WaPo: "there is no videotape of Obama being born in Hawaii"...

[BlooInBloo]

Today, defending their coverage of birthers. Genius.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/28/wapo-birther-obama-video/

"Today in an online chat, Washington Post reporter Ben Pershing was asked why “birthers” and other conspiracy theorists such as those claiming that former top Clinton White House aide Vince Foster was murdered “get play on the real media” while others such as the “9/11 Truthers” don’t. But instead of denouncing the birther nonsense, Pershing appeared to justify the mainstream media’s attention on this (non)issue:

Ben Pershing: Perhaps because there is an actual videotape of the planes hitting the World Trade Center that billions of people around the world have seen, while there is no videotape of Obama being born in Hawaii or Vince Foster committing suicide.

Also, for what this is worth, there is no bill in Congress declaring 9/11 to have been a giant conspiracy. But there is a bill in the House calling for presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship. And there was a congressional investigation of Foster’s death.

While it is unclear how video of Obama’s birth would prove he was born in Hawaii (do doctors and nurses who deliver babies in Hawaii wear leis?), actual proof (birth certificate and birth announcement in local newspapers) exists. That should be enough."



Remind me again why the world is gonna end without crack journalism like this?

[LiberalFighter]

1. How does Ben Pershing get to be a legitimate reporter?

[BlooInBloo]

4. Because WaPo says he is...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Dec_14/ai_n21157167/

[KamaAina]

2. Some conspiracy theorists still think the moon landing was faked

:eyes:

[Berry Cool]

3. "do doctors and nurses who deliver babies in Hawaii wear leis?"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: No, but they hang one around the baby's neck and kiss it on the cheek when it slides out.

[Hansel]

6. Don't forget the obligatory hula dance performed by the nurses.

And the traditional pig on a spit and poi luncheon the baby is obligated to attend. Where's the film of that, damn it!

[KoKo]

5. HEY BLOO...There's NO EVIDENCE! Thanks for this Post...We Might Not Have Known

of this without your HELP!

K&R..!

[Eric68601]

7. Wouldn't matter

They could have a video tape of Obama's mom in the hospital, giving birth, and then, without stopping the film rolling like a Janet Jackson video, pan out backwards, into the lobby, outside the hospital, down the road and show a movie of Hawaii in 1961 with all the scenery, a shot of the capital in the background, and images of street signs, and it would still get called a forgery.

Face it. The freepers hate Obama so much, that reality holds no water.

[Ilsa]

8. You beat me to it. If the Hawaii Sec of State (or whomever) certified

the videotape as authentically Obama's mother and his birth, they'd dismiss it, saying the baby's COLOR WAS TOO LIGHT TO BE HIM.

[MADem]

9. I wanna see the John McCain birth video!!

Or was that a silent movie...or hieroglyphics?

[Quasimodem]

13. Cave Paintings

And they prove MadDog was born in Cantabria, Spain.

[MADem]

14. Aren't there cave paintings in ......... .......... ......... FRANCE?

:rofl:

[Historic NY]

16. its was by Samuel B Morse...nothing but dot's & dash's.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. THIS IS BIG NEWS! I'M SERIES!!111!1!!!!

I thought there was only video of the second plane hitting the WTC.

Now, we are told there is video of the "planeS hitting"?

DAMN, this is HUGH!!!11111!!!111

[Pirate Smile]

11. and why wont Obama himself spill the details of his birth? Hmmm. I'm sure he remembers

everything.

He is the only witness still here yet he remains silent - why, Why, WHY????

;)

[Catshrink]

12. He needs to just produce the original real birth certificate

and this issue would just go away. It's Obama that's dragging this thing out.

just to be sure --> :sarcasm:

[gkhouston]

15. There's also no videotape of him being born elsewhere.

btw, do we have any recent video of the Post committing journalism? :shrug:

[Democrats_win]

17. After the really big lie of Ronald Reagan, all the rest are just footnotes.

He convinced America that the thieves on Fraud Street were here to help us. They helped themselves to what WE earned: our pensions, our union jobs, our government that protected us from phyical harm by Fraud Street firms.

Does Obama look like he's going to beat back the lie of Ronald Reagan?

[SOS]

18. There was no videotape in 1961

Perhaps the hospital should have set up an 8mm camera on a tripod and hired extra staff to change reels every three minutes?

These people are f#cking idiots.

[fascisthunter]

19. this is Onion Material... WaPo... you lost all credibility with this one

you fucking idiots

[Ishoutandscream2]

20. (Shrug). A Washington Post reporter a wingnut and birther. Ohnoes

:hi:

[Eric68601]

21. Why doesn't someone

Why doesn't someone produce the KENYAN birth certificate? Where is the Kenyan birth announcement? I have doubts about him actually being born in Kenya. Which Hospital, what Dr. was it? I'd say the burden of proof is on the people who claim he was. All I have heard were conspiracy's that say he was. Where are the documents? :sarcasm:

[pipi_k]

22. Show 'em a videotape of the birth and the next thing they'll want

is videotaped proof of his conception