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Anderson Cooper. I feel so sorry for him. I'm no journalist, but that Anderson Cooper interview last night of the military doctor and his lawyer was one the saddest, most pathetic interviews I have ever seen on television.
It seemed to me that Cooper and his staff did NOT research the Obama eligibility issue thoroughly, either because they are not good researchers, or they did not do a good research on purpose.
Some things that particularly stood out to me during this hostile, pathetic interview are the following:
1. Hawaii officials have seen Obama's birth certificate and saw that Obama indeed was born in Hawaii.
Whenever I hear or read a statement like the one above, I can't help but laugh, because it implies that government bureaucrats are most honest and that we are supposed to take their word as gospel truth whenever they make a public statement.
I don't know about you, but from my experience with government workers, if a state or federal government bureaucrat told me that it was raining outside, I would walk outside to take a look and make sure.
Imagine this scenario: I go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to apply for a driver's license in my state, but let's say I was born in another state, Kansas.
The clerk asks to see my Kansas birth certificate.
I tell the clerk that I don't have my Kansas birth certificate, but I have a letter from the Kansas director of Vital Statistics that says that she has seen my birth certificate, and she saw that I was born in Kansas as I claimed.
What do you think my state clerk is going to do? I bet she has a good laugh as she tells me to come back with my original birth certificate.
2. Obama has released his birth certificate.
I also laugh a lot when I hear or read a statement like the one above.
For instance, it seems that Obama supporters and I differ on what the word "release" means.
To me, the idea that Obama is the one who "released" his own Hawaii birth certificate to the public is a problem for me.
Point: To me, Obama "releasing" his own short form birth certificate only on the internet is not a "release" at all.
To me, "releasing" Obama's birth certificate would mean that Hawaii officials "released" the Obama birth certificate to the public and the media without ever first passing through Obama's dirty hands.
And to me, "releasing" Obama's birth certificate would mean that the certificate would be "released" where human hands can touch it and examine it, and not released ONLY on some internet website, where we can only examine the birth certificate through a computer monitor screen.
Imagine this scenario: I apply to Harvard. Obviously, I have to present my high school transcript, so I attach a copy of my high school transcript with straight "A"s to my application.
I think that Harvard would contact me and tell me that it wants my transcript sent to them by my high school, and they don't accept a transcript that a student provides himself and attaches to his application.
My point is this: I don't want to see a birth certificate that comes from the Obama camp. Instead, I want to see an official birth certificate that comes directly from Hawaii officials and does NOT pass through the Obama camp's dirty hands.
3. Obama's birth listed in 1961 Hawaii newspapers
Again, I laugh when I read or hear a statement like the one above, because it mistakenly implies the following: ONLY Hawaii births in hospitals were listed in the newspapers.
That is, the chain of custody or reporting, according to the Obama camp, went something like this: From hospital to Hawaii Vital Statistis to newspaper.
But most of us know that way back in 1961, Hawaii birth certificates showed up at Vital Statistics in other ways besides coming directly from a hospital.
For instance, we know that at the time, Hawaii had a large legal and illegal immigration population who had babies, and some of those babies were NOT born in a hospital.
My point is this: It is highly probable that hospital births were NOT the only source of birth listings in the Hawaii newspaper, because some of the births provided to the newspaper from Vital Statistics may have born OUTSIDE a hospital environment.
Again, I am not a journalist, but I thought that the CNN Anderson Cooper interview of the military doctor and his lawyer was one of the saddest, pathetic, distorted interviews that I have ever seen on television.
Mine has my prints on it.