I didn’t know the Birthers are still around.

Definitely an amazing piece there. No yelling, no hysterics…just facts, and lots of them.
As Cooper said at the top, everyone is entitled to their opinions, but this birther business is seriously starting to get out of hand.

The crazies will never stop!!

He didn’t know the case has been thrown out twice by the Supreme court.

Yep good ole’ AC still covering the most irrelevant stories of the news cycle .

No terror babies , racist babies or gay bullying news ?

Facts are power. Opinions leave people vulnerable to looking weak.

I never in my life seen a commentator take some nut to the wood shed so calmly. He had every fact to debunk this guy and did so with class. Excellent job Anderson.

Nice job, AC. Too many journalists are afraid to act as filters for fear of being labeled biased. One doesn’t have to give equal time to both parties when one says the Earth is round and the other insists it’s flat.

I go back and forth on whether Anderson Cooper or Shepard Smith is the greatest man in cable news. They’re both just awesome, and it’s too bad there aren’t more of their kind out there.

Nice job Anderson. It was a very civil debate. Where are all the Obama haters at. Only one here so far. I bet they don’t show up since it will be hard to make-up lies after this debate.

This was irrelevant rehash that Anderson has done before. In fact the first 30 minutes of the show was nothing but rehash. He had done both stories before. Then he stuck the most important one, the Oregon terrorist bomb plot, in to a very small 6 minute segment 40 minutes into the show while giving 30 minutes to the birther and MCcain DADT rehash. This is exactly why his show is falling behind.

The interview was nothing more than what he has done several times already with the nutty birthers. Giving them TV time is just keeping their ridiculousness relevant in their eyes. It’s nonsense pure and simple so why bother with it? There are so few of them they can’t affect anything. He wasted valuable air time on this ridiculousness. Sometimes I think he just does this to try to make Republican’s look bad and to rile up what few fans he has left. It’s no secret most who watch CNN or 360 are Democrats.

murf said:
Yep good ole’ AC still covering the most irrelevant stories of the news cycle . No terror babies , racist babies or gay bullying news ?

As usual attack the messenger. That is all you have to say?

This is what cable “news” should be all about. News, but expanded. All the Marys in Heaven know there is plenty of time. Good job, Coop.

Seriously Leo Berman is a member of “Retarded Citizens of Tyler/Smith County”.

“His affiliations include the Texas Association of Business, Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Retarded Citizens of Tyler/Smith County,”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Berman

AC said, “STOP! Hammer time”

BlackWidow said:
As usual attack the messenger. That is all you have to say?

Yes King, let me dwell and dissect , and rehash the (HillaryClinton started ) birther debate !

Watch Chris Matthews today , if you still haven’t gotten your fill yet.

tstev said:
Seriously Leo Berman is a member of “Retarded Citizens of Tyler/Smith County”.

“His affiliations include the Texas Association of Business, Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Retarded Citizens of Tyler/Smith County,”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Berman

I thought they had merged with the Greater Tyler – Smith County Republican Party to form the Retarded Republicans of Metropolitan Tyler.

Can you believe we still use “retarded” in Texas?

murf said:
Yes King, let me dwell and dissect , and rehash the (HillaryClinton started ) birther debate !

Watch Chris Matthews today , if you still haven’t gotten your fill yet.

Apparently your are me and I am you again today, Black Widow. Well, it could be worse. We could be Basil Marceaux, I mean Gordon Blower and Michelle-in-Utah.

Your sarcastic admittance, doesn’t fool anyone.

I guess when you’ve been outted so many times on so many sites, that’s all you can ..

Good day Robert

skyfet said:
I didn’t know the Birthers are still around.

Yeah, they share an office with the 9/11 Truthers. It’s down at Straight Jacket Commons, the Crazy Train makes regular stops there.

Knowledge_Is_Power said:
This was irrelevant rehash that Anderson has done before. In fact the first 30 minutes of the show was nothing but rehash. He had done both stories before. Then he stuck the most important one, the Oregon terrorist bomb plot, in to a very small 6 minute segment 40 minutes into the show while giving 30 minutes to the birther and MCcain DADT rehash. This is exactly why his show is falling behind.

