Politico:"The on-again,off-again debate over whether Barack Obama was born in the United States..."

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25245.html

"debate" implies both sides have merit
it's the same crap they pull to deny global warming

You would never hear the media refer to a 'debate' over whether the Holocaust or Moon Landing occurred
Yet, even when there's 100% documented proof showing otherwise, they want to act like there's some possibility the birthers are right

Way to attempt to legitimize the fringe, Politico.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Now can we put Politico in the pasture

like we did with Drudge, LGF, World Nut Daily, etc.?

Hawkeye-X

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. It seems that politico has gone

into the rightwingnut crapper faster and faster these past few weeks.

It's now officially worthless...........................

[SoCalDem]

10. Um, they STARTED there.. probably Talon News version 2

they posed as "non-partisan", but most of us saw through them, based on who used them as sources. Once they had weaseled their way onto CNN & MSNBC, they "hired" a bunch of quasi-credentialed "newspeople" and got instant "mainstream-i-ness"

They are Fox-Lite.

[Marr]

14. Yep. I remember when Politico launched, it got constant coverage in the

corporate media, and their contributors were instant guests on cable news shows from Day One. It was pretty obvious what they were then; the establishment's own "blog", custom built for the corporate media.

[graywarrior]

3. Who else is talking about this except for those crazy ass birthers?

[City Lights]

4. Politico is part of the problem.

:thumbsdown:

[MADem]

5. May I point out to all reading this that POLITICO is an arm of rightwing ALLBRITTON Communications

The very same Allbritton Communications that drummed up poutrage to get Bill Maher and his 'seditious' ideas off the ABC airwaves, and who, because they OWNED several ABC franchises, were able to shut him out of some of his largest markets.

POLITICO is not without bias. They're your kinder, gentler, World Net Daily.

Don't ever forget it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Next we can debate whether the earth is flat or round.

[Cha]

19. And how old

it is.

[mix]

7. An absurd headline on Politico's part

You are exactly right.

[billyoc]

8. Debate!

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

9. It ain't a debate, it's a RW fantasy.

Fuck Politico!

Wish everyone would just post "Fuck Politico" everytime someone posted one of the trash articles with a link! Perhaps at some point folks will stop going there,
and then they could shut the fuck up,
or at least seem non-existent to anyone with a brain.

[City Lights]

12. Great idea!

Fuck Politico!

[Odin2005]

11. Fuck Repuklico!!!

People need to quit posting Politico stories as legit news.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Politico is a dangerous, subversive, right wing organization with good breeding and proper manners

They're Drudge with no hat

They're Lucianne Goldberg without the bearded, overage, overweight, titty suckling son

They're Talon News without the male hooker and some time white house overnight guest.

They're Regnery Press, but in a nice way.

They're the result of the Annenberg men collectively spewing semen at the paychecks of formerly semi-sorta-maybe-sometime-actual journalists.

Propaganda with good diction, clm voices, monogrammed cuffs, and goldcufflinks.

[SoCalDem]

16. Yep.. they've got the crazies locked in the basement, turning out "stories" & "debate topics"

then they send out the well-groomed, full-sentence speakers to mouth the words:(

[Double T]

15. I don't think Hawaii was a US state when Obama was born.

Therefore Obama is Hawaiian, NOT American.

[Bicoastal]

17. No offense, but don't you think you ought to look stuff like this up before you type?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama

[Double T]

20. It is called sarcastic humor.

Around this place WE need to have our facts straight unless WE want the fact finders to take US to the woodshed and beat the living crap out of US. Sarcastic humor has nothing to do with the facts. Thanks for the history and facts on Hawaii.

[Bicoastal]

21. Ah. I guess sarcasm doesn't read well over the 'net.

Nevermind.

[Double T]

23. Peace.

Next time I'll use :sarcasm: to clarify.

[Cha]

18. Reality to politico... There

is no fucking debate, stupid.

[spanone]

22. the media attention this horseshit is receiving is preposterous

[Sparkly]

24. Exactly.

Another example: How the media took the Swiftliars seriously.

[Historic NY]

25. Why don't they ask the Mormons where he was born? They know.