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CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
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gawkimo
07/25/09

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Yeah, but this turning undocumented migrants into pariahs thing? Still has legs.
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Trai_Dep
07/25/09

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The part I don't understand is where the eeeevil Kenyan gov't, gifted with the prescience to plant an extra-terrestrial, vat-raised alien clone, lo 40 years ago, whilst using time travel to insert birth notices in two HA newspapers and using sleeper HA civil servants to slip in a "short" birth certificate, then just for giggles, naming it "Barack Hussein", can't also use their Witch Mountain technology to also put the "long" birth certificate.
Because all the time-traveling, Area-51 using, human clone raising, sleeper agent staffing, Kenyan Secret Service agents that I know are professional enough to go the final mile and take care of such details.
We really should give them their due. They may be Kenyan civil servants, but they're hard-working Kenyan civil servants.
It's because "Birthers" hate The Government, isn't it?
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Mediahohoho
07/24/09

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This story was always dead.
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Mediahohoho
07/24/09

@Mediahohoho: And as long as we stick to our archaic belief that standardization across our country = too much power for the feds, then our elections, our records, every damn point of comparison we have in our country will always be held up to scrutiny. Case in point: Gore v. Florida, 2000.
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fisheyevision
07/24/09

@Mediahohoho: But WHERE is the death certificate?
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Mediahohoho
07/24/09

@fisheyevision: Y'all are just trying to bait me into making a joke about a stillbirth, which will get me bitched out by a certain humorless commenter.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
07/24/09

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"it can't release a paper copy of the president's original birth certificate because they say the state government discarded the original document when the health department records went electronic some eight years ago."

Poppycock. If true, then why didn't they say this in the first place? And why can't they produce the microfilm or scan? Slim chance some Hawaiian administrator didn't farm the document archiving to their brother-in-law.
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Jim Topoleski
07/25/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING IT. Only moron republicans haven't been listening.

NJ is the same way, go get your birth certificate, its a ELECTRONIC copy they print and put a seal on now. There is no original paper anymore.
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MisterHippity
07/24/09

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What about his faith certificate? You know, the one that proves he's not a Muslim.

BARACK OBAMA, WHY WON'T YOU RELEASE YOUR FAITH CERTIFICATE????
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BxgrlJeri
07/24/09

@MisterHippity: I thought he was Muslin. And a half-breed muslin at that.
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Dot
07/25/09

@BxgrlJeri: Is a half breed muslin both cotton and silk? Forgive me, I know so little about fabric.
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SultanaEleusis
07/24/09

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CNN used to be a place I went to to get the news. Now it seems like mostly a channel for right wing blowhards. Sounds kind of like Fox, in fact. How about a little diversity on our channels?
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Dickens_Ghost
07/24/09

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It used to be that Americans could usually agree upon what reality was and perhaps what the country's issues, strengths, weaknesses or problems may have been.

Some disagreement in how to deal with these are where parties, philosophies and individual politics would divert.

It seems these days most sides can't even agree on what reality is.
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Mr. Bar
07/24/09

@Dickens_Ghost: Whatever, Mexican!
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Mr. Bar
07/24/09

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"Shut your Flan-hole, Dobbs!"
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Niko Bellic
07/24/09

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Also, G.G. Liddy is dead. For all intents and purposes.
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Aaron Altman
07/24/09

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Lou's fallback will now be to close his eyes, clasp his hands together and pray that a North Korean nuclear missile will strike Hawaii and wipe out everything including any and all certifications of live birth.

Someone check his dressing room - this is exactly what he's doing RIGHT NOW.
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Dot
07/25/09

@Aaron Altman: Only he fell over and impaled his head on a knickknack, without his praying hands to catch him. Increase his IQ? Couldn't hurt.
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deardearfriend
07/24/09

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Poor Lou, going home to the wife: "They laughed at me, mother. They laughed."
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ChillbearLatrigue
07/24/09

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So now apparently Jon Klein, Janice Okubo and the Hawaii Health Department are all in on the conspiracy.

Seriously, I normally hate when an editor, or in this case network president, kills a story, but this was making CNN and anyone else who jumped on this as a legitimate issue look foolish.
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m4ximusprim3
07/24/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: I think the saving grace in this case was that there was no story to begin with. He was just bringing that fact to the forefront.
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RedWriter
07/24/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Seriously! Did you see the segment Gawker posted of Chris Matthews jumping over Gordon Liddy? I love him how he was patronizing him, asking him was Michelle in on the conspiracy? Obama's mother? Michelle's mother?
True be told, the entire state of Hawaii devised this plan to take over and become the world's most powerful island!!!
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rhys1882
07/24/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: What is unfortunate is that the 24 hour news channels have degraded so far that the commentators cannot be trusted to use their independent judgment to not waste time on frivolous stories and the CNN president is force to step in to kill the story.
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Iwillnotauditionforastar
07/24/09

@rhys1882: You have never been a Publisher. I've killed so many stories over the decades.
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TubOfTaft
07/24/09

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I really hope the last speech Obama gives as President begins with the line "Growing up as an Indonesian Muslim ..." just to stick it to these fuckers.
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Cicada
07/24/09

@TubOfTaft: I hope he ends that speech with "I am looking forward to the free time I will have to make love to all of the white women in America. Especially your daughters. Thank you, Obama OUT."
In my scenario, he's single and has no children. A girl can dream.
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uncivilly obedient
07/24/09

In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
New York State has copies of every birth, marriage and death certificate since the late 1800s on microfilm. All New York City records are located on Chambers Street.

It is hard to imagine why a state would discard their vital records. They are necessary for research by epidemiologists and for other histoical purposes.

That said, I'm glad the story is finally dead.
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Magister
07/24/09

@uncivily obedient:
From the linked transcript, it looks like Dobbs used the disclaimer to segue into a debate.

And even if Dobbs were to heed his boss, it doesn't mean that the story is over on the other networks. As long as the nuts are out there and vyying for attention, I'm sure somebody will use it for comic relief.

PS) Microfilm is not an original doc
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
07/24/09

@uncivily obedient: Well, they didn't throw out the information. Just the paper.
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uncivilly obedient
07/24/09

@Magister: It is a copy of the original document. I said they have copies.
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edosan
07/24/09

@uncivily obedient: So does Hawaii.
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uncivilly obedient
07/24/09

@edosan: You can get in a lot of trouble for saying something like that around here.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
07/24/09

In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
So the SPL Center is using Gawker as one of its reporting sources? Go Pareene!
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