CPAC rejects WorldNetDaily's request to schedule a "birther" panel @ next conference

sabra

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:25 AM
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CPAC rejects WorldNetDaily's request to schedule a "birther" panel @ next conference

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-fringe14-2009sep14,0,940651.story

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In one symbolic development, organizers of next year's Conservative Political Action Conference -- the country's biggest annual meeting of activists on the right -- said last week that they had rejected a request to schedule a panel on whether Obama was a native-born U.S. citizen.

"It would fill a room," said event director Lisa De Pasquale. "But so would a two-headed monkey. There really are so many more important issues, and it's only a three-day conference."

CPAC officials said WorldNetDaily's Farah asked the group to hold the panel.

The CPAC decision came after Washington GOP strategist Jon Henke began a campaign against WorldNetDaily, which has published numerous articles giving credence to the birthplace issue and other allegations against the Obama administration.

WorldNetDaily is also soliciting signatures and e-mail addresses for a petition calling on "any and all controlling legal authorities in this matter" to examine Obama's birth certificate.

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quiet.american

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:28 AM
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1. A sliver of sanity. nt

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MineralMan

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:30 AM
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2. I got one of those slivers in my finger once...

but it festered out.

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quiet.american

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:36 AM
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4. :) nt

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Ruby the Liberal

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:32 AM
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3. Thats a shame

Maybe they can get a whole conference arranged around it then. 2-3 solid days of birther lunacy. :evilgrin:

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Ikonoklast

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:46 AM
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5. That's a damn shame.

The screaming lunatics would have chased the money people right out of there.

I want the racist birfer nutbags to takeover the entire apparatus of the Republic party.

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marmar

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Mon Sep-14-09 11:52 AM
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6. Too crazy for CPAC? You know you're f**king bananas......

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robertpaulsen

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Mon Sep-14-09 12:02 PM
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7. So World Nut Daily is flip-flopping on their debunking of this crap last August?!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

World Net Daily Obama Birth Certificate, Evasive Answers to Simple Questions with Video : Terry Krepel - July 25, 2009

World Net Daily Obama Birth Certificate, Evasive Answers to Simple Questions with Video, Terry Krepel � Before WorldNetDaily decided its mission was to stake what little journalistic reputation it has left on a desperate campaign to bring down Barack Obama by becoming an echo chamber for fringe claims that he may not have been born in the United States, it debunked the idea in August 2008, claiming not only that Philip Berg�s lawsuit making that claim, in part, �relies on discredited claims� but that � separate WND investigation into Obama�s birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic.�

WND � and especially editor Joseph Farah � has been pretending ever since that it never did this story, unable to admit the simple truth of its existence and grotesquely contorting itself into writing around it.

I�ve previously detailed Farah�s evasions in responding to me and Keith Olbermann pointing out WND�s refusal to honestly acknowledge the existence of that story.

Farah demonstrated this once more in a March 3 column, written after Olbermann again referenced WND�s original debunking, thus guaranteeing that Farah would respond � and obfuscate again. Farah wrote:

It is simply untrue that WND ever �authenticated� the document on Obama�s campaign site. First of all, we would have to examine the original document, not a web posting, to do that. Second of all, assuming it is not a fraud, which is more than I would assume, it proves nothing about Obama�s actual place of birth, for the reason stated above

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Here�s what WND stated in August 2008:

A separate WND investigation into Obama�s birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic. The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren�t originally there.

Farah doesn�t explain why it is unreasonable � let alone �untrue� � to conclude that if a �WND investigation � found the document to be authentic,� then WND has �authenticated� the document.

The simple solution to this crisis � and to avoid further ridicule from Olbermann � would be for Farah to do what real news organizations would do: acknowledge what WND wrote last August, formally retract the story, then explain to readers why he and his website no longer stand by that conclusion.

But for some reason, he won�t do that. Why? Perhaps because he knows that the original report is true and that he�s now playing a partisan game to undermine Obama�s authority by peddling a lie.

more...

http://newsnidea.com/7921/world-net-daily-obama-birth-certificate-evasive-answers-to-simple-questions-with-video-terry-krepel/

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