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Rachel Maddow Wishes Happy Birthday To President Obama With Birther Retrospective

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President Barack Obama turns 50 today– half a century since he was born in Kenya, his parents forged a fake newspaper announcement in Hawaii, and the Democratic state committed fraud to reproduce and archive a fake birth certificate. This was the well-wishing the President got from Rachel Maddow tonight, who took the opportunity to put together a look back at birther madness and the headline makers who kept it in the news.

Maddow began with a short history of Barack Obama’s birth according to birthers– the pregnancy, the mysterious flight to Kenya, and the massive fraud that would have had to be committed in order for a foreign-born baby to have been accepted enough to be President. “Why would they give birth in Kenya and not Hawaii?” Maddow asked, “I don’t know!” But somehow, the President’s parents “knew in 1961 that this baby would be president one day,” and so somehow added a fake long-form birth certificate to the Hawaii archives.

She then noted the long list of Republicans who had contemplated that the theory was true, stopping for a bit longer on, of course, the Donald Trump saga, and giving special shout-outs to noted birthers Orly Taitz (who is apparently still on the case) and the folks at WorldNet Daily. Noting that she never thought it would end, the real birth certificate, she concluded, did its job: “It did put it to rest. I was wrong.” Except for, of course, Rush Limbaugh‘s birthday greeting yesterday morning.

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • realheadline

    Scraping the bottom of the barrel mr/ms Maddow. Birther strawman goofy word association again……..Pitiful

  • Anonymous

    Rhodes scholar……lol

  • John

    Rachel Madcow keep on praising Obumma. While he is so hard at work on the campaign trail, fundraising with millionaires and billionaires, the economy just keeps on tanking. Hey but it is his birthday we at Mslsd are thinking of declaring it a national holiday. Hail to the potus.

  • Anonymous

    What a dishonest hag.
    You got to love the way she implies outrageous theories and then attributes them to people who never said it and then criticizes them for what was said only by her.
    That was some damn fine straw man.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I believe it Rachel, you convinced me. Layers!

  • gordonbloyershow

    Why does this idiot have a show? She helped lib radio go broke. She is now getting less than a million viewers several times a week. She isn’t qualified to run the fryer at McDonalds.

  • Anonymous

    Did she mention McCain?  Isn’t his birthplace the start of all the birther BS?  Sort of a tit-for-tat?
    No puns intended. 

  • Greg

    It seems like only yesterday that a small but vocal minority proposed illogical and unfounded arguments based on deep fanatical belief driven by primitive bias… Thank God that’s all behind us now.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    I work for a company called Infocision, you’d actually be surprised I hear what she said from people everyday, and I’m not talking about old people. I hear professors (or at least they say they are) pumping this stuff still.

  • Anonymous

    Happy Birthday Barrack…now where is my free lunch?

  • Anonymous

    Then Rick blasted into a Truther retrospective and demanded the assassination of Bush.

    Happy birthday Mr. Big Eared Pea-Bagger…

  • Anonymous

    that cool reasonable , some people are just fools, but i get tired of the broad brush sometimes

  • Greg

    That’s funny…because you have a show that generates zero income… On YouTube… With a million viewers minus 999,800… And you called her a moron while writing at a grade school Lexile… Which means by your logic you aren’t qualified to work as a placemat at Denny’s.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    Rachel Maddow to birthers: I can’t quit you!

    More proof that there would have been no mainstream birther movement without the exposure it got from MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    For a gay woman she sure likes to plant her lips on Obama’s backside.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Sewell/1065978509 Sam Sewell

    There isn’t enough reliable evidence to make an intellectually honest conclusion about Obama’s eligibility to be president.  Nobody knows!  Those who claim to know are partisans.

    Obama Ineligibility – Devvy Kidd Says It Correctly – Pay Attention to Her!
    Why Obama cannot be impeached
    http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/07/obama-ineligibility-devvy-kidd-says-it.html
     
    Do you really think AKA Obama would have won the election if all the things he is hiding were made known?
     
    Do you really think AKA Obama will be able to finish his first term if all the things he is hiding are made known?
     
