Tony Gives Credit Where Credit Is Due

In his a href="http://post-gazette.com/pg/09212/987645-153.stm?cmpid=bcpanel0"column today/a, Tony Norman explains some parts of teh crazie and starts with two sentences I never thought I'd read from him:blockquoteLet us now praise Bill O'Reilly. Let's not forget "Sideshow Annie" Coulter while we're at it. Both Ann Coulter and Mr. O'Reilly have done what many conservative elected officials don't have the guts to do: They've either mocked or denounced the so-called "birther" movement as an embarrassment to common sense and a threat to the long-term interests of the Republican Party.br //blockquote And writes something a local member of Congress should notice:blockquotepEarlier this week, a reporter from The Huffington Post tried to get Rep. Tim Murphy, a Republican from Upper St. Clair, on the record about the "birthers." But the pride of the 18th District proved too fleet-footed for the running dogs of the media./p pRep. Murphy reportedly hid in a congressional office supply store for 20 minutes rather than answer the politically sensitive question about whether Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen. How many birthers can there possibly be in the 18th District to take offense?/p/blockquoteThe video can be found a href="http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2009/07/guess-who.html"here/a, in the event you wanted to see it in all its glory. Tony, in three paragraphs, explains teh crazie:blockquoteAs anyone with a relative with a tinfoil hat knows, the birthers believe Barack Obama is a Kenyan citizen who became president of the United States through trickery. They argue that Mr. Obama's presidency is, thus, constitutionally invalid. Even CNN's Lou Dobbs has given legitimacy to their paranoid ravings by insisting on "more documentation" from the Obama White House on the issue. pBirthers want to inspect the original birth certificate and not the copy issued by the state of Hawaii. They don't believe an original exists and they're critical of the "certificate of live birth" Hawaii distributed to the media to quell the controversy./p pBirthers insist that a certificate of live birth and a birth certificate aren't the same animal. They also want to debunk the notion that "six of one" comes anywhere near to being the same thing as "half dozen of the other."/p/blockquote Birthers are crazie.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8213262-9217318159592702541?l=2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com'//div

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