His birth certificate has nothing to do with it.
First Hussein countered that those were two separate things. Yeah, also two sometimes exclusive groups. I think the real number that think he is a muslim is more like 25%. Some of those people believe he was born in Hawaii. 20% don't think he was born in the US but don't think he is a muslim. If you add those together you probably get 35% who either think he is a muslim or not born in the US.
Then he said, "facts are facts". Right. And the facts are?
Then he came out with the forehead comment.
The bottom line is that HE NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION. It wasn't even a non-denial denial. It wasn't a denial at all.
If that was me and Brian Williams had asked the question here is how I would have answered:
Brian, here are the facts. I was born on "such and such" a date at "such and such" a hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. The attending physicians were: "so and so". I have released all my birth records including my original birth certificate for all to see.
Now about my faith. I came to Jesus in "insert date here" and was baptized by Reverend Wright. I practice Christianity and Wookie and myself are proud to be bringing up our two girls in the Christian faith. I rejected all other false prophets many years ago, including mohammed, and I resent the implications that I am a closet anything other than a Christian.
Now that's it, the facts are on the table. If you want to believe something else, there's nothing more I can do or say.
But he didn't say anything like that, did he? Not even close. Just "facts are facts".
I would love to see O'Reilly do a body language segment on that interview.