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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Conservative radio hosts repeat discredited claim that Obama has not produced valid U.S. birth certificate Tue, Oct 14, 2008 3:31pm ET Conservative radio hosts repeat discredited claim that Obama has not produced valid U.S. birth certificate Summary: Radio hosts Michael Savage, Rick Roberts, and Chris Baker repeated the discredited claim that Sen. Barack Obama has not produced a valid U.S. birth certificate. In fact, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its "Fight the Smears" website, and reportedly provided the original document to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship." Rehashing a long-debunked claim, conservative radio hosts Michael Savage, Rick Roberts and Chris Baker each asserted that Sen. Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate proving that he was born in the United States and is therefore eligible to run for president. In broadcasts between October 8 and 10, Roberts, Baker and Savage said, respectively, that Obama's birth certificate "hasn't ... been produced"; that there "has never been a real birth certificate presented" by Obama; and that the birth certificate "that was produced is a forgery." In fact, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its "Fight the Smears" website, and reportedly provided the original document to the nonpartisan watchdog group FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded in an August 21 post that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship." Further, a Hawaiian Health Department official confirmed to PolitiFact.com that Obama's birth certificate is authentic. Indeed, even the conservative website WorldNetDaily.com reported in an August 23 article that a "WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic," as Media Matters for America has documented. On the October 9 broadcast of his Minneapolis-based radio show, Baker discussed a lawsuit filed in August by Philip J. Berg, who baselessly charged that Obama was born in Kenya. Baker stated that "when you really start looking into this, there apparently has never been a real birth certificate presented. There's been a certificate, but it's not a birth certificate. ... Just get the damn birth certificate presented and let's move on with our lives." Savage and guest host Roberts repeatedly questioned Obama's citizenship on the October 8, October 9 and October 10 broadcasts of the nationally syndicated Savage Nation. For instance, Savage falsely claimed that Obama's birth certificate "does not exist, they can't find it in the Hawaii government. It's never been produced. The one that was produced is a forgery." Roberts stated, "[Y]ou're running for the president of the United States, OK? Show them the birth certificate and say, 'OK, here's my birth certificate, get out of my face.' Why hasn't it been produced? Why?" Additionally, while baselessly stating that Obama has not proven his U.S. citizenship, Savage revived other falsehoods about Obama. He falsely suggested that Obama is a Muslim, stating: "How could he not be Muslim if he has a Muslim name? How could he not be Muslim if his father and grandfather were Muslims? How is that possible, when he has no known birth certificate?" Savage also claimed that Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation, "went over to Kenya to investigate [Obama's] relatives in Kenya, and he was arrested by the Muslim leader of Kenya because Mr. Corsi uncovered the true birthplace, I believe, of Hussein Obama and the connections that exist between Barack Hussein Obama and this Muslim leader ... " However, Media Matters has documented that while Corsi recently baselessly claimed that he "came out of Kenya" with "documents" proving that Obama "made a pact with this radical leftist politician Odinga," the only "documents" Corsi has thus far provided -- purported emails listing the contact in his Senate office to work with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga -- do not establish that Obama "made a pact" with Odinga, and they "appear not to have been written by a native English speaker," as the Politico's Ben Smith has noted. Media Matters has also noted that PolitiFact.com wrote on August 20 that Corsi's claim that Obama "openly supported" Odinga during his 2006 bid for the presidency of Kenya is "false," as PolitiFact "scour[ed] the public record for evidence that Obama supported Odinga" and concluded that "Obama has remained neutral in Kenyan politics." Also, contrary to Savage's claim that the "leader" of Kenya is a Muslim, neither Odinga nor Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki are Muslim, according to news reports. On October 8, Roberts also said: "[I]f you look at some of his policies and his guidelines and certain political agendas and even more than that, certain social agendas at the outset, you know, the similarities are staggering between Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama." From the October 8 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation: (CONTINUED)... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
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are you familiar with the guy who writes for the idaho observer and has a patriot radio show, forget his name at the moment but he's been on michael herzog's show and has spent a lot of time researching this topic, thats where i first heard of it. point being that it's not a neocon vs leftie dem issue. the author sounds very similar to mark kornke's radio sidekick, not sure if it's the same guy.
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