Oh, this is funny – Media Matters spinning out of control 

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It seems inevitable that every conservative news outlet will, sooner or later, dirty its hands by latching onto the birther issue. The Washington Examiner plunges in by publishing a Nov. 22 op-ed by Diana West promoting one birther’s case.

West wrote that Terrence Lakin, an Army lieutenant colonel, “faces an upcoming court-martial at Fort Meade, Md., on Dec. 14 for refusing to follow orders to redeploy to Afghanistan because of his conviction that the president hasn’t proven his eligibility to hold office.” Lakin is the birthers’ latest hope for promoting their case, and West admits she’s writing about him in part because “Lakin supporters have dubbed this week Terry Lakin Action Week, urging American citizens to take the occasion to call their congressional representatives about the case.”

West lionized Lakin as “a senior military officer with an unblemished career” who is committing “what amounts to a historic act of civil disobedience for which he may well serve time in prison.” The reality, meanwhile, is that a military judge has already ruled that, according to military law, the personal beliefs or convictions of a soldier are not enough for the soldier to deem an order illegal, that Lakin cannot introduce any evidence related to Obama’s citizenship at his court-martial, and that the military court was not the proper venue for determining the eligibility of a president.

West peppered her op-ed with standard birther arguments:

Of course, Obama’s failure to release his original 1961 birth certificate (which, contrary to mantralike misperception, has never been released) is just the beginning. There remains a startling dearth of documentation pertaining to Obama’s progress through his 49 years of life that only begins with his birth certificate.

A gaping hole — dare I say “memory hole”? — seems to have consumed all possible Obama records from his education, health, family records, even his pre-presidential political career. But this subject is never taken seriously by the media or the political establishment, including, most glaringly, erstwhile GOP opponent John McCain, who, on being challenged on the eligibility question himself, should have called on candidate Obama to join him in releasing their bona fides together.

But even to suggest such a thing is to indulge in “conspiracy theories.” Not surprisingly, Wikipedia defines this term for us as well, noting that it’s “often used dismissively in an attempt to characterize a belief as outlandishly false and held by a person judged to be a crank or a group confined to the lunatic fringe.”

Is the birther path really the one that Philip Anschutz’s aggressively conservative publication wants to take? It appears so.

7 Responses to “Soros’s brown shirts in Media Matters attack “Washington Examiner” for standing up to Obama in supporter of the eligibility issue. Please, don’t get intimidated by the American SS and Georgy Goebbels, please, demand a position paper from every Congressman and Senator in Support of Lt. Col Dr. Terry Lakin and others like me fighting to hear eligibility on the merits and to expose Obama’s lack of valid SS number and lack of valid long form BC”

1. hippybiker
   November 24th, 2010 @ 8:47 am

   I’m listening to 2a radio with Bill Carns on the Republic Broadcasting Network via Internet and he is talking about Obummer and Mario’s case. Just thought i would let you know that this Network hasa very large audience. hb

2. Starla
   November 24th, 2010 @ 9:49 am

   AN EXCELLENT COMMENT

   FROM: https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/mario-apuzzo-interview-supreme-court-confers-kerchner-v-obama-rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity-lou-dobbs-question-obamas-eligibility/

   “Bob said: November 24, 2010 at 8:22 am

   “Give thanks for the reason why this nation was founded in the first place –

   From the ‘Mayflower Compact’ — “for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith” — here from the Pilgrim Hall Museum.

   http://www.pilgrimhall.org/compact.htm

   The failure to acknowledge this is just another reason why it matters that the present occupant of the While House needs to know our history as a nation.”

   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

   “THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT”

   “In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.

   Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November [New Style, November 21], in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.”

   Read More Here:

   http://www.pilgrimhall.org/compact.htm

   # # # #

3. Coastal Eddie
   November 24th, 2010 @ 1:09 pm

   Both our Senators are brainwashed on Barry,
   they would not know the truth if it ran them over like a train.

4. Starla
   November 24th, 2010 @ 1:09 pm

   AN EXCELLENT COMMENT

   From: https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/us-supreme-court-conference-kerchner-v-obama-scotus-blog-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-blog-akin-gump/#comment-169711

   “Michelle said: November 24, 2010 at 12:00 am

   “For those who respect Constitutional Law
   Holder and his apparent violations of the law.

   http://www.tothepointnews.com

   “ERIC HOLDER BETTER QUIT WHILE HE CAN”

   Written by Jack Kelly
   Tuesday, 23 November 2010

   “Right about now Attorney General Eric Holder should be planning his return to private practice, or someone in the White House should be planning it for him.

   Last week (11/17), a jury in Manhattan acquitted Ahmed Ghailani of all but one of 285 counts he was charged with for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people were killed.
   Terrorists such as Mr. Ghailani, who was born in Tanzania and was captured in Pakistan, have no business being tried in a U.S. courtroom, afforded the same constitutional protections as are U.S. citizens. Yet Mr. Holder insists they be. More serious than his interference in national security policy, however, are his apparent violations of the law.

   Soon enough, without the protection of a Democrat Congress, Attorney General Holder may find himself being prosecuted.”

   Read More Here: http://www.tothepointnews.com

   # # # #

5. Politijabber
   November 25th, 2010 @ 7:35 am

   Ah, Starla — didn’t you get the memo? The Kerchner case didn’t even make it onto the Discuss List, so we know that certiorari has been denied (as you will find out on Monday). How do we know this? Because the Solicitor General waived response to Putz’ petition for writ of certiorari, and the Justices did not call for response (that’s where the Court asks for a response brief to be filed despite the fact that the appellee initially waived). If the Supreme Court was entertaining the slightest notion of actually considering review of the Kerchner case, it would have issued a CFR. It didn’t.

6. Plantagenet
   November 25th, 2010 @ 8:58 am

   Starla is spamming her hyperbole again.

7. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   November 25th, 2010 @ 2:28 pm

   I assume CFR stands for Call for response, but how do you knowthat they didn’t request it? Maybe, they did

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