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Chris Matthews: ‘The Republican Party Has Become The Birther Party’

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Chris Matthews is absolutely convinced that the once great Republican party has now been completely changed into the Birther party, and Matthews claims that now the poll results back him up. Potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote in USA Today that he is eager to talk about many other issues; however, Matthews concludes this is only because Trump has already succeeded in converting the Republican party to the party of Birthers.

Matthews alleges that in the world of most Republicans, everyone from Obama to the state of Hawaii is lying in a massive attempt to prevent the truth about Obama’s “fraud” presidency from being discovered. Obama is an “alien from another land” and “owes loyalty to God knows who” according to these Republicans. Despite claims from some Republicans that the Birther issue is a fringe element, Matthews no longer believes it is merely a distraction, since “seven in ten Republicans” today lack the basic confidence that Obama legitimately holds the office.

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  • cjd ohio 1

    i thought this birther sh*t was nonsense, but MSNBC is devoting so much air time to the issue, could something really be there?

  • Chudi

    What a moron.

  • murf

    .. And Mediaite has become Birtherite

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Lucky for NSNBC they have this nonpartisan expert to explain the Republican Party .

  • skyfet

    These guys are milking it too much, starting to grate on me.

  • notsofast

    And Chris, you and the lib Dims have become the party of the “I wipe my a$$ with the American flag!”

    http://www.breitbart.tv/i-wipe-my-a-with-the-american-flag-how-the-left-protested-the-tea-party/

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    well if he…then you kind of…if you look at it this way…
    i got nothing.

  • Cecelia

    When judging the long term relevancy of such partisan proclivities…. keep this in mind:

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/08/04/flashback-35-democrats-think-bush-knew-9-11-attacks-advance

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    notsofast said:
    And Chris, you and the lib Dims have become the party of the “I wipe my a$$ with the American flag!”

    http://www.breitbart.tv/i-wipe-my-a-with-the-american-flag-how-the-left-protested-the-tea-party/

    lol…you can find one lib who said that, we can find millions who doubt Obama’s citizenship.

    Keep up the good work, Chris.
    They started this shit but we will finish it.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    at least one thing is looking good…no one called him tingles.

  • Garth

    The GOP is a freak show. I love it.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Cecelia said:
    When judging the long term relevancy of such partisan proclivities…. keep this in mind:

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/08/04/flashback-35-democrats-think-bush-knew-9-11-attacks-advance

    i thought napolitano was a libertarian.

  • Garth

    notsofast said:
    And Chris, you and the lib Dims have become the party of the “I wipe my a$$ with the American flag!”

    http://www.breitbart.tv/i-wipe-my-a-with-the-american-flag-how-the-left-protested-the-tea-party/

    As opposed to you who when you do occasionally wipe your ass you do it with your mullet?

  • Thelonious Funk

    This is totally unfair. They stand for so many other crazy things.

  • Eruptor75

    Matthews has become completely unhinged. Anything he says has to be questioned, he has absolutely no credibility anymore. He is so delusional that he probably believes he is heterosexual still. I would bet a million dollars that if you asked Chris Matthews who he would like to be reincarnated as, it would undoubtebly be MIchelle Obama. Or maybe that Sinclair guy who blew Barack, supposedly. Well, clarifying. Matthews would like to come back as the person who blew obama the most.

  • BatBoy

    Evidently Chris Tingles never took a class in logic….and here he says he is so smart. Hmmmmmm!

  • Barack Must Go

    The democrat party has become the Becker party. Obsessed with the man that singlehandedly brought their false god Barack Obama to his knees.

  • illusive man

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i thought napolitano was a libertarian.

    Most libertarians don’t think 9/11 was an inside job because we know the goverment is to incompetent to pull off such a complex thing.
    History shows that everything the government touches turns into failure.

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    The democrat party has become the Becker party. Obsessed with the man that singlehandedly brought their false god Barack Obama to his knees.

    Have some pudding with your Thorazine drip.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    illusive man said:
    Most libertarians don’t think 9/11 was an inside job because we know the goverment is to incompetent to pull off such a complex thing.
    History shows that everything the government touches turns into failure.

    so that’s why you guys, for the most part, don’t get elected to any offices, huh?

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    The question of Obama being a natural-born US citizen has been cleared up.
    If his mother was that woman from Kansas, Baby Obama is a natural-born US citizen no matter who his father was (mama’s baby, papa’s maybe).
    Barak H. Obama’s US citizenship status is certified on his Swahili-to-English translated birth certificate.

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    Bumper sticker:

    A village in Kenya is missing its idiot

  • WCinWI

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    so that’s why you guys, for the most part, don’t get elected to any offices, huh?

    Looks like a bunch of libertarian-leaning pols got elected in 2010 and another bunch will be brought in, in 2012. What’s Obama going to run on? $5 gas? A 3rd war? Jobs created or saved? High speed rail? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • felixw

    Let me suggest a more accurate headline:

    Instead of ‘The Republican Party Has Become The Birther Party’

    a more honest headline would be

    ‘Mainstream Media Tries Desperately to Paint the Republican Party as The Birther Party’

    Meanwhile here are the ACTUAL top ten issues among American voters, as determined by a recent poll. As you can see, the President’s birth certificate doesn’t show up on the list.

