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Latest Birther Conspiracy Suddenly Dominates Google

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Just when you thought the Birther conspiracy theories had died out under the weight of actual news like the BP oil spill, and the Times Sq. Bomber, along comes a ‘report’ that the first three digits of President Obama’s social security number apparently suggests it was applied for in Connecticut. Before we go any further probably best to note that this news comes from World Net Daily (and inadvertently Google…more on that below), the website that derives much of its funding from selling birther paraphernalia.

The site is reporting that “Two private investigators working independently” have discovered “President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.” Also, “WND has copies of affidavits filed separately in a presidential eligibility lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia by Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels and Colorado private investigator John N. Sampson.”

Alas, (shockingly!) copies of the affidavits are not provided in the post. Also, this is not a new theory. But since it’s currently making its way up the Google trends hot list it might be just the sort of thing to bubble up on cable news between segments as a “you decide” filler once people get tired of the depressing BP oil video. Or, alternately, will cause Anderson Cooper’s head to actually explode on live television.

Meanwhile, the story itself has managed to birth a whole other conspiracy that Google was trying to suppress the results. Earlier this morning when you searched “obama social security” the top two results directed visitors to two non-related stories on Politico. Strangely, I think may have achieved the opposite of “suppression.” In fact, I suspect the weird results may have inadvertently given the report some legs as they made it appear, on first glance, that this was a serious news story — you had to click through and read a two page article to discover there was no mention of it there. Google told Free Republic that some “bug in the snippets” caused the wacky results and has since been fixed…sort of. You still get Politico results if you click through to Google News.

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  • Snipzor

    “…comes from World Net Daily…”

    Which you know, is well known for their honesty and use of facts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Femi-Kamar-Fetuga/572005492 Femi Kamar Fetuga

    And you Sir! are helping keeping the conspiracy alive. Why don’t you just ignore it like Fox has.

  • felixw

    The left hopes the birther issues never goes away. They would much rather talk about Obama’s birth certificate than his track record. Hence these never-ending stories.

    How about regular updates instead on Obama’s moves to bankrupt the United States? Or is that perhaps too substantive to cover? If you wanted to report on increases in the national debt, there would be a new headline every day. For example, just yesterday it was announced that the government’s deficit in April had increased fourfold over the previous year, and was the highest ever incurred in that month. Someone please help me understand how this birther garbage a bigger story than that?

  • lonestar77

    Good lawd. The only “birther” stories I ever hear come from the left. I wouldn’t know what a birther was if it weren’t for MSNBC & mediaite. Don’t you people have anything better to do than to scour the internet looking for conspiracy theories. Face it, Glynnis, your savior has been a disaster thus far and it has nothing to do with any sort of “birther” movement…which is only a movement in the sense that the far-left brings it up on a daily basis.

  • libra blue

    This birther business is ridiculous! CNN and Anderson will try anything to boost 360′s ratings no matter how far fetched! Anderson has been covering this non-story every chance he gets. No matter what the real “breaking news” is, he will work this into the program, and why not, it gives him the opportunity to resurrected his Landrieu pit bull persona that brought him so much fame during Katrina.

  • Abdulameer

    Why don’t you either confirm or refute the social security number rumor with facts? Is Obama’s SSN# from Connecticut, or not?

  • murphy0071

    Why engage idiots like the birthers who are bitter Republicans and TEA party activists who lack the intelligence of a wart hog. God knows where his social security number came from mine is from WV and I was born in Idaho. Who in the hell cares?

  • marcus.lewis

    Seeing how when I said people on the no fly list should not be permitted to buy guns and a family member out of nowhere replied with I don’t think people born in other countries should be president I think birthers will never go away. They are just as ignorant as truthers

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Scerpella/1022068347 M Colins

    Without lending any credence to this particular story, anyone who works in certain fields knows that Social Security numbers do in fact reflect where they were issued. Its a curiousity which added to the Presidents lack of forthrightness on most issues in his past (GPA, Wright, Ayers, ghost written books, Education, experience) simply pushes all the buttons of those who don’t trust this very flawed and incompetent President. Considering Obama could have very easily squashed the birther movement by simply authorizing the release of his original birth certificate (not record of live birth which is an electronic record) one can only conclude that Obama enjoys encouraging some to tilt at this idiotic windmill or perhaps that he actually was born abroad which of course could never be substantiated to anyones satisfaction in any case. Its a dead end that we should stop wasting time with. There is plenty Obama has said in the here and now which should be enough to ensure he doesnt get a second 4 years.

