“If this is such a non-issue, why the flood of articles on it?”
Because it makes people on the right look bad.
You said — Because it makes people on the right look bad.
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I believe that’s the goal of the big “push” for all these articles. It’s to “marginalize” those on the right. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but even if someone doesn’t bring up the birth certificate issue, you will find that reporters will bring it up themselves, to those on the right, trying to get them to say that they are on board with the birth certificate issue.
In other words, reporters want to “push’ those on the right further *into* the birth certificate issue, even when they have not been in it. They actually want them to say that they think that Obama should show his birth certificate, as that gives the MSM another big opportunity to slam another conservative about the issue. And it actually takes them off point of what that conservative politician might have wanted to discuss.
I saw an article that got all over one conservative because they did not denounce “strongly enough” this issue, even though they tried to simply “minimize it”...
I’m sure that’s why Ann Coulter has backed off this issue, because if she got into it, that’s the only thing liberals would let her talk about. She wouldn’t have any chance at all to discuss the liberal legislation and other issues that the public needs to hear about.
I think it’s a *conscious strategy* of the liberals to paint as many conservatives as possible into this issue, in the public’s mind. Then whenever that conservative comes up with some other comment about (let’s say) Universal Health Care, then they say, “But, you believe that Obama should show his birth certificate, don’t you?” And there goes talking about Universal Health Care *right out the window*... and that’s the strategy...
Now, some may think, “Okay, let’s talk about that all the time, then.” But, the problem there is that Obama (and his advisors and other liberals) knows that no matter what Obama does on this ‘birth certificate issue” that there are conservatives who would never even believe him handing out his birth certificate, even if they saw him do it. They would say, it’s a fraud (if it showed he was born in Hawaii). If it came from the State of Hawaii (directly) they would say that someone changed it or “got to the officials” and they made another one. They know this about this issue and so they know that it serves no purpose to release it.
Therefore, if they know that releasing it does no good, then they figure, “Why not use it to our benefit!” And so they do. They can keep this going for the entire term of office that Obama has and keep marginalizing all the conservatives that they can.