NP: Disclaimer

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I receive a daily email from a (very) right-wing rag, Human Events (for 
abuse, not enlightenment). Earlier this week they sent out a plea for $$ to 
fund the birthers' law suit. It was full of lying, ignorant, truly-fucked-up 
bile and fearmongering.
Two entries I recall. The first was upper case and boldface: [Obama] was 
BORN IN AFRICA. The other called him a usurper (in bold face). Would BORN IN 
KENYA have the same negative emotional impact (on the abysmally dumb) as 
BORN IN AFRICA?

It would be difficult to be more overtly racist without using words I cannot 
abide.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: NP: Disclaimer


> So his parents smuggled him into the US and involved public officials
> in a vast fraudulent conspiracy including false newspaper
> announcements in order to get him elected President of the United
> States nearly fifty years later as if that is a sure thing. The hole
> in this theory is so large that I could drive a vintage White
> Freightliner through it without taking my foot off the floor.
>
> Of course, they could have just moved to Hawaii just before the birth
> and skipped the whole thing presuming of course that he is going to
> become President and that's one big-assed assumption.
>
> Nevertheless, false-certainty is amusing until it becomes virulent.
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> This arrived in my e-main self-described as "Spam."
>>
>> Disclaimer:
>>
>> The Update loves to print letters to the Editor. Please be
>> advised, however, that we will not print letters from "Birthers*"
>> without proper documentation included. That documentation
>> must include a certified copy of the Birther's certificate of live
>> birth in either the United States or Hawaii, an original and
>> current photo identification, (passport or driver's license from
>> either California or Kenya--which will be returned), and a
>> certified affidavit from a psychiatrist licensed in either the United
>> States or California attesting that the writer is not insane or
>> suffering from delusions, paranoia, schizophrenia,
>> psychopathology, or any other form of mental illness.
>>
>> * A "Birther" is a person who believes that Barack Obama was
>> not born in the United States and is, consequently, not legally
>> qualified to serve as President. (It is not clear if “Birthers”
>> consider the State of Hawaii to be within the United States.)
>>
>
>


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