Conservative: Birther is liberal media plot

[babylonsister]

:rofl:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907290028

Conservative: Birther is liberal media plot

July 29, 2009 2:42 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

Who didn't see this angle coming?

The good news is that writing in CQ, GOP political consultant Bill Pascoe writes:

"Dear Birthers,

"Stop!

"Sincerely,

"Serious Conservatives."

The bad news is that Pascoe can't help blaming the liberal media for the birther mess:

Am I the only one to notice that mainstream media attention to the "Birthers" has picked up in recent weeks -- and that this increased attention is coincident to the turn in Obama's approval ratings?

A search of The Washington Post web site, for instance, on the term "Birther" yields as its oldest hit this one from July 6; a search of The New York Times, though, shows one June reference in passing and then the first real mention of the term on July 22.

Far be it from me to assume one is the cause of the other -- as faithful readers know, I do my best to avoid falling into the post hoc, ergo propter hoc trap -- but, still, it is an interesting coincidence.

Ironic, eh? In debunking the conservative conspiracy theory about the birthers, Pascoe suggest it's a liberal conspiracy theory in the press that's given the story legs in recent weeks.

Hmm, so Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy and Lou Dobbs are in on it, too?

[Bicoastal]

1. It's a double-triple-quadruple bluff!

:rofl:

[rurallib]

5. They have been plotting this since Aug. 4, 1961

The date a certain young man was born in Hawaii or Mumbasa or Kenya (perhaps Moscow?????)

[Echo In Light]

2. What "liberal" media? Democracy Now?

[SCantiGOP]

3. maybe you're right

You could make a case for Limbaugh and associates being undercover radical leftists; they certainly do a lot to discredit the conservative movement. Think how far it's fallen from William Buckley and Barry Goldwater to clowns like Liddy and DeMint.

[nosmokes]

4. talk about living in bizzaro world... n/t

[TheKentuckian]

6. I had a funny dream that Saturday Night Live did a skit portraying Joe Biden as behind the birfers

[csziggy]

9. No, it would have to be Rahm - Joe would not be able to keep that secret

But I don't want people to start thinking of Rahm Emmanuel as a Karl Rove type character - even if he is. ;)

[dmr]

7. And those in Congress who perpetuate & capitalize on the myth, as well

But now that this sabotaging strategy is back-firing, they do what they always do, blame the left, but not themselves.

[tularetom]

8. Limpballs and Dobbs underestimated the stupidity of their audience

They dropped a few statements about the birther viewpoint and the dumshits went nuts. Dobbs and rush aren't so dumb that they didn't realize they did not want their names associated with this gang of morans, so they dropped the whole thing like a hot potato.

In fact, if there were a liberal media, they would be well advised to beat this birther bullshit to death, just to show up the douchebags that are promoting it.

[Fridays Child]

10. Does their capacity for generating self-serving delusions know no bounds?

[gratuitous]

11. Damn! I really thought we'd covered our tracks this time

But we should have learned by now that the wily conservatives are on to our every trick. Okay everyone: Plan BC-50 is no longer in operation. Proceed to Plan IG-100. That is all.

[BlueIdaho]

12. And KKKarl Rove is an undercover Democratic Operative... nt.