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UPDATED: Fox Nation still obsessing over Obama's birth certificate

July 14, 2009 11:15 am ET by Media Matters staff

From the front-page of The Fox Nation:

Obama Brith Certificate Ruling

Fox Nation previously:

Fox Nation on birth certificate question

FactCheck.org: Born in the U.S.A.: The truth about Obama's birth certificate.

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    • Author by progressiveright (July 14, 2009 11:20 am ET)
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      Not this again when are these people going to learn he is a natural born citizen. This shows how bad hate is. Everyone on this suit should be sewed for lible or slander and the should losse $100,000,000 each and be sent to jail if they themself can not pay every last penny of the judgement.
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    • Author by harley (July 14, 2009 11:27 am ET)
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      Faux is simply despicable and any teabagger that actually "thinks" Faux is fair and balance is simply an idiot by all definitions in every language.
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (July 14, 2009 11:48 am ET)
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      I am a 50+ year old African American female living in GA. I have been repeatedly subjected to similar suspicion about whether I was a suitable teacher even though I graduated from the University of GA and passed the same state teacher certification test as my colleagues. The birthers are not doing this because they suspect that Obama is not a natural-born citizen. The basis of this move is racism, discrimination, prejudice, and maintaining the status quo of some who believe that the only acceptable POTUS is a white male heterosexual Christian. There is no way that the birthers' minds can be changed, at least this is my conclusion based my experiences. They are looking for any way to show President Obama is not the same as the "average" American according to their perception and definition of what an "average" American should look like, behave, believe, etc. The question I ask myself when I think of the birthers questioning whether Obama is a native-born American is, why now, at this point in history, after the election of the first AA POTUS, is this question being asked? And IMO, there is only one answer.
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      • Author by SMTDL (July 14, 2009 12:38 pm ET)
           
        Well said..so obvious it is racially motivated.If his father was from a European country and his mother was an American it wouldn't even come up!!!
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      • Author by Brabantio (July 14, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
           
        I have a very difficult time believing that Republicans could have this sort of ammunition and pass it up completely for any reason whatsoever. If he was white and supposedly born in Canada, I have no doubt that there would be attempts to undermine his authority and popularity based on it. There might be more people jumping on this than there would be in that scenario because of the racial aspect, of course.
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        • Author by Disputed Zone (July 15, 2009 12:21 am ET)
             
          It would be great if there were a way to somehow measure how much attacks like this, and so many others, benefit from racism.
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    • Author by harley (July 14, 2009 2:59 pm ET)
         
      Deserter or Patriot!? Seriously? Have the reich-wingers become that anti-American that the answer is obvious?

      This soldier just threw away his career and life. He's going to get jail time followed by a dishonorable discharge for refusing to follow an order. And the teabagging terrorist scum on faux and am hate radio hold some responsibility for spewing such propaganda to a feeble minded demographic.
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    • Author by harley (July 14, 2009 2:59 pm ET)
         
      Deserter or Patriot!? Seriously? Have the reich-wingers become that anti-American that the answer is obvious?

      This soldier just threw away his career and life. He's going to get jail time followed by a dishonorable discharge for refusing to follow an order. And the teabagging terrorist scum on faux and am hate radio hold some responsibility for spewing such propaganda to a feeble minded demographic.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by harley (July 14, 2009 2:59 pm ET)
         
      Deserter or Patriot!? Seriously? Have the reich-wingers become that anti-American that the answer is obvious?

      This soldier just threw away his career and life. He's going to get jail time followed by a dishonorable discharge for refusing to follow an order. And the teabagging terrorist scum on faux and am hate radio hold some responsibility for spewing such propaganda to a feeble minded demographic.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by harley (July 14, 2009 2:59 pm ET)
         
      Deserter or Patriot!? Seriously? Have the reich-wingers become that anti-American that the answer is obvious?

      This soldier just threw away his career and life. He's going to get jail time followed by a dishonorable discharge for refusing to follow an order. And the teabagging terrorist scum on faux and am hate radio hold some responsibility for spewing such propaganda to a feeble minded demographic.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by Obama '12 (July 14, 2009 6:50 pm ET)
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      These people wouldn't believe Obama was born here even if there was footage of him being born on the front steps of the White House. Even if he wasn't born here... WHO CARES??? Didn't these same people want to bend the rules to get Arnold Schwartzenegger in the White House? *shudders* The 9/11 truthers have better than these people, and a lot of them are insane.
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