Fact checking the media — yes, the Clinton machine did start the birther movement

Fact checking the media — yes, the Clinton machine did start the birther movement

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...=socialnetwork

The birther movement does indeed have Democratic roots, long before Mr. Trump ever brought it up and made it an issue.

“The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election — and to Democrats,” Bloomberg News reported. “Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it.
“In a March 2007 memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: ‘All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,’ he wrote. ‘Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him — his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values,’ ” Bloomberg reported.
Although Mr. Penn never suggested bringing up Mr. Obama’s birth certificate as a strategy to exploit this weakness, he did suggest Mrs. Clinton include a line in every speech saying that she was “born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century.”
But that doesn’t stand in the way of the mainstream news media trying to rewrite history.
Brian Stelter, the media columnist at CNN retweeted a “props” to Ms. Reid on confronting Mr. Scott, as well as to himself for confronting Sean Hannity on Mrs. Clinton’s health issues. He then attached a blog post. The post was titled: “Memo to News Media: Consumers Crave Truth, Not Balance.”
To whose truth are we talking? Apparently, only the one the Clinton team has signed off on.
So this election cycle — please don’t believe what you see or watch. The pundits and news media (especially CNN and MSNBC) are the force driving Mrs. Clinton’s campaign forward. (Have you even seen her do a press conference or rally within these last few weeks?)
The answer is no.
Why is that? Because she doesn’t need to. She can take a nice long vacation while the mainstream media does her bidding.

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Actually it was Barack Obama himself that started it.

While in college he frequently claimed to be born in Kenya. His own autobiography in his book also makes the same claim.

So I'm not well informed on this subject. Just read what you posted. Where does it say they said Obama was not from America. I read they said his "thinking and values" were not American.

Fact checking the media — yes, the Clinton machine did start the birther movement

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...=socialnetwork

The birther movement does indeed have Democratic roots, long before Mr. Trump ever brought it up and made it an issue.

“The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election — and to Democrats,” Bloomberg News reported. “Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it.
“In a March 2007 memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: ‘All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,’ he wrote. ‘Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him — his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values,’ ” Bloomberg reported.
Although Mr. Penn never suggested bringing up Mr. Obama’s birth certificate as a strategy to exploit this weakness, he did suggest Mrs. Clinton include a line in every speech saying that she was “born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century.”
But that doesn’t stand in the way of the mainstream news media trying to rewrite history.
Brian Stelter, the media columnist at CNN retweeted a “props” to Ms. Reid on confronting Mr. Scott, as well as to himself for confronting Sean Hannity on Mrs. Clinton’s health issues. He then attached a blog post. The post was titled: “Memo to News Media: Consumers Crave Truth, Not Balance.”
To whose truth are we talking? Apparently, only the one the Clinton team has signed off on.
So this election cycle — please don’t believe what you see or watch. The pundits and news media (especially CNN and MSNBC) are the force driving Mrs. Clinton’s campaign forward. (Have you even seen her do a press conference or rally within these last few weeks?)
The answer is no.
Why is that? Because she doesn’t need to. She can take a nice long vacation while the mainstream media does her bidding.

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Actually it was Barack Obama himself that started it.

While in college he frequently claimed to be born in Kenya. His own autobiography in his book also makes the same claim. Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

And the former McClatchy Wasahington Bureau Cheif, James Asher, tweeted that Sid Blumenthal floated that to him and asked them to investigate it in 2008.
And the hits just keep coming for her. She's a congenital liar.

Don't forget the copy from Obama's literary agent that said Obama was born in Kenya. Eight plus years ago Obama trolled the media and continues to troll them on this issue. Today Trump out trolled the media. Bravo and "Fuck 'em."

MAGA

Spoken by a guy who STILL honors BigTex in his signature line.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...er-fact-check/

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/was...ginal-birther/

http://mediamatters.org/research/201...nk-myth/205772

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...er-fact-check/

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/was...ginal-birther/

http://mediamatters.org/research/201...nk-myth/205772 Originally Posted by i'va biggen

The Politifact article clearly states that it was a Hildebeest minion that started the "birther" movement, Ekim the Inbred Chimp, and your miserable, sorry ass has yet to cite where hildebeest in 2008 disavowed the minion who started that rumor, Ekim the Inbred Chimp.

The allegation about Obama’s birthplace tracks back to the bruising 2008 dim-retard primary between Obama and hildebeest. According to a Telegraph article, as early as April 2008, a hildebeest supporter passed around an email that questioned where Odumbo was born.

"Odymbo’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy," it said. "She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Odumbo was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth."

Yep. The Breitbart lemmings keep repeating the lie over and over and over.

It won't make it true.

But it will drive up the Democratic turnout.

The Politifact article clearly states that it was a Hildebeest minion that started the "birther" movement, Ekim the Inbred Chimp, and your miserable, sorry ass has yet to cite where hildebeest in 2008 disavowed the minion who started that rumor, Ekim the Inbred Chimp. Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Was a Clinton supporter, not one of the staff. If you read it STFU Bitch. Where has Trump disavowed David Duke? Drag your sorry ass back to your glory hole.

Was a Clinton supporter, not one of the staff. If you read it STFU Bitch. Where has Trump disavowed David Duke? Drag your sorry ass back to your glory hole. Originally Posted by i'va biggen

Pure equivocation, Ekim the Inbred Chimp. Starr was a campaign volunteer working on hildebeest's campaign staff, Ekim the Inbred Chimp, and hildebeest didn't disavow her in 2008.

Pure equivocation, Ekim the Inbred Chimp. Starr was a campaign volunteer working on hildebeest's campaign staff, Ekim the Inbred Chimp, and hildebeest didn't disavow her in 2008. Originally Posted by I B Hankering

http://mediamatters.org/research/201...nk-myth/205772

Try again chicken dick.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201...nk-myth/205772

Try again chicken dick. Originally Posted by i'va biggen

You're a laughable jackass citing "Mediamatters" as if that meant something, Ekim the Inbred Chimp. "Mediamatters" is a Soros operation in the bag for hildebeest, Ekim the Inbred Chimp. You're chicken-dick loving-ass better come up with a citation where hildebeest disavowed her campaign worker Ms Starr in 2008, Ekim the Inbred Chimp.

Was a Clinton supporter, not one of the staff. If you read it STFU Bitch. Where has Trump disavowed David Duke? Drag your sorry ass back to your glory hole. Originally Posted by i'va biggen

Trump has disavowed David Duke. Your an idiot, LittleHillaryEva. Oh, and look it up yourself.

Not at first he didn't, WHINYLIttleBitch. In fact, he needed to be prodded.

His campaign continues to embrace Duke and his followers.

Pull your head out.

AssupIdiot, Trump did not know who David Duke was when he was first asked. Why should he know? Duke is a has been, there is no reason to pay attention to him. Will Hillary disavow Margaret Sanger? George Soros? Islamic dictators who have generously "donated" to her "foundation"? Serial pervert and perjurer Bill Clinton?

You're getting desperate, Assup. But don't worry, if for some reason Hillary is unable to steal this election, life will be better for you, too.