To provide full context forthis story, WorldNetDaily reportedyesterdaythat radio host and Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck mockedso-called “birthers” and suggested that Mr. Obama is using theeligibility issue to his benefit:
“There’s always games beingplayed behind the scenes at a talk radio show,” Beck said. “Rush has always called themseminar callers. But instead of being coy with the seminar callers orwith you, I’m just going to expose the game that is going on. Todaythere is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers onthe air.”
“I have to tell you, areyou working for the Barack Obama administration?” Beck scoffed. “Imean, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
The ongoing dialogue thenspun off into ridicule as Beck caricatured those who question thesitting president’s eligibility with straw-man arguments reminiscent ofjibes made by Obama’s apologists in other news outlets.
Beck defined birthers aspeople who believe Obama was born in Kenya or other foreign country,was raised as a Manchurian candidate and somehow brainwashed HillaryClinton into not exposing his fraud. According to Beck’s running joke,birthers believe someone – maybe Obama’s KGB “control” – preemptivelyplaced Obama’s birth announcement in 1961 Hawaiian newspapers with a“roadmap” of getting an African man into office.
As for Obama producing along-form birth certificate to actually prove his place of birth, Beckquestioned, “Why do that when these people ['birthers'] are sodiscrediting themselves?”
WND goes on regarding theactual questions concerning the eligibility issue, taking note that Mr.Obama could have, in fact, been born in Hawaii (for all anyone knows),but would still have been, at birth, a British subject.
Regardless, Mr. Beck isclearly in the minority in his negative characterizations of those ofus who question Mr. Obama’s bona fides. Numerous high-profileindividuals have specifically regarded the issue as legitimate andworthwhile, including the following list of personalities:
However, the strongestretort, to date, has come from attorney Stephen Pidgeon, one of anumber of lawyers who pushed the eligibility issue in the Judiciary andwho has currently teamed up with attorney Leo Donofrio in representingChrysler dealers regarding the car company’s bankruptcy proceedings andthe quo warranto statute.
In a letter that is makingits rounds across the blogosphere, Mr. Pidgeon blasted Mr. Beck for his“ill-informed” stance (h/t AmericanGrandJury):
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