Posted on 08/06/2009 4:58:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The White House Thursday morning expressed exasperation with news that a poll of indicating that only 53% of Virginians in a recent poll were sure that President Obama was born in the U.S.
“You couldn’t sell this script in Hollywood,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters of the conspiracy theorists, called birthers.
“Tell me if you’ve heard one that’s this totally crazy,” Gibbs said. “A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child -- who there’s not a passport for -- so is in cahoots with someone…to smuggle that child, that previously doesn’t exist on a government roll somewhere back into the country and has the amazing foresight to place birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers? All while this is transpiring in cahoots with those in the border, all so some kid named Barack Obama could run for President 46 and a half years later. You couldn’t sell that to the WB.”
Being born in the US is a Constitutional requirement for the presidency. But in a phone survey of Virginians, Public Policy Polling asked “Do you think Barack Obama was born in the United States?”
Fifty-three percent of those responding pressed “1,” indicating “Yes.” Twenty-four percent pressed “2,” indicating “No,” while another 24% pressed “3,” indicating they weren’t sure.
Phone surveys are not considered reliable by many respected pollsters.
“I’ve said this before: If I had DNA I’m entirely sure that a sizeable number of people would not believe it,” Gibbs said. “They’ve seen the birth certificate – it’s on the internet. It’s been there for a year and half.”
Gibbs pointed out that officials of Hawaii have said the president was born in that state and there were contemporaneous birth announcements in both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin in 1961.
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There is nothing more pathetic than a devious moron.
Certainly Hollywood would have gone for this script if
the main character had been George Bush.
You could sell a script about killing George Bush, though, couldn’t you? Bastards. “Gibbsy” probably went a couple times...with Chrissy Matthews...
In an upside down way, he's telling the truth, just like when zer0 says the stimulus is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
The script of the Obama presidency has already been sold. It was called The Manchurian Candidate.
Gibbs is one of those fudge-brains with absolutely NO sense of irony.
What he SHOULD be made aware of is that The Barack Obama Story feature film script they no doubt screen in their
fantasies is now a thing of the past; ain’t no way they’re a -gonna get financing now, unless they do a direct stimulus injection.
The real conspiracy is why won't zer0 just show it instead of spending money to keep it covered up.
We the people wanting to know what he is hiding is not a conspiracy
"Even the WB wouldn't touch this script!"
Exactly, but they would buy one about ecological disaster caused by totally made up data.
““You Couldn’t Sell This Script in Hollywood””
You couldn’t sell what happened on 9/11 to Hollywood either. So what!
Gibbs little comment about a “nefarious plot” today shows that any questions about the administration’s methods will be written off as conspiracy theories. And all opposition will be protrayed as a conspiracy against them.
BTW, since when does an unborn child or an infant need a passport, especially circa 1961? WTF is he blabbering on about? Is he the minister of disinformation? And 48% of Virginians (a state that Mr. Obama won, btw, IIRC) don’t know or aren’t sure that he’s was born in the United States? Then how are the “birthers” a crazy splinter group or fringe? If those numbers hold in most states (and I have no doubt that they do) then the “birthers” constitute either a very large minority or the MAJORITY of people in the country!! Yet that’s not how the presstitutes report it!
The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique.
The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”.
Guber is appropriate for this administration. LOL
We’re all getting “The Big Alinsky”.
Robert Gibbs displaying his famous wit.
These clowns are nuts. Today when Robert Gibbs was asked about reporting opposing views on the health care plan, he sarcastically called it a “Nefarious plot” and basically laughed it off as one more conspiracy theory.
Hey Gibbs! You don’t have to. Its already been written, called ‘The Manchurian Candidate’.
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