Meet the Birthers

[Stephanie]

Forget the Freepers. They are dumb as a box of rocks, and once again they've been duped into frothing at the mouth over a non-issue by professional fiction-writers. Here they are:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/28/birther-movement-obama-citizenship

The origins of the birther movement are murky but among those who played a leading role in getting it noticed is Andy Martin, a former Republican congressional candidate and open antisemite who has denounced Jews for secretly controlling the country. He helped drive the rumours that Obama was a secret Muslim who renounced US citizenship at the age of 10 while living in Indonesia. Martin filed a lawsuit last year demanding the Hawaii authorities verify his birth certificate.

There is also Jerome Corsi who co-authored the Swift Boat book that questioned John Kerry's war record when he was running for president. Cors claims Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. He also writes for World Net Daily, a supposed news site that offers for sale bumper stickers demanding to know "where's the birth certificate?" and a DVD called A Question Of Eligibility: Is Obama's Presidency Constitutionally Legitimate?

Orly Taitz, a Russian born resident of California who describes herself as an attorney and dentist, has come to the forefront as an agitator on her blog and at meetings.

http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9199:meet-the-birthers-this-is-who-lou-dobbs-is-mainstreaming&catid=88888972:analysis&Itemid=88889782

Meet the Birthers: This Is Who Lou Dobbs Is Mainstreaming

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Andy Martin

The New York Times has reported that Martin, who describes himself as an "Internet columnist," "is credited as being among the first -- if not the first -- to assert in a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim." The Nation's Christopher Hayes has written that when asked about emails being circulated that claimed Obama was educated in a madrassa -- a falsehood, like the claim that Obama is a Muslim:

"Everybody started calling me" when the e-mail first made the rounds, Andy Martin told me. "They said, 'Hey, did you write this?' My answer was 'they are all my children.' "

Since then, Martin has been an active litigant in suing the Hawaii state government over Obama's birth certificate.

As Media Matters has documented, Martin has a history of making anti-Semitic and racially charged comments, such as claiming that "African-American judges ... circle the wagons and try to protect Barry " and that "African-Americans are willing to corrupt and abuse their-public offices to defend their own sleazy candidate for office." The Chicago Tribune and several federal courts have stated that Martin has called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race."

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Philip Berg

As the Politico's Ben Smith noted, Berg is "a former Pennsylvania prosecutor who has also sued President George W. Bush to claim that he was complicit in the September 11 attacks." In 2004, Berg filed a suit with the U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania on behalf of William Rodriguez. Among Rodriguez's claims in Rodriguez v. Bush was the assertion that "scientific data clearly indicates that the World Trade Center buildings ... were destroyed by means of controlled demolitions, of the sort that take weeks or months to prepare and could only have been an 'inside job.' "

In an August 28, 2008, article (retrieved from Nexis), The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) reported that "career gadfly Philip Berg has a new conspiracy theory -- Barack Obama's actually an African. ... Obama is lying about his U.S. citizenship, Berg's suit asserts, and actually was born in Kenya, according to Obama's grandmother, brother and sister. Only U.S. citizens by birth can be president. Berg's proof? Widely debunked online accounts." The Morning Call also reported that "Berg's blog indicates he has spoken about his 9/11 lawsuit in cities around the world."
Berg filed a birther lawsuit (Berg v. Obama) against Obama, the Democratic National Committee, and the Federal Election Commission; on October 24, 2008, the case was dismissed.

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Alan Keyes
Keyes is a frequent presidential candidate who also unsuccessfully ran as the Republican candidate during the 2004 Illinois Senate race against Obama. During the course of the Illinois campaign, Keyes reportedly made numerous controversial remarks, including labeling homosexuality "selfish hedonism"; calling former Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter a sinner; calling Obama's views on abortion "the slaveholder's position"; accusing Obama of supporting "infanticide"; andclaiming, "Christ would not vote for Barack Obama."

Since then, Keyes has called Obama a "radical communist" who is going to "destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist"; said Obama "has made himself the focus of evil, the focus of child-killing policy"; and claimed Obama openlydisplays "contempt for the Constitution's eligibility requirements for the presidency."

Keyes filed a lawsuit against Obama regarding his birth certificate and discussed it on Dobbs' radio show. He is currently a columnist for WorldNetDaily.

