Citing "a guy" and "some people," Quinn & Rose guest host Pintek said of Obama: "I'm still not convinced that he actually was born a natural-born citizen"
SUMMARY: On The War Room With Quinn & Rose, guest host Mike Pintek echoed right-wing websites in questioning the authenticity of Sen. Barack Obama's birth certificate, claiming: "I still keep wondering about his birthplace and his birth certificate. I'm still not convinced that he actually was born a natural-born citizen."
On the August 11 edition of the syndicated radio program The War Room With Quinn & Rose, guest host Mike Pintek echoed right-wing blogs and websites in questioning the authenticity of Sen. Barack Obama's birth certificate, which was posted on the Obama campaign's Fight the Smears website in response to the false claim that Obama is not a natural-born citizen. Pintek asserted: "I still keep wondering about his birthplace and his birth certificate. I'm still not convinced that he actually was born a natural-born citizen." Pintek went on to add: "According to some people who know what they're talking about, who are experts on this, they say that the birth certificate that he's got on his website and has been posted to the Daily Kos and some other places, is -- it looks very much like a Photoshop deal and doesn't look legit."
Later in the broadcast, a caller asked Pintek whether "[t]he Republican Party could file a class-action suit ... against Obama demanding that he provide positive proof that he is a bona fide American citizen." Pintek responded that "it's actually happening in the blogs" and added: "[T]he last time I filled in for Quinn and Rose, a guy sent me info about his belief that the so-called Barack Obama birth certificate is actually Photoshopped."
In an August 13 article, The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Hawaii Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo said that her office contacted the Obama campaign to find a solution to the repeated requests for Obama's birth certificate. She reportedly said that the Obama campaign "responded and apparently it isn't good enough that he posted his birth certificate." She reportedly added: "They say they want it because they claim he is not a citizen of the United States. It's pretty ridiculous."
The War Room With Quinn & Rose is a syndicated radio program based in Pittsburgh on Clear Channel's WPGB 104.7 FM. Talkers Magazine lists Quinn and Rose on its "Heavy Hundred." According to the show's website, it airs on 17 radio stations and XM Satellite Radio.
From the August 11 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room With Quinn & Rose:
PINTEK: That brings us to -- back to Obama. Obama, he takes off, he's in Hawaii now. He claims that's his home. We wonder. I still keep wondering about his birthplace and his birth certificate. I'm still not convinced that he actually was born a natural-born citizen. I'm still not convinced about that. But we may never be able to prove that either without a real, honest-to-God birth certificate. Maybe one does not exist. You know, the one that they post -- they posted doesn't -- that looks like a Photoshop deal. According to some people who know what they're talking about, who are experts on this, they say that the birth certificate that he's got on his website and has been posted to the Daily Kos and some other places, is -- it looks very much like a Photoshop deal and doesn't look legit. So what's he hiding?
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CALLER: Isn't there some way, or maybe I'm just wishing, that the Republican Party could file a class-action suit against Democrats -- against Obama demanding that he provide positive proof that he is a bona fide American citizen?
PINTEK: Well, that's a -- it's actually happening in the blogs. It's not a class-action suit. This would -- I don't know how you'd go about this. I guess you'd have to file some kind of a claim with the elections commission that Barack Obama's not a bona fide natural-born citizen and here's why and then force him to prove it. You would have to take -- somebody would have to go to court to do that. You could also continue to make it a campaign issue, as they are in the blogs. This is not an official Republican campaign issue. It's not an official John McCain issue. But this keeps popping up in the blogs, and just -- the last time I filled in for Quinn and Rose, a guy sent me info about his belief that the so-called Barack Obama birth certificate is actually Photoshopped. And he has a close-up there where it looks -- the name is in there, and it is -- and Barack's name appears to have been added later. In other words, it was text over an image of a blank birth certificate, and then you enter text on top of it. And this guy is a webmaster, and he says -- you know, he says, "I work with digital images all the time, and this one looks like it's been tampered with."
And then there's the issue of, you know, under Barack's father's race, it says "African." What? What race is that, exactly? If you -- go look at it -- Certificate of Live Birth, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, Barack Hussein Obama the second, date of birth August 4, 1961. His mother's maiden name: Stanley Ann Durham -- last name is Stanley Ann Durham or Ann Dunham or something like that. Father's name: Barack Hussein Obama. Mother's race: Caucasian. Father's race: African. Wouldn't that be -- wouldn't that be negroid? Or black? Why would you put "African" down there? Kind of weird, isn't it? It's just weird. It's like he's hiding something. Something's not right here. And maybe he is a bona fide natural-born citizen and this could be cleared up very easily. But it's not. So, kind of weird.
