Posts Tagged ‘birthers’


In which Orly Taitz refuses to go away

August 20th, 2010 at 11:51 am ET

I sure love me some Orly Taitz… and she’s back!

In case you’re not an obsessive follower of this story, Orly is the über-Birther who’s bombarding the federal courts with frivolous lawsuits about Obama’s origins. Here’s a detailed history of the saga (juiciest part here — court’s judgment worth reading in its entirety).

Well, Orly’s back! She’s pissed off a Federal judge, the Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court, but she’s not letting it go. In our latest installment, Orly claims that Obama’s passport is doctored and she can prove it. If I’ve learned anything from TV about judges, it’s that they don’t like having their time wasted, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see that fine go up, and up, and up…

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Stephen Fry for President? He beats Sarah Palin…

August 5th, 2010 at 3:06 pm ET

With all the coverage of Sarah Palin’s Facebook and Twitter strategy, it’s easy to forget that a presidential election is not conducted by putting the members of each candidate’s social network on one side of a scale and seeing which side is heavier. (Obligatory joke about obese red-staters goes here.)

But would that it were! If it were, someone like Stephen Fry — actor, auteur, thoughtful social commentator — would boot that Sarah Palin right back to the hostess counter at the Wasilla Applebee’s where she belongs.

Consider:

(True, Fry wasn’t born in the United States. But then I think I read somewhere that Obama wasn’t either, and it doesn’t seem to have hurt his success any.)

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