Late Night Oddity: Fox Goes Birther
Fox News reports on the challenge of a wingnut soldier against deployment to Afghanistan like it’s real news and a real issue for Obama. It isn’t. Psssst…Fox, don’t encourage the fringe crazies, it hurts your credibility. Not that they had much credibility anyway.
And for crazy anon, here’s his birth certificate and birth announcement.
Update 7/15/09 4:31 PM The soldier in question has lost his civilian job. Apparently he worked for a DOD contractor and he can’t continue without his security clearance. (Cue the conspiracy theorists)
I expected a court-martial, an Article 15, stripping him of rank, dishonorable discharge, etc., etc. I was thinking strictly in terms of military consequences. How silly I was.
As it turns out, Maj. Cook was a reservist, employed in civilian life by a DOD contractor, Simtech, Inc. We are all aware that his military command has revoked his deployment orders, telling him that he’s not wanted anymore. But that’s not all. Today (or yesterday, it’s hard to tell on the Freeper and WingNutDaily sites), Maj. Cook was informed that the DOD has also advised Simtech that he is no longer welcome at the DOD facility where Simtech was performing services, and as a result, Simtech doesn’t have a job for Maj. Cook anymore.
Tags: Birthers, Fox News, Republican Crazy
LOL!
If Saturday night live had written that it would seem too over the top.
is it really an oddity? Fox going birther? More like a normality.
Hey, did anyone see Obama throw out the first pitch in the All Star Game? Definitely wasn’t much of a fastball – I’d call it a change-up. Hah! I kill me.
Crazy huh? Crazy this!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104009
Yes, crazy.
And seriously, if you post another verbatim story here, “news” or news, I will redact it. You are violating copyright law and annoying me at the same time.
I am redacting it. That was wholesale plagarism and a violation of copyright law. Post a link with an excerpt, not the entire article.
Wait a second… did Crazy Anon link to World Daily Net. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That’s fucking awesome. Next time link to News Max. That’s another very repudiable “news” service.
Let this fucking douche bag post it. The dipshits ar WDN are probably thrilled…
World Nut Daily? LOL! The ironic thing is the World Nut Daily posted an article disproving the birther allegations, but their readers refused to accept it I guess. The fact the U.S. military changed the orders of a crazy person does not prove anything.
I put crazy anon into the category “extraordinary allegations require extraordinary proof.”
Face it — this is news.
Pentagon decides not to deploy a soldier who argues the deployment is illegal because the POTUS isn’t eligible to serve. I believe it is unique.
Not that I think the guy’s argument has a leg to stand on.
Still, I wish Obama would just settle the matter by having the state release the vault copy of his birth certificate.
After all, if the birth and medical records of Sarah and Trig Palin are so important to the public interest (Andrew Sullivan AKA RawMuslGlutes says so), then certainly the birth and medical records of Barack Obama are at least as relevant.
Only if you keep ignoring the fact that Obama’s birth certificate has been seen by multiple people, officials keep saying that it is legit, and scans of the thing are out there. Frankly this is only news because being distracted by the New Shiny Thing is a conservative thing.
The guy’s orders were recinded and the Pentagon is citing Privacy Act reasons why. This is just another repub looking for his 15 minutes.
Keep pushing the birth certificate thing Republicans, it makes you look sane and well-grounded, obviously thinking about the real problems facing Americans.
Oh, I think the whole issue is crap — even debunked the argument at my site a couple of times.
Still, THIS story is news.
The story that no one knows yet is why this guys orders were recinded without his requesting that. Speculation is that he may be in order for some major disciplinary action.
Which is STILL news, cassandra.
The only thing that is news is that this guy’s orders was recinded — not the stupid birth certificate crap. And it was the stupid birth certificate crap that this article claimed to be the news and claimed to be making some progress in getting.
The guy’s orders were probably rescinded because he’s headed to Leavenworth.
ok nemski, why is he heading to Leavenworth?
cassandra, here’s why it constitutes news.
Military officer sues to question the eligibility of Obama for the presidency, and consequently the orders he was issued pursuant to Obama’s policy decisions.
The day before he is ordered to report, the orders are rescinded.
The timing is. . . interesting.
He argues that the rescission is a de facto admission that his position is right.
Seems newsworthy to me — especially given that the story in question has been carried by several major papers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
And if Nemski is correct, the matter becomes even more newsworthy — just as prosecutions and disciplinary actions against officers who spoke disrespectfully of Bill Clinton in the late 1990s were also newsworthy.
Now i have said repeatedly — I think the arguments of those who question Obama’s citizenship are specious.
He argues that the rescission is a de facto admission that his position is right.
While the DOD apparently is looking at this as a threat to their order. This suit — as stupid as it is — could be construed as insubordination. Among others. Not sure why this insubordinate soldier is any different than other insubordinate soldiers. But hey — you’ve probably got real info about all of those Clinton-era soldiers supposedly disciplined for saying bad stuff about him, too.
Since his military and civilian jobs are seperate, shouldn’t that open up a wrongful termination suit or even discrimination?
I love the faux outrage over plagiarism when Joey B is the master.
