And wouldn’t you know it, things have gotten so ridiculously stupid with the Birther/Tea Party movement that Snopes has even dedicated their valuable time to debunking pretty much everything that has come out of the mouth of Orly Taitz, Steve Elliott (the guy in charge of Grassfire.org and Resistnet.com), Rush Limbaugh, various chain e-mails, racist photochops, and everything else those illustrious “Patriots” have come up with. Before getting started I’d just like to point out the sheer number of Snopes posts about President Obama rumors and how 98% of those rumors are marked with a red “this-is-utterly-bullshit” dot (yes it is true that the winning number for the Pick-3 in Illinois lottery was 6-6-6 the day Obama was sworn in as President, why has Glenn Beck not made light of this scandal yet?). But further more, and even more importantly, you can’t trust ANYTHING Snopes has to say about ANY matter WHATSOEVER PERIOD END OF STORY because it’s run by Communist Fascists according to the same Birthers who Snopes likes to debunk.
For whatever reason this “Associated Press article” that asserts that Orly’s Obama eligibility court case is being heard by the Supreme Court just won’t die. For smart people like us at TarsTarkas.net and you the reader it means more eye-rolling and sighing, but for the echo-chamber loving Birther movement it means continually getting outraged by the same fake news article every two months and having to be talked down to by another Birther who found out it was fake the last time the article surfaced. For your enjoyment here is the text of this fake AP article (notice the language in it and how a high school graduate could have written something more convincing):
VERY QUIETLY OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURT
AP- WASHINGTON D.C. – In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency,the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has Released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College . Released today, the transcript from the school indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate.
The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.
This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama’s legitimacy and qualification to serve as President article titled, “Obama Eligibility Questioned,” leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama’s first official visit to the U.K.
In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama’s legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey . This lawsuit claims Obama’s dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio’s case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama’s citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder.
Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.
Here is the Snopes page that deals with most of the information concerning the Orly Taitz lawsuit. Despite the fact that this fake story was posted on Resistnet TWO MONTHS AGO (and another two months before that) and received generally the same reaction (you know a story is bullshit when Birthers come out of the woodwork to speak against something another Birther posted) you still get these geniuses inquiring about where they should channel their outrage.
First post, even the dumb ones are inquiring as to where they can find a link to the story. Not because they want to verify where it’s coming from but because they want to chain email it to everyone they’ve ever met.
Wow when AZ-concerned talks something down you KNOW it must be bullshit. I also don’t have to point out how ridiculous Suzanne Fort makes herself sound. Oh I can’t trust these Snopes people because they might be Democrats, I’ll have to confer with my fact-checker Andrew Breitbart before I can accept this information as unbiased.
The only reason I’ve ever gone to Hawaii was to get some fake documents made up so I assume this too. I mean Obama hasn’t come out against this and said he’s NOT forging his birth certificate while on vacation. I got a funny feeling about all this…
Ah now the truth starts to come out. Unfortunately The Regulator (Oath Keeper) can’t continue with this trend because we all know all he does every waking minute of every waking day is read up on what Resistnet and HotAir and FOXNation have to say.
Thank you Jim! Not only do you point out that this kind of thing is STUPID but you also bring to light the fact that this kind of BULLSHIT isn’t being properly moderated. But wait I thought Resistnet was moderating themselves super extra hard now because of this kind of thing. Also Snopes is run by ACORN, no surprise there. I wonder what Youtube video The Regulator (Oath Keeper) learned that from.
I agree with everything Jim says (except the part at the end about shredding this conversation, we here at TarsTarkas.net believe we should archive such a discussion for the good of all man kind and in the name of internet humor!).
And there you have it. All these responses for something that’s circulated SIX TIMES ALREADY on Resistnet and has been debunked by these same amnesiacs over and over again. But don’t worry, everything else you read on the Internet must be true.
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Tars Tarkas
January 4, 2010 at 11:26 pmWhere is B. Hussien Snopes’s birth certificate?!?!
