birthers

In yesterday’s “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine, Leslie Savan wrote that while the term “birthers” — “those who insist despite all evidence to the contrary that Barack Obama doesn’t have a U.S. birth certificate and therefore cannot legally be president” — wasn’t coined by disparaging lefties. Instead, she posits, it was [...]

President Obama’s birth certificate (or purported lack thereof) has been a central piece of rightwing agit-prop, but at the Minnesota State Fair’s crop art exhibit, it’s now a piece of agri-prop. 

Orly Taitz, the “birther” attorney who gained a sort of official movement leadership status with this week’s appearence on “The Colbert Report,” is bragging that Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), and seven other members of Congress have accepted her friend requests on Facebook. Other new digital friends: radio host Michael Savage and Heritage [...]

A report by Politico on Monday examined the Republican party’s problem with “birthers,” people who don’t think President Obama is a United States citizen. For balance, Politico asked Rep. Collin Peterson about left-leaning 9/11 conspiracies. Peterson says conspiracy theorists keep him from holding town meetings.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were [...]