Birthers Also Want Obama's School Grades to Prove Something or Other
POSTED: May 29, 5:25 PM ET
By Jillian Rayfield
It doesn't seem like the birthers will ever go away, not as long as they keep getting the occasional week of frenzied media attention like this one. Aside from Donald Trump's ongoing shenanigans, the LA Times reported that "some conservatives" have turned from the largely tapped-out "birther" cause to a "new" one – a campaign to unearth Barack Obama's college transcripts, which, they don't doubt, will reveal that the president got into Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard for reasons other than merit.
But here's the thing: "Some conservatives" turn out to be a group of eight anonymous right-wingers who came up with the bright idea of offering a $20,000 bounty – up from $10,000 earlier this month – to anyone who can produce Obama's school records. To administer their campaign they've enlisted a Tea Partyish blogger who describes himself as a fighter in the "war against cultural Marxism" and claims to believe the president is a "neo-Marxist." (Reached by Rolling Stone over Twitter, the blogger, one Brooks Bayne, wouldn't say who his backers are, replying only: "stay tuned this week, marxist america haters."
The totally logical premise of all this: "At $15 trillion, our nation’s debt is the highest it has ever been, and it keeps growing," says the campaign's website, The Trenches ...
And there's an important missing link between Bayne's transcript conspiracy and traditional birtherism, which Donald Trump touched on in a tweet last week: "I wonder if @BarackObama ever applied to Occidental, Columbia or Harvard as a foreign student. When can we see his applications?" ...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/birthers-also-want-obamas-school-grades-to-prove-something-or-other-20120529
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