    Economy 76%
    Health Care 63%
    Taxes 59%
    Gov’t Ethics and Corruption 58%
    Social Security 57%
    Education 55%
    Immigration 52%
    National Security/War on Terror 44%
    Afghanistan 32%
    War in Iraq 29%

    The Left is going to experience a rude awakening next year, when voters make decisions on the real issues, and not on the phony, manufactured issues spun by Chris Matthews and the rest of the liberal press.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    WCinWI said:
    Looks like a bunch of libertarian-leaning pols got elected in 2010 and another bunch will be brought in, in 2012. What’s Obama going to run on? $5 gas? A 3rd war? Jobs created or saved? High speed rail? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    not being republican should just about do it.

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    Obama is a US citizen; he donated to his own campaign fund, and foreign nationals are not allowed to make contributions to candidates in US federal elections…see, that’s how we liberals reason and rationalize.

  • rubberneck

    Yay!! Another birther post…

  • WCinWI

    V.I. ULYANOV said:
    Obama is a US citizen; he donated to his own campaign fund, and foreign nationals are not allowed to make contributions to candidates in US federal elections…see, that’s how we liberals reason and rationalize.

    And the FEC is conducting an audit so that we can know what foreign monies were donated.

  • BadGenome

    Let Chris Matthews finish? One of Obama’s “little boy smiles” should do the trick.

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    I like Chris. He is the only MSNBC guy who shows his true colors. I remember when he made that comment, “I get a tingling feeling up and down my leg when I hear that man (Obama) speak.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Tingles and the rest of the Libtards sure are afraid of Trump….So are the establishment Republicans!!!

    I’m sure Palin is relieved to get a reprieve from the onslaught by the so called compassionate left.

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    Isn’t the FEC kind of under control of the Democrats?

  • Eruptor75

    Are we all calling him “Tingles” now? That is freaking awesome. I hope that nickname catches on so he hears about it.

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    Bumper sticker

    A village in Kenya is missing its idiot.

  • V.I. ULYANOV

    While you Democrats/Progressives and Republicans exchange insults, my political party is taking over your government.

    Karl Marx – I am not a Marxist
    BH Obama – I am not a socialist
    Smoky Bear – I am not a bear

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    V.I. ULYANOV said:
    I like Chris. He is the only MSNBC guy who shows his true colors. I remember when he made that comment, “I get a tingling feeling up and down my leg when I hear that man (Obama) speak.

    try again skippy…
    he said when obama was saying that america was so great that only a story like his is possible, he got a thrill.
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/chris-matthews-obama-sends-the-same-thrill-up-my-leg-all-over-me/

    if you’re gonna be an asshole, at least be a correct asshole.

  • Garth

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Tingles and the rest of the Libtards sure are afraid of Trump….So are the establishment Republicans!!!

    I’m sure Palin is relieved to get a reprieve from the onslaught by the so called compassionate left.

    We love you and the rest of the circus clowns. Obama will win re-election in a landslide, thanks to idiots like you.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Who are the biggest sources of the birther talk? Donald Trump (who has never been a politician) and MSNBC. Naturally that means all Republicans are birthers and that is the sole issue on their minds.

  • Zandandido

    There is a big reason why Chris Matthews gets as many viewers as the government will get back from General Motors. Not just absolutely nothing, but losing money/viewers. All he does it talk about what people don’t really want to listen. Chris Matthews is literally obsessed with the birther issue, which was started by a campaign aide in the Hillary Clinton 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign.

  • notsofast

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    lol…you can find one lib who said that, we can find millions who doubt Obama’s citizenship.

    Keep up the good work, Chris.
    They started this shit but we will finish it.

    Nice lie, son.

    Name another Repub who is running for president who says that.

    But, hey, son , if ya want to label a group because of what one says, then the Dims have become the Communist Party.

    Yeah, your Van Jones represents all Dims and in this case, THAT IS TRUE!

  • macombman

    I love it how the birther issue drive Liberals up the wall. Funny videos are now being made on that subject.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmDB2aDkYQ

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    President takes office …………….. Gas @ $1.83 gal.

    Today………………………………………………. @ $3.95 gal.

    CAN YOU AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS?

    Hey GOP Dimwits, THAT’S A COMMERCIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • redleaf

    macombman said:
    I love it how the birther issue drive Liberals up the wall. Funny videos are now being made on that subject.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmDB2aDkYQ

    And why wouldn’t the birther issue drive liberals up the wall. Conservatives are hinging their political fortunes on some conspiracy theory propagated by right wing wackos. Such willingness to be fooled into believing whatever anti-Obama crap thrown against the wall is truly idiotic. So, yes, it drives liberals, and sane people the world over, absolutely crazy. So you keep hittin’ those “Obama is Foreign Born conspiracy websites and by around January 2017, after Obama’s successor is sworn in, it’ll all be over. And the only reason is because you cared more about chasing some stupid phantom egged on by Fox News and the Drudge Report than finding a viable candidate.