Orly Taitz

Before interviewing Taitz, Dobbs said that he began questioning Obama's birth certificate after Taitz filed a lawsuit on behalf of an Army major. In a June 17 profile, the Orange County Weekly's Spencer Kornhaber described Taitz as the "queen bee of people obsessed with" Obama's birth certificate. Kornhaber wrote that "since November of last year, Taitz has been 'criss-crossing the country'; talking with activists, law-enforcement officers and government officials; filing lawsuits and finding plaintiffs; and speaking at events." Dobbs hosted Taitz and Keyes on the July 15 edition of his radio program. At the conclusion of his interview with Taitz and Keyes, Dobbs said he "learned a lot today, we appreciate it.":

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Taitz is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Berg. Media Matters editor and ConWebWatch proprietor Terry Krepel wrote of Berg's lawsuit against Taitz:

Philip Berg -- the same person whose legal actions over the birth certificate WND first endeavored to shoot down until it decided that they served its anti-Obama agenda -- filed alawsuit against Taitz in April, accusing her and various associates of "harassing" Berg and fellow plaintiffs (among them Taitz's former webmaster), and filing "falsified police and law enforcement reports" regarding her claims against the former webmaster. Berg noted in his filing that "Taitz is no stranger to falsifying stories and falsely claiming to be the victim of 'hacking' of her websites" and accuses Taitz of plagiarizing the briefs he filed in his birth certificate-related actions for her own filings. Berg also claimed that an investigator working for Taitz dug up alleged information about an employee of Berg's and "sent the information to Taitz and a reporter with World Net Daily" complete with the employee's full Social Security number, which neither the investigator nor Taitz had "permissible purpose to obtain."

In a June 22 Washington Independent post, David Weigel wrote of Taitz: "I ran into the same problem that Kornhaber did -- for all of Taitz's legwork, none of her stuff held up. It was/is based on misunderstandings and a failure to check the veracity or meaning of documents with the right people."

Wiley Drake

In his OC Weekly article, Kornhaber wrote that radio pastor Wiley Drake helped bring Taitz into the birther movement. Drake was Keyes' running mate in 2008 on the America's Independent Party presidential ticket and, with Keyes, filed suit against Obama over his birth certificate.

Drake admitted to Fox News' Alan Colmes that he prayed for Obama's death, and has also reportedlysaid he is "glad George Tiller is dead. ... It's an answer to prayer."

WorldNetDaily

The conservative news website WorldNetDaily.com frequently posts articles and commentary regarding Obama's birth certificate. WND also offers, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" merchandise and has funded "Where's the Birth Certificate?" billboards across the country. WND gives readers a chance tocontribute to "The Fund For Truth About Obama Birth," which promises to offer a reward to anyone "who can provide persuasive evidence of involvement or presence at that birth -- whether it took place in Hawaii or elsewhere." WND also hosts a petition for "demanding that the constitutional eligibility requirement be taken seriously and that any and all controlling legal authorities in this matter examine the complete birth certificate of Barack Obama." The petition claims to have more than 420,000 signatures.

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Jerome Corsi

Jerome Corsi is a staff writer for WND. In August 2008, Corsi claimed on Fox News that Obama posted online a "false, fake birth certificate." Since then, Corsi has promoted birther theories on WND andelsewhere.

Media Matters previously noted that Corsi wrote a widely criticized and falsehood-laden book about Obama during the 2008 election. Corsi has a history of controversial comments, including:

Corsi on Islam: "a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion"
Corsi on Catholicism: "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press"
Corsi on Muslims: "RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together"
Corsi on "John F*ing Commie Kerry": "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm ? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
Corsi on Senator "FAT HOG" Clinton: "Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?"

http://barackryphal.blogspot.com/2009/07/meet-ronald-jay-polland.html

Meet Ronald Jay Polland

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Ron Polland is Ron Polarik.

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Because as is readily evident from his C.V., his education, and his work history, Polland/Polarik has no discernible expertise in computer forensics, digital imagery, or document examination.

I feel I should repeat that with emphasis: Ron Polland/Ron Polarik has no discernible expertise in computer forensics, digital imagery, or document examination.

His trade is in statistics and surveys. He has no degrees relating to computers or technology. He is not a computer expert; he has used computers. He is not a scanner expert; he has used scanners. At best, he is an amateur photography buff. He may have a doctorate, true, but it is in a field wholly unrelated to computer technology. Just see Florida State University's program profile. Even had he signed his real name to his 'XXXXXXXXX' declaration, he still would not have qualified as an expert in the field in which he was attempting to provide expert testimony. Polland would never survive a Daubert challenge, and any lawyer would be foolish to attempt to pass him off as an expert on these matters.