The interview was nothing more than what he has done several times already with the nutty birthers. Giving them TV time is just keeping their ridiculousness relevant in their eyes. It’s nonsense pure and simple so why bother with it? There are so few of them they can’t affect anything. He wasted valuable air time on this ridiculousness. Sometimes I think he just does this to try to make Republican’s look bad and to rile up what few fans he has left. It’s no secret most who watch CNN or 360 are Democrats.

Please take your Cooper obsession back to TVNewser where you can discuss this with ‘keepingthemhonest’ and ‘Vertie2010′.

I personally don’t give a rat’s ass where he was born as long as we vote him out of office in 2012. But to ignore the obvious question as to why Cooper is even dredging this crap up AGAIN is equally curious. It makes no newsworthy sense other than to recirculate the waters in an attempt to rally the left to focus on the possibility of a conservative takeover in 2012? Hell, I don’t know… Coopers a smart man, but why the hell does the left try to keep this dead story alive, especially with some obscure statehouse representative? Makes you wonder…

murf said:
Yep good ole’ AC still covering the most irrelevant stories of the news cycle . No terror babies , racist babies or gay bullying news ?

I have to disagree. When lawmakers are currently pushing forward “birther” legislation, it certainly is relevant, although not as important as Wikileaks and the financial crisis.

I also think we don’t realize that while most of us agree that birthers are certifiable nuts, there are an awful lot of people out there who still believe in this nonsense. Of course, Anderson Cooper presenting these people with facts and evidence may be as useless as raking leaves on a windy day.

Can someone tell me why a person, who is a President, spend so much money to keep the original out of the public?

“…in accordance with state policy and procedures…” doesn’t mean very much any more….

If I were President and someone wanted to see my birth certificate, I would say….here you go…it is yours to read.

Why, oh, why Did this have to happen? Why did you do me this way?

stoogedudes said:
I have to disagree. When lawmakers are currently pushing forward “birther” legislation, it certainly is relevant, although not as important as Wikileaks and the financial crisis.

I also think we don’t realize that while most of us agree that birthers are certifiable nuts, there are an awful lot of people out there who still believe in this nonsense. Of course, Anderson Cooper presenting these people with facts and evidence may be as useless as raking leaves on a windy day.

Exactly. It’s very disturbing to see that 27% of Americans actually believe Obama was not born in America. I don’t like Obama very much to be honest, but this is really getting petty. I’d have more respect for those against Obama if they actually focused on his policies and political decisions…not where he was born.

I watched the clip and half of me loved it and the other half cringed. I love AC and I think this he is one of the best and truest newsmen still around today. But he has done this segment numerous times and I wish he would stop giving these guys and air time. I think Cooper has tremendous talent but I wish he would take on some newer stories.

I could care less about the issue of Obama’s birthplace, but I’m curious about one thing: If a simple display by Obama of his ACTUAL birth certificate would end all speculation, why won’t he do it? I find that suspicious, and unless you’ve got a vested interest, you should too.

Some have speculated that his actual birth certificate might list his religion as Islam on it, and I could understand why he’d want to hide that from view and just show his record of birth instead. The record of his birth doesn’t list religion, but many birth certificates used to.

@ Shawn Soya

Can’t take the truth honey? This was nothing but rehash and we all know it. I don’t have to kiss AC’s ass to be a fan. There is a thing called having your own mind and thoughts and using them. When AC does great I say it but when he does rehash I won’t shut up for you or anyone else and act like it is Oh so damn wonderful. It is not!

AC skipped many real news stories to rehash this nonsense. Wake up and realize that! Where was his wikileaks story, his story on the Afghan police killing 6 US soldiers, his story on the fiasco they call the Haiti elections or the story on Haiti asking the UN for MORE money when they received ALL of that donated money. Where were those stories? Do you even know any news stories or do you rely solely on what AC gives you? My bet is the latter. If you had a clue then you wouldn’t be satisfied with this nonsense that was thrown out last night as news when it really is not at all.

