Despite the fact that President Obama was born in Hawaii, Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller lets frequent Caller columnist and “Fox News Forum Contributor” Tommy De Seno go birther in a column headlined “The birther movement is President Obama's fault”:

I've long maintained that the existence of the “birther movement” is President Obama's fault. He could dispel the rumors about his birth by simply showing everyone his 1961 birth certificate. By doing so, he would also save a lot in legal fees. Yet, no one has ever asked Obama why he'd rather lose money than show his birth certificate. It's time to ask that question.

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If he really wants the birthers to shut up, he has the power to do so by releasing the 1961 document. Why not just do it then? It's a simple task.

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I call shenanigans on the straw-man argument that “the birthers still won't believe him.” Yes, they will. And so too will others who just don't know where he was born, not because they are kooks, but because Obama himself acts kooky in spending money to win lawsuits he could win for free by showing his birth certificate.

By defending the lawsuits and not showing the 1961 document, Obama feeds the suspicion of those who already think he is lying. That's why this issue has the power to linger, and that's Obama's fault alone. I hope the birthers continue to bite his ankles until he releases the records. He deserves nothing less for making this issue stay with us.

That blame-the-victim birther nonsense won Tommy De Seno a spot on the Daily Caller's front page:

On July 29, 2009, FoxNews.com published a similar piece by De Seno, as Media Matters noted at the time. That piece was headlined “Obama's to Blame for the Birther Movement” and, contained many of the same lines he uses in the current Daily Caller piece. Both quote Ronald Reagan's “trust but verify” line, for example. Both contain the lines “Sure his grammar school records show that he was enrolled as an Indonesian Muslim, but some people will say anything to get their kid in the right school. It doesn't really answer the question.” Both ask of Obama's purported failure to prove his birthplace, “Why not get rid of a conversation that has been with America since the campaign”? Both reference John Kerry's Yale records.

So here's what we've learned today: The way to get a piece published on the Daily Caller's front page is to recycle an 18th-month-old FoxNews.com column peddling birther conspiracy theories.

Remember when Tucker Carlson insisted the Daily Caller wouldn't be a right-wing site?