Shuster on birther theory: "Why is it so difficult for Liz Cheney and other prominent Republicans to say this is garbage?"

David Shuster: "Everyone who has an independent, thinking mind, says this is crazy!

This reminds me of Adlai Stevenson's reply to the woman who told him that every "thinking American" would vote for him: "That's not enough, madam. I need a majority."

Why? Because wingnuts vote Republican. Wingnuts are the Republican base. To liz Cheney and others their attitude is Screw integrity...it's votes that count. I have to say they make John McCain look like a champ the way he told that woman at one of his town hall meetings that Barack Obama was not an "Arab" but a decent family man. Unfortunately Liz Cheney and other Republicans can't bring themselves to do the right thing when it comes to votes...and I assure you that Liz Cheney will soon be personally seeking votes herself.

Of course Liz Cheney said the country is going down the wrong path. She doesn't have a job and neither does her father. We need a war for these people to find work.

I dig Olbermann but I appreciate Shuster filling in, I think he does a darn good job.

Their heart is in it.Their bank accounts,paid speeches to promote it. and power over people(even if they are nut cases)is kept alive by them not denying it,and promoting it

Shuster was being a good little GE employee trying desperately to defend the media from Pierce's well-founded charges. The birther nonsense is just another crazy distraction from the real issues confronting the country and Pierce brings up example after example of media complicity in lies, distortions and fabrications.
Shuster's lame protestations the "we've asked her to come on and she won't" belies Pierce's larger point. Prominent Republicans gain from having issues with no legs survive because media producers will always book anything that garners "eyes" which is what Pierce laid out in his excellent book.
Shuster is oblivious to the point Pierce is making over and over. Goes right over his head.

how did this wacko neocon slip into the keith olbermann's show. I thought the msnbc producer screens their guests before they come on keiths's show. My ears bleed just listening to this wacky daffy duck character with his scruffy a$$ beard support Lynne.

The media help drive this foolishness by entertaining these idiots; and they do so believing it will have a negative impact on the President.
Anybody with common sense knows that when something has been proven, there is no need to revisit it, yet the media does just that. These kinds of pachydermatous people should be ignored.
What the media needs to do is expose these people for what they really are, RACIST, because this is the reality of the situation. These people who do not accept the truth are guided by hate and ignorance. That is what should be reported. Anything else is an insult to humanity.

We all know Republicans bash anything Democrat and vice versa, but I can never remember a time where any person on either side of the spectrum brought the opponent's birth certificate into question. I mean, I don't think George Bush was against Kerry and said "well, I don't think he was even born here!". I mean, I hate to say that it's racist, because there's a huge difference between racist and racial, but this is certaintly a racial thing. Because he doesn't "look the part" of a President.. (go figure).. he can't POSSIBLY be from the US... that just.. it really bothers me.

Not only does it put down the great achievement of even becoming President of the United States as a person of color, but imagine the undertones it has to the inner-city kids who were overjoyed to see someone that "looks like them" become president, this reverberates through much more than Barack Obama.