Q. Governor, do you believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States?
A. I have no reason to think otherwise.
Q. That’s not a definitive, “Yes, I believe he”—
A. Well, I don’t have a definitive answer, because he’s never seen my birth certificate.
Q. But you’ve seen his.
A. I don’t know. Have I?
Q. You don’t believe what’s been released?
A. I don’t know. I had dinner with Donald Trump the other night.
Q. And?
A. That came up.
Q. And he said?
A. He doesn’t think it’s real.
Q. And you said?
A. I don’t have any idea.
It's like a crazy one-act play by Harold Pinter.
So he visits Donald Trump to try and get his donation if not endorsement, hears the Birther nonsense from el topo and parrots it back to a family magazine reporter.
Du-oh!
When even Karl Rove says you're wrong to join the nutbags in trying to delegitimize Obama that way, you're in trouble.
When you bring up that canard within six months of the President presenting his birth certificate and then taking out Bin Laden later that week, you're disqualified for Commander-in-Chief.
I was going to write about Mittens Romney's non-surprise announcement that he's running for the GOP Presidential nomination (and I still think he'll win that opportunity to lose to Obama) but it's so thin except for the lies (we're "inches away" from becoming a socialist dictatorship!) that instead I decided to share the best Jon Stewart rant ever, from last night, fully impassioned about Donald Trump and, yes, pizza:
Yes, I stole that joke in the title from Stephen Colbert's opening last night. And Colbert also highlighted this awesome clip from the White House Press Correspondent's Dinner this past Saturday night:
Meyers was actually very funny and got a good dig on President Obama being unbeatable by any other candidate in 2012...except 2008's Barack Obama. The whole act:
Best of all, with 6.2 million views and counting, Comedian-in-Chief (with a complete evisceration of Donald Trump):
Not quite as gratifying as his TV appearance late Sunday night, of course.
He's not declaring his candidacy for President until the final episode of this season's Celebrity Apprentice, which makes sense since the show's rating have gone up every since he started beating the drum for birtherism.
I'm on the fence right now whether Donald Trump's taking brand control of the evil teabagger birther smear is a bad or good thing for America. On one hand, I don't like seeing it back in the news, either reinforcing this misapprehension/prejudice or sparking more belief in weak, hyper-partisan or bigoted minds. However, since Trump is such an outsized figure of ridicule, it might kill it once and for all. Maybe he can make it a task next season -- "Convince the most people of this racist lie."
Today’s installment of “heinous, unacceptable racism disguised as ‘jokes’” features a Republican official on Orange County, California, President Obama, and monkeys in photoshop. GOP official Marilyn Davenport is coming under fire for sending other Republican officials an email depicting President Obama as a chimpanzee, in the arms of chimpanzee “parents,” claiming, “Now you know why– no birth certificate! [sic].” Davenport is sticking to her guns, blaming the media for making too much of a fuss.
Among Davenport’s detractors (including, one would hope, “everyone else”), local news station KCAL caught up with former California Republican chairman Michael Schroder, who correctly posited: “no average person would send this out and feel comfortable with this, that this was just a joke.” Then again, Schroder also notes Davenport doesn’t come into this embarrassment with a clean slate– among the people in Orange County Republican politics she has defended are an official who sent an email with an illustration of the White House covered in watermelons and an official who opposed the installation of grass near beaches on the point that “grass attracts Mexicans.”
As for Trump, he can't say it's true, just sneakily imply that if it's being talked about, there must be something to it:
Opportunistic as always, Donald. But whether or not he leads the GOP field as some polls show, he's got more than his double comb-over working against him. There's that little problem of fiscal responsibility -- he's declared corporate bankruptcy four times.
Of course, none of those led to personal bankruptcy.
During the interview portion, Fakih was asked whether she thought birth control should be paid for by health insurance, and she said she believed it should because it's costly. "I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance," Fakih said. Woolard handled the night's toughest question, about Arizona's new immigration law. Woolard said she supports the law, which requires police enforcing another law to verify a person's immigration status if there's "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally. She said she's against illegal immigration but is also against racial profiling.
She's also getting hit for some less-than-salacious pole dance pix, which seems so silly to me now that housewives all across America are installing these things and doing exercise classes on them.
