Robert Schlesinger

TV Ad Targets Lou Dobbs, CNN on Obama Birth Certificate "Issue"

August 3, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

The folks over at Media Matters are going negative ... against CNN. Specifically, they've bought airtime on MSNBC, Fox News and, ahem, CNN to run an ad criticizing the venerable cable network for Lou Dobbs' habit of treating the Birther conspiracy movement as legitimate. Here's the fun part: They've bought time during Dobbs' show. As Greg Sargent points out, that puts CNN in the position of airing an anti-Dobbs during his show, or killing it and creating a bigger story.

My first question was: Are they running the ad in the south? The answer according to Sargent is they're running it in New York, Washington, and Atlanta. (Media and political capitals and CNN HQ).

Anyway, here's the ad:

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Now Obama’s own Myspace page says he is 52 years of age. That would mean he was born in 1957, not 1961 as the fake Factcheck COLB says.

The questions won’t go away until obama releases his hidden records. All he has to do is make the following official public statement,

"I Barack Obama authorize the State of Hawaii to release and make public all of my records on file."

That's it. Issue over. But he won't because he's a fraud!! Obama knows that millions of citizens want to see it yet he continues to hide it. What and why is he hiding?

And maybe more disturbing is why don't BHO's supporters want to know the whole truth, especially since there's a reward of $100,000 for proof that Obama is a "natural born" citizen of the United States? The answer is that Obama’s very own supporters also know he’s a fraud!

OBAMA, STOP HIDING. SHOW US YOUR LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OTHER RECORDS!!!!!

Captain Steve of CA 7:12PM August 17, 2009

A large population in my county knows all about this evil genius also named Obama A/K/A Barry Soetoro. This man has hidden everything about himself to the American Public Birth Certficate,COLLEGE RECORDS, etc. One question when obama wrote his book he said his father was kenyan his whole family lives in kenya his illegal aunt. Come on America wake up if its not already to late this man is a fraud!!! Also in his book he wrote dreams of my father he found his birth certificate folded up in a book at his grandmother, come on release that original. I will tell everyone I meet that this man is a fraud because this is America Jack and I am free, well just until Barry's men reads this bye now someones knocking at the door.

Richard Shirk of OH 11:54AM August 10, 2009

Lou Dobbs has defended US immigration laws, trying to save us taxpayers trillions of dollars of government services stolen by illegal immigrants. They steal jobs from US citizens and pretend we won't work. My ancestors were here with James Wilson, a

Founding Father. We have a long history of creating and operating orchards and truck garden farms. We older children did the stoop labor and, not being pushed by big owners, we enjoyed growing and eating delicious food. It's no accident that many Hispanics are illegal-- because so many come from "Catholic nations" like Mexico and Latin America. Their church banned abortion because each conception may become a believer and a tither. For that reason, breeding to increase church income, many big families of tithers exist. In their homelands, they drove down wages by weight of numbers. Instead of wisely dropping church membership, they sneak across borders to places where birth control has decreased number of natives. They do all this nasty, selfish stuff because they believe they'll "go to hell" if they disobey church law that bans abortion. The "ad" uses the trick of repeating, repeating, repeating. It is as nasty as all the illegal immigrants that push in here, sending tithes home to their churches.

auradawnveirs of CA 10:57PM August 07, 2009

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Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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