Slow news day, Anderson? Take a deep breath and get a grip. Oh, and get a new staff your shows are out of date and stale.

I don’t care where Barry was born. It doesn’t change the fact that he has screwed up this country.

notsofast said:
I don’t care where Barry was born. It doesn’t change the fact that he has screwed up this country.

You’re the anti-Tumbleweed. Conclusions without links.

The Real Royal King said:
You’re the anti-Tumbleweed. Conclusions without links.

You will always be nothing.

Congrats!

I do understand and know that these are all from the internet but they are all from several well known and rather respected fact check sites. The very fact that they all have so many articles on this matter seems to bear out the last link all too well:
One on John McCain: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/may/12/born-usa/ This could be the real issue down the road for anyone else running for office who is a military brat. And an issue only the USSC can rule on. And rule on only after the election and swearing in.
http://factcheck.org/2010/05/the-obama-birth-chronicles-chapter-ccxcviii/index.html
http://factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/jul/01/obamas-birth-certificate-final-chapter-time-we-mea/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/13/obamas-birth-certificate/
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/has_obamas_birth_certificate_been_disclosed.html
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/print_born_in_the_usa.html
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/was-obama-born-in-the-usa/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/jul/30/few-weak-links-chain/
http://www.politifact.com/subjects/obama-birth-certificate/
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/kagan.asp
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-27-obama-hawaii_N.htm
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/forget-birthers-here-come-dnaers

This story, from Slate.com, seems to fit rather well:
Born Again
Why the “birther” myth refuses to die.
The “birther” myth is the political equivalent of a horror-movie villain: Not only does it refuse to die, but every time someone tries to kill it, it only comes back stronger.
http://www.slate.com/id/2251518?wpisrc=newsletter

Jonathan A Cohen said:
I do understand and know that these are all from the internet but they are all from several well known and rather respected fact check sites. The very fact that they all have so many articles on this matter seems to bear out the last link all too well:
One on John McCain: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/may/12/born-usa/ This could be the real issue down the road for anyone else running for office who is a military brat. And an issue only the USSC can rule on. And rule on only after the election and swearing in.
http://factcheck.org/2010/05/the-obama-birth-chronicles-chapter-ccxcviii/index.html
http://factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/jul/01/obamas-birth-certificate-final-chapter-time-we-mea/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/13/obamas-birth-certificate/
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/has_obamas_birth_certificate_been_disclosed.html
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/print_born_in_the_usa.html
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/was-obama-born-in-the-usa/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/jul/30/few-weak-links-chain/
http://www.politifact.com/subjects/obama-birth-certificate/
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/kagan.asp
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-27-obama-hawaii_N.htm
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/forget-birthers-here-come-dnaers

This story, from Slate.com, seems to fit rather well:
Born Again
Why the “birther” myth refuses to die.
The “birther” myth is the political equivalent of a horror-movie villain: Not only does it refuse to die, but every time someone tries to kill it, it only comes back stronger.
http://www.slate.com/id/2251518?wpisrc=newsletter

At first glance, I thought this was yet another journey through Googleland with Tumbleweed, but this is a very useful anthology and an interesting point. Thank you.

You have to give the Texas rep credit: He’s stubbornly refusing to let facts f**k up his opinion – the mark of a true intellectual.

The birthers have been discredited by me, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly long ago. The only people claiming that it is still alive are the left-wing loons that want to attach it to the republicans.

I would love to see Sarah Palin sit down for an interview with Anderson Cooper.

I always love Anderson Vanderbilt best when I think of him apologizing to Obama for having to ask him about his racist, anti-American church. That’s some hard-nosed journalism too.

littleboybloyer said:
The only people claiming that it is still alive are the left-wing loons that want to attach it to the republicans.

Do you ever get tired of being wrong, Gordo?

Dated November 17th, 2010:

http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2010-11-17/birth-certificate-bill-filed-presidential-candidates?page=8

Dave Noland said:
By you? Who the fuck are you? Who gives a fuck who you are? I guess the congressman in the video was planted there by Michael Moore. You are the LOON

Thank you! And Amen!