  • notsofast

    redleaf said:
    redleaf says:
    April 21, 2011 at 8:39 pm redleaf(Quote)
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    But Barry still can’t produce his BC, son.

    bawaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    If your IQ ever hits 7, sell, son!

  • Jaurez

    redleaf says:

    Explain the Connecticut ss#.

  • cjd ohio 1

    redleaf said:
    And why wouldn’t the birther issue drive liberals up the wall. Conservatives are hinging their political fortunes on some conspiracy theory propagated by right wing wackos. Such willingness to be fooled into believing whatever anti-Obama crap thrown against the wall is truly idiotic. So, yes, it drives liberals, and sane people the world over, absolutely crazy. So you keep hittin’ those “Obama is Foreign Born conspiracy websites and by around January 2017, after Obama’s successor is sworn in, it’ll all be over. And the only reason is because you cared more about chasing some stupid phantom egged on by Fox News and the Drudge Report than finding a viable candidate.

    matthews is on fox, and drudge report wow

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Meanwhile, in the Real World, Matthews, how much is Obama going to CAVE this Time? LOL!

  • Jaurez

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    President takes office …………….. Gas @ $1.83 gal.

    Today………………………………………………. @ $3.95 gal.

    CAN YOU AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS?

    Hey GOP Dimwits, THAT’S A COMMERCIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Gas is 4.29 where I live.

  • donalan

    V.I. ULYANOV said:
    I like Chris. He is the only MSNBC guy who shows his true colors. I remember when he made that comment, “I get a tingling feeling up and down my leg when I hear that man (Obama) speak.

    Wait did he show his true colors when he had a man-crush on Fred Thompson (R) when he was running for Pres. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2007/06/14/matthews ?

    Now back to how utterly bat-shit crazy 70% of Republicans are…

  • Jaurez

    donalan said:
    Wait did he show his true colors when he had a man-crush on Fred Thompson (R) when he was running for Pres. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2007/06/14/matthews ?

    Now back to how utterly bat-shit crazy 70% of Republicans are…

    Voted down for poor use of sock puppet.

  • Jaurez

    Gas WILL be 5 bucks by summer and libs WILL be deafly silent. Just watch.

  • Barack Must Go

    Garth said:
    Have some pudding with your Thorazine drip.

    Hey Shecky, what do you have your material recorded on a loop now? Same question, same time frame, third night in a row now.

  • Jaurez

    Barack Must Go said:
    Hey Shecky, what do you have your material recorded on a loop now? Same question, same time frame, third night in a row now.

    He’s a one trick pony. Always has been and always will be no matter what name he uses.

  • Tedderman

    68% of registered republicans are “Birthers,” so why is Matthews statement in doubt?

  • Jaurez

    Tedderman said:
    68% of registered republicans are “Birthers,” so why is Matthews statement in doubt?

    Where’s the cert?

  • Pablo

    Hardball: The Place for Birtherism.

    Tedderman said:
    68% of registered republicans are “Birthers,” so why is Matthews statement in doubt?

    How much crack did you smoke today, Tedderman?

  • Pablo

    Jaurez said:
    Gas WILL be 5 bucks by summer and libs WILL be deafly silent. Just watch.

    Independents won’t.

  • Pablo

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    lol…you can find one lib who said that, we can find millions who doubt Obama’s citizenship.

    Keep up the good work, Chris.
    They started this shit but we will finish it.

    Does Hillary know you’re after her?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Jaurez said:
    Gas is 4.29 where I live.

    Maybe you need a Volt! lol

  • grafxmail7

    Jaurez said:
    Gas WILL be 5 bucks by summer and libs WILL be deafly silent. Just watch.

    HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHHA!!!

    IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE LAYING YOUR HOPES ON FOR 2012??? THIS AND THE BC????

    YOU NEED TO COME UP WITH A STRATEGY OTHER THAN FEAR! THAT’S SO 2004! HA!

    FOR A PARTY THAT I USED TO ADMIRE FOR THEIR STRATEGY AND TACTICIANS…..MAN!!!!….YOU GUYS ARE BLOWING IT! YOU’RE ALL BREAKING REAGAN’S COMMANDMENT AND EATING EACH OTHER. YOUR DISCIPLINE IS SLIPPING….HAH!

    IT GREAT WATCHING YOU GUYS!!!! LIKE A BUNCH OF KEYSTONE COPS!!!!

    GOOD LUCK ON THAT…OH YEAH…..CAN’T WAIT FOR THE TOWN HALLS!!!

  • grafxmail7

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Maybe you need a Volt! lol

    ARE YOU MENTALLY ABLE TO DRIVE A CAR?

    HHAHAHAHAHHA!!! CLOWN!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    A poll by NY Times/CBS:
    Asked of registered Republicans.
    47% believe Obama was born in a foreign country.
    22% “don’t know” where he was born.
    32% believe he was born in Hawaii.