Thus, when Polarik was identified by Phil Berg as one of "three (3) Document Forensic Experts", this was a gross misrepresentation. A gross misrepresentation that Polland must not have minded, as he had his reports posted on Berg's website, without any comment or correction.

Ed Hale

(from an article outting Ed Hale as the man who called up the Art Bell show to report he had shot Bigfoot. I kid you not.)

http://www.ourstrangeworld.net/index.php/main/article/bugs_the_bigfoot_killer_exposed/

If you do an Internet search on Ed Hale, you’ll see him most-often described as a “racist freakazoid.” Among other things, on his radio show, he called Michelle Obama a “gorilla,” and delivered a furious n-word rant against Barack Obama.

And it seems that Ed Hale’s current efforts are directed at uncovering documentary evidence that President-Elect Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen, and therefore is ineligible for office.

Yeah, good luck with that one, Mr. Hale.

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(Ed Hale claims to be the source of the most recent faux b.c.)

http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=974091

Kenya Birth Certificate
Name: Ed Hale
Date Posted: Oct 11, 08 - 7:36 PM
IP Address: xx.xxx.xx.xxx
State your in Texas

Message: I guess the time has come to set the story about Obama Kenya Birth Certificate. I hosted Phil Berg on our No Obama Talk show on August 21, 2008. We then had Phil back on August 28, 2008. At that time I was contacted by one of the HCSFJM member by phone who told me that they were a importer/exporter and they had connection in Kenya. I talked to this person and also talk to Phil about it. We then discussed a plan on how to get the BC to the USA. We knew that Obama would do anything to stop this. We decide that Caren and I would be the decoy. We would announce that this BC would be shipped to Carens work place. Actually the BC was never coming to us. Our member was able to find the BC and it cost $1000.00 to get. There was 3 copies of the BC sent to the USA via 3 different carries to 3 different people.

HCSFJM had a member very near Phil and this was the primary target. I received a email on September 14,2008 from our member. The email said "The packages are on their way". I knew that the BC had been secured and was enroute to the USA. 3 days later I received another email that said "The package has been delivered". I knew that our member had deliver the BC to Phil. In addition to Kenya BC, there is 3 certified statement from people who stated they were present when Obama was born. We are seek additional information at this time about Obama US BC. I have had a person who has looked at the "vault" book for Obama original BC form Hawaii. It does not exist.

All Phil Berg want is to have a court hearing and he will introduce that Kenya BC. I have a copy of that BC but I will not post it till I am cleared by Phil.

Do you remember when Phil made the statement on our show "He would talk to the real media which was us". Now you know why we are able to get Phil on about any time we need him.

Very few people knew about this, Caren, Phil, our 2 HCSFJM members and myself. We had security on this that was unbelievable. No it is a matter of time before Phil get into court. Relax Folks, Obama will never be the president of this country as long as we have people who are willing to put their lives on the line for this great country. I will reveal in due time who those 2 great American (HCSFJM member) in due time. They must remain in limbo as of now for their own security.

I want to thank all of you for your support of this web site. Without you, this would never had occured. When I was talkign about starting a radio show, I had several people tell me I was crazy, but I guess the joke is now on them. I want to thanks the millions of people who listen to me and the gang every weekdday night. Today I am the proudest American alive.

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http://ohforgoodnesssake.com/?p=1623

What I’m hearing from someone who was present: Ed Hale of Plains Radio Network, in his chat room yesterday, claimed he was the one to pass the now infamous Kenyan BC to Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. Taitz submitted it as Exhibit A, attached to a filing over the weekend in Keyes v. Obama. Hale said he had paid $1,000 for it last year to a woman named “Shirley” who did business in Kenya. Apparently, at one point, he had previously said he had submitted the document to the FBI and that it was in Swahili. He now says those statements were untrue. And he says he used the eBay guy to somehow cover his butt.

Orly Taitz



Philip Berg



Jerome Corsi



Andy Martin



Alan Keyes



Wiley Drake



Ron Polarik



Ed Hale




Oh yeah, they are all suing each other:

http://www.tsrn.us/blog/2009/05/05/exclusive-complaint-filed-against-orly-taitz-ed-hale-caren-hale-and-more/