Yawn! This is so typical of the Left. They love birthers, and are the only people in the media who obsess over this issue. As if producing Obama’s birth certificate (if they can actually do that) turns a disastrous administration into a success.

If the Left wants to impress us, why don’t they explain the benefits of Obama’s failed stimulus boondoggle, or his break-the-bank deficit spending, or the embarrassingly inept foreign policy, or that joke of an Asia summit a few weeks back that accomplished nothing,or the porous border, or his inability to come up with a tax policy for next year, or the immensely unpopular healthcare fiasco, or the bleak job outlook, or the stagnant economy, etc. etc. etc.

No, the leftwing media is incapable of defending those disasters. So they track down some birther and engage in a pointless debate. And then CNN wonders why no one watches their programming.

This would have been a brilliant takedown circa 2008. Now it’s a pundit beating a dead horse, finding the last birther alive to score political points. Kinda silly, really. I mean, the right doesn’t dig up every 911 truther for a debate, and Lord knows Joy Behar, Rosie O’Donnell, Van Jones, Jesse Ventura, Charlie Sheen, etc. would love to spend some more time talking about how fire doesn’t melt steel. Problem is, the debate is over. Just like with the birther story.

Maybe Anderson Cooper needs to move on to some more relevant stories, like who killed Kennedy and whether cigarettes really cause cancer.

Dave Noland said:
You don’t like Obama because he’s black.

Ding,ding,ding….what do we have for him Johnny? (winner, most psychotic quote of the day)

“Monday night on AC360, Anderson Cooper showed off the reporter’s chops he’s known for in the field in an extended–and often heated–exchange with a Texas state representative who questions President Obama’s citizenship.”

Give me a friggin break! How much did Anderson pay you to write this? Besides being old news, the Berman interview was pointless. I could have taken him down in half the time Anderson wasted on it. This “interview” was done just to get blogs like this to cover AC even more than they do already. Based on the posts in the last couple of days, Mediaite has now become an official Cooper lap dog. .

To make room for this lengthy interview Anderson ignored stories like the Haitian election, the shootings in Afghanistan, and the Wikileaks story.

It is easy to look brilliant when your opponent is feeble. I guess AC is trying out the persona for his new show.

Anderson used to be respectful to people, now he is just another dopey Olbermann/Oprah wanna be, which is all he is qualified for now, and even that is up for debate.

stephenpyle said:
I watched the clip and half of me loved it and the other half cringed. I love AC and I think this he is one of the best and truest newsmen still around today. But he has done this segment numerous times and I wish he would stop giving these guys and air time. I think Cooper has tremendous talent but I wish he would take on some newer stories.

Pro-Obama liberals have few options. Either they cover this wreck of an economy–and thereby damage Obama–or they report, yet again, on Sarah Palin and the truthers.

Dave Noland said:
By you? Who the fuck are you? Who gives a fuck who you are? I guess the congressman in the video was planted there by Michael Moore. You are the LOON

He is one of the foremost satirists of the new century – Rumor has it that the character of “Gordon Bloyer” pompous raging right wing buffoon / legend in his own mind is actually an online skit created by the Second City improv / comedy group in Chicago…

Berman had no game. Easy pickin’s for even a mid-market anchorette.

This is just absolute and total pwnage, like when you kill a guy in Halo and then proceed to repeatedly kneel over him so as to mimic dropping your testicles on his face. The sad thing is that this guy is a large segment of the American population.

disenlightened said:
I could care less about the issue of Obama’s birthplace, but I’m curious about one thing: If a simple display by Obama of his ACTUAL birth certificate would end all speculation, why won’t he do it? I find that suspicious, and unless you’ve got a vested interest, you should too.

Not if he doesn’t have it. I don’t have my original either, and I can’t get it. All I can get is a COLB, just like him, which is proof of birth. How would he show a document that isn’t in his possession?