    There is a report on the story on Mediaite in the “Print” section, done by Alex Alvarez.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    grafxmail7 said:
    ARE YOU MENTALLY ABLE TO DRIVE A CAR? HHAHAHAHAHHA!!! CLOWN!!!!

    Where’s the Fuscan Birth Certificate? heh-heh; or a reason why there is none??

  • grafxmail7

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Where’s the Fuscan Birth Certificate? heh-heh; or a reason why there is none??

    BECAUSE YOU’VE ALL BEEN TRICKED AND THIS WAS THE BIGGEST CON EVER!!!

    HE’S A KENYAN MEOW MEOW CAT AS WELL!!! ALL YOU RIGHTIES WERE TOO STUPID TO PICK UP ON IT AND NOW HE’S IN POWER AND EVERYONE IS COVERING IT UP BECAUSE THEY DON’T LIKE YOU RIGHTIES!!! HE ALSO WANTS TO TAKE ALL YOUR MONEY AND MAKE YOU WORK AS CARNYS BECAUSE YOU ALL SMELL LIKE CABBAGE!!!

    BET YOU RIGHTIES FEEL PRETTY STUPID!!!!

    CLOWNS!!!!! GO BACK TO YOUR FREAK SHOWS!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

  • vindex2010

    I read somewhere that people who leave the cap lock on all the time tend to have low self-esteem and body image problems.Thoughts?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Maybe you need a Volt! lol

    If I could, I’d send you 1,000, if it would improve your personality.

  • vindex2010

    These polls are ridiculous on both sides. Over 40% on the Left believe George Bush engineered the murder of 4100 US citizens just so we can have cheap oil. (BTW How’s that theory working out?) The real answers to these type of gotcha questions are “I don’t like that person’s world view and to make myself feel better I will agree with the most ridiculous theories about them.” The fact is, you could ask the question “Do you think Obama is a werewolf?” or “Does Bush bath in the blood of runaway children?” and still get 27% to agree on either side. Most of the people who answered this poll question probably didn’t even know there was a constitutional requirement for Presidential candidates to be born in America.

  • Resistance Is Futile

    The Republican party is a party of dumb, ignorant bigots. This is proof.

  • IIWII

    Good gracious!!! Do you know why the Right keeps throwing this bone out????? Because the Left keeps biting/barking at it! Why oh why can’t you Libs just let this die???? Why are you Libs so taken by the birther issue? Just let it go!

  • IIWII

    Resistance Is Futile said:
    The Republican party is a party of dumb, ignorant bigots. This is proof.

    You are wrong. Stop trolling….

  • IIWII

    vindex2010 said:
    I read somewhere that people who leave the cap lock on all the time tend to have low self-esteem and body image problems.Thoughts?

    and a small penis/breasts….

  • ModerateMan

    If I am ever asked a “birther” question by a pollster I am going to tell them I think Obama was born in Keyna. It will 1) piss off MSNBC, and 2) distract the liberal media from talking about real issues so that they suffer more losses in 2012. I think this whole issue is having the opposite effect that Mathews thinks it does.

  • IIWII

    ModerateMan said:
    If I am ever asked a “birther” question by a pollster I am going to tell them I think Obama was born in Keyna. It will 1) piss off MSNBC, and 2) distract the liberal media from talking about real issues so that they suffer more losses in 2012. I think this whole issue is having the opposite effect that Mathews thinks it does.

    I hear ya. I was asked in a class, “What is wrong will polls?” I answered, “People lie.” … and I have lied to every poll-taker-call I have had in the last 30 years. Keep ‘em guessing.

  • IIWII

    grafxmail7 said:
    ARE YOU MENTALLY ABLE TO DRIVE A CAR?

    HHAHAHAHAHHA!!! CLOWN!!!!

    That should be “physically” able to drive a car and “mentally” able to understand the rules of the road….. geesh, I hate having to clean up the trash on this site. Why do I always have to take out the garbage? Well, to be fair… there are a few others who help now and then. “Turk, Notsofast, Tatboy, ModerateMan and when she is rational… Ellie”

  • IIWII

    IIWII said:
    That should be “physically” able to drive a car and “mentally” able to understand the rules of the road….. geesh, I hate having to clean up the trash on this site. Why do I always have to take out the garbage? Well, to be fair… there are a few others who help now and then. “Turk, Notsofast, Tatboy, ModerateMan and when she is rational… Ellie”

    and Barack Must Go does his fair share of the heavy lifting, Pablo, geesh……. you know who you are.

  • eli

    SEE “NORBIT JR” IS A WHITE OLD HAG, HE IS A RACIST, SO DOES THE REST OF HIS PILE OF DOG SHIT

  • eli

    WHITE OLD HAGS CAN’T STAND THE FACT THAT A BLACK MAN IS NIN POWER, THEY’RE LITTLE PUSSIES GET SO WET WHEN A WHITE SHIT CAN’T GET IN TO POWER

  • IIWII

    eli said:
    WHITE OLD HAGS CAN’T STAND THE FACT THAT A BLACK MAN IS NIN POWER, THEY’RE LITTLE PUSSIES GET SO WET WHEN A WHITE SHIT CAN’T GET IN TO POWER

    White old hags do not like the fact Nine Inch Nails(NIN) is in power? Wow…..keep up the posting…I LOVE this stuff! Keep drinking… you get funnier as you get more drunk!!! I love it!

