WorldNetDaily correspondent asks Gibbs birther question

Un-fucking-believable:



White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confronted WorldNetDaily correspondent Lester Kinsolving in the White House briefing Thursday, challenging the reporter to say whether he believed President Obama is a U.S. citizen after questioning the authenticity of Obama's Social Security number.

In the last question of the day, Kinsolving asked Gibbs "why the president is using a Social Security Number reserved for Connecticut applicants" – alluding to a popular conspiracy theory among some who question the president's citizenship.

Gibbs began to reply, saying he was "amazed" by the question, before interrupting himself to ask directly: "Do you think the president was born here, Lester? Do you think the president was born in the United States?"

"I don't know," the conservative correspondent answered, adding he wants to see Obama's birth certificate.

"I've seen the real birth certificate. I put it on the Internet," Gibbs shot back. "And I appreciate your forthrightness on the birth answer."


http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0610/birther_in_the_briefing_4b38b09e-5724-4ec9-9e80-c824cfcc8ef1.html

:wtf:

Why he continues to engage this nut is beyond me. On this rare occassion I give Jake Tapper credit he walked out with a look of disgust on his face.

for being a birther.

"true". Doesn't seem very true to me.

I suspect that Gibb's uses this guy a bit like McClellen used Gannon. When the day is slow, or the questions get tough, or you just wanna generate some news, call on the nut.

secretaries. Lester is against the admin. and is a birther who is considered a joke by all (most) in the briefing room.

He was just some one you could count on to ask some softball question, and a provacatively stated one at that.

criticism of Dems. put in the FORM of a question and nobody laughed like they do at Lester. Gannon was more or less a WH plant. Lester is a birther who'd love to see Obama impeached. He's so far out that nobody takes him seriously, including Gibbs.

...stupid fucking douchebag...:grr:

yelling out of turn. Gibbs usually jokes around with him and tells him to wait, and then he calls on him at the end. Why I have yet to understand. I would say this is an embarrassment to the WH press core but they’re a bunch of idiots themselves. Case in point majority of today’s briefing was spent asking why the President has not met with the clueless wonder, Tony Hayward and if the administration is being to tough on poor BP. “their stocks on falling” Spare me.

If the Birther Contingent wants to continue to act like loaded diapers, they'll get treated as such.

Absolutely amazing and astounding that these people think a corptocracy like America, with spy and info tech out the ass, would allow a non-citizen in the highest office of the land.

Can we just call these people for the racists that they are?

Lester's a fruit.

I would like to see that all serious White House Correspondents Assn. release a statement like that knife in the back they delivered to Thomas.

the White House briefing room? He's not a journalist. He's partisan hack promoting conspiracy theories.

WTF was Kinsolving doing in the room? And WTF was Gibbs doing taking a question from this freak? He obviously failed to anticipate a question any moron should expect from Kinsolving. Gibbs should have crucified him but instead let him slide with the standard "I don't know" birther response. Totally lame.

asked this before by him but in a different way, this time he started off with the SS#. Besides he has not gone to the birther well for a while now, but he still spews lots of crazy!

There's plenty of material. With a proper rebuttal from Gibbs, this jackass should have been laughed out of the room.

Edit to add:

Example: "Well Lester, If The President was born in Kenya as you birthers assert, or alternately say you don't know, then can you explain why he has never won a marathon?" (laughter)

The only proper response to these birthers is ridicule. Anything else is a fool's errand.

birther nut.

number was gotten. Remember. I could go to any state in this country give my valid address and get a social security number before they started to give social security numbers for young children. I know a lot of people in their 40's and older etc who have social security numbers from states they were not born in. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH THIS. IT SUCKS TO EVEN BRING IT UP AND THAT SHOWS HOW DAMN DUMB A REPORTER IS NOT TO KNOW THIS.

AFAIK, that's supposed to be confidential. Did he order a credit report on Obama illegally?

dumbshit he is.

Too much Gibbs! I love Gibbs.