Dave Noland said:
The Fox News Mission Accomplished War mongering dolt that you voted for TWICE has fucked up this country. You don’t like Obama because he’s black. Be honest with yourself. Notsofast is a little bitch in case any of you didn’t already know this

GEORGE BUSH IS FOX NEWS!!!

Grow the fuck up, ya freak.

If AC wants to keep bringing this topic to the table let’s see him debate Jerome Korsi instead of some poor senile guy who didn’t stand a chance in the exchange.

You’ve got to be freaking kidding me, Mediaite. Anderson is brilliant for masterfully taking on a lowly state rep? State reps aren’t even full time positions in many states. ANYONE can be one. And, yet, you think ripping one makes Anderson a ‘journalist’? And, you slobber over his careful preparation? It would take anyone exactly 5 minutes to get the tools needed to bash a birther, much less some lowly state rep. Hell, Obama was a State Rep-not exactly brilliant.

I thought it was a yawn of an interview actually. Anderson refused to answer any question that was directed to him and simply made excuses as to why the media have never revealed Obama’s college grades and excuses about how much and for what purposes the multi-million dollars Obama has spent in the courts.

No investigative journalism at all.

This rep. while at one time may have been a sharp guy, seems to be out of touch or full of blinding hate. I thought the birthers walked away from this silliness! There a are a few things that I feel Obama could have done better, but this guy sounded like a clown!

kit9 said:
You’ve got to be freaking kidding me, Mediaite. Anderson is brilliant for masterfully taking on a lowly state rep? State reps aren’t even full time positions in many states.

Yeah, the Texas Legislature meets for 140 days every OTHER year. Give me a legislature like that and I’ll take a Birther, a Truther, a Bircher and a Commie. How much trouble can they get into?

@cp, “If AC wants to keep bringing this topic to the table let’s see him debate Jerome Korsi instead of some poor senile guy who didn’t stand a chance in the exchange.”

It didn’t use to be so, but now the only way AC can appear to be “brilliant’ is to choose the dullest bulb he can find as an opponent. That is why he concentrates on people like Berman, Palin, and McDonnell. Anyone else would expose his inadequacies.

@kit9, “Hell, Obama was a State Rep-not exactly brilliant.”

And, sorry to say, neither are the voters.

I wonder if Cooper would be willing to pay almost 2 million dollars to hide everything about himself even though he has nothing to hide. I wonder why Obama was not vetted,but our congress made sure to vet John.

Cooper used “facts”that aren’t even facts. They just make him look like he knows what he is talking about…. but don’t worry people….. in 2012 Barry will be FORCED to show us his LONG FORM BC. If he doesn’t he won’t be on the ballot.

If you broaden the clip beyond the birther issue by itself, it also illustrates one of the problems with advocacy journalism.

For the most part, I’d say that Anderson stayed close to the facts and though his questions were based upon provable data, I’m sure somebody might argue with that characterization. While on the other hand, the Texas legislator once tried to admonish Mr. Cooper for not answering his questions, he seemed to ask Anderson to show him or prove things and he asked the anchor to mail him stuff, none of which would be a proper journalist’s job.

One of Anderson’s 10 o’clock competitors went on a long tirade a while back, where he argued that the role of a journalist is to express an editorial viewpoint. Clearly Mr. Cooper has a point of view based upon the things that he has researched, but you mostly had to infer that point of view from his line of questioning and though he got kind of close once or twice, he never really lectured the guest. Instead, he gave the State Rep. Berman an adequate platform to explain his position and they left it on an even keel.

I have an Uncle who’s a Birther. I told him be careful and I hope you’re wrong. You see, I know no one, I mean no one who wants Biden as President. Another point, who has done the most to wake up Americans with conservative fiscal values and Libertarians who feel our freedoms are eroding? Obama of course. Who on the right want to mess that up. I mean whatever the congress can get together to pass is just going to be vetoed by who’s ever President anyway. It might as well be Obama do the vetoing.

I known some give Glenn this credit. But it was Obama who wake Glenn up.

Obama is no different than Chavez except the American people would not allow a Chavez.