  • Resistance Is Futile

    IIWII said:
    You are wrong. Stop trolling….

    I am wrong? You are living proof I am right! You are the air headed troll here. You could not debate your way out of a limp, wet paper bag.

  • IIWII

    Resistance Is Futile said:
    I am wrong? You are living proof I am right! You are the air headed troll here. You could not debate your way out of a limp, wet paper bag.

    kekekekekekekekekekekek Idiot. (But you did make me laugh)

  • Truth

    I don’t believe nor do I want accept that 7 in 10 Republicans fell Obama was born outside the US. There will always people normally an extreme few on the left and the right that stoop so low they try character assassination. It is the result of either ignorance or dirty politics. In Trump’s case it’s dirty politics. That is why he will never be a bona fide contender. He will be a flash in the pan just like he was in 2000.

  • WildMan

    OLD Chrissy Tingles the guy with a 70 IQ. He and Keith Olbermann should go on tour as The Two Idiots. They would get millions laughing @ them! Good grief, Chrissy, grow the hell up old man!

  • slickerwick

    Garth said:
    The GOP is a freak show. I love it.

    You’re a one-man freak show.

  • slickerwick

    Garth said:
    We love you and the rest of the circus clowns. Obama will win re-election in a landslide, thanks to idiots like you.

    Did you predict the Dems would win the midterms? Your party got “shellacked,” to quote O-bomb-a.

  • mediadoubt

    I think Matthews is right that madness has swept through the ‘Licans’ base (witness the posts here), but whether madness will lead to their electoral failure is far from certain.

    Being an optimist, I think yes, the fact that ‘Licans will be impeded in bringing seriousness to the 2012 campaign will contribute to an Obama victory. Most Americans aren’t, after all, batshit insane.

    But when I see the intensity of birther delusion, it’s hard to be sure. A GOTV program built on insanity — pretty inovative politics.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    The democrat party has become the Becker party. Obsessed with the man that singlehandedly brought their false god Barack Obama to his knees.

    Actually that would be *your* obsession. Who the hell are you talking about?

  • mediadoubt

    felixw said:
    Let me suggest a more accurate headline:

    Instead of ‘The Republican Party Has Become The Birther Party’

    a more honest headline would be

    ‘Mainstream Media Tries Desperately to Paint the Republican Party as The Birther Party’

    Meanwhile here are the ACTUAL top ten issues among American voters, as determined by a recent poll. As you can see, the President’s birth certificate doesn’t show up on the list.

    Economy 76%
    Health Care 63%
    Taxes 59%
    Gov’t Ethics and Corruption 58%
    Social Security 57%
    Education 55%
    Immigration 52%
    National Security/War on Terror 44%
    Afghanistan 32%
    War in Iraq 29%

    The Left is going to experience a rude awakening next year, when voters make decisions on the real issues, and not on the phony, manufactured issues spun by Chris Matthews and the rest of the liberal press.

    There’s some truth to what you say, but you’ve got it backwards. Obama supporters and sensible independents are concerned with the issues, pretty clearly. On the other hand, while ‘Licans and the far-right are *victims* of those issues, they are spending an insane amount of energy worrying about a senseless non-issue. Those senior, sane ‘Licans who call birtherism a distraction are absolutely correct.

    And there’s another way that the distraction of birtherism (which doesn’t afflict the center-left) will impede ‘Lican candidates: they’ll have to play to the whackos on their side to have any hope of making it through primary/preselection processes, and that will cost them even more credibility with the sane component of the electorate.

    Obama’s chances have improved substantially since the birtherists caught their current round of fever.

  • mediadoubt

    Jaurez said:
    redleaf says:

    Explain the Connecticut ss#.

    Errrm . . . who gives a shit?

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    Hey Shecky, what do you have your material recorded on a loop now? Same question, same time frame, third night in a row now.

    Some truths are true any time of the day or night.

  • mediadoubt

    IIWII said:
    Good gracious!!! Do you know why the Right keeps throwing this bone out????? Because the Left keeps biting/barking at it! Why oh why can’t you Libs just let this die???? Why are you Libs so taken by the birther issue? Just let it go!

    Because the ‘Licans are seriously compromising their chances in 2012 because their simple-minded followers ar obsessed with this nonsense.

    Why should the center-left abandon such a great opportunity to help the opposition implode?

  • mediadoubt

    IIWII said:
    and a small penis/breasts….

    Penis/breasts. That’s pretty kinky. Kind of interesting, though . . .

  • Alice67

    IIWII said:
    Good gracious!!! Do you know why the Right keeps throwing this bone out????? Because the Left keeps biting/barking at it! Why oh why can’t you Libs just let this die???? Why are you Libs so taken by the birther issue? Just let it go!

