Judge Gives Birthers Well Deserved Smack Down

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Finally a judge is standing up to these right wing nuts and dismissing them with the disdain they deserve.


Washington DC District Judge James Robertson wrote a particularly harsh 5 page memo yesterday to dismiss one of the latest cases challenging the birth place of President Obama.

You can read the entire memo here and a write up of it in Ben Smith's blog on Politico.com.

This is something I have such a hard time understanding and is just completely over the top for me. Even the Republican Governor of Hawaii, where the President was born has stated his birth certificate is on file there and is valid, but this has not been enough for these conspiracy theorists.

I have posted before about that it has been verified by fact check, it has been posted on several different sites, yet they still persist that those are just copies so therefore that is not good enough.

Well, folks, most people DO NOT have their original birth certificate. I don't. I have a copy. The original is stored at the state capitol in Jefferson City, MO. So, I wouldn't be able to produce my original certificate either if someone demanded I have it.

I would imagine it is the same for most everyone.

Bobby Jindal Lied

It looks like the "story" that Bobby told us about Katrina was just that... a story.

According to Politico, a spokesperson for Jindal is now saying the story the governor told Tuesday night was just that, a tall tale. It didn't happen the way he said it did.

Of course, it wasn't that he lied, or that he misspoke or told a tall tale. It was just we misunderstood what he meant. I am not sure how you misunderstand "During Katrina". But that is what it says.

Of course, lets look at a few other things. The sheriff in question was also on Larry King's show, on Sept. 11, right after Katrina and for some strange reason he didn't seem to mention Congressman Jindal in his narrative of what happened.

So, what we have here is just another case it looks like of a lying republican. Gosh, the fun just goes on and on.

Politico Calls Foul on Pres. Obama, I call Foul on Them

I have said if Pres. Obama did something wrong I would be after him. So reading the headline on Politico.com and others about Pres. Obama being upset and angry about being asked questions I thought..hmm now we can't have that..

He said he would be open and transparent and if he is already starting to fuss with the media about questions then we are going to have a real problem. Here is the headline in question:

Obama flashes irritation in press room

So, I went to find the video. Well, the video on Politico is only like 48 seconds long and it really doesn't show anything, but from what I could see it didn't look like he was angry. or miffed or irritated.

So, I did a search to find another look. And I found one at MSNBC that is 5 minutes long. He comes into the press area of the White House, meets with the reporters, talks with them about Gibbs, his press secretary and the 1st presser and is just having a general chit chat.. Then Jonathon Martin asks him a question and the Pres. tells him no, I just came to say hi...not to answer questions...if we do this I won't come down to visit...this is informal...let's wait.. But Martin wants to push.. everyone else is telling him to stop..The Pres. pats him on the arm...is nice about it I think...and they go on their way..

So, why the headline?? Just to garner attention is my opinion. To try to make Pres. Obama look bad, maybe. I have thought several times that Jonathon Martin has done this. He is like David Gregory, Ed Henry and a few others in the media, I think he leans a little to the right. That's fine, I don't have a problem with you being that way, but do you have to let your bias show when you are trying to tell the world you are a member of the Main Stream Media?? If you are going to report fairly, you should at least be impartial.

At least that is my opinion. Maybe I am letting my favoritism show, but then I have never claimed to be impartial. So, I think I can do that. But if you claim to be an independent or impartial reporter you shouldn't let your bias show.

Watch the video, see what you think....

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