Media ignores Truthers in favor of Birthers.

The Washington Examiner ^ | 8/03/09 | David Freddoso

[drunner2]

Twenty-eight percent of Republicans believe President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and 30 percent are "not sure," according to this poll.

But before liberals begin to smirk, here's a poll from 2007, in which 35 percent of Democrats said that President Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks, and 26 percent were not sure.

So if 58 percent of Republicans are living in a delusional fantasy world because they are out of power, then 61 percent of Democrats were doing the same thing until just recently (perhaps they still are). It's a clean, apples-to-apples comparison with a clear lesson: People get a bit kooky when they're out of power, Democrats about 3 points kookier -- which is probably within the margin of error.

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The Birthers are getting an awful lot of coverage right now, and that's great news for a White House desperate for distractions. President Obama is losing the public opinion battle over health care and putting his foot in his mouth over Henry Gates.

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Tamryn then asked a good question: Back in the Bush Era, did any Democratic members of Congress avoid questions about whether "Bush Knew?" On the spot, I couldn't remember. But the truth is, they didn't just avoid the question -- they stoked the flames of conspiracy theories and in some cases embraced them.

A few names: Hillary Clinton (the famous Bush Knew" speech of May 16, 2002), Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and then-Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D, Ga.). When I covered Congress for Human Events, I asked Rep. William Lacy Clay, D,Mo., about McKinney's suggestion that Bush might have withheld knowledge of the attack. His reply: "I'm curious as to whether it will reveal what Congresswoman McKinney has stated. I'm interested. I'm interested in an investigation."

[Star Traveler]

You said — In any event, there is a wide gap between folks who think Obama has something to hide and folks who think Bush allowed planes to ram the WTC.

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Ummm... yeah, there’s a wide gap... one group consists of liberals and the other group consists of conservatives... :-)

[Star Traveler]

Yeah, and I found that amazing, in the beginning to see Berg going after Obama on his birth certificate while going after Bush on his 9/11 attack... :-)

[Raycpa]

I stand corrected. I should have said the task for the liberal group to believe that Bush allowed an attack on our soil to occur is a far more difficult task than to think Obama is hiding something and that these two are hardly equivalent.

A better equivalency would be comparing the Bush was AWOL and covered it up controversy to the Obama BC controversy.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

There are a lot of liberal journalists wasting their time writing articles about how “birfers are nuts”.....yet cannot prove why they are “nuts”

Get the long form BC...and tell us who is “nuts”

[the invisib1e hand]

then i’ll probably be forced to disagree with you at some point...

[nathanbedford]

A lonely job but somebody's got to do it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I just posted this:

Both Parties Have Their Fanatics ( on cause of 9/11 and Obama's Birth Site)

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Not sure why people who want to see the birth certificate Obama is hiding are such a curiosity when Obama has a science czar who wants to put anti-fertility and sterilization drugs in the food and water supply. That must not seem weird to the MSM.