{"id":8219,"date":"2009-07-31T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2024-06-08T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T17:40:13","slug":"birthers-must-be-stopped-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/07\/31\/birthers-must-be-stopped-los-angeles-times\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Birthers&#8217; must be stopped &#8211; Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Maher likes to joke and make snide comments, but he&#8217;s pretty&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-maher31-2009jul31,0,622151.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dead on<\/a>&nbsp;with this assessment of the &#8220;birthers&#8221;. This meme keeps spreading and while it is currently poisoning the GOP, there are enough of those assholes to screw up the rest of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent poll, 58% of these Republican cretins either&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0709\/58_of_GOP_not_suredont_beleive_Obama_born_in_US.html?showall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doubt or are not sure<\/a>&nbsp;that our president is an American citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So wait a minute, the party that ran a candidate that LITERALLY was not born in the United States (though was on a military base) now contests the birthplace of a guy born in Hawaii? Oh yeah, I forgot, they are racist pricks who think he was born in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ranks of GOP politicians who refuse to speak out against this utter crap grows daily, with Missouri&#8217;s Roy Blount&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/30\/stark-blunt-full\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amongst those &#8220;casting doubt&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So basically, these guys either believe this crap or are hedging their bets to keep votes without looking like utter traitors. Either way, THESE are the jerks who ran under the banner &#8220;Country First&#8221; in the last election? If they truly believed in their nation, they&#8217;d fight these lies, call the traitors who believe them the seditious bastards they are, and then they should probably quit for giving aid and comfort to the enemies of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not that I have any strong feelings about this or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher likes to joke and make snide comments, but he&#8217;s pretty&nbsp;dead on&nbsp;with this assessment of the &#8220;birthers&#8221;. This meme keeps spreading and while it is currently poisoning the GOP, there are enough of those assholes to screw up the rest of the country. In a recent poll, 58% of these Republican cretins either&nbsp;doubt or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}