Posted on 03/27/2011 7:51:44 AM PDT by bushpilot1
CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" the controversy over President Barack Obama's birth certificate is a "dead story."
Klein wrote in an e-mail to staffers Thursday that CNN researchers had determined Hawaiian officials discarded paper birth documents in 2001. Thus, he said, Obama's long-form birth certificate no longer exists, and a shorter certificate that is public is the official record.
"It seems to definitively answer the question," Klein wrote in the e-mail, first reported by the Web site TVNewser. "Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite (sic). And then it seems this story is dead -- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef."
Klein said Friday he was not ordering CNN staffers to drop the story and that if developments merited more coverage, it would be pursued, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"When I use the word 'seems,' that's an open invitation to disagree," Klein told the Times.
On his show Thursday, Dobbs mentioned the explanation from Hawaiian officials but then questioned why Obama has not shown a long-form birth certificate, the newspaper said.
There is something very rotten going on.
Klein wrote in an e-mail to staffers Thursday that CNN researchers had determined Hawaiian officials discarded paper birth documents in 2001. Thus, he said, Obama’s long-form birth certificate no longer exists, and a shorter certificate that is public is the official record.
And yet, a fire that destroyed the military documents relating to George W. Bush didn’t “end” the inquiry into his military service. Where’s Dan Rather and his team of document forgers when you need them?
However, it "seems" that continuing disagreement was an open invitation to be fired.
All perfectly reasonable, of course.
Well I guess thats it ITS DEAD! He said so and you know who he is...NOT!
Dead? Like God, right? The media prophets declared him dead, too, like 50 years ago.
they can't all be lost...
starting with school, college, Il Senate, law, social security, selective servie registration and passport details.............../crickets
CNN/US President Jon Klein Fired
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/09/24/cnn-us-president-jon-klein-being-replaced
Yeah a Hospital threw away records. BS.
Only if there was something increminating in the records or the records NEVER existed in the first place.
It would be interesting if someone born at the same time at the same hospital requested Long form BC.
It’s always the coverup that brings down the liars.
Modern technology has old records being copied in secure electronic ... and digitally permanent ... formats.
Paper might be gone, but the records aren’t.
You're so vain...You probably thought this thread was about you...
“Obama’s long-form birth certificate no longer exists.”
Donald Trump needs to talk with CNN.
Wishful thinking...
I thought I read somewhere there’s a set of twins who were born around the same time, in the same hospital....who HAVE released said long form BC....but, maybe I’m dreamin’
klein waas the idiot who thought bloggers were just wingnuts
in pajamas. did not take dan rather story seriously.
also thought spitzer/parker was great idea. he was clueless.
Someday it will come out he was Kenyan born and a muslim.
I don’t know if Ubama’s b.c. issue is dead or not but it appears to have more life than CNN’s ratings.
It would be interesting if someone born at the same time at the same hospital requested Long form BC.
they have, and they did.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=105347
Oh please. This story has been DEAD to the MSM for years—for ever!!! Can’t expose their hero, after all.
The MSM won’t press Obama on the BC issue which is why he gets away with refusing to produce it. Just imagine the media pressure that would be brought to bear if the provenance of a Republican was in question. There would be penetrating, high profile, and sustained coverage by legions of reporters.
Any American who honors and loves their country would have no hesistation, and indeed would be proud, to show their BC. The fact that Obama steadfastly refuses to do this simple act raises very serious questions about where his loyalities lie and how he views this country.
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee.
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