Capri
January 5, 2010 at 4:36 amRepublicans need to ditch the birther bullcrap and swear off chain letters if they want to be taken seriously. I’m not a leftist, but I don’t believe all the far-right stuff either. Tea parties, bleh. I don’t even like tea. But these nimrods perpetuating this junk is making all non-leftists like me look bad, and I’ve recently gotten kicked off a community because the moderator didn’t like me saying the republican party is in serious credibility trouble. He objected to me talking about it being “far-right” and I got no notice, just found I was not able to read any messages on the board any more. But one day some twit-ter twetted some birther bullcrap, I debunked with a Snopes link, and he fired back with this bulltosh that Snopes was leftist yadda yadda. I screamed and threw at him links from TruthOrFiction and other hoax-busting sites that also debunk this crap. Then I ranted on a site about it and posted that link to my Twitter. Gah, nobody I want listening to me, listens to me and cuts out the idiotics!
Preston
January 5, 2010 at 10:22 amThere is no Link, it was an April Fools Joke, that has no wings.
So maybe the Brit, Neil Sankey can succeed where the Russian immigrant (from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic) has failed, bring it on.
Poor little Birthers (still in denial about their losses), Judge Land and now judge Carter, smack down the crazies (case dismissed).
Not even “Fake News” Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly believes the crazies, how funny.
http://trueslant.com/erikkain/2010/01/05/glenn-beck-mocks-the-birthers/
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/10/29/bill-oreilly-slams-orly-taitz/
http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pdf
To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it.
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC). She wants to re-establish a family values party.
I can only hope that Taitz will resist the state collectors that will be hounding her like the “ruff ruff” that she is to collect the $20K.
skiplogic
January 5, 2010 at 12:06 pmWe are here to listen!
It’s clear to me that there are many intelligent and free thinking people caught up in this movement who believe in the values of the GOP or identify with more Libertarian ideals. The poster above named Jim (and yourself) help illustrate that not everyone in the Tea Party movement is a loony who can’t think for themselves and question what they are told is fact. That being said though it’s probably just as frustrating if not more frustrating trying to reach out to those people on your side who share your beliefs only to be struck down because you don’t accept the bullcrap they all thrive off of to keep their hatred for the President alive.
I dunno if it’s the GOP telling people to keep quiet or that there just aren’t enough people on the Right to make it an issue, but politicians and citizens really need to step in and come out against how horrible Conservative politics have gotten. When the guy from LittleGreenFootballs and others jump ship and switch their affiliations you know something’s gone terribly wrong.
smrstrauss
January 5, 2010 at 2:48 pmNone of this is true. The original article was posted on April 1. It is an April Fool’s article.
There is no case pending at the Supreme Court, which has thrown out all the birther cases. Occidental never released any documents. There is no “transcript.” There is no “Americans for Freedom of Information.” The AP never wrote this article. Pakistan was NOT on any “no travel” lists in 1981, and it granted US citizens 30-day visas on arrival, so Obama could have traveled on a US passport, and we know that he had a US passport, which he used to travel from Hawaii to Indonesian and from Indonesia to Hawaii to attend High School.
Oh, and the both the US State Department and the government of Indonesia have denied that Obama was ever a citizen of Indonesia.
Frankie
January 5, 2010 at 6:58 pmNice post skiplogic
ultrasquid
July 26, 2010 at 7:53 amIt’s become common place for conservatives to create their own warped version of reality when they start getting beat up by the facts (see conservapedia). I also find it funny how many conservatives I know say “Wikipedia really? I won’t even start on why I don’t take use Wikipedia”. It’s almost as if to say there is no accurate information on Wikipedia. Well, I know why they won’t even start on why. Simply because there is something that goes against their ethos. Unfortunately for them they can’t create the alternate reality to snopes and they know it. First off the average conservative could care less about fact checking if what they are checking sounds good to them. Second if they did fact check, they would find out the same thing as snopes 99.9% of the time and if there is one thing conservatives can’t stand it’s one of their own calling them out on their bulls%*&. Look what happened when Republican Rep. Bob Inglis told people “There were no death panels in the bill … and to encourage that kind of fear is just the lowest form of political leadership. It’s not leadership. It’s demagoguery”. He got voted out of office and not by a small margin. I have come full circle in the past year from believing that the conservatives still have a majority of sane people being led astray but complete psychoholics to realizing that the psychoholics are the majority and the sane few and far between.