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Posted on 08/02/2009 4:33:36 PM PDT by pissant
n today’s show, Rush Limbaugh picked up on the argument that Andrew McCarthy made in his National Review column, which I responded to yesterday, and continued his not-very-subtle effort to give credence to birther paranoia:
RUSH: Oh, that birther thing, you know, the birth certificate thing. Andy McCarthy wrote a brilliant piece on this whole birth certificate controversy at National Review Online. Really, he says, it’s not about the birth certificate. It’s about Obama’s honesty. He hasn’t released his law school records, his law review records, his Columbia records, his university records. He hasn’t released a lot of things. This thing could easily be shut down if Obama would just release the birth certificate. You remember the Drive-By Media and the Dan Rather business? Dan Rather, faked documents. Mary Mapes and Dan Rather faked documents to show that Bush skipped out of National Guard service, and they ended up giving Daniel Rather an award! They circled the wagons. Peter Jennings and Brokaw, they gave him an award for great work. They circled the wagons.
They made it up, and now, “This is just a bunch of kooks. The birthers are just a bunch of kooks” and so forth, and everybody being told to avoid them and so forth. Obama could shut it down. There has to be some reason he doesn’t want people to see that birth certificate. Maybe it’s dual citizenship, who knows. But, as McCarthy points out: The birth certificate is not the point here. The point is we have a president of the United States who will not tell us who he is. He spends 20 years in an insane pastor’s church who practices black liberation theology, which is basically African socialism, and says he didn’t hear what I said. We have a president who doesn’t want people to know him. We have a president who wants people to know only the public vision or version that we get when he goes out and makes these speeches with the god reverb and echo behind him.
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Limbaugh’s arguments are, of course, nonsense, but it’s becoming plain that this paean to “transparency” is the method by which certain conservatives are trying to make it respectable to indulge in birther fantasies.
RAYYYYYY!!! Rush.... this BC is not BS... :D
Noory, Savage, etc, has had birthers[guests] on; has Rush?
It’s spreading like wild fire!
And tih wrote about that a week ago.
Talk about grassroots.
*tih remains agnostic on the BC issue.
Whooooooooooooooooo are you, who who. Well tell me who are you.
Rush has a good point!
Rush does not make it a practice to have guests
***s off!
LOL!!! This is just more fuel on the fire.
You can’t get people to stop paying attention to a story by screaming at them to stop paying attention to the story!
All they are doing is making people more curious.
Sure, I understand. The show is about him, since it appears to be a hot topic. Rush can always talk about it, not much risk in that.
After all, Obamah reminded 'em, "You All Voted For Me!".
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I understand what Rush and McCarthy are saying, but it is about the birth certificate. They’re just trying to not be mixed in with us.
Reread what he said.
Well, Rush is quite right. Obama has told us only what he wants us is know, or to think we know. What we know is an airbrushed version of his life.
This is being considered in several states. But they had better stick with it! It is the most realistic way out of this mess.
One can slam the "Birthers" all one wants, (and quite a few deserve it) but until this is cleared up, national security and the military chain of command is compromised.
“The point is we have a president of the United States who will not tell us who he is.”
He is the Walking Man, aka Randall Flagg. And Sarah Palin is Mother Abigail!
Good job, but its over.
The CAT is out, get to cover.
IMO—ALL FREEPERS SHOULD READ ANDY MCCARTHY’S ESSAY ON OBAMA, HONESTY AND THE BC
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