Yet another Republican elected official joins the fringe.
UPDATE: McHenry backpedals a bit, but its worth noting what his gut inclination was to do.
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Patrick McHenry Joins The Birthers
August 13th, 2009
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What The Right Has Come To
August 13th, 2009
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It speaks volumes when someone like Orly Taitz isn’t just dismissed out of hand but has a following on the right.
GOP Rep. John Sullivan Engages Wingnuttia
August 8th, 2009
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As previously noted, fringe activity happens when parties are out of power, but in a very short time the Republican party has again mainstreamed crackpot theories just as they did during the Clinton presidency.
The trend of controversial town halls contiuned on Friday when Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.) questioned the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth [...]
John McCain: Only GOPer To Push Back (Slightly) On The Mob
August 5th, 2009
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From McCain’s Twitter account
Town hall meetings are an American tradition – we should allow everyone to express their views without disruption – even if we disagree!
Of course, John McCain helped create this beast last fall, so excuse me if I don’t give him a lot of credit for this.
Online Birthers Are From The South
August 3rd, 2009
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Sorry kids but it won’t rise again.
A look at Google Trends is certainly illuminating. The top ten states where people are searching on the phrase ‘Obama birth certificate’ are:
1. Louisiana
2. Mississippi
3. Colorado
4. Oklahoma
5. Alabama
6. Tennessee
7. Arkansas
8. Missouri
9. South Carolina
10. North Carolina
North Carolina is the only one of those states the President won in 2008, and [...]
Repeat Of McCain-Palin
August 3rd, 2009
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You remember those McCain-Palin rallies where the GOP saw their crazed crowds as something of a boost to the failing campaign? And then people began yelling “terrorist” and “kill him” and the like, and it became a liability? As Ben Smith notes, this is becoming a mighty likely result of the astroturf campaign that’s targeting [...]
Birthers Invent Time Machine
August 3rd, 2009
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Somehow the birthers got ahold of documents from the “Republic of Kenya” before such a nation ever existed. To tell the truth, I never have seen Orly Taitz and Doc Brown in the same place at the same time…
(Daily Kos rips apart this stupidity here, but frankly its better to have these people chasing their [...]
Video: Birther Orly Taitz On The Colbert Report
July 29th, 2009
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Boom, goes the dynamite.