I never heard of these losers before.
And with any luck, this is the last any of us will hear of these losers.....
the obama stuff is rubbish, but mccain is a native born citizen by law. being born on u.s. soil is not required. i know a guy who was in the navy for fifteen years and whose oldest son was born in tripoli. i would not want to tell him his son is any less of a citizen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born_citizen#cite_note-4
He's a citizen by virtue of the fact that his parents are citizens, not that he was born in another country.
But the CR for being president is more restrictive-- he has to be born in the U.S.-- which Canal Zone was.
born a natural-born citizen
Is that the Queen's English?
Hooked on Phonics. Get it. Learn it. Live it.
"Is that the Queen's English?"
Is that irony? Fork the Queen, and George VIIL too.
Snoop,
-- it's actually happening in the blogs -- Pintek
-- Bloggers, take a bow. -- Boehlert
Kinda reminds me of the "live by the sword...die by the sword" analogy.
On your racism angle...Politico has an interesting piece on the election:
-- In five of the six post-war landslides (defined as a victory of 10 percentage points or more) the eventual winner was ahead by at least 10 percentage points in the polls at the close of August...
Shanto Iyengar, a Stanford University political scientist, notes that several political forecasting models today predict the Democratic candidate winning a clear majority of the vote, a threshold that has thus far escaped Obama in polling...
The real question is: Why is Obama, then, underperforming?” Iyengar added. “There is something about Obama that is causing something of drag.” Iyengar believes that something is Obama’s race. --
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12503_Page2.html
True that.
All of the people I've personally heard say "America is the best country in the world," nary a single one of them had ever been outside the continental US. Many of them had never left their birth state.
Many of them had never left their birth state.
Naked and screaming??? :-)
Ah, geez. I know...
Is Cokie Roberts an idiot or what? I mean...honestly.
Hawaii?
"Foreign"?
Bish puh-leez!
. . . or Myrtle Beach, SC!
Father's race: African. Wouldn't that be -- wouldn't that be negroid? Or black? Why would you put "African" down there? Kind of weird, isn't it? It's just weird. It's like he's hiding something. Something's not right here.
Negroid?? Really??? Don't you mean... colored boy??
Father's race: African. Wouldn't that be -- wouldn't that be negroid? Or black? Why would you put "African" down there?
And what are American black people called? Uhhh...African Americans? So why is referring to a non-American black person as African so alarming...particularly since that person is actually from, ohhh, Africa? What a bunch of imbeciles... Unbelievable that crap like this is floating around out there in a presidential race.
Living in Pittsburgh, I listen to this show in the early AM when on the road, as well as others. Jim Quinn is an O'Reilly wannabe, sexual harassment gig in his past with another radio station and fellow employee. Mike Pintek used to be on KDKA 9am-12pm as a talk show host but his contract was not renewed about 1 1/2 years ago, giove or take.
Mike is just trying to make a name for himself. He was a middle of the road talk guy with slight leanings to the right. But now, being on this show, you must be a lunatic rightie to get any airtime.
This nonsense about the birth certificate has been going on for weeks. But one must look at the demographics of this show...Pittsburgh, Central Pa, a/k/a Alabama and small radio outlets in Ohio and West, byGod, Virginia.
The listeners and callers are destined to always follow the lowest common denominator...hatred for anything not Republican. If you could hear the folly that goes on, you would laugh. (They are also on Sirrus or whatever). Quinny has a stupid rule he promotes that whatever a liberal does it generates the opposite..some crap like that. And you can never trust a liberal???
Quinny is the jerk that always has information that is too classified to be aired thru Son of Deep Throat which may be Quinny himself. He has inside info about everything but nothing comes to fruition. But his listeners just wait and wait and wait. He actually believes that the tape of Mrs. Obama exists..but as usual, cannot produce the tape or his inside the White House source. Quinny is ready to fight everyone because he is the perfect American with the exception that he is usually a day behind the talking points. He doesn't realize that he is a parrot for Rush and Seannie the Sissy. Somedays, he comments on things that have been debunked by his fellow Con talk show hosts the previous day. Quinny reads, verbatim, other Bloggers posts off the Rightie .coms and tries to make it sound like he is speaking his mind, except when he stutters over words and retraces his ad-lib comments. He is a FRAUD.
Pintek on the other hand is trying to work. I don't feel bad for him, but feel sorry for him to have lowered himself to the bottom of the talk show PIT, the Quinn and Rose Show.
For the love of God, Mike, come to your senses..you know this is junk radio. I'm rooting for you because you were good on KDKA and were replaced by a nothing.
