On the June 15 edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck hosted Nancy Armstrong -- whom he described as a “disenfranchised Democrat” who “has a blog called MsPlacedDemocrat.com” -- in order to assert that it wasn't “only Republicans” who have hosted tea parties. One topic that didn't come up during the discussion is the numerous posts on Armstrong's blog advancing the falsehood that President Obama has not released a valid copy of his birth certificate.

For instance, a December 29, 2008, post titled "51 Things We Know About Obama And None Of Them Are Important!" asks, “Where is his [Obama's] 'real birth certificate and selective service registration?” A March 23 post reads:

Dr Orly Taitz, both a lawyer and naturalized citizen has personally taken on the issue of Obama's eligibility. There is nothing wrong with her questioning this issue because Obama has literally hidden every evidence of his past. What has he hidden? All school records, passport records, employment records ( forget his stupid story about ice cream and an ice cream shop....I believe it is another one of Obama's lies.) and his REAL birth certificate.

Armstrong's site has also linked to various articles trafficking in birth certificate theories, including in a March 5 post that took excerpts from a WorldNetDaily.com article quoting a “U.S. soldier on active duty” who wrote that Obama “has absolutely refused to provide to the American public his original birth certificate, as well as other documents which may prove or disprove his eligibility. ... In fact, he has fought every attempt made by concerned citizens in their effort to force him to do so.”

As Media Matters for America has noted, the Obama campaign released a copy of President Obama's birth certificate, posting it on the campaign's Fight the Smears website. It also reportedly provided the original document to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded in an August 21, 2008, post that it “meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship.” The Hawaii Department of Health also repeatedly confirmed that the birth certificate on record with the state is valid and proves that Obama was born in the state of Hawaii.

Media Matters recently documented Fox News' purportedly bias-free Fox Nation website pushing the birth certificate conspiracy theory.