True history of the birther movement: Telegraph UK 2011

[tinydancer]

It was out there long before the 2008 campaign but it is true that the Clinton supporters kicked it up a notch.

"False rumours about Mr Obama’s background first surfaced in 2004, in Illinois, where he was a state senator. Andy Martin, a perennial local candidate and litigant, claimed Mr Obama was secretly Muslim.

Related theories — including that he was radicalised in a “madrassa” in Indonesia — developed after Mr Obama entered the national stage with a speech to the Democratic National Convention later that year.

In 2005, Mr Obama went to Washington as the junior US senator for Illinois. The rumours about him persisted, but seemingly failed to take hold among political insiders and voters alike.

It was not until April 2008, at the height of the intensely bitter Democratic presidential primary process, that the touch paper was properly lit.

An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii."

Birther row began with Hillary Clinton

 

[MisterBeale]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

 

[1stRambo]

Yo, the Jury is still out on this "Muslim Named, Half & Half," in Washington? He does have the Name? And stands for the Muslim Extremist?

""Barack Hussein Obama II""

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

 

[tinydancer]

Here's the email. And a special note. Phil Berg is a life long Democrat. High ranking Democrat. He's the one that brought the lawsuit.

"Berg, whose office was in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, is a former chairman of the Democratic Party of Montgomery County, in suburban Philadelphia and a former member of the Democratic State Committee. He is a paid life member of the NAACP.

He is a former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania."

Philip J. Berg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The email.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy,” it said. “She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth.”

Then in August 2008 Phil Berg, an ex-deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania and a renowned conspiracy theorist, filed a lawsuit alleging that Mr Obama was ineligible to be a candidate.

Birther row began with Hillary Clinton

 

[1stRambo]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

Yo, Jury Is Still Out, Period!!!

"GTP"

 

[tinydancer]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

Yeah and Politifact is a bona fide in the tank propaganda arm of the Dems.

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

Yeah and Politifact is a bona fide in the tank propaganda arm of the Dems.

Glug, glug, glug, TinyDrunk....Mister "tin foil" Beale is trying to say it was started by the Hillary campaign.

Even your article says it was a Hillary supporter. There's a difference between her campaign and a supporter.

Learn to read.

Thank you.

 

[tinydancer]

Here's another verifying it was all D and all Clinton.

"That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008."

Birtherism: Where it all began

 

[easyt65]

Obama is President.
Cruz is out of the race.
So why are Democrats so obsessed with 'Birthers' / 'Birtherism'?

Much like with 'Boooosh', they are obsessed with it. At least it's nice to know they can be obsessed with something more than JUST Bush...

 

[tinydancer]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

Yeah and Politifact is a bona fide in the tank propaganda arm of the Dems.

Glug, glug, glug, TinyDrunk....Mister "tin foil" Beale is trying to say it was started by the Hillary campaign.

Even your article says it was a Hillary supporter. There's a difference between her campaign and a supporter.

Learn to read.

Thank you.

My my my aren't you bitchy today. Do you think you need to switch to a different brand of enemas?



Clinton supporters. You know it's not like Hillary is pure as the driven snow. Neither are Clinton tactics in elections. I'm searching for any article that would support Clinton admonishing her supporters for putting out such a ridiculous email.

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

Yeah and Politifact is a bona fide in the tank propaganda arm of the Dems.

Glug, glug, glug, TinyDrunk....Mister "tin foil" Beale is trying to say it was started by the Hillary campaign.

Even your article says it was a Hillary supporter. There's a difference between her campaign and a supporter.

Learn to read.

Thank you.

My my my aren't you bitchy today. Do you think you need to switch to a different brand of enemas?



Clinton supporters. You know it's not like Hillary is pure as the driven snow. Neither are Clinton tactics in elections. I'm searching for any article that would support Clinton admonishing her supporters for putting out such a ridiculous email.

Well you keep searching, dingbat. Hopefully that will keep your tiny brain occupied.

Let us know if you find something that's not old news, like your article.

 

[Syriusly]

It was out there long before the 2008 campaign but it is true that the Clinton supporters kicked it up a notch.

"False rumours about Mr Obama’s background first surfaced in 2004, in Illinois, where he was a state senator. Andy Martin, a perennial local candidate and litigant, claimed Mr Obama was secretly Muslim.

