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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:42 PM May 2012

Wolf Blitzer To Trump: ‘You’re Starting To Sound A Little Ridiculous’

Source: Talking Points Memo

4:21 PM EDT, TUESDAY MAY 29, 2012

Wolf Blitzer To Trump: ‘You’re Starting To Sound A Little Ridiculous’

Donald Trump called into CNN Tuesday hours before he was scheduled to hold a fundraiser with Mitt Romney. The topic of Trump’s continued birtherism was the focus of the testy interview. From a rush transcript:

BLITZER: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.

TRUMP: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.

BLITZER: Here’s the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Advertiser contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in Hawaii?

TRUMP: Many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something done by many people even though they weren’t born in the country. You know and I know it.

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/wolf-blitzer-to-trump-youre-starting-to-sound



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Wolf Blitzer To Trump: ‘You’re Starting To Sound A Little Ridiculous’ (Original Post) kpete May 2012 OP
I just put the video to this.....FUBAR! NRaleighLiberal May 2012 #1
Really? Is that true? RevStPatrick May 2012 #2
You never heard of Bush, Clintom, or Reagan doing this? Happyhippychick May 2012 #3
Of course it's a lie malaise May 2012 #4
Malaise ~ you are right goclark May 2012 #11
Here we go again! Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii. Here's some proof! The Wielding Truth May 2012 #12
Trump and Romney are idiots to promote this lie. The Wielding Truth May 2012 #13
That explains it! IggleDoer May 2012 #16
No matter what proof is offered, there will be some "explanation" NYC Liberal May 2012 #23
of course it isn't true Skittles May 2012 #24
I can't see any reason for people to do this. drm604 May 2012 #28
No, Trump is right. Incitatus May 2012 #39
Argumentative Fallacy ut oh May 2012 #44
Welcome to DU, ut oh! pacalo May 2012 #52
Wouldn't it be easier to just go to the U.S. to have your baby? yardwork May 2012 #54
Here's a great tweet that just came through about this... NRaleighLiberal May 2012 #5
If many people do it RoccoR5955 May 2012 #6
Oh no, PatSeg May 2012 #45
Trump is one egomaniacal asshole. Laurian May 2012 #7
Not only that he's an ignorant asshole too tularetom May 2012 #41
Spontaneous combustion? Delightful............ Mopar151 May 2012 #55
Why do I think Trump is struggling financially, and he wants a piece of the Bain "action"??? secondwind May 2012 #8
This just in: Facts Trump Trump meeksgeek May 2012 #9
Blitzer smiling at 0:52 Enrique May 2012 #10
Then Trump goes all third grade on Blitzer - no you are liberal N proud May 2012 #14
That's what I noticed. Word salad, no constructive thought just ..no, you are...LOL..n/t monmouth May 2012 #20
Trump is a blowhard and a bully nobodyspecial May 2012 #32
Oh HOW I wish................. DFW May 2012 #15
Trump is ridiculous but oh so entertaining lunatica May 2012 #17
This "birther" stupidity has made it plan as day that the right is frothing with hatred jimlup May 2012 #18
"Starting to sound a little ridiculous"... awoke_in_2003 May 2012 #19
My thoughts too Va Lefty May 2012 #26
understatement of the year, imo maddezmom May 2012 #21
" I know you are but what am I?" louis-t May 2012 #22
I want to know about Iliyah May 2012 #25
Then why not the name too? beardown May 2012 #27
Good (& hilarious) point. pacalo May 2012 #51
You know that you've hit rock bottom when Wolf starts saying you sound ridiculous, Uncle Joe May 2012 #29
Ha.... I was just thinking that it's bad when anyone makes Wolf look good. kayakjohnny May 2012 #34
and wolf did not counter with SemperEadem May 2012 #30
Obama is not the first president born to parents in which only parent was a citizen. Thinkingabout May 2012 #31
And to think many in the Republican Party revere this idiot. DCBob May 2012 #33
What is 'so-called born in this country?' We have people being told they are not eligible to vote in freshwest May 2012 #35
About damn time the media called him out. nt babylonsister May 2012 #36
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion, Wolf!" LongTomH May 2012 #37
Gads, I hope this stupid goon keeps flapping his moronic piehole hifiguy May 2012 #38
Agreed. This has to benefit the President more than Romney. DCBob May 2012 #40
Donald Trump is batshit crazy.......eom. cstanleytech May 2012 #42
Trump is turning into Howard Hughes. Kablooie May 2012 #43
Hughes was a genius who lost it - not so Trump. n/t Mopar151 May 2012 #56
Trump is predictable TheRazorOnline May 2012 #46
It's only fitting that Trump sound ridiculous... sendero May 2012 #47
Starting to? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2012 #48
He's getting rather stale! Rosa Luxemburg May 2012 #49
Trumpless is getting as putrid sounding as Robertsonless.... MindMover May 2012 #50
Starting? A little? MrSlayer May 2012 #53
Starting? JVS May 2012 #57
It's like Trump is reading a script written by Orly Tate suffragette May 2012 #58
 

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)
2. Really? Is that true?
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:46 PM
May 2012

"Many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something done by many people even though they weren’t born in the country. You know and I know it."

