Eugene Robinson lies, misleads about Obama certificate issue

Pulitzer prize winner and Barack Obama sycophant Eugene Robinson offers "The Berserk 'Birthers'" (link). It contains some of the same now-familiar lies and misleading statements about the Obama citizenship issue:

Officials in Hawaii have attested again and again that Obama was, in fact, born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. When the "birthers" demanded to see his birth certificate, state officials produced it. Journalists have looked at this complete non-story from every angle and concluded that it is, in fact, a complete non-story.

1. The first sentence is a lie: only one official has said he was born there, and she didn't give his birth date in her statement. The only other statement like that you'll find is from Janice Okubo, but she won't confirm it now, she's not credible, and she repeatedly told me that she's not qualified to speak to whether Obama was born there. Not to mention that it would be illegal for Hawaiian officials to disclose or verify the contents of a birth certificate.

2. State officials never produced anything. The supposed certificate that's pictured on Obama's site was procured by him or his representatives on a date and using a method that he hasn't revealed. The only outside organization that we know he's showed it to was FactCheck; they aren't a credible organization.

3. Considering the fact that the MSM has a very strong pro-Obama bias and has consistently lied about this issue (see the main page for this issue for a list), what they consider a "non-story" would almost automatically be a major story.

He also discusses the birth announcements; see an upcoming post for why that isn't proof that Obama was born in Hawaii. And, instead of admitting that Obama's grandparents would have motivation to plant the announcements if he were born outside the U.S., Robinson (of course) builds a strawman:

"They" diabolically planted these birth announcements 48 years ago, establishing a false record, so that a chosen infant who was actually born in some foreign land -- Kenya? Indonesia? Manchuria? -- could be groomed, perhaps programmed, and someday installed in the Oval Office. Cue evil-genius laughter.

That's the type of bilge that wins Pulitzer Prizes.

Wed, 08/05/2009 - 21:00 · · Importance: 4