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After Birth (Snopes blames Free Republic for birther movement)
Snopes ^ | 9/16/2016 | David Emery

Posted on 09/17/2016 4:03:06 AM PDT by grayboots

CLAIM: Hillary Clinton and/or members of her 2008 presidential campaign started the "birther" movement questioning whether Barack Obama was born in the U.S.

FALSE ORIGIN:On 16 September 2016, after years of being the most visible and outspoken exponent of "birtherism" — the notion that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. and thus his presidency is illegitimate and his allegiances suspect — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up to the podium at a televised campaign event and completely reversed his stance on the matter — but not before trying to lay blame for the long, drawn-out smear campaign on someone else.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birther; birtherism; birthers; hillary; obama; snopes; trump
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1 posted on 09/17/2016 4:03:06 AM PDT by grayboots
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To: grayboots

Like his “citizenship”, like his “religion”,
Obama and the criminal Clinton LIE like rugs.

Whatever the day. A new lie, which is believed by
their owned MSM and broadcast to the sheeple.


2 posted on 09/17/2016 4:05:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis

I see that Snopes fails to mention the book release where it was said he was born in Kenya.

That release was in 1991, as I recall.

What Snopes does note credit is that Hillary’s campaign on the question of the place of Obama’s birth, predated any mention by Trump.


3 posted on 09/17/2016 4:14:43 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Diogenesis

I see that Snopes fails to mention the book release where it was said he was born in Kenya.

That release was in 1991, as I recall.

What Snopes does note credit is that Hillary’s campaign on the question of the place of Obama’s birth, predated any mention by Trump.


4 posted on 09/17/2016 4:14:43 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: grayboots

Clinton’s surrogates use a post from an internet site, and the site gets blamed! Regardless, Clinton used the issue long before Trump.


5 posted on 09/17/2016 4:16:43 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: grayboots

Patti Solis Doyle admitted to Wolf Blitzer yesterday that a Clinton staffer was pushing this!!!


6 posted on 09/17/2016 4:19:10 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: grayboots

Oh ok, so according to Snopes a couple of Internet posts started the WHOLE thing. Hillary’s team read these specific posts and said “Hey! That’s something to investigate!”

Yeah. And Da Vinci invented the helicopter because he sketched out a few drawings.


7 posted on 09/17/2016 4:19:42 AM PDT by Claud
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To: grayboots

Snopes attempting to rewrite history in the age of the internet is laughable. Once on the internet, you can’t expunge and rewrite history. Snopes needs Snopes.


8 posted on 09/17/2016 4:20:26 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: grayboots

The last birth certificate from Hawaii was proven doctored. The state official in charge of such things was quieted in a ‘plane crash’, where no one else died.

Snopes can suck an egg.


9 posted on 09/17/2016 4:21:30 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: marktwain
Accordong to Snopes:

"A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp

So it might seem that one Snopes doesn't know what the other Snopes is doing!

(Obama's own book publicists claimed that he was born in Kenya from 1991 until 2007 -- 16 years. And nobody knows what he claimed on his college and law school applications.)

10 posted on 09/17/2016 4:23:04 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: BlueStateRightist
-- Clinton's surrogates use a post from an internet site, and the site gets blamed! --

Clinton has been known to initiate rumors and hoaxes via posting on right wing websites. Clinton runs a persistent smoke machine.

11 posted on 09/17/2016 4:32:50 AM PDT by Cboldt
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What Snopes does note credit is that Hillary’s campaign on the question of the place of Obama’s birth, predated any mention by Trump.

By YEARS !!!

12 posted on 09/17/2016 4:33:37 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: grayboots

The original birther? Barry Soetero.


13 posted on 09/17/2016 4:36:23 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: marktwain

this was making the rounds yesterday
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp


14 posted on 09/17/2016 4:36:49 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Ann Archy

Patti Solis Doyle admitted to Wolf Blitzer yesterday that a Clinton staffer was pushing this!!!
______________
It was likely Sydney Blumenthal.


15 posted on 09/17/2016 4:40:46 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Sooth2222
“I see that Snopes fails to mention the book release where it was said he was born in Kenya.”...........

So “Snopes” is to believed? Why of course, you read that on the internet so it must be true. By the way, WHO actually owns or finances Snopes, George Soros?

For what it's worth, at this point its a bit too damn late to argue who claimed odumbo was born in Kenya, the U.S. in some city dump all trying to prove a political point or to claim racism. The son-of-a-bitch should be “out” for the damage he has caused this country and its people. He is EVIL to the core!

16 posted on 09/17/2016 4:40:56 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: grayboots

...deplorable!


17 posted on 09/17/2016 4:47:06 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailandd..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: DaveA37

Nopes and other fact checker sites are just part of the progressive Web of disinformation. Stopped going there years ago.


18 posted on 09/17/2016 4:50:44 AM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: grayboots

Snopes is just one more link in the chain of leftist propaganda.


19 posted on 09/17/2016 5:04:29 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Sooth2222

We all know he’s a Kenyan


20 posted on 09/17/2016 5:05:12 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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