Really?
I had never heard of this happening until it became an "issue" surrounding the current president.
Is it true that "many people did it"?

goclark

(30,404 posts)
11. Malaise ~ you are right
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:55 PM
May 2012

Excellent reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories


The Enquirer came out with some more s--- on this last week .
The Donald is using a crazy story from the Rag.

IggleDoer

(1,186 posts)
16. That explains it!
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:06 PM
May 2012

Mittens Rawmoney really was born in Mexico ... or was it France. Has anybody check every newspaper in both countries for the month he was born yet?

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
23. No matter what proof is offered, there will be some "explanation"
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:33 PM
May 2012

for why it's not proof.

This is because it's not about the birth certificate or where he was born. Most people here know what it's ultimately about.

McCain actually WAS born outside of the US and yet there was absolutely no questioning his natural-born citizenship.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
24. of course it isn't true
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:40 PM
May 2012

but it's the only explanation teabagging idiots have to get around that pesky birth announcement

drm604

(16,230 posts)
28. I can't see any reason for people to do this.
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:43 PM
May 2012

As far as I know, the only benefit that comes from being born here, as opposed to being naturalized, is that you can run for President. I don't know of any other benefit that isn't just as available to naturalized citizens as it is to natural born citizens.

Incitatus

(5,317 posts)
39. No, Trump is right.
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:27 PM
May 2012

Obviously his mother knew he would run for President when he was born and placed a fake newspaper notice to mitigate questions about the legitimacy of his citizenship.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
5. Here's a great tweet that just came through about this...
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:51 PM
May 2012

RT @davidfrum: That was a big steaming plate of shit spaghetti Trump just deposited on CNN for his supposed friend Romney

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
6. If many people do it
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:51 PM
May 2012

He should be able to name at least half a dozen, otherwise he's full of bovine fecal material.

PatSeg

(47,496 posts)
45. Oh no,
Tue May 29, 2012, 08:52 PM
May 2012

Trump doesn't "give names".

He was probably bitching after the interview that Wolf had the nerve to ask him questions! "No one said there would be QUESTIONS!"

Laurian

(2,593 posts)
7. Trump is one egomaniacal asshole.
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:51 PM
May 2012

I wish everyone would just ignore his blatherings. Who gives a f**k what he says?
I think he would spontaneously combust if nobody paid any attention to him.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
41. Not only that he's an ignorant asshole too
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:54 PM
May 2012

Listen to him talk sometime. I think my great granddaughter who is 4 years old, has a better command of the language than Trump does.

He speaks in primarily in monosyllables and his use of adjectives is limited to value modifiers like "good" "bad" or "terrible".

He's living proof of the saying that the best way to end up with a small fortune is to start with a large one.

meeksgeek

(1,214 posts)
9. This just in: Facts Trump Trump
Tue May 29, 2012, 04:55 PM
May 2012

If the only argument he's got is ad populum, he has no argument at all. Simply saying something is common knowledge doesn't make it so.

DFW

(54,403 posts)
15. Oh HOW I wish.................
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:02 PM
May 2012

....that Romney would pick this clown for his VP. 99 to 1, I know, but I can dream, can't I?

Wolf Blitzer is as close to an overt Republican partisan as CNN gets, with the exception of Candy Crowley. When Blitzer starts calling a fellow Republican "ridiculous," you know that the Romney campaign is just short of looking into small private planes to invite Trump to fly on in stormy weather.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
18. This "birther" stupidity has made it plan as day that the right is frothing with hatred
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:19 PM
May 2012

as well as ignorance.

Holy shit! I guess I've always assumed that our opponents were (while evil) somehow smarter than this crap. They deserve every bad thing that is going to happen to them as a result.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
19. "Starting to sound a little ridiculous"...
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:20 PM
May 2012

Starting? Did Wolf just wake up out of a coma or something?

