Bachmann, Coleman attend event with Orly Taitz
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 at 1:33 pm
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Taitz on MSNBC. Photo: YouTube
The Republican Jewish Coalition hosted lead “birther” Orly Taitz on Sunday as a “special guest,” along with former Sen. Norm Coleman and Rep. Michele Bachmann. Last month, Bachmann attended a lunch with Taitz and posed for a photo with the former dentist and lawyer who has filed numerous unsuccessful lawsuits alleging President Obama is not an American citizen.
“I believe [Obama] is the most dangerous thing one can imagine, in that he represents radical communism and radical Islam,” Taitz said late last year. “He was born and raised in radical Islam, all of his associations are with radical Islam, and he was groomed in the environment of the dirty Chicago mafia. Can there be anything scarier than that?”
TPM verified with the Republican Jewish Coalition that Taitz was a “special guest” of the event.
Coleman, who took a job with the Republican Jewish Coalition while the Minnesota Senate recount was underway in 2009, says he doesn’t endorse the “birthers” or Taitz’s message.
“There were 600 people at that dinner. I hardly saw her,” Coleman said. “I may have said hello to her, but that’s hardly an endorsement. I think the birthers are way over the edge, but this is America. People have a lot of ideas.”
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Comment posted June 8, 2010 @ 1:59 pm
“I think the birthers are way over the edge, but this is America. People have a lot of ideas,” says Coleman.
Oh really? What Ms. Taitz is spewing are not “ideas”, Mr. Former Senator, but rather hate speech and lies. All to advance her extreme right-wing agenda. So who’s the radical in reality? Obama or Taitz? Just listen to the two of them for one minute and it will become clear as day.
Comment posted June 8, 2010 @ 4:47 pm
“I think the birthers are way over the edge, but this is America. People have a lot of ideas.”
And there is the problem with the public discourse today. All opinions are now considered valid ideas, especially if they’re in opposition to each other.
“Obama was not born in the United States” is not equally valid to “Obama was born in the United States”.
It is entirely possible for an opinion to be wrong, very wrong, and its legitimacy is not dependent upon it being the opposite of some other statement. Taitz and the birthers have had every opportunity to make their case, and they have failed, every single time.
Comment posted June 8, 2010 @ 5:18 pm
“I think the birthers are way over the edge, but this is America. People have a lot of ideas,”
No one is suggesting she be prohibited from expressing her tin foil hat brigade craziness to anyone who wants to listen, but when you’re part of the organization that invites the crazy person, and posing for photos with the crazy person, you have some explaining to do.
Comment posted June 9, 2010 @ 7:44 am
If there was a potential buck in it for him, Norm Coleman would pose with the Devil himself. A crazy woman who has potential supporters with dollars in their back pocket is nothing to Norm.
I did notice that the pdf of the invite pretended like Norm was still a Senator…
Comment posted June 9, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
@Amuseinc Former elected officials get to carry the honorific. So it’s appropriate to refer to Boschwitz, Durenberger, and Dayton as “senator”. Walter Mondale can be either “ambassador” since that was most recent, or “vice-president”.
Comment posted June 10, 2010 @ 9:27 am
“So who’s the radical in reality? Obama or Taitz? Just listen to the two of them for one minute and it will become clear as day.”
Yes, it is clear as day. Obama is a radical.
(but based on the rest of your post, I’m not sure why you would ask?)
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