  • germ

    I can use my own SSN prefix to show that the prefix doesn’t pertain to where you are born. I was born in New Jersey (prefix numbers 135-158) but my prefix does not fall within those numbers.

    It does not mean I am an illegal or not born in the USA (in fact I have had an extensive FBI background check to gain a Top Secret/ SCI clearance).

  • TylerDurden

    It does not mean I am an illegal or not born in the USA (in fact I have had an extensive FBI background check to gain a Top Secret/ SCI clearance).”

    Does your prefix match a state you have never lived in?

  • Snipzor

    I love how you guys are bitching about the reporting of the birthers. It’s amazing how pathetic you are.

  • sarainitaly

    Affidavits are here.

    The social security number listed in the affidavit as: 042-68-4425

    It is validated as a Connecticut SSN here.

    List of properties and social security numbers associate with Barack Obama and family here.

    This web site confirms the SSN is connected to Obama.

    So… who knows. It sure looks like it is his number, assigned out of Connecticut. What that means? B’oh. It was assigned after he supposedly worked at Baskin Robbins.

  • silkworm

    Lets be honest MacNicol, you write this article with even more snarkiness than usual. As someone on here intelligently pointed out, the only people who seem not to get over the birthers are you left wingnuts. Same goes for the race issues, only you on the looney left seem to keep bringing it up. You may try to distract from the Presidents record but you can not.
    Your writings are just as good as your peer group at the National Enquirer.

  • sarainitaly

    Since 1973, social security numbers have been issued by our central office. The first three (3) digits of a person’s social security number are determined by the ZIP Code of the mailing address shown on the application for a social security number. Prior to 1973, social security numbers were assigned by our field offices. The number merely established that his/her card was issued by one of our offices in that State.

    http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.htm

  • TylerDurden

    Snipzor says:
    May 13, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    I love how you guys are bitching about the reporting of the birthers. It’s amazing how pathetic you are.”

    says a 9/11 Truther!!!!

    LOL

  • TylerDurden

    Snipzor says:
    May 13, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    I love how you guys are bitching about the reporting of the birthers. It’s amazing how pathetic you are.”

    says a 9/11 Truther!!!!

    LOL

  • fanofamerica

    Abdulameer says:
    May 13, 2010 at 1:18 pm
    “Why don’t you either confirm or refute the social security number rumor with facts? Is Obama’s SSN# from Connecticut, or not?”

    I’m with Adulameer. Should be a simple answer to this one that Robert Gibbs could clear up in 30 seconds. I bet instead we get a lot of diversion and him making snide comments and trying to be the funny man (which he fails at miserable) to avoid answering any questions.

    Glynnis says “…this news comes from World Net Daily (and inadvertently Google…more on that below), the website that derives much of its funding from selling birther paraphernalia.”

    I bet you never expected the investigative reporting by the National Enquirer to be the downfall of John Edwards, either, but surprise, surprise.

  • sarainitaly

    “Alas, (shockingly!) copies of the affidavits are not provided in the post.”

    Why didn’t you include them in your post? I found them in five minutes.

  • TylerDurden

    Yes, the ever transparent BHO administration.

    And what is even the Obama shill, Andrea Mitchell say about the WH’s handling of the Kagan nomination?

    MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday actually expressed some journalistic outrage over a White House PR video disguised as an interview, deriding the administration for “crossing a number of lines when it comes to journalism.” An irritated Mitchell highlighted a video on the White House website that features Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

    Most other media outlets have ignored this story. Mitchell, however, complained to reporter Kelly O’Donnell: “But, the White House has gone overboard, I think some would suggest, in terms of the control of all of this.”

    Attacking the “pseudo interview,” Mitchell mocked, “Doesn’t this seem to you like they are really crossing a number of lines here when it comes to journalism and the proper approach to selling a justice?”

  • felixw

    I don’t often jump to the President’s defense, but everyone needs to remember that social security numbers were not routinely issued to infants back at the time of Obama’s birth. People usually got a social security number when they took their first job. So if Obama worked at Yale (in Connecticut), it would make sense for his social security number to be from that state. So everybody please calm down, and let’s move on the real problems with the Obama presidency.

  • TylerDurden

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, he never went to Yale.