Correction: I used “10 o’clock competitors” as shorthand for Mr. Olbermann and obviously that was incorrect and I should’ve just referenced him by name.
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@Dave Noland: I’m not sure what you’re trying to say by referencing the birth announcements. Obviously other things have been reported and my point was that in addition to being well-prepared — one of Mark’s point in the OP — he let the guest have his say, he didn’t lecture and he didn’t come out of the thing with a smirk or by labeling the fellow one of the “worth people in the world”. Instead, they simply conversed.

Wow! What a takedown! Complete ownage. Good job Anderson. Reminds me of the “terror baby” ownage he did with Rep. Gohmert.

What is Obma HIDING and WHY?

too bad cnn is so lousy in the ratings..this interview would place so well on the if someone actually saw it….old farts go away.. they just waste time on the air with crap…..

Berman’s bill specifies that “the secretary of state may not certify the name of a candidate for president or vice-president unless the candidate has presented the original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen.”

Why didn’t they spend any time discussing the bill? Instead Cooper just went on and on about the birther stuff.

In light of the controversy involving both Obama and McCain, and the Constitutional requirements for POTUS, it doesn’t seem like a bad law to me, at all…

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

It’s almost like Cooper wants to discredit Berman, thus discredit the bill, because he’s worried it might actually pass, and become law, or something…

The Real Royal King said:
Apparently your are me and I am you again today, Black Widow. Well, it could be worse. We could be Basil Marceaux, I mean Gordon Blower and Michelle-in-Utah.

King sara said I was you when you were on vacation. I think she is really losing it.

So predictictable. Nice to meet the others today , LOL

BlackWidow said:
King sara said I was you when you were on vacation. I think she is really losing it.

I thought your name was PamAlexander but I have been told by numerous people that you and rrk are one in the same. Frankly, I don’t really care who you are….

Dave Noland said:
Cooper answered every question he had. ONe HUGE point that wasn’t brought up is that Obamas birth was in two Hawaiian newspapers. Were they forged. That is the biggest proof of all.

Neither birth announcement actually says WHERE he was born, only that he was born to his parents who have a certain address. They say:

1. Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4
2. Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, August 4

That’s it. How is that “one HUGE point”? How is that proof of anything? Answer – this is not proof, this is nothing.

sarainitaly said:
I thought your name was PamAlexander but I have been told by numerous people that you and rrk are one in the same. Frankly, I don’t really care who you are….

sara my real name is Pam Alexander. OK Now just let me point out a fact. You may not like King but think about it. Do you really think I could write like he does. NO Say what you want about the man but my english/grammer is in no way close to his.

BlackWidow said:
sara my real name is Pam Alexander. OK Now just let me point out a fact. You may not like King but think about it. Do you really think I could write like he does. NO Say what you want about the man but my english/grammer is in no way close to his.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ! Oh And HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Even imnotgluecalled you out .

In a world where opinions — loudly proclaimed and oft-repeated — become indelible as fact, what does media responsibility look like: http://wp.me/pV6qJ-bb

The exchange itself (and others like it, which is Anderson Cooper’s “Keeping Them Honest” stock-in-trade) is what’s newsworthy. Whatever your point of view, please come to the table presenting facts as facts, and just remember that opinions are opinions — we all have them — but they are not facts.

Dave Noland said:
The Fox News Mission Accomplished War mongering dolt that you voted for TWICE has fucked up this country. You don’t like Obama because he’s black. Be honest with yourself. Notsofast is a little bitch in case any of you didn’t already know this

Hey, shitfor brains. I hear they will abolish DADT- that means you can salute with all your holes filled!

LMAO!

You are a pathetic self-hating white POS!

hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Dave Noland said:
By you? Who the fuck are you? Who gives a fuck who you are?

Who are YOU? I am somebody and you are a nobody. The birther issue has been on this site for a long time. Everytime one of you loons try to paint me with that brush I have denounced it. Nobody was talking to you because YOU are a nobody. Go play with your crayons.

Hugo Daun said:
Do you ever get tired of being wrong, Gordo?

I will get tired of being wrong when you get tired of being stupid.

littleboybloyer said:
The only people claiming that it is still alive are the left-wing loons that want to attach it to the republicans.