Delaware Liberal = Delaware hypocrite.
“could be construed as insubordination”
not by a thinking person who understood the definition of insubordination.
Several legal challenges to BHO’s eligiblity to be POTUS have been been rejected by the courts, not on the merits, but by saying the plaintiffs lacked standing.
This Major Cook did have standing as outlined in his complaint.
Not if he lost his clearances which is what the article seems to say.
blather, blather, blather.
It’s not plagiarism, it is copyright infringement. I am all in favor of fair use. Try to cut and paste sections that might be interesting and explain you take on them. Pasting an article whole-cloth is nothing but stupid and lazy.
Well, keep hope alive, anoni. Not that you’ll get to the correct answer (or to anything approaching fact), but the spin effort ought to get you some Green Stamps someplace.
like RWR, I doubt that BHO’s Birth Certificate will prove him inelligable. I suspect it is simply embarrasing for any of the following:
ID’s him as a bastard
ID’s him as “White”
Lists some one other than Obama as his father
Lists his name as other than BHO
it has been easy for him to spend other peoples money to keep it a secret.
There is no reason why he would lose his civilian or military security clearance, especially if the orders were just rescinded, and there is going to be no disciplination.
The guy is being discharged it sounds like, he’ll lose his security clearance.
OK, this is in the Application for Preliminary Injunction, pg 15:
The evidence contained in Exhibit E shows that Barack Hussein Obama might have used as many as 149 addresses and 39 social security numbers prior to assuming the office of President. The social security number most commonly used by Barack Hussein Obama, is one issued in the state of Connecticut, the state where Barack Hussein Obama never resided and it shows him to be 119
years old. This coupled with the fact that Mr. Obama’s grandmother, Madeline
Dunham was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court Probate Department and had access to the social security numbers of the deceased, constitutes circumstantial evidence casting serious doubt on the legitimacy of Mr. Obama and his claims of being born on US territory.
If he is talking up this kind of crap, I’m going to be very surprised if he keeps his clearances. But he does sound like somebody anoni might be related to or something…..
From Cooks latest filing (to keepthe case in court even though his orders to deploy were recinded)
“Grice (Cooks civilian Boss) explained that he had been in touch with Defense Security Services (an agency of the Department of Defense[1], with regional offices located in SOCOM Headquarters at McDill Airforce Base in Tampa, Florida), and that DSS had not yet made a determination whether Plaintiff Major Cook’s clearances would be pulled, but Grice made clear to Cook that it was DSS who had compelled Cook’s termination. ”
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so it looks likehis security clearance is intact for now.
regarding his Conscientious Objector claim (again from his court filing):
(20) That this Plaintiff claims status as a conscientious objector must be clarified and emphasized in several ways: Plaintiff is no pacifist, nor an anti-war protester. Plaintiff actually does want to go to Afghanistan and he verifies this fact, as he does this entire petition, under penalty of perjury (as required by Rule 65(b)(1).
(21) Plaintiff believes that his service in Afghanistan would be positive and serve the interests of world peace, the advancement of the people of Afghanistan, and the security of the people of the United States (and the allies of the United States in Europe and around the world).
When DSS tells your boss you aren’t kosher anymore, you vacate the premises. And the CO thing just looks like he doesn’t want to serve this Commander In Chief. Hope you won’t be too disappointed when this legal challenge dies like all of the rest of them, anoni.
the Dear Leader must not be questioned.
I’m sure it is a crock, but wouldn’t it be interesting to see the evidence for that SSN claim?
more fun facts… looks Like Major Cook is not alone (again from his court filing):
This Court has the authority to hear cases which might otherwise be moot so long as they present: 1) an unsettled legal issues of public interest and importance and 2) an issue of a recurring nature that will escape review unless the Court exercises its discretionary jurisdiction. Major General Carol Dean Childers retired but subject to lifetime recall, and Lt. Col David Earl Graeff – Medical Surgeon in US Airforce Active Reserves, subject to recall any day, join in this Application for Preliminary Injunction because it is a matter of unparalleled public interest and importance and because it is clearly a matter arising from issues of a recurring nature that will escape review unless the Court exercises its discretionary jurisdiction.
We see people citing silly excuses for not paying income tax. They include a variety of pseudo-Constitutional crackpot theories. The IRS gets a bit annoyed by such games and comes down hard on them.
This ploy to evade an assignment seems to be a cousin to those attempted evasions.
It would be nice to put the birth certificate issue to bed by the simple expedient of producing it.
What is the problem?
Case Dismissed. Whew that was close, almost had to open the vault in Hawaii…
Federal judge dismisses reservist’s suit questioning Obama’s presidency
Ledger-Enquirer ^ | Thursday, Jul. 16, 2009 | Lily Gordon
A federal judge this morning dismissed the suit filed here by a U.S. Army reservist who says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama was never eligible to be president.
Judge Clay Land sided with the defense, which claimed in its response to Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook’s suit, filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, that Cook’s suit is “moot” in that he already has been told he doesn’t have to go to Afghanistan, so the relief he is seeking has been granted.
“Federal court only has authority of actual cases and controversies,” Land said. “The entire action is dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”