The Self-Hating Birthers Give Themselves A Hand

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  1. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Now, birtherism is in itself beyond silly, as are most really bad conspiracy theories.

    But they birthers may have topped themselves this time.

    Indeed, the new allegation is that the president photoshopped his mother's image over one that is actually Davis, who whould have been sitting in the middle of a large public area for no apparently reason.

    But it gets even better.

    This is somehow evidence that Davis was Obama's father.

    Yes, his father.

    No, I am not sure how anyone could have possibly came to such a ridiculous conclusion, but it is birtherism, so who knows.

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/19/the-self-hating-birthers-give-themselves-a-hand/187237

    "Another Doctored Image Deepens Obama Mystery," is today's top headline at WorldNetDaily, online home for the birther remnant. According to inexplicable Harvard graduate Jerome Corsi, the president's mother, Ann Dunham, was Photoshopped into this image from President Obama's Facebook page to mask the true presence of scary black person du-jour Frank Marshall Davis.

    The "evidence" is, as you'd imagine, hilarious. "The black hand under Obama's right armpit doesn't match Ann Dunham's right arm... The hand appears to be a remnant from a black male before it was airbrushed." Black, shadowed, same difference, right? "Ann Dunham looks to be about 25 years old, too young for this 1973 photo. Maya, who was born Aug 15, 1970, looks to be about 3 years old. Ann should look 30 years old." Were Ann Dunham still alive, she might be inclined to take this as a compliment.

    But we haven't reached the kicker yet. Let's stipulate, just for a moment, that the shadowed hand really does belong to a black person and was mistakenly left in by the oafish airbrusher; how do we know that hand belongs to Frank Marshall Davis, and not some other less frightening black person?

    So yes, this is all very silly, but there's something else going on here. Corsi offers the phantom-hand theory as part of the "compelling case that Davis was Obama's biological father as well as his ideological mentor." At the core of the birther delusion is the belief that President Obama holds an illegitimate claim to the presidency owing to his lack of U.S. citizenship. Now Corsi, one of the more committed birthers, is arguing that the president is biological child of Ann Dunham and Frank Marshall Davis, both of whom were citizens of the United States. And since both were citizens, any theoretical children they might have had would also be citizens. So Corsi is a birther who's arguing a theory that undermines birtherism.

    Last year, as the birther movement was reaching its zenith (such as it was), Adam Serwer put together a handy lexicon to sort out the various subgenres of birtherism that had spun off from the original: post-birtherism, reform birtherism, the birther curious, etc. With Corsi and the Frank Marshall Davis theory, we have to add a new category: the self-hating birther
     
  2. 9/11 was an inside job

    9/11 was an inside job Well-Known Member

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    If you truely believe Obamas birth certificates havent been forged then your truely in denial and afraid of the truth.We dont need ron paul supporters out there afraid and in denial .Its no theory of Corsi's,your just in denial.Obama has failed major big time to prove his birth certificate is genuine.deal with it.
     
  3. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Please note my avatar contains images of Ron Jeremy, the porn star, and Paul Giamatti, the actor.
     
  4. 9/11 was an inside job

    9/11 was an inside job Well-Known Member

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    the only THEORY is that Obama is a us citizen.thats the most laughable thoery of them all.Thank god your not a true ron paul supporter,we dont need frady cat deniars in our camp.you need to change your user name to CANT THINK FOR MYSELF.
     
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    Corsi merits his own chapter in the updated DSM.
     
  6. SFJEFF

    SFJEFF New Member

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    Obama never needed to prove his birth certificate was genuine.

    Hawaii already did that.

    Birthers- lol- new crazy but still crazy.
     
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    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So would you care to address the article in the OP?
     
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    Can you give me a plausible explanation as to why Republicans would join in a conspiracy to elect a Democrat President, considering this alleged forgery of yours came out when the GOP controlled the Hawaiian government?
     

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