Hugo Daun said:
Do you ever get tired of being wrong, Gordo?

Dated November 17th, 2010:

http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2010-11-17/birth-certificate-bill-filed-presidential-candidates?page=8

littleboybloyer said:
I will get tired of being wrong when you get tired of being stupid.

Awww….poor little Gordo!

Once again, I prove you wrong…and once again you lash out rather than admit your mistake.

Silly, sad little gnome…you suck at life AND you suck at the internet.

Dave Noland said:
Typical of the left? Who on the left is asking for Obamas papers?

Noland, work on your reading comprehension, and come back when you understand the comments you struggle to critique. Then again, when all you can do is accuse everyone of racism, you don’t need to have too much brainpower, huh?

Hey Anderson, give me five minutes of airtime with you and I will have you pedaling back to the bathhouse with your boyfriend… The State Department website clearly states; “Please note, some short (abstract) versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable for passport purposes.”… For the millionth time, that fake thing posted online is called a Certification of Live Birth, not a Certificate of Live aka birth certificate, and it sure the hell isn’t an original birth certificate as you claim. Anderson, Hawaii officials can and will release a long-form birth certificate with a person’s permission as proven here. Anderson, one more thing, how in the hell can a dual citizen at birth be a “natural born Citizen”??? Oh, and, you can shove that CRS report up your arse!

Hey Anderson, sorry to bother you again but I have a few questions and a request. No one outside of Obama’s campaign and allegedly those two college kids at FactCheck.org (Factcheck.org is funded and run by the Annenberg Foundation which also employed Bill “I wish I’d planted more bombs” Ayers and Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah AKA Barry Soetoro) have even ever seen in person or held the alleged paper document version of the COLB document folded and photographed and put on the internet.

Why have not the experts from CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC investigative reporters along with independent forensic document examiners not all been allowed to visit wherever that document is being held now and to handle it and examine it?

Why won’t Obama even do that?

No one in the major media has ever been allowed to see or handle or examine the alleged source document used to make those photos. Could the reason be because you would see that it was a document printed and created and then folded for pictures from a forged digital image, not vice versa? Dr. Ron Polland explained how it was done with transparency film pasted on paper.

Anderson, why don’t you challenge Obama to allow CNN investigative reporters along with Fox News investigative reporters and an independent certified document forensics examiner to go to Chicago or the White House and examine the document!?

No one of any consequence has ever seen and handled this doc. All we have is internet images and pictures on the net and computer print outs of same waved on a TV screen.

Check out the 4 different Obama COLBs posted online by Obama’s campaign. Also, if you missed it, meet the only 2 people to examine the Factcheck.org COLB(s), and one of them wasn’t Bill O’Reilly or Anderson Pooper;

1) Daily Kos COLB; http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/3/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg

2) Fight the Smears COLB; http://www.fightthesmears.com/images/28.jpg

3) Factcheck.org COLB with seal; http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg

4) Factcheck.org COLB without seal; http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_3.jpg

Much more info; http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2010/11/again-anderson-cooper-gets-obamas.html

There is no hospital generated long-form certificate of live birth for Obama, if there was it would have been released by now. What Obama’s campaign posted online was a short-form Certification of Live Birth which does not prove a Hawaiian birth. Hawaii officials refuse to verify the COLB posted online by Obama’s campaign. All Hawaii officials state is they have “vital records” pertaining to Obama on file. What they don’t say is what those vital records are.

Any child could have obtained the same type short-form COLB under the Hawaii ACT 96 program, in effect at the time of Obama’s birth, which also allowed FOREIGN BORN children to obtain a Hawaiian COLB. That also would have triggered the two newspaper announcements, which by the way do not state his place of birth. The short-form COLB and the newspaper announcements do not prove a Hawaiian birth.

UIPA requests in Hawaii suggest there were amendments made to Obama’s vital records on file at the Hawaii DoH. Most likely his name change to Barry Soetoro when his wife married Lolo Soetoro and they moved to Indonesia.

