The RedState Update boys take a look at birthers and the problems facing conservatives in an Obama era. Makes one think how difficult it must be these days to be a wingnut. There’s nothing out there to cheer for.
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To answer my post question…only the weak-minded ones. A Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos…
Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?
Yes 77
No 11
Not sure 12So 11 percent of Americans are Obama-hating conspiracy theorists. How do they break down?
Yes No Not sure
Dem 93 4 3
Rep 42 28 30
Ind 83 8 9Northeast 93 4 3
South 47 23 30
Midwest 90 6 4
West 87 7 6
Fifty-eight percent of Republicans are buying into the conspiracy nonsense as do 53% of Southeners. You can draw your own conclusions from the data but I can’t think of a better way of putting it than what the Kos wrote,
Once again, Republicans find themselves outside the American mainstream. And reality.
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When you think of the words Middle East envoy and peace, what’s the first name that comes to mind? If you said, George W. Bush, you’re not alone. From Newsweek comes this brainstorm of an idea.
On Sunday, George Mitchell, President Obama’s Middle East envoy, arrived in Israel to confer with its leaders. Also visiting this week are Defense Secretary Robert Gates, national-security adviser James Jones, and Gulf States envoy Dennis Ross. It’s a full-court press on the Israelis, and the American wish list is long. They want Israel to stop expanding settlements; to stop building Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem; and for hawks in the government to chill out while the U.S. is negotiating with Iran. And yet, odds are, they’ll come back to Washington empty-handed, for reasons having to do as much with atmospherics as policy: Team Obama just doesn’t have Israel’s full trust.
But there is someone who does—someone who could use a job, someone who argued straightforwardly for a Palestinian state, and yet someone who has the implicit admiration and regard of Israel. President Obama needs a new envoy to the region who can get results—and George W. Bush is his man.
Brilliant. About as ingenious as appointing Sarah Palin head of PETA.
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And you thought birthers hated Obama…
A 78-year-old Carroll, Iowa woman says she’s so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she’s selling her television sets – two of them.
Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses’ aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday’s paper.
In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale.
The reason: “Obama on every channel and station.”
In an interview Nissen said she is serious about selling two TVs – and genuine about her disgust with what she believes to be an overexposed president.
“I just got tired of watching him on every channel,” Nissen said. “I thought, my gosh, does he ever stay at the White House?”
See? What have I been saying these many months? Obama is driving conservatives to the brink of insanity.
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This little exchange between Don Imus and Fox’s Chris Wallace caught my eye.
WALLACE: You know, I guess what surprises me is that one of our competitors, I’m not going to say their name, but their initials are CNN, they’re saying, well, we really can’t decide for the public what a legitimate news story is, so we’ll cover it; what if a bunch of people decided the earth is flat, we’re now going to report that story and let people vent on that? That’s what news organizations are about, is debunking and editing and deciding what’s relevant and what’s worth talking about, and what isn’t, and clearly the birth certificate story isn’t worth talking about because it isn’t true. And I think to everybody’s satisfaction it’s been demonstrated it’s not true. I’m a little surprised — you know, I’m not surprised that people will do things, because some people will do something for ratings every time.
IMUS: Like, uh, I guess leading the charge is my friend, by the way, Lou Dobbs, who appears on this program on a regular basis, and I like — love Lou, known him for years, but it makes him look like a grassy knoll nut.
WALLACE: Well, exactly, exactly. But either grassy knoll nut or just so calculating in his sense, well, there’s some audience out there and I’ll chase it.
What I found interesting here was not Wallace’s silliness in talking about “news organizations” and using the word “we’re” as if any rational person out there actually believes that Fox is anything but a propaganda right-wing noise machine.
No, of more interest was Imus describing Lou Dobbs as a “grassy knoll nut”. I like that image.
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