stirring the pot, as they say.
"I want him to show his birth certificate!" Trump recently told the co-hosts on ABC's gabfest "The View." "There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like."
Never mind the fact that the president already has produced a valid birth certificate.
Never mind that this whole lunacy was debunked back when Obama was on the presidential campaign trail.
Never mind that even conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly had to step in and call Trump out for going on his show and spreading this madness. As O'Reilly pointed out during Trump's appearance on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," "I think it's provocative. You get a lot of attention raising the question, but I don't think you believe it."
But Trump's on a roll and he's not about to let this go.
No way. Trump loves the spotlight too much for that.
There are lot of voters out there who buy into this kind of ridiculousness. They cling to the outrageous fallacy that Obama's parents left Hawaii, traveled to Kenya, where his mother gave birth to him, and then came up with an elaborate scheme to cover it up.
"The birther issue was examined and re-examined during the 2008 presidential campaign. If there was anything to this issue, it would have appeared," said Mary Ellen Balchunis, a political-science professor at La Salle University. "As Republican political consultant Karl Rove said, Trump diminishes his campaign by bringing this issue back. He is clearly bringing this issue up to get the attention of the press for his projects. Jenice, he got your attention. We should not reward Trump with our time or our money. . . . Don't validate his actions by supporting his campaign or his products."
She's right, of course.
I used to be a fan of Trump's, mostly because he'd personally return my phone calls.
But I'm not going to buy any Trump vodka, visit a Trump casino, sleep on a Trump mattress or stay in the fabulous new Trump Soho until Trump stops with the smears.
I don't think viewers should stop watching "Celebrity Apprentice," though.
It's tempting to say we should all boycott the program. But you can learn a lot from the antics in the boardroom and elsewhere.
Besides, it's a great way to drive home the message that Trump may be fabulous on TV and at business, but the Oval Office isn't the place for him.
I’ve seen a birth certificate that reminds me of something I can make using MS word and an inkjet printer. But I haven’t seen a ‘valid’ birthcertificate?
Why is it so socially offensive to some people to want to see a certificate of live birth from their President?! I think they’re the crazy and defensive ones.
Nuff said for me.
If this is the kind of garbage that infest our American newsrooms today it explains alot, a whole lot...
Another journ-o-list admits that Obama’s welfare is personal to them. The MSM are adittedly Obama’s protective spouse. It’s almost spiritual to them... and its creepy.
Having worked in a Tri-State paper in AZ for 7 years, I assure you that this is par for the course.
So it’s settled science, much like Global Warming. Coming to you from somebody who has to set Spell Check to accept her name as a correct spelling.
so much for an open mind.
weren’t we told we had to listen to their progressive bullsh*t otherwise we’re ‘closed minded’
yet it’s ok for them to be closed minded towards opinions contrary to their own. go figure
This is a Hillary supporter writing to Obama liberals to get them to consider the BC issue by telling them not to do it, and invoking Trump who they're curious about but won't admit it.
The only thing she leaves out is a guilty ice cream run and stories about high school sleep-overs.
Hillary girlwomen are so perverse, just by understanding them you feel somehow tainted by their insanity. They are repressed adolescent raging guilty shamed confused stupid arrogant narcissists who endlessly make up stories to live in and tell each other, like one of those smiling psychopaths in the movies that talk about their favorite bunny rabbit in a whispering voice to the detective while twisting the head off of a doll and giggling, and a knife drops out of their pocket while the wind whistles through the crack in the door. They are GONE.
And then they write blogs to each other about their "vision."
This is "Hillary's Army."
Judging from her journalistic skills, the next replacement for Katie Couric at CBS.
Maybe a Hillary supporter, but that is her fall back position. She’s the type that whatever Oprah says, goes.
Oprah spent decades pretending to be the modern agenda of feminism (claim you just want to be treated the same, but throw men under the bus any chance possible and work the double standard anyway you can), but when push came to shove, she threw Hillary under the bus to vote her own race for Obama. Oprah picked race over vagina (we knew it was going to happen) and while many of her brainwashed morons did a double take over it, most still didn’t question it when push came to shove. The same way all the liberals are dead silent over Obama droping bombs in Libya.
This woman is just an airhead racist liberal. Nothing to see here, move along.
That just explains everything.
Birther issue or no, the author`s angle reminds us that many 0bama supporters aren`t only aligned with him politically, they`re bonded with him emotionally. How else to explain her reference to “cheating” on him. These people are impervious to the truth about their One.
Not important!
All you--or anyone--needs to know is that ANYTHING coming from the uber Leftist and biased Lame Stream Media, Philadelphia Inquirer, is going to be (like the NY [SL]Imes and Washington [COM]Post) batshit, Moonbat, crazy.
O'Rielly should know a BS artist when he see's one.
Just say no. To both of them.
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