    Why aren’t the polls on the birth certificate issue 100% in favor of AKA Obama practicing the virtue of full disclosure?  It makes sense that supporters of AKA Obama would want the issue settled along with everyone else.  I guess there is a significant portion of the population who are opposed to releasing AKA Obama’s history because they are afraid of what it will reveal.  I would conclude that those opposed to releasing all of Obama’s history are frightened of the truth just like AKA Obama.If you are not suspicious of a man who hides his history I have a bridge in the desert I want to sell you. If you are unwilling to call for an investigation of a man who attempts to sell you a bridge in the desert I have some beach front property in Florida at the intersection of I75 and Florida # 29 that I want you to buy. If you place a down payment on a contract for the bridge in the desert and the beach front property in the swamp I would conclude that you voted for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Rush is still on the birther bandwagon?  Proof that too much OxyContin will make you go senile.  

  • Greg

    A wise man once said, “reason is the hard pressed servant of the will”.

  • Anonymous

    Obama turned the big 5-0 today and the Dow dropped a big 5-0-0 in honor of his achievement.

  • Republicans are Liars

    You are a moron. YOu probably think we didn’t land on the moon as well. Do youplay Santa Clause at Christmas time? You have a better chance of beliving there is a Santa than Obama not being elligible.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Absolutely Blow Hard. Why does she have a show and you are stuck in BumF#$% Indiana? It is a real miscarriage of justice.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Absolutely Blow Hard. Why does she have a show and you are stuck in BumF#$% Indiana? It is a real miscarriage of justice.

  • Republicans are Liars

    And what do you like to wrap your lips around…

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    No apparently Obama has a vagina.

    It has to be true because I read it on the daily KOS.

  • Anonymous

    Barf! Maddow looks like Kathy Griffin with a buzz-cut.

  • Anonymous

    Birthers are still relevant or prevalent? Or is msnbc just trying to keep them alive? I mean how much coverage does some irrelevant group of unewsorthy people need? Especially after they have seemingly gone away ?

  • Anonymous

    We know what this Leftist shrew doesn’t: Obamo isn’t just the worst president SINCE Jimmah Cartah; he’s now acknowledged to be worse THAN Jimmah Cartah.

  • BR

    To “our” president.  The biggest D-Bagger that ever lived!

  • gordonbloyershow

    And you hide behind a phony name so no one will know that you change bedpans at the local home.

  • gordonbloyershow

    You need to tell us your real name so we can get you help. Your mental condition is serious. You have the Obama Mental Fixation. The constant lying is the result. Shock treatments are called for. It will only hurt for a little while. Then you can get back to the fryer at Wendy’s.

  • Anonymous

    He had yet another party at the WH last night, no doubt at our expense, with his hollywood buddy millionaires and billionaires.  2012 cannot come soon enough….worse than Jimmy, completely incompetent.

  • http://twitter.com/VonSyndicate Von Syndicate

    There are Birthers in the House of Representatives? That’s disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: When there’s smoke there’s fire!
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=329733

  • Anonymous

    Fact: History being made Jimmy Carter taken off the worst president ever was replaced by Obama!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Maddow was on the movie “Where’s Pat”.

  • TruDat

     I’d claim it’s Ron Reagan Jr. in drag, but it dresses like a man.

  • Farnsworth

    It would be nice to have a Rachel Maddow discussion on Mediaite that doesn’t descend into tenth grade comments about her sexuality or her looks. But of course none of you are bigots or even narrow-minded. No way José. Not on your nelly.

  • Anonymous

    What is even more disgusting is that there are Democrats in the House of Representatives.

  • realheadline

    Obama fiddles in opulance while Rome burns. Handywork of the progressives think-tanks in action on the less than intelligent useful idiot libs His minions whipped into a frenzy by class warfare rhetoric, race-baiting and stupidity. All liberals should be very proud today.
    http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/126825018.html

  • Ghasler416

    I was born in Kansas, 1942, through a series of marriages, Married a Swiss, lived in Switzerland, while in Switzerland gave birth to a daughter, went to consulate. She was issued a passaport at 6 weeks of age,  because I was an American.  Obama’s mother was an American, doesn’t matter where he was born; he is an American!

  • TruDat

    Now follow up with a Sarah Palin rant.

