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Friday, September 24, 2010

TPM Goes Birther

In James Taranto's "Best of the Web" column today, we have this commentary on TMP:
"Sarah Palin Drops the H-Bomb: 'Barack Hussein Obama' " read the shocking headline on TalkingPointsMemo.com yesterday. The story is accompanied by a video of Greta Van Susteren's Fox News Channel program:

"Funny, Greta, we are learning more about Christine O'Donnell and her college years and her teenage years and her financial dealings than anybody ever even bothered to ask about Barack Hussein Obama as a candidate and now as our president," Palin said.
Our initial reaction: There she goes again telling her wingnut lies! We determined we would debunk this poisonous claim. But guess what? It turns out Obama's middle name really is Hussein!

How do we know? It says so on his birth certificate--an image of which we found in a TalkingPointsMemo.com post from June 2008! Turns out it's TPM that's telling wingnut lies by implying the president's birth certificate isn't real. What a shame to see a once-respectable news site sink into the racist birther swamps.

Heh.

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