If we had real journalists doing their jobs this issue would have been resolved in 2008. Instead, the journalists attack those that seek transparency and justice in regards to Obama’s constitutional eligibility. The Journalists went after McCain’s constitutional eligibility but ignored Obama’s.

Why?

the left does have a few birther sympathizers;

“Hawaii state law won’t allow them to release it unless the president authorizes it. So what’s the problem here? Release the original and let’s be done with this madness. John McCain faced similar questions and promptly responded by releasing his original birth certificate. That’s how normal people with nothing to hide handle these things” – Mark Joseph – July 30, 2009 – Huffington Post columnist

Huffington Post Blogger Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, says President Obama should just release his original long-form birth certificate and have done with the dispute. “I believe that the president should end the speculation by being transparent about all aspects of his background,” Swain said. “In fact, it can be argued that the president belongs to the people and to scholars, biographers and others who are entitled to know every aspect of his past. Swain said the president is inexplicably fueling the controversy.

“The very fact that Obama has fought tooth and nail to prevent any release of his original long-form birth certificate- as well as other documentation- “suggests there’s something that the president has decided not to share with the public.”

Feminist Camille Paglia: Birthers have a point. Tells radio audience ‘there are legitimate questions about the documentation’. Feminist icon Camille Paglia, a Salon.com columnist who earlier wrote about the ambiguities of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, now has told a National Public Radio audience that those who have questions about his eligibility actually have a point.

Talking to the NPR program “On Point” this week, she provided a defense to the citizens who carried protest signs asking “Where’s The Birth Certificate” at the recent protests that drew hundreds of thousands to Washington.

Paglia, a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Salon.com columnist, earlier wrote, “Yes, there were ambiguities about Obama’s birth certificate that have never been satisfactorily resolved. And the embargo on Obama’s educational records remains troubling.”

Typical thought processes of ignorant conspiracy theorists on display here. The more they’re disproven, the more they believe, and they always have loads of untrue “facts” to support their arguments.

My favorite is also his logic that since some people believe it to be the case, like him, that his argument holds any water whatsoever.

He basically has the same mental capacity of an average teabagger.

What kills me is that people assume the president is somehow obligated to factually prove any bullshit that is mentioned by some blogger.

If you support personal responsibility maybe you could make an effort to do some research yourself , when all you have is some rumor you read on the internet, or perhaps repeated on Fox.

The correct information is pout there if you’re interested in it. If you choose to believe any bullshit put on a blog, then your demands that some one must prove it wrong are a display of willful ignorance.

Good segment Anderson, can we continue to expose the lies and bullshit rumors spread and maybe a little more expediently, with the same amount of respectful assertion of facts.

skyfet said:
I didn’t know the Birthers are still around.

Called Teabagers and NeoCons now and again.

ObamaRelease YourRecords said:
There is no hospital generated long-form certificate of live birth for Obama, if there was it would have been released by now. What Obama’s campaign posted online was a short-form Certification of Live Birth which does not prove a Hawaiian birth. Hawaii officials refuse to verify the COLB posted online by Obama’s campaign. All Hawaii officials state is they have “vital records” pertaining to Obama on file. What they don’t say is what those vital records are.

Any child could have obtained the same type short-form COLB under the Hawaii ACT 96 program, in effect at the time of Obama’s birth, which also allowed FOREIGN BORN children to obtain a Hawaiian COLB. That also would have triggered the two newspaper announcements, which by the way do not state his place of birth. The short-form COLB and the newspaper announcements do not prove a Hawaiian birth.

UIPA requests in Hawaii suggest there were amendments made to Obama’s vital records on file at the Hawaii DoH. Most likely his name change to Barry Soetoro when his wife married Lolo Soetoro and they moved to Indonesia.

If we had real journalists doing their jobs this issue would have been resolved in 2008. Instead, the journalists attack those that seek transparency and justice in regards to Obama’s constitutional eligibility. The Journalists went after McCain’s constitutional eligibility but ignored Obama’s.

Why?

Why not. Just like all the president’s before him, he’s done all that has been required. You’re nutzo to believe anything else.