  • Glenda Hasler

     Obama is an American, because his mother was an American!

  • Glenda Hasler

     Obama is an American, because his mother was an American!

  • Glenda Hasler

    Rachel Maddow is an intelligent, thoughtful woman, thta’s all one need to know.

  • realheadline

    …another pretend lecture from a liberal. Do you see anything in my post other than criticism of Maddow? This was a comment on the shows repetitive nature. Seek help.

  • realheadline

    Your mother.

  • Farnsworth

    If you rearrange the letters of Sarah Palin’s name you get Sharia Plan. Will that do you utter numbskull?

  • Yukon Jack

    And like at the end of some kid’s shows: If only she/he had used his/her talents to do something good….

  • Greg

    Lol… Classic Gordon… You sir are a national treasure worth your weight in gold.

  • Anonymous

    Liberals like Maddow like to take the focus off the truth by slandering people as crazies for questioning why Obama produced a poorly fabricated fake PDF document and has yet to produce a legitimate one!!!

    That is what Liberals do, they have to belittle everyone who isn’t on board with their agenda because they cannot debate the facts.
    That is why anyone who disagrees with Obamas policies are labeled racists by liberals.
    Liberals go out of their way to find something to be offended about (ie, “tar baby”, “your boy” ect..) so they can attack!!!

  • http://twitter.com/RemiBernard Remi Bernard

    Oh, look. Stupid people!

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Maddow must have run out of current “gotcha” stories.  So the Queen of Gotcha has no choice except to dig out a dead gotcha story from the past.

    Of course, Rachel could talk about unemployment, the failing economy, the falling dollar, the stagnant GDP….but don’t hold your breath.  She will do more gotcha stories this evening.  Real news is toxic to the Democrats, so Maddow must ignore it at all costs.  

  • F4gator

    That Limbaugh clip is over a year old!!  This is an out and out lie.  She needs to be called on this.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XARZVEJA6WBR3JFNH7GOKDVERA Meat

    I saw the segment, and I can’t wait to see what kind of “trouble” she gets in for claiming that Limbaugh quote was from yesterday, when it was actually from a year ago. She did the snarky bit where she pretends to be hearing something from her producer: “What? Really? This is from today? Okay, roll the tape…” Problem is, it wasn’t from yesterday, it was from a little over a year ago. Where did this nut come from, and how did she get a show? Hardly a day passes when she doesn’t say something mind-numbingly stupid and erroneous. So I suppose she’ll get in as much trouble as she ever does, which is to say, none…

  • Yodda_is_lame

    Rachel Maddow used a clip from 2010 and took it out of context in order to manufacture news and attempt to make a political enemy look foolish. Proof she is just another mean-spirited liberal.

    Your tired old reference to the problem that Rush struggled with and overcame is a lame argument. Proof that you are a liberal.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Your sister.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    dont forget RAL sister

  • Almich1

    I think she’d work on either side with equal vigor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Almich1

    Compared to who; you????????

  • Almich1

    He may be a citizen but both of his parents must be U.S. citizens in order to be a “matural born citizen” which is required to be President and Obama’s father was Kenyan.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly
  • Hu

    Liberalism is a sickness.  These morons think there is no evil in this world and take an electronic file as proof of Obama being born in this country. These anti-birthers soon will know how brainless they are.  Hell is about to break loose in Hawaii in three days.  Hawaii Department of Health forced to release Obama’s original birth certificate, which obviously doesn’t exist.

  • Zeth

    When God was giving brains you sure were last in line weren’t you?  You are the idiot who thinks there is no evil in this world and who take electronic files that were never certified/verified as legitimate birth certificates.  The country is at stake idiot.  Quit watching Snooki, reading tabloids and grow a brain.   I’d really hate to be you.  You are a duummb as.s.  Unfortunately your type won’t learn your lesson until Britney Spears and other Hollywood morons start asking for asylum in other countries or your local Mcdonalds is taken away from you, as.swipe!

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Madcow is a proven liar, who listens to that idiot anyway? 

     I’m sorry, what’s that? Is that true? (making believe someone is talking into my earpiece) Liberals and gays hang on her every word! Who would have guessed that!

  • Anonymous

    You’re right Ghasler, being a liar has nothing to do with anything. 