    First you create a freak show then tell us not to cheer it on! Are you kidding! This is the best show in decades. Can’t get much better than this. Fox created and stroked and stoked AND GAVE THEIR VIEWERS A WHOLE NEW REALITY! a Frankenstein reality, for sure ….. with only one cure. You must root out the core of the evil.
    Rush Limbaugh.

    Someone has to save the party.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    For all this prattling about how the birther issue is going to be the undoing of the Republican party in 2012, name for me the candidates who are making this their platform. You have Trump, who has not declared yet, and then . . .? No other politician is bringing up the subject outside the occassional comment. Trump is a novelty act who has a one-note campaign. No other contender has said anything about this with any regularity.

  • newzmaker

    Chris Matthews is still in the business of terrifying people of color, with his daily prattle that Republicans are going to eat people of color alive. What a stupid freaking pseudo-liberal, Matthews is, going to and coming from his lily-white neighborhood. LOL.

  • ChrisNH

    There is no ‘optimism’ or ‘hope’ in the U.S. any more, everyone agrees and all polls declare.

    Oba-Mao is getting kicked in his limp-wristed ASS every day, and I LOVE it!

    He is the most hated president ever, easily eclipsing Jimmah Cahtah as ‘worst-ever.’

    I’m looking forward to continued beatings and bludgeoning administered to Oba-Mao.

  • Cecelia

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/bush_administration/22_believe_bush_knew_about_9_11_attacks_in_advance

    Here’s a Rasmussen Poll showing that in 07, a full 61% of Democrats either believed that Pres. Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11 or were unsure if Bush knew or not.

    Where was Chris Matthews then?

  • Cecelia

    “Matthews no longer believes it is merely a distraction, since “seven in ten Republicans” today lack the basic confidence that Obama legitimately holds the office.”

    I’d venture that this proportion is equal to the number of Democrats who believed the Bush presidency illegitimate after the 2000 Supreme Court decision.

    Why wasn’t Matthews concerned when “banana republic” was the partisan trope of the day?

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    Actually that would be *your* obsession. Who the hell are you talking about?

    When you’ve finished whatever you’re doing in your pants there with your non typing hand, first wash it then raise it high over your head….you’ll answer your own question.

    Hell, I like it, very Obama ( assertive sounding ). You almost sound like a big boy now…….almost.

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    There’s some truth to what you say, but you’ve got it backwards. Obama supporters and sensible independents are concerned with the issues, pretty clearly. On the other hand, while ‘Licans and the far-right are *victims* of those issues, they are spending an insane amount of energy worrying about a senseless non-issue. Those senior, sane ‘Licans who call birtherism a distraction are absolutely correct.

    And there’s another way that the distraction of birtherism (which doesn’t afflict the center-left) will impede ‘Lican candidates: they’ll have to play to the whackos on their side to have any hope of making it through primary/preselection processes, and that will cost them even more credibility with the sane component of the electorate.

    Obama’s chances have improved substantially since the birtherists caught their current round of fever.

    Come on you’re a smart ( ass ) guy..right? When the ” real ” American people ( licans ) get into the voting booth during a presidential election their own, their children and grandchildren’s lives pass quickly before their eyes just as they are about to pull the trigger. If things are not going well or according to plan, the sitting president is blamed along with his / her respective party.

    So no matter how much embezzled money Baracxk has to spend, the left wing press spins, or you kid yourself, for all practicle intents and purposes Obama is a one term president…….period, amen.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    When you’ve finished whatever you’re doing in your pants there with your non typing hand, first wash it then raise it high over your head….you’ll answer your own question.

    Hell, I like it, very Obama ( assertive sounding ). You almost sound like a big boy now…….almost.

    Do you make little puppets of your hands and have them talk to each another to make up this fevered nonsense? Do you select words at random from online copies of Hints From Heloise? Did your cage of rats escape and run all over your keyboard?

    Naah, I’ve giving you too much credit. You’re desperately trying to be snarky and amusing at the same time and you’re just incapable.

    It’s kind of pathetic, actually.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    Come on you’re a smart ( ass ) guy..right? When the ” real ” American people ( licans ) get into the voting booth during a presidential election their own, their children and grandchildren’s lives pass quickly before their eyes just as they are about to pull the trigger. If things are not going well or according to plan, the sitting president is blamed along with his / her respective party.

    So no matter how much embezzled money Baracxk has to spend, the left wing press spins, or you kid yourself, for all practicle intents and purposes Obama is a one term president…….period, amen.

    Great. As I’ve said before, since it’s a flat certainty that Obama will lose, I wouldn’t bother going to the polls if I were you.

    Why don’t you take those children and grandchildren (whose lives you’re halluncinating about) out for a big breakfast at Denney’s and then have a nice nap. You can celebrate President Trump’s win the next day.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Cecelia said:
    “Matthews no longer believes it is merely a distraction, since “seven in ten Republicans” today lack the basic confidence that Obama legitimately holds the office.” I’d venture that this proportion is equal to the number of Democrats who believed the Bush presidency illegitimate after the 2000 Supreme Court decision. Why wasn’t Matthews concerned when “banana republic” was the partisan trope of the day?

