(”Birther”, for those who are unfamiliar with the term, refers to someone who thinks Obama’s birth certificate is fake and he was actually born elsewhere, usually in Kenya, making him ineligible to be President.)
I wish I could say I was surprised by this, but it was only a matter of time. Rumours about a conspiracy to cover up the fact that Obama was born in Kenya (and is therefore not eligible to be President) have been bouncing around the Internet since well before the election, and now, finally, Rush Limbaugh has started repeating the birth certificate conspiracy as fact.
LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama has yet to have to prove he’s a citizen. All he’d have to do is show a birth certificate. He has yet to have to prove he’s — I have to show them 14 different ways where the hell I am every day of the year for three years.
WHERE'S THE BIRTH C- oh, here it is.
There are a couple of ways to take this – you could say that Rush has finally gone off the deep end and will probably take his listenership with him, that he’s caved in to pressure from a listenership that already believes in the conspiracy, or that he’s finally uncovered the truth about B. Hussein Obama, the Kenyan usurper. Personally I don’t think this is much of a shift; Rush has been pushing the conspiracy about the Clintons having Vince Foster killed for years now, so it’s not like promoting unfounded conspiracy theories is new for him (or for the right in general).
Probably the driving force behind all this kerfuffle is a series of lawsuits filed by Birther Extraordinaire Orly Taitz. Ms. Taitz, who’s been beating the birther drum for quite some time now, is recommending that any active-duty American soldier who doesn’t want to follow an order can sue the government and get out of it (since Obama, being a Kenyan Muslim Marxist sleeper agent, is not legally commander-in-chief of the military), which will surely turn out well. The current plaintiff, Major Stefan Cook, actually volunteered for duty in May of this year and protested his orders immediately before being deployed, so clearly there’s absolutely no ulterior motive here.
At any rate, the birthers seem to have been emboldened by the lawsuits and will probably keep going until they are handed a major court defeat. But there’s no way even that would stop the conspiracy theories; frivolous birth certificate lawsuits have been percolating through the US court system since the Obama presidency was just a glimmer in Rahm Emmanuel’s eye.
Here’s where I take off the tinfoil hat, start channeling the Zetas, and make a prediction about the future. The birth certificate lawsuit(s) will be defeated in court. The birthers will justify the defeat by claiming that activist Democrat judges are part of the conspiracy and are blocking inquiry, which will be taken as evidence that the cabal, despite controlling the courts, is starting to panic and clamp down on dissent. The only solution is to:
a) Send more money to keep fighting the good fight! We’re almost there!
b) Buy guns!
c) Continue to disregard any and all evidence that the birth certificate Obama has provided is in fact legitimate, and constitutes sufficient proof that no, the President of the United States was not secretly born in Kenya, you idiots.
Tags: conspiracy, GOP, Politics, prophecy, wingnuttery
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