Saturday, April 6, 2013

Birther columns are suppressed!

The Amarillo Globe-News ^ | April 5, 2013 | Diana West

Get ready for the last straw.

First, though, I’d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a “forbidden” column.
I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. This is an urgent topic that doesn’t see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets — and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated columns fail to appear when covering news of the White House press conference where the president’s long-form birth certificate was unveiled, courtroom proceedings on Obama’s ballot eligibility, and news of (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigators presenting evidence Obama’s online birth certificate is a forgery.
So be it. This was, as noted, the last straw.
I refer to something radio host Sean Hannity said on his show this week. He was speaking in rebuttal to a Democrat arguing that racism was a problem among conservatives. As evidence, the Democrat brought up the “birther issue” — the label used to encapsulate any topic related to Obama’s identity documents and constitutional eligibility.
Erroneously, it is a label that narrowly connotes, and derisively so, only the belief that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. In fact, the whereabouts of Obama’s nativity is in no way the main bone of “birther” contention, despite the blinkered focus on it by the enforcers of silence.
Of far greater concern to me, for starters, is the purportedly original documentation President Obama belatedly provided the American people to attest to his identity.
I refer to the electronic image of a long-form 1961 Hawaiian birth certificate posted at the White House website. After studying various evidence and demonstrations...
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