Calling someone a birthers worked because of the nature of the information that birther staked their claims on.
The publicity brochure is a game-changer.
It supports the claim that the birthers were right to be concerned by the blockage of common information, even if they weren't positive about what the information contained. Without knowing what was being hidden, but only claiming that something damning was being hidden, it allowed the credibilty of the conspiracy theorist charge, which is what "birther" is shorthand for.
But with the brochure out there for 16 years, the birther label no longer encompasses what it once did. It's like shouting "birther" instead of speaking it. People may still try to use it, but it can be beaten back now.
-PJ
Even if the hypothesis that Barack was Hawaiian born is accepted, and the looser modern reading of natural born citizen is also accepted, then we have to paint Barack Obama as having been a big fat fraud. This brochure was way too open. Why why why, John McCain didn’t you call Barack Obama out for being a fraud? It would have had zilch to do with his skin color and there are plenty of frauds of all colors.
I agree and your entire post is an excellent one.
To tell you the truth though, I've been participating in these threads since 2008, explored all of the angles, learned so much from some exceptional researchers here, and I still could not give you a definitive definition of the term "birther"
To me it is nothing but an ALinsky type attack on anyone who would dare question the history of the chosen "won"