Cox: Birthers echo other “attempts to ... de-person black people and to treat them as something ... less than full humans” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 08/03/09 10:44 PM EDT From the August 3 edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show: Video file Previously: Matthews: Dobbs, Beck and Rush pushing birther story; Conason says they want “to create ... fear of a black president”