  • Anonymous

    You should have stayed in Switzerland with the other Socialists. OBTW, your daughter can never be President.

  • Guest

    You are correct, if she was old enough to confer citizenship (in dispute), if she bothered to do it since many of her buddies were in fake id business, if he was not formally adopted by his Indonesian father, if he was born at the top of the Washington Monument at high noon, that does not meet the Constitutional requirement of a Natural Born Citizen. The US Supreme court ruled twice on the definition of Natural Born Citizen, it is BOTH parents are Americans, not one.  Their reason was to secure the Republic from foreign influence, both Americans, not a mix.   It is not too late for you to learn REAL AMERICAN history – suggest you read the Federalist Papers, T. Paine, the Anti-Federalist papers (if you can find them), S. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and afterward you will realize your error.  I was born later, but Civics, American History, Constitution were required to graduate.  The founders gave us a truly amazing timeless document, inspired by divine providence of the Christian Bible, to rule ourselves by.  The first book paid for by our Constitutional government was the Bible, our founders must have thought it was an important book. Oh, yes, we are supposed to be a REPUBLIC not a DEMOCRACY, or a Monarch, or a dictatorship. The Second amendment was written we can protect ourselves from being pray to those forms of government, and the first amendment was written to let me be able to freely express myself.  The fourteenth was dictated by A. Lincoln, to take away our sovereignty as Americans.  Indians still say no to this law. No matter how much you tell yourself a lie, it is not the truth.  Please don’t be insulted, rather, realize we all have much to learn.

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII

    Newsbusters: Rush Limbaugh Catches Rachel Maddow In Bald-Faced Lie About Him
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/08/05/rush-limbaugh-catches-rachel-maddow-bald-faced-lie-about-him

  • Hagen619dj

    Remember that Obama did keep his birth certif. a secret.  It was mentioned several times on the news and no one really pressed.  Trump was the one who really insulted Obama and “finally” Obama produced something. If he would have been above-board and honest about his birth all the questions wouldn’t have been asked. We can only then conclude that he did or does have something to hide.  Hence, the interest in “is he American or not”.  Obama could have stopped that rumor quickly but he chose not to.  it was his own fault that it got out of hand.   I don’t approve of the way he has handled alot of things in this country. I’m afraid that if things don’t improve that some riots may be started within the country itself.  We like to pride ourselves on being calm and understanding but this government during Obama is not being honest with us.  I appreciate that he has a birthday…like the rest of us….however; I don’t approve of him and his family using a government plane and traveling like he is.  We are paying for him to celebrate his wonderful birthday in Chicago.  He uses the taxpayers and doesn’t blink an eye….and our congressmen/women are too chicken to say a word. He talks about jobs….even tho he has never had one…he has no clue what it’s like to maintain a job and then have it pulled from under.  You don’t see any of the WH staff or pres. say they will take less pay, or take less benefits…they don’t practice what they preach and frankly the country is darn sick of it. Trump may seem to some to have an ego but at least he broke loose the presidents firm grip on a birth certif…..he could have done that from the beginning.

  • Bcarlton

    I had no idea Maddow was so illiterate. Her continue ignorance and denial of the preponderance of evidence , documentation, testimony and expert forensics makes her suspect of willful aiding and abetting known criminal activity. You’d think she was a special appointee of Obama’s to the Supreme Court Bench. Justice will not be served on this woman’s show.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabel-Maione/1472900538 Isabel Maione

    So True……………………….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabel-Maione/1472900538 Isabel Maione

    Greg: Are you speaking about yourself?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabel-Maione/1472900538 Isabel Maione

    Tell them, although I think it’s too late to help them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabel-Maione/1472900538 Isabel Maione

    He ate your share too, like he does with everyone else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabel-Maione/1472900538 Isabel Maione

    And don’t forget, Obama spent over a million dollars to keep his birth certificate from the country. All he had to do was spend $10.00 to release it. Is that thinking clearly? Also, congress just gave themselves a $3000 dollar raise. Why don’t they feel they the need to cut corners? And Obama lies so much, it makes you wonder if it was a true birth certificate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabel-Maione/1472900538 Isabel Maione

    You hit it on the nail!

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