New York Times: ‘Birther’ Boom - Meme going Mainstream

[RamboLiberal]

“Slowly but surely, this meme is going mainstream,” says Allpundit.

“Did Lou Dobbs really GO THERE? Seriously? This is getting absurd,” says the First Read team at MSNBC.

Six months into his presidency, the charge that Barack Obama is — literally — un-American is gaining not losing steam. Yes, the Birther bump is growing.

Need some backstory? Allow The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder to explain: “Birthers, for the uninitiated, is a term used by the media to ridicule those who believe that the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate is fake and that because he was ostensibly born in Kenya, not the United States, he was never eligible to be president in the first place.”

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At Whiskey Fire, Blogger Thers says the birthers don’t so much represent a problem for the G.O.P., as they simply represent the G.O.P. “This class of stuff has been the meat and potatoes for large chunks of the G.O.P. base forever; indeed, these people are the most reliable G.O.P. voters.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/birther-boom/

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Gee, if the media would quit giving them airtime maybe it wouldn't gain steam.

:eyes:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. The RW and the media are all the same animal trying to distract healthcare reform!

[Uzybone]

2. The Vince Foster of this presidency

we will still be hearing this crap from the RW in 2015

[Dennis Donovan]

3. This is DESTROYING the repugs, NOT helping!

This is like Terri Schiavo in hyperdrive - this is turning off the Independents!

This is a meltdown!:woohoo:

[Phx_Dem]

7. Exactly. You think any independents will cross over to the GOP

with these nutjobs running the party? Between LImbaugh and the birthers the independents will stay far away!

[kestrel91316]

4. Obama has to be just cracking up about this crap. Because HE knows

where he was born. HE holds the absolute legal proof (certified copy of his birth record). And ANYONE who mounts any legal challenge to him over this will LOSE.

There's really no better feeling than knowing you hold ALL the cards when some lunatic tries to sic the law on you, lol. Ask me how I know.

[quantass]

5. Seems more a problem for the GOP than anything else. Let them waste their time nt

[rvablue]

9. Indeed, if it keeps up, eventually GOPers will be asked if they agree and

they'll be stuck between rationality/reality and potentially pissing of their rabid, freeper base.

[CakeGrrl]

6. The press corps isn't QUITE stupid enough to ask the President directly...

...ARE they?

In case they are, I called it here!

[rvablue]

8. There's already a dude in the WH press corps who asked Gibbs about it.

Lester, something or other.

He's the correspondent for WND -- I don't know why this administration has kept them on the roster, but they have. I think it's because this Lester guy has been in the press corps, for one organization or another (he didn't always work for WND), for a long,long time and it's a respect thing.

[AspenRose]

11. Lester Kinsolving, resident nutcase.

[AspenRose]

10. Do yourself a big favor and don't read the comments.

:banghead: You can't stop stupid.