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Most Awkward Thanksgiving Ever? Report Claims Obama, Palin & Limbaugh All Related

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You think your family is dysfunctional? Try this: Ancestry.com is announcing that President Barack Obama, radio host Rush Limbaugh, and Twitter star Sarah Palin are related. The genealogy website determined that Obama and Palin are tenth cousins through common ancestor John Smith (you know, the one), while Obama and Limbaugh are also tenth cousins via Richard Terrell. Just in time for the holidays!

Or the midterm elections. Other political curveballs? According to the website, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and far-far-right pundit Ann Coulter are also (distant) cousins, and the current president is distant cousins with the former one, George W. Bush. It’s like they’re all the Kennedys, except not at all.

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  • paulmdoro

    Who’s not related these days? I bet somehow King and Michelle are related too.

  • Harry Flashman

    I’m related to Ghengis Khan (thus my fondness for raiding and pillaging). And Florence Nightingale (thus my need to heal). And to Karl Marx (this my desire to do nothing at all and let others do it for me).

    I’m conflicted.

  • Big Eddie

    Cousin Rush . Cousin Sarah . Cousin Barry . … 2 successful and revered cousins , plus Barry .

  • paulmdoro

    Revering Rush Limbaugh? Pathetic. Who reveres a human being like Rush? Not anyone I want to know.

  • jooce81

    Big Eddie said:
    Cousin Rush . Cousin Sarah . Cousin Barry . … 2 successful and revered cousins , plus Barry .

    How is cousin Sarah “successful and revered” I can agree with Rush to a point, with his show being on for so many years, but a half term Gov who quit after a scandal? Unless you mean her success was watching over the meth capital of alaska, cuz then yeah that would be true

  • Bill Mahwer

    What a bunch of trash! They can go back centuries but cant produce his Harvard records which fan the flames of rumors the guy bombed out at the Law School and only graduated thanks to diversity rules.

    Might be part of a campaign to make the guy look more mainstream for a couple of weeks until the election.

  • Azarkhan

    A sad attempt to revive Pres Obama’s popularity by trying to connect him with Sarah Palin.

  • SnowSoul

    Wow, that must suck for Rush and Palin.

  • paulmdoro

    Azarkhan said:
    A sad attempt to revive Pres Obama’s popularity by trying to connect him with Sarah Palin.

    Because of Palin’s 22% approval rating? Huh?

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Bill Mahwer said:
    What a bunch of trash! They can go back centuries but cant produce his Harvard records which fan the flames of rumors the guy bombed out at the Law School and only graduated thanks to diversity rules.

    You mean the first black President of the Harvard Law Review?

    - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/09/barack-obama-ha.html

    Isn’t he also the first black President of the United States? I heard that somewhere. I think the success scale for this trio looks more like:

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  • The Real Royal Knig

    “Twitter star Sarah Palin?”

    Not former VP Candidate?
    Former Governor?
    Former Mayor?

    Not even “the drop-out Gov?”

    Come on, Mediaite! Biased much?

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    The Real Royal Knig said:
    “Twitter star Sarah Palin?”

    Not former VP Candidate?
    Former Governor?
    Former Mayor?

    Not even “the drop-out Gov?”

    Come on, Mediaite! Biased much?

    Good catch, RRK. Yeah, that’s rude… deserving… but rude. ;-)

  • Orion Antares

    The Real Royal Knig said:
    “Twitter star Sarah Palin?”

    Not former VP Candidate?
    Former Governor?
    Former Mayor?

    Not even “the drop-out Gov?”

    Come on, Mediaite! Biased much?

    They’re just using the most positive, active title she has available to her.

  • njoy-d-ride

    Sarah Palin as a “Twitter star”? Obviously afraid of what she really is…

    I bet this will lead to an interesting gift exchange…

  • Orion Antares

    njoy-d-ride said:
    Sarah Palin as a “Twitter star”? Obviously afraid of what she really is…

    I bet this will lead to an interesting gift exchange…

    You are absolutely right. They confused Twitter with Facebook!

  • alamo2

    Azarkhan said:
    A sad attempt to revive Pres Obama’s popularity by trying to connect him with Sarah Palin.

    Oh yeah, Ace. With Palin’s approval and popularity ratings, I’m sure being connected with her is going to help him among Democrats. You say that, Butch — that’s what you’re good at….

  • Big Eddie
  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Rush and Palin were born in Kenya, too??