Related theories — including that he was radicalised in a “madrassa” in Indonesia — developed after Mr Obama entered the national stage with a speech to the Democratic National Convention later that year.

In 2005, Mr Obama went to Washington as the junior US senator for Illinois. The rumours about him persisted, but seemingly failed to take hold among political insiders and voters alike.

It was not until April 2008, at the height of the intensely bitter Democratic presidential primary process, that the touch paper was properly lit.

An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii."

Birther row began with Hillary Clinton

The lie that Barack Obama was not born in the US has been fuelled by fringe Republicans

It was not until last month, and the emergence of the property tycoon Donald Trump as a potential Republican presidential candidate, that the issue was thrust back into national prominence.

Mr Trump outed himself as a “birther” in an interview on his private jet on March 17. “The reason I have a little doubt — just a little — is because he grew up and nobody knew him,” he told ABC News.

Over the following weeks, Mr Trump reiterated his comments repeatedly. He added a string of further allegations, including that Mr Obama’s grandmother had recalled witnessing his birth in Kenya, which were simply not true.

Donald Trump- fringe Republican- Birther

 

[Syriusly]

Yeah yeah, every one knows that the Hillary campaign in 2008 started the whole birther movement.

Some lies never die in the Republican bubble.

Did Hillary Clinton start the Obama birther movement?


Our ruling

Trump said that Clinton started the birther movement and "was all in."

It’s an interesting bit of history that the birther movement appears to have begun with Democrats supporting Clinton and opposing Obama. But Trump, and others who have made this claim, neglect to mention that there is no direct tie to Clinton or her 2008 campaign.

The story appears to have started with supporters of Clinton, an important distinction.

Trump goes on to completely distort the chain of events by claiming Clinton "was all in" on the birther movement. Most of the talk started after Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. And the only thing she officially has ever done is deny any accusation of starting a whisper campaign.

We rate this claim False.

Yeah and Politifact is a bona fide in the tank propaganda arm of the Dems.

Glug, glug, glug, TinyDrunk....Mister "tin foil" Beale is trying to say it was started by the Hillary campaign.

Even your article says it was a Hillary supporter. There's a difference between her campaign and a supporter.

Learn to read.

Thank you.

My my my aren't you bitchy today. Do you think you need to switch to a different brand of enemas?



Clinton supporters. You know it's not like Hillary is pure as the driven snow. Neither are Clinton tactics in elections. I'm searching for any article that would support Clinton admonishing her supporters for putting out such a ridiculous email.

Let us know when you find any article that would support Clinton pushing any ridiculous Birther idiocy.

How about showing her going on National TV promoting it?

You know- like Donald Trump did.

Over and over.

 

[edthecynic]

It was not until April 2008, at the height of the intensely bitter Democratic presidential primary process, that the touch paper was properly lit.

An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii."

This GOP scripted LIE will never die as long as stupid people exist. If this lie was not started until April 2008, how do you liars explain its appearance on freerepublic a MONTH EARLIER????????

 

[Syriusly]

Here's another verifying it was all D and all Clinton.

"That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008."

Birtherism: Where it all began

So you are claiming that Trump is just a simple patsy- and that he was fooled by Clinton into going on national TV for the last 5 years promoting Birtherism?

Redirect Notice

 

[edthecynic]

Yo, the Jury is still out on this "Muslim Named, Half & Half," in Washington? He does have the Name? And stands for the Muslim Extremist?

""Barack Hussein Obama II""
View attachment 73886

Yet another GOP scripted fake quote lie spread by the stupidest assholes on Earth!!!!!

 

[Syriusly]

Obama is President.
Cruz is out of the race.
So why are Democrats so obsessed with 'Birthers' / 'Birtherism'?

Much like with 'Boooosh', they are obsessed with it. At least it's nice to know they can be obsessed with something more than JUST Bush...

So you think tinydancer is a Democrat?

 

[edthecynic]

Here's another verifying it was all D and all Clinton.

"That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

Verifying only that worthless lying scum Right-wingers LIE in PACKS!!!!!

 

[1stRambo]

Yo, the Jury is still out on this "Muslim Named, Half & Half," in Washington? He does have the Name? And stands for the Muslim Extremist?

""Barack Hussein Obama II""
View attachment 73886

Yet another GOP scripted fake quote lie spread by the stupidest assholes on Earth!!!!!

Yo, Ass-Hole? Maybe you will learn one day!!!

"GTP"