Do you have even one shred of evidence that Breitbart was pursuing the eligibility issue?
“It’s self-indulgent, it’s narcissistic, it’s a losing issue,” Breitbart told Schilling. “It’s a losing situation. If you don’t have the frigging evidence — raising the question? You can do that to Republicans all day long. You have to disprove that you’re a racist! Forcing them to disprove something is a nightmare.”
“Wouldn’t you say,” asked Schilling, “in this case, that Farah is asking Obama to prove something rather than his disprove it?” Breitbart rejected the premise. “When has a president ever been asked to prove his citizenship?”
He specifically asked Jerry Corsi to put him in contact with Joe Arpaio, with whom he conversed for about 12 minutes, about 7 hours before he died.
Why would he do that if he still considered this a “losing issue”?
And what would be a greater media nightmare for Obama than Breitbart visibly and completely changing his mind on this issue, thus thrusting the Arpaio presser into the limelight all over the media?
Breitbart seemed to diss the eligibility issue at that time (early Feb 2010 - right around the time the left said they were going to use the eligibility issue to paint 2010 candidates as kooks) for tactical reasons (because it was divisive between people who should be allies and it was used by the media to call people racists) and because to that point there was no way to definitively prove anything.
Just to put this in perspective, this was a few weeks after I started my blog. The wrongdoing by the HDOH, as well as the shenanigans to get rid of Hawaii’s open records law, were all as of yet unknown. The problems with the social security number were not known. Pamela Geller had gone quiet on the draft registration. Doug Hagmann had not yet published his story about the media being threatened. None of the discrepancies in the newspaper announcement claims or images were yet known. I think that might have been even before Lakin refused to go to Afghanistan and we found that Obama would let a decorated military surgeon go to jail rather than show a simple birth certificate. We had not had 2 Georgia judges totally defy standard judicial protocols and evidentiary standards.
A lot has happened since Breitbart said those things. Breitbart was not stupid. And his willingness to vet Obama this time around showed he was also not a coward. He knew that a law enforcement body has credibility far beyond that of anonymous internet posters and folks like Orly Taitz.
Back in early Feb of 2010 there was not enough evidence for Breitbart to pursue the eligibility issue. With a credible law enforcement body poised to make an announcement regarding the evidence they had found, Breitbart wanted to know what the evidence was. And we know that the evidence that Arpaio would have given him was that there was probable cause for forgery and fraud.
If evidence is what Breitbart was waiting for, then that wait ended when he spoke to Joe Arpaio that night. A fact that would have been known by anybody monitoring his communications. And Breitbart was dead about 7 hours later.