Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards
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“Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama’s father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. The problem? It undermines a bedrock of birther lore: that the president is ineligible to be commander-in-chief.
“Dreams From My Real Father,” a 97-minute film narrated by an Obama impersonator, weaves the narrative that Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she was impregnated by a 55-year-old communist named Frank Marshall Davis.
The fake Obama narrator sets up the tale as the “the story I would have told if I were being honest with you.” Built through archival black and white footage, the film’s disclaimer states that it includes “re-creations of probable events, using reasoned logic, speculation, and approximated conversations in an attempt to provide a cohesive understanding of Obama’s history.”
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...there were always two birther schools (think Catholic/Protestant schism). The classic Orly Taitz wing ("he was born in Kenya/Indonesia/anywhere but the US), and the anti-immigrant Phil Berg wing ("he's not an American because his father wasn't American/his mother wasn't an ADULT American/he lost his citizenship when he left the Country"
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