{"id":2919,"date":"2011-04-28T18:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2011-04-28T18:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:53:49","slug":"okay_i_will_finally_deal_with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"Okay.  I Will Finally Deal With This Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After considerable cajoling from Donald Trump, President Obama released his long form birth certificate yesterday.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/lachlan-markay\/2011\/04\/28\/study-msnbc-and-cnn-covered-birther-issue-far-more-fox-news\">Newsbusters.org<\/a>&nbsp;reported today that Fox News had the least amount of coverage of the &#8216;birther&#8217; story.&nbsp; The numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Fox News:&nbsp; 0.4 percent<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC:&nbsp; 9.2 percent<\/p>\n<p>CNN:&nbsp; 5 percent<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Obviously Fox News was not driving the story.&nbsp; What in the world is going on here?&nbsp; Does the &#8216;birther&#8217; story serve as a convenient distraction from the actually important issues of the day?&nbsp; Does the &#8216;birther&#8217; story prevent people from looking at the President&#8217;s actual actions and proposals?&nbsp; What impact does the &#8216;birther&#8217; story have on the President&#8217;s approval records?&nbsp; If the story is getting more coverage on networks normally more favorable to the President, how does this help the President?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A few personal comments here.&nbsp; I really don&#8217;t care where the President was born.&nbsp; If he was actually born in Kenya, he has perpetrated a fraud on the American people.&nbsp; That is unfortunate, but it is not the first time (nor will it be the last) that a politician has perpetrated a fraud on the American people.&nbsp; If he was born in Kenya, he should not be President, but I truly think that is a moot point.&nbsp; I am more concerned with his actions than his birthplace.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That having been said, this discussion may take a while to go away.&nbsp; Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/barack-obama\/birth-obama-certer-movement-098513?cid=free_tout\">The Smoking Gun<\/a>&nbsp;posted their comments on the release of the birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The article comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;This morning&#8217;s White House release of President Barack Obama&#8217;s <\/em><a class=\"lightbox-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/dr\/teg\/tsg\/release\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/obamabirthcetgrab.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[]\" jquery1304031214732=\"12\"><font color=\"#479cc0\"><em>long form birth certificate<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> will, of course, do little to derail the &#8220;birther&#8221; movement, which will now analyze the document with the kind of verve previously directed toward those Texas Air National Guard memos faxed to CBS from that Kinko&#8217;s in Abilene.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article then lists a set of questions that will now be asked about the document.&nbsp; In case you are interested, I have two&#8211;was African considered a race in 1961 or was it Negro and what was the legal name of Kenya, East Africa in 1961?&nbsp; The questions will continue.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time to get out the popcorn, but also to realize that this discussion is a serious distraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After considerable cajoling from Donald Trump, President Obama released his long form birth certificate yesterday.&nbsp; Newsbusters.org&nbsp;reported today that Fox News had the least amount of coverage of the &#8216;birther&#8217; story.&nbsp; The numbers: Fox News:&nbsp; 0.4 percent MSNBC:&nbsp; 9.2 percent CNN:&nbsp; 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