President Obama is finally forced to react to a preposterous political claim about his birth. Full Story »
Posted by Jon Mitchell - via AllTop, New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Opinion)
It is inconceivable that this campaign to portray Mr. Obama as the insidious “other” would have been conducted against a white president. More »
A first-rate, well-written opinion piece dripping with caustic descriptions of the route conservatives took to achieve its current high level mark in its Looney Tunes birtherism trumpery. Trump has moved on to attacking Obama's scholasticism.
The fact Newstrust devoted three stories to the Obama birtherism “issue” indicates just how powerful is the right wing’s hold on the media, and demonstrates just how much right-wing oligarchy ownership of all media has benefitted conservatism. We cannot seem to let go of an attention-getting falsehood deliberately created in another effort to destroy Obama . Or perhaps the Know-Nothings haven’t a clue Hawaii is a state.
There was a price to the party for keeping the issue alive; inevitably, it was picked up by a cartoon candidate, Donald Trump, who rode birtherism directly to the ... More »
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