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
25. I want to know about
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:41 PM
May 2012

Mittens birth certificate and school transcripts as well. Since Mittens father was born in Mexico per the birthers wouldn't that automatically disqualify him?

And Pres O's mother and family knew in advance that baby Barry would be President of the United States. Trump looks and talks like a loony. Its horrible how these re pugs disrespect the office of the president.

Mittens, being a so called religious man is a hopeless and horrible person.

beardown

(363 posts)
27. Then why not the name too?
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:43 PM
May 2012

Seriously, if Obama's family was trying to sneak him in as an American, they'd probably start with a name like George Washington Obama or even Mickey Mantle Obama for the 1961 all American reference. If you are trying to pass a kid off as American, you don't name him Barack Hussein.

Uncle Joe

(58,365 posts)
29. You know that you've hit rock bottom when Wolf starts saying you sound ridiculous,
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:44 PM
May 2012


and the ridiculous Trump is only one degree of separation away from Romney.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

kayakjohnny

(5,235 posts)
34. Ha.... I was just thinking that it's bad when anyone makes Wolf look good.
Tue May 29, 2012, 06:43 PM
May 2012

And that's what happened here.

SemperEadem

(8,053 posts)
30. and wolf did not counter with
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:50 PM
May 2012

"Name one person who did."

yeah, Donald--name one who did--since "many" do this.

I thought so.. you can't name one. You can't even buy one to trot out to the media and say they did it.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
31. Obama is not the first president born to parents in which only parent was a citizen.
Tue May 29, 2012, 06:25 PM
May 2012

Now to the next step, one could be born in another country other than US or US soil and if one of the parents was a citizen, it qualifies this child to be a citizen also. US Code Title 8, Section 1401 describes what qualifies a person to run for the presidence of the US. I find it interesting repubs are pushing for Rubino to run as vice president and facts are he was born in the US but not either parent was a citizen at the time of his birth. They go off on a tangent and right afterwards they are hit with the same facts on someone they are pushing. Donald makes money off of his rants, he needs to be sent to his room until he can return and have acceptable behavior.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
35. What is 'so-called born in this country?' We have people being told they are not eligible to vote in
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:16 PM
May 2012

Florida elections under the claim they are not citizens anymore, after years of being registered voters, serving the armed forces, and all kinds of ID and birth certificates.

Just who is an American citizen? Only billionaires like Romney & Friends? And why do they care, since they have homes abroad and don't pay the USA any taxes?

It's not just Obama they're going after, it's everyone who is not likely to vote for these robber barons. Can this get any more insane?

(Well, yeah, I guess it could, everyone stay home and don't vote, let Romney have it, and then get ready to join a church and let them tell you how to live for the rest of your life, what's left of it.)

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
37. "Everyone is entitled to their opinion, Wolf!"
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:23 PM
May 2012

Trump wants to be entitled to his own facts!

Dayum! We need a 'Batshit crazy' smiley for this site!

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
38. Gads, I hope this stupid goon keeps flapping his moronic piehole
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:27 PM
May 2012

until the day after the election. Tie these two shitheels together like Siamese twins,

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
40. Agreed. This has to benefit the President more than Romney.
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:32 PM
May 2012

Most will see Trumps comments as outrageous and rediculous... and Romney by his association with this "bloviating ignoramus" will be hurt especially with moderates/independents.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
43. Trump is turning into Howard Hughes.
Tue May 29, 2012, 08:06 PM
May 2012

He's going insane.
The only difference is that he doesnt lock himself away.

TheRazorOnline

(4 posts)
46. Trump is predictable
Tue May 29, 2012, 09:03 PM
May 2012

When someone confronts him on his ridiculousness, Trump always shoots back with some childish retort. "I know you are, but what am I?" Okay, that act got very stale very quickly.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
47. It's only fitting that Trump sound ridiculous...
Tue May 29, 2012, 09:28 PM
May 2012

.. everything about him IS ridiculous from his multiple bankruptcies to his hair.

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
50. Trumpless is getting as putrid sounding as Robertsonless....
Tue May 29, 2012, 10:18 PM
May 2012

They both sound like they are puking sound......


 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
53. Starting? A little?
Tue May 29, 2012, 10:32 PM
May 2012

Why they don't just laugh this imbecile off the air is unclear to me. Trump is an idiot, his issue is ludicrous, why even pretend to take any of this seriously?

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
58. It's like Trump is reading a script written by Orly Tate
Wed May 30, 2012, 02:41 AM
May 2012

A little ridiculous? No, Wolf. Trump passed that mark long ago.

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