    (KIDDING!!!)

  • eingriff

    This is bunk. It rests on the unproven and verifiably false premise that Barry was the son of Stanley Ann Dunham.

    Nobody has produced scientific evidence that Stanley Ann was Barry’s mother. His mitochondrial DNA would show a mother of a haplogroup inconsistent with Stanley Ann’s. Every child of the same mother has identical mitochondrial DNA exclusively from the mother, regardless of the children’s gender and regardless of the identity of the father. If you go from Stanley Ann (mitochondrial DNA destroyed and thrown into the sea by Barry) up the female line through her mother Madelyn (mitochondrial DNA destroyed and thrown into the sea by Barry) to Madelyn’s mother and take mitochondrial DNA from a descendant in the female line from Madelyn’s mother (mitochondrial DNA is transmitted only through females), that mitochondrial DNA will not match Barry’s. He would be exposed as one who could not be Stanley Ann’s child; it would be biologically impossible. Because, you see, both he and the other relative through the female line would have the same mitochondrial DNA. There might be some mutation, but it would be slight; mitochondrial DNA is far more stable than Y-DNA.

    The certification of live birth names adoptive parents. They are not designated adoptive parents; the object is to keep the adoption confidential. Hawai’ian vital records will include an original birth certificate showing birth parents, both of them citizens and neither black. Another of the vital records (N.B.: plural, and there is no death certificate) is an amended birth certificate naming Stanley Ann and Obama the alien black Luo as adoptive parents.

    Stanley Ann was not on the island during Barry’s gestation and birth, because it was apparent she was not pregnant. The Kenyan birth myth was concocted to cover her absence. Her marriage with the Luo, a friend of her father’s, was never consummated. She died of ovarian cancer, which suggests she was never pregnant, as pregnancy tends to be a defense against ovarian cancer, although Maya Soetoro-Ng claims her as Maya’s mother. I suspect that Stanley Ann was sexually disfunctional and that was one reason her marriage to Lolo Soetoro failed. She married the Luo and adopted the bastard baby boy Obama to conceal his birth out of wedlock.

    BTW, genetic analysis would also disprove Barack Hussein Obama the alien Luo tribesman as Barry’s birth father. Agencies with an analysis of Barry’s Y-DNA and access to Interpol’s DNA database can compare it with the Y-DNA of Samson and Mark Obama to ascertain whether Barry is really his father’s son. The mutations of Y-DNA make markers that can identify a mutual male ancestor.

    Hence Barry’s family tree is, like Barry, false and fraudulent at step one: IDENTIFYING THE PARENTS.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    When it comes to paranoid delusions, I think eingriff took the crown with that one. Wow!

  • eingriff

    So, can Paul Westlake produce Hawai’i's vital records and genetic analysis that will show that Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama the alien Luo tribesman are Barry’s birth parents? An ambiguous certification of live birth and the claims of pathological liars like Barry and Bill Ayers form a very shaky foundation for such a notion.

    It’s a fair question whether Paul Westlake deliberately misleads when he fervently maintains a position that could be proved or disproved by evidence he has not seen and apparently does not want anybody to see, Hawai’i's vital records of Barry’s birth and genetic analysis of his DNA and the DNA of purported relatives.

    Apparently official investigations will be required to obtain evidence that Barry will not produce, which would probably debunk the foundation of Barry’s career, that he’s the son of a black man and has kith “n” kin in contemporary Africa.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    eingriff said:
    So, can Paul Westlake produce Hawai’i’s vital records and genetic analysis that will show that Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama the alien Luo tribesman are Barry’s birth parents? An ambiguous certification of live birth and the claims of pathological liars like Barry and Bill Ayers form a very shaky foundation for such a notion.

    It’s a fair question whether Paul Westlake deliberately misleads when he fervently maintains a position that could be proved or disproved by evidence he has not seen and apparently does not want anybody to see, Hawai’i’s vital records of Barry’s birth and genetic analysis of his DNA and the DNA of purported relatives.

    Apparently official investigations will be required to obtain evidence that Barry will not produce, which would probably debunk the foundation of Barry’s career, that he’s the son of a black man and has kith “n” kin in contemporary Africa.

    You’re an idiot.

  • eingriff

    Paul Westlake’s riposte “You’re an idiot.” demeans himself.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    eingriff said:
    Paul Westlake’s riposte “You’re an idiot.” demeans himself.

    whatever

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