    Tingles was as irrellevant then as he is now, if that
    is at all possible.. Check RATINGS!!

  • mickeymat

    Yea, and Matthews is the Tingler. Look, President Obama’s entire life story is a fairy tale concocted to sell his presidency. When it is proven to be a lie, it will hurt him but it will also go a long way to explaining his virulent anti-Americanism. Bill Ayers wrote his book and it is a false narrative. Obama isn’t even his legal name. This guy is a serial liar and he is having a reallt tough time now keeping all his lies straight.

  • Penguin60

    MartiniShark said:
    For all this prattling about how the birther issue is going to be the undoing of the Republican party in 2012, name for me the candidates who are making this their platform. You have Trump, who has not declared yet, and then . . .? No other politician is bringing up the subject outside the occassional comment. Trump is a novelty act who has a one-note campaign. No other contender has said anything about this with any regularity.

    But then you have the lemmings that …..

    mediadoubt said:
    On the other hand, while ‘Licans and the far-right are *victims* of those issues, they are spending an insane amount of energy worrying about a senseless non-issue.

    They are the ones that keep bringing this up. It’s quite the dance to watch. Too bad it won’t work with gas at $5, still no jobs, now 3 wars, increase taxes…how’s that hope and change working out for you lemmings?

  • david r

    mediadoubt said:
    Great. As I’ve said before, since it’s a flat certainty that Obama will lose, I wouldn’t bother going to the polls if I were you.

    Why don’t you take those children and grandchildren (whose lives you’re halluncinating about) out for a big breakfast at Denney’s and then have a nice nap. You can celebrate President Trump’s win the next day.

    I hate to be picky, but it’s Denny’s. Chances are there’s a La Quinta nearby. (La Quinta means “next to Denny’s” in Spanish.) I can tell you’ve never had the rooty tooty, fresh n’ fruity breakfast. I’m tired of you Northern libs blithely making fun of our beloved Southern institutions. Next thing you know, you’ll be trying to claim that pro wrestling is fixed.

  • issa

    If the Certificate of Live Birth released by Mr Obama was in fact a true Birth Certificate it would say “Accepted by the State Registrar” right above the date on the document, in August 1961, meaning that someone filed a statement that Obama was born in Hawaii on a certain date, and that the evidence provided was sufficient to verify the statement, such that the registrar “Accepted” the accuracy of the filing and registered the Birth.
    In the case of Mr Obama’s “Certificate”, it says it was “Filed” with the Registrar, but does not say that it was ever “Accepted”, meaning that when the statement was made concerning the Birth, which automatically triggered the newspaper announcements, there was less than the minimum required verification submitted with the statement. The Registrar could not verify the accuracy so he “Filed” the statement but did not “Accept” it.
    What should have happened is the person making the statement should have returned with sufficient verification to meet the minimum required documentation to prove their statement attesting to the birth, at which time the Registrar would have created a new document stating that the record of birth was “Accepted”. What Mr Obama has presented is a document that was “Filed” but never “Accepted”. This means the information contained in the statement has never been verified.
    It is my opinion that the reason he has not shown a long form birth certificate is he doesn’t have one in the Hawaiian Health Department “File” because the statement attesting to his birth was never verified, or if he does have a long form BC it cannot be used to verify the information in the statement attesting to a Hawaiian birth “Filed” by someone living at the grandparents address.

  • redwriteblue

    The Republican Party has become the “Grand Old Tax Avoiders Party” as they talk about “Freedom” and “Liberty” in Iraq yet they want to limit what medical procedures American women can receive:

    http://redwriteblue.blog.com/2011/04/08/republicans-war-against/

  • grafxmail7

    IIWII said:
    That should be “physically” able to drive a car and “mentally” able to understand the rules of the road….. geesh, I hate having to clean up the trash on this site.

    HAHAHAHAAHHAAHAH!!!

    WHAT A COMPLETE IDIOT YOU ARE!!! I SAID EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT TO SAY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BACK AND FORTH.

    YOU’RE TRYING TO BE FUNNY WITH THIS EFFORT? YOU BETTER STEP IT UP FOOL!!!

    THEN YOU COMMENT ON YOUR OWN COMMENT! WHAT A F&@KING CLOWN YOU ARE!!!

    HAHHAHAHAAHAHHHAH!!!!

  • Nachi

    Another great Family Values Christian.

  • mediadoubt

    Penguin60 said:
    But then you have the lemmings that …..

    They are the ones that keep bringing this up. It’s quite the dance to watch. Too bad it won’t work with gas at $5, still no jobs, now 3 wars, increase taxes…how’s that hope and change working out for you lemmings?

    I suppose it’s possible that the fever will break in time for the ‘Licans to claw back some credibility with the electorate. Stranger things have happened in politics. But the whole frenzy highlights how the rightwiing in America is now driven by fantasy, resentment, and hysteria.

    Not exactly a winning combination.

  • mediadoubt

    david r said:
    I hate to be picky, but it’s Denny’s. Chances are there’s a La Quinta nearby. (La Quinta means “next to Denny’s” in Spanish.) I can tell you’ve never had the rooty tooty, fresh n’ fruity breakfast. I’m tired of you Northern libs blithely making fun of our beloved Southern institutions. Next thing you know, you’ll be trying to claim that pro wrestling is fixed.