  • TylerDurden

    BHO’s first job was in Hawaii:

    Obama: Ice-Cream Scooper

    Obama’s very first job was scooping ice cream at a Honolulu Baskin-Robbins (you know, the one on 1618 South King Street?). He later described the brutal conditions he endured: “Chocolate ice cream gets real hard,” he has said. “Your wrists hurt. [Carpal tunnel syndrome, although] they didn’t call it that.” That’s not the only reason he considers this his worst job—he ate too much ice cream and, consequently, doesn’t like it anymore.

  • sarainitaly

    the SSN was issued in 1976 when Obama was 16.

    I don’t think he ever worked at Yale, either.

  • Nachi

    Time to build concentration camps for these people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Rogiers/1426705964 Brian Rogiers

    Hey! Look! A puppy!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    “Snipzor says:
    May 13, 2010 at 11:46 am
    “…comes from World Net Daily…”

    Which you know, is well known for their honesty and use of facts.”

    Should be called World Nut Daily

  • fanofamerica

    As I said before, I am sure this is something Robert Gibbs could put to rest in 30 seconds. In the meantime Nachi, Bill, etc. — any theories on why he’d be issued a Connecticut SSN as a 16 year old residing in Hawaii? World Net Daily has put forth the info they’ve gathered. What do you have besides insults?

  • eingriff

    The most plausible hypothesis is that Obama was born in Hawai’i the son of Stanley Armour Dunham and an unknown woman. To conceal the illegitimate birth and keep the child in the family, it was adopted by his daughter Stanley Ann Dunham and her husband of convenience Barack Hussein Obama, an alien Luo tribesman. As a further diversion, and to evade the question of how she could have a child when clearly not pregnant, Stanley Ann absented herself from the island. A story was concocted that she had gone to Kenya and had the child there. DNA analysis can be expected to disprove Obama’s claimed parents. There should be two Hawai’ian birth certificates, the original identifying the birth parents and an amended certificate naming Stanley Ann and Obama the Luo tribesmen as parents of Barack Hussein Obama II. The notorious Certification of Live Birth reproduces information from the amended birth certificate. Obama does not want to disclose the amended birth certificate itself because the fact that it’s amended would show that he was adopted by Stanley and and Obama the Luo. Disclosing the original certificate would reveal that he does not in fact have a black parent, but if the merits are ever reached on this matter, the original certificate might be necessary to establish that he was at birth a natural born citizen of the United States. Then it will be necessary to decide whether adoption at birth by an alien deprived him of his natural born status. Many people some of whom have written for WorldNetDaily, have been taken in by the Kenyan birth myth. The Obama crowd tries to keep it going in order to divert attention from serious issues of Obama’s eligibility, such as the loss of natural born status by adoption and the loss of citizenship altogether by forfeiture, disclaimer, renunciation or sedition. It appears that Obama’s life is a tissue of lies; many events raise serious questions about his status as a natural born citizen as required by Article 2 Section 1 of the United States Constitution. Hence he must be thoroughly investigated from his birth onward by Congress or the courts or both, and a definitive decision should be made based upon full disclosure of all of the relevant facts. Also, each and every one of the several states, which are charged by the Constitution with the duty of choosing presidential electors and under current law determine what presidential candidates are put on the ballot, should use all available means to investigate Obama’s constitutional eligibility in 2008 and take such corrective measures as may be necessary or desirable to correct any past derelictions and prevent the unconstitutional choice of electors in the future.

  • the real john t

    eingriff says:
    May 13, 2010 at 6:28 pm
    —————————

    And you are nothing but a frigging nut case.

  • lucyreddy

    We should not forget that social Security number that was released from Connecticut wasn’t issued in Obama’s place of origin. Obama’s Social Security Number also appears to have been recycled.
    m3 real

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Serg-Vitkin/1686736523 Serg Vitkin

    IMHO is not most serious problem in the US politic

  • ndanielson

    sarainitaly said:
    It was assigned after he supposedly worked at Baskin Robbins.

    It has to be bogus. If they are saying he actually had a job, it is all bogus.

  • ndanielson

    the real john t said:
    eingriff says:
    May 13, 2010 at 6:28 pm
    —————————

    And you are nothing but a frigging nut case.

    And you’re a liberal clown.

  • ndanielson

    Here’s a great article on the development of the research into 0bama’s SSN:

    http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/another_look_at_obamas.htm

  • HowNow

    SSN are NEVER recycled by the SS Office. This was recycled by Obama. He took it from a dead person. Nice President! Why isn’t the FBI on this?????

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