The Liberals Did It!

There seems to be an undercurrent theme that if the crazies comes out into the open and any one on the left mentions it, ditto, it’s the left’s fault that those people are crazy.

I read an op ed in my local paper, New York Daily News, by guest writer James Kirchick.  He, as others have done, have summed up the problem with the birthers as being solely on the shoulders of liberals.  Not because we created the situation, but simply because we dare to point out the birthers racial, bigoted, and yes, crazy position.

Kirchick has basically stated that we (as in the left) are over hyphening the situation.  However, I noted, at no time did he give mention of Lou Dobbs that brought the birthers into the mainstream, nor did he give any comparison to the racist tea baggers.  Much less did he give any acknowledgement to the pervasive right wing racism that is leading to murder in some cases or the GOP refusal to take a stand against any of this shit that is going on.  No, Kirchick only gives points of reference to what the liberals are doing and how they are trying to tie it into the viewpoint of the GOP. Duh?  You think?  Currently the GOP refuses to take a stand in the matter what so ever.  As King Pillbooza (Limbaugh) issue edits of racism across the air waves you have the republicans (the elected fucking officials) saying how Limbaugh’s position is all good and beneficial for the party.

It is not Obama’s right-wing opponents, however, who are devoting the most attention to this obscure, Internet-driven “movement,” if one can even use that label to describe such a paranoid groupuscule. Rather, it’s liberals, bent on portraying their conservative opponents as extremists – and changing the subject to help a President under increasing scrutiny for the substance of his policies – who are driving this story.

Of course I had to wonder if Kirchick suffered naivety and refuses to see the world with clear colored glasses.  It seems Kirchich has decided that the liberals are making mountains out of molehills.  Liberals are purposely going around changing the story and making it out to be about the GOP.

Making the rounds in the propagation of this meme is a deceptively edited video produced by far-left Web site FireDogLake, in which an interviewer chases Republican congressmen around the Capitol asking if they believe Obama is a natural-born citizen. Some respond in the affirmative while others ignore the questioner, and it is this latter handful that liberals have proffered as evidence that the GOP is “fearful” of disparaging its “birther base.”

But the refusal of Republican congressmen to answer questions from a Michael Moore wanna-be is understandable; public figures are frequently accosted on the street by crazy people and amateur propagandists wielding cameras. In fact, it was later revealed that one of the supposedly fearful Republicans running from the camera’s glare was a Democrat late for a vote.

Of course I summed up Kirchick’s true sentiment that the GOP could never sink so low.  Forgive me for being one of those stinking trouble making liberals, but why do every hater have to bring up Michael Moore?  To do so, pretty much advertise your point of view.  The belief that the GOP is not racist is pretty stupid at this point in time.  No, not every republican is a racist, but they have more than enough to over shadow the whole fucking party.

Don’t tell that to the birther-obsessed left. “The video makes clear that the Republican Party is captive to their conspiracy theory-mongering base all the way up to the top,” wrote left-wing blogger Jane Hamsher. It shows no such thing of course, and Hamsher’s wildly irresponsible claim about “conspiracy theory-mongering” rising to the pinnacles of GOP power was flatly contradicted by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, who said “No” when asked by a reporter if he had any questions about the circumstances of Obama’s birth.

Nor does the fact that 10 Republican congressmen are sponsoring a bill requiring candidates for President to supply their birth certificates to the Federal Election Commission prove anything about the depths of “birtherism.” The test wouldn’t apply until 2012, and even then, Obama would pass with flying colors.

That Kirchick is doing what plenty of journalist have already done is no surprise, blaming those that did not create this mess but use it to make a point.   Yes, I do have a problem with the hiding and running GOP.  The fact that for them to answrer a simple fucking question: Do you believe President Obama is a citizen, should be viewed as some one “Michael Moore-ing” them is insulting.  Why the fuck can’t that make a stand?  Spare me the Michael Moore analysis.  The question was harmless and nothing that was worthy of running from, unless…the republicans did not want their crazy base to see the truth?

The fact that Kirchick used House Minority Leader Boehner to make a point is laughable unto itself.  The truth still remains that the republicans refuse to come out in masses to dispute the whole birther issue.  It is telling and chilling that 10 republicans, based off of listening to the “paranoid groupuscule” part of their base, produced a bill requiring a candidate for president to verifiy his/her birth certificate.  It is not good enough that President Obama would pass with flying colors.  It is demeaning that the bill is being produced because the fringe can’t deal with having a Black president.  It is not okay to cater to the fringe on one hand, but god help us, on the other hand, if we stinking trouble making liberals point out the collusion between the republicans and the fringe.  Perception is everything.  My perception is that had the president been McCain (thank god he lost) there would be no bill for a White President to produce his birth certificate.  His word would have suffice.

I know Kirchick wants to pretty much say liberals see “dead people,” while dismissing the mounting evidence that yes there are dead people walking around to excuse the tainted and reprehensible acts of the GOP; but, I am not so kind.

…a 2007 poll found a third of Democrats convinced that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, occurred with the foreknowledge of the Bush administration. The pervasiveness of such conspiracies about the government’s complicity in the deadliest assault on American soil is far more worrying than groundless doubts about the legitimacy of the President’s birth certificate.

Popularity: 2% [?]