08-16-2009, 12:00 AM
Other stuff birthers believe - the Chronicle op-ed page
The problem with getting massive coverage of your signature whack-job conspiracy theory is that your lesser whack-job conspiracy theories fall through the cracks.
By now everyone knows of the birthers' opinions about the president's birthplace, but their revelation about the government's secret cemetery in Arizona with 30,000 fresh graves? Sadly unheeded.
Esquire political columnist John H. Richardson accompanied the birthers ("the nicest people you could imagine") when they marched into the Kentucky attorney general's office to demand that the state of Kentucky do something about Obama's birth certificate.
Orly Taitz: Plots everywhere
Orly Taitz: Plots everywhere
When Kentucky declined on the grounds that it is Kentucky, the queen of the birthers, Orly Taitz, rattled off several other claims:
"Goldman Sachs runs the treasury."
Well, according to the New York Times, then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson WAS speed-dialing Goldman's chief right before the government handed AIG $85 billion to pay off Goldman and other banks.
"There's a cemetery somewhere in Arizona where they just dug 30,000 fresh graves, which wait now for the revolution."
On the other hand, there are a lot of really old people in Arizona.
"Baxter International - a major Obama contributor - developed a vaccine for bird flu that actually kills people."
You've got to expect some side effects.
"The communist dictator Hugo Chavez way back in 2004 purchased the Sequoia software that runs our voting machines and the mainstream media won't report any of it - not even Fox because Saudi Arabia bought a percentage of Fox in 2007."
Jack Bauer - huge in Riyahd. Huge.
"Google an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about train cars with shackles."
Wait, what? The birthers are referencing The Chronicle to support their world view?!
Now that is a revelation.
The article is actually a Feb. 4, 2008, op-ed piece by Lewis Seiler and ex-Congressman Dan Hamburg of Voice of the Environment assailing the federal government's expanded powers in the wake of Sept. 11:
"Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/d...9#ixzz0OHHMXhPO
The problem with getting massive coverage of your signature whack-job conspiracy theory is that your lesser whack-job conspiracy theories fall through the cracks.
By now everyone knows of the birthers' opinions about the president's birthplace, but their revelation about the government's secret cemetery in Arizona with 30,000 fresh graves? Sadly unheeded.
Esquire political columnist John H. Richardson accompanied the birthers ("the nicest people you could imagine") when they marched into the Kentucky attorney general's office to demand that the state of Kentucky do something about Obama's birth certificate.
Orly Taitz: Plots everywhere
Orly Taitz: Plots everywhere
When Kentucky declined on the grounds that it is Kentucky, the queen of the birthers, Orly Taitz, rattled off several other claims:
"Goldman Sachs runs the treasury."
Well, according to the New York Times, then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson WAS speed-dialing Goldman's chief right before the government handed AIG $85 billion to pay off Goldman and other banks.
"There's a cemetery somewhere in Arizona where they just dug 30,000 fresh graves, which wait now for the revolution."
On the other hand, there are a lot of really old people in Arizona.
"Baxter International - a major Obama contributor - developed a vaccine for bird flu that actually kills people."
You've got to expect some side effects.
"The communist dictator Hugo Chavez way back in 2004 purchased the Sequoia software that runs our voting machines and the mainstream media won't report any of it - not even Fox because Saudi Arabia bought a percentage of Fox in 2007."
Jack Bauer - huge in Riyahd. Huge.
"Google an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about train cars with shackles."
Wait, what? The birthers are referencing The Chronicle to support their world view?!
Now that is a revelation.
The article is actually a Feb. 4, 2008, op-ed piece by Lewis Seiler and ex-Congressman Dan Hamburg of Voice of the Environment assailing the federal government's expanded powers in the wake of Sept. 11:
"Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/d...9#ixzz0OHHMXhPO