    If wrestling isn’t fixed, my bookie has been stringing me along for years. That (expletive deleted) so-and-so!

  • eingriff

    Would that it were so. RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) had their chance to carry the fight to Obama by investigating him, but crapped out. Apparently they are happy with an enemy agent in the Office of President. By pulling their punches, the RINOs will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and condemn the nation to a totalitarian dictatorship.

    Nobody will prevail against Obama unless he is shown for what he is, whatever that might be. This will require exhaustive official investigations, chief among them by Congress. The crass and craven RINOs have failed and refused to launch a congressional investigation of Obama, starting with his Hawai’ian vital records and DNA. Very possibly the CIA has an analysis of his DNA, which would conclusively disprove the certification of live birth as a birth certificate. It is biologically impossible for Obama to be the son of a Negro father and a Caucasian mother.

    I expect that subpoenae of Obama’s vital records and DNA will show birth in Hawai’i to two U.S. citizen parents, neither of whom is Negro. There is ample reason to believe that he had a Caucasian birth father and a Polynesian birth mother. Those who voted for Obama wholly or partly because they were led to believe he had a Negro father could be very angry. If not, they should be. Conception might have been by artificial insemination. Obama’s real father might be a turkey baster.

    Thorough investigation will show that Obama acquired Indonesian citizenship by operation of law, and strenuous efforts, including corrupt and seditious bargains, themselves adequate for impeachment and removal from office, were made to conceal Indonesian citizenship. Whether Obama’s U.S. citizenship survived his acquisition and exercise of Indonesian citizenship requires extensive fact-finding, legal research, briefing and argument.

    Complete investigation will very possibly disclose that Obama is an agent of the Comintern.

    The House RINOs’ failure to investigate Obama is a grave dereliction of duty.

  • mediadoubt

    eingriff said:
    Would that it were so. RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) had their chance to carry the fight to Obama by investigating him, but crapped out. Apparently they are happy with an enemy agent in the Office of President. By pulling their punches, the RINOs will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and condemn the nation to a totalitarian dictatorship.

    Nobody will prevail against Obama unless he is shown for what he is, whatever that might be. This will require exhaustive official investigations, chief among them by Congress. The crass and craven RINOs have failed and refused to launch a congressional investigation of Obama, starting with his Hawai’ian vital records and DNA. Very possibly the CIA has an analysis of his DNA, which would conclusively disprove the certification of live birth as a birth certificate. It is biologically impossible for Obama to be the son of a Negro father and a Caucasian mother.

    I expect that subpoenae of Obama’s vital records and DNA will show birth in Hawai’i to two U.S. citizen parents, neither of whom is Negro. There is ample reason to believe that he had a Caucasian birth father and a Polynesian birth mother. Those who voted for Obama wholly or partly because they were led to believe he had a Negro father could be very angry. If not, they should be. Conception might have been by artificial insemination. Obama’s real father might be a turkey baster.

    Thorough investigation will show that Obama acquired Indonesian citizenship by operation of law, and strenuous efforts, including corrupt and seditious bargains, themselves adequate for impeachment and removal from office, were made to conceal Indonesian citizenship. Whether Obama’s U.S. citizenship survived his acquisition and exercise of Indonesian citizenship requires extensive fact-finding, legal research, briefing and argument.

    Complete investigation will very possibly disclose that Obama is an agent of the Comintern.

    The House RINOs’ failure to investigate Obama is a grave dereliction of duty.

    As a parody of wingnut fever dreams, this is a hoot.

    I trust that parody is what we’re talking about here . . . if not, you’ve got, err, “problems.”

    I think the first thing we’d need to do is have you read a little essay titled “Why Life is not a Tom Clancy Novel.” Let me know if you want to enroll in the therapy sessions (3 times a week for about a year — and no, your health insurance probably won’t cover it).

  • CAconservative

    If Matthews is suggesting that birthers believe the Constitution is the law of the land and the presidential requirements set out in that document should be followed, then yes, we are birthers. If Matthews, and the bottom-feeding entitlement leeches think that what the workers earn should not be taken away to pay for the health-care, welfare, food-stamps, and all other welfare programs the Progressive leeches feed off, then yes, we are birthers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Durffee/1311278663 Ed Durffee

    Boy Matthews, you still have that arrogant elitist idea that you speak for someone other than yourself. Im a republican, and I could care less about Obama’s Birth Certificate. You need to be a bit more careful how you paint. You know, I have tried for years to understand what you are about, no clue yet other than a very loud and disingenous Hater of Conservatives. YOU are the epitome of what is called Main Stream Media Bias. You have never looked at or for any view if it came from the right. You mistakenly believe that only a Liberal has any education, that only Liberal Views are valid and good for America. My time on earth has proven over and over, you are 100% mistaken in nearly every word you utter, you are irrelevant. And I suppose you are too old to make any change in that. Sorry.

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