P.S. They fawn over Seannie the Sissy and were actually on his show a few times.
Lineup for 104.7 6am-10am Quinn 10am-1200pm Beck
12-3 Rush 3-6 Seannie the Sissy
The only gift from God is that when the Pirates play during the day, the city is actually lifted up by the lowly Pirates...Also, Mike Savage appears at 10pm.....Great lineup for the Cons
Hey, P.O.W., I've seen that posted here , the bit about "Liberalism generating the opposite,etc.",. I recognize most of the wingnut slogans, but didn't know where that one came from.I was almost ready to believe that one of them came up with a ridiculous idea on their own.
I do like this tinfoil hat stuff about the birth certificate;
Barack Obama birth certificate is actually Photoshopped... the name is in there, and it is -- and Barack's name appears to have been added later. In other words, it was text over an image of a blank birth certificate, and then you enter text on top of it
I just had my birth certificate out recently. It, too, looks like it's had text added over a blank birth certificate.That's how most forms look when you fill them out, you numbskulls. Text is added to a blank form. Can you just picture the mouth-breathers drinking this stuff in ? They probably almost lose their grip on their Bible and gun for a second.
Panama canal ZONE, (before we gave it back to them)
"According to some people who know what they're talking about..."
This is almost too funny to comment on. A very suspect phrase coming from idiots like these.
Tuned in at 9am (Thursday) to hear Pintek....Top of the hour, he is asking why the Messiah, B. Hussein Obama is still on vacation while Putin is disobeying the Messiahs' orders concerning Georgia!!!! I'll listen until 9:30 to find out if any of his RITO's call in about MMFA article...come to think of it, the fourth hour is usually a repeat of the first hour.
Citing "a guy" and "some people," Quinn & Rose guest host Pintek said of Obama: "I'm still not convinced that he actually was born a natural-born citizen"
Gee - talk about impecable sources.....
From Barack Obama's web site:
The truth about Barack's birth certificate
Lie:
Obama Is Not a Natural Born Citizen
Truth:
Senator Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, after it became a state on August 21st, 1959. Obama became a citizen at birth under the first section of the 14th Amendment
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Dambodil, could you please supply what you consider a "valid" birth certificate which you think Obama should equal. Your confusion has been debunked by many Cons websites. Use the internets. P.S. Do you really think that the slimeballs that work for Limbaugh, Hannity and that ilk haven't looked this over. Trust me, you didn't just come up with this 6 month old conspiracy therory.
I would make a wager that no matter what Obama presented, it would not be enough for you. So go back to your fingerpaint and staring out the window. And remember, everybody is watching. NONSENSE.
Umm, he did produce his birth certificate. End of story. The man was born in Hawai'i, which is actually IN the United States, as opposed to the Panama Canal Zone, which physically was NOT in the United States. You don't hear me calling for McCain to get tossed from the campaign do you?
This group can only survive with their local yokel base. This group is strong with the trailer and truck driving crowd not that there is anything wrong with either but the base is the base"?" Or should I say people who need to hate something. Everything about this show is HATE LIBERALS...
Quinn uses more name calling than Savage..although not as eloquent.
As idiotic as Pintek is it's actually the caller that's killing me.
CALLER: Isn't there some way, or maybe I'm just wishing, that the Republican Party could file a class-action suit against Democrats -- against Obama demanding that he provide positive proof that he is a bona fide American citizen?
Apparently he doesn't think McCain can win on his merits.
CALLER: Isn't there some way, or maybe I'm just wishing, that the Republican Party could file a class-action suit against Democrats -- against Obama demanding that he provide positive proof that he is a bona fide American citizen?
I demand that caller provide positive proof that he's not a certified lunatic...
Weak... this is the kind of fishing expedition that really embarrasses a party.
I had to chuckle when he citied the findings of "a webmaster" as some sort of expert testimony .. lol
Should it have been Jeesus H. Christ......then you may have been kin to Obama the Messiah.....his middle initial is H. thus.......
Quinn and Rose are local Pittsburgh products. Quinn is a former diskjockey who has had a conservative radio talk show for years and is very much a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity wannabe. Rose is his "Christian" counterpart. Quinn spews hate towards Democrats and Liberals--they are the cause of everything bad in our country. He characterizes them as "commies, pinkos, marxists" constantly. Mike Pintek replaced a "liberal" tv talkshow host. There are very few "liberal" radio talk show hostS in the Burgh.
WHITEY106
"I'm still not convinced that he actually was born a natural-born citizen"
McCain was born in the country of Panama. Do they talk much about that?