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Malkin: Birthers Have "A Legitimate Concern About The Constitutionality" Of Obama's Presidency

April 28, 2011 9:20 am ET

From the April 28 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (April 28, 2011 9:24 am ET)
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      Based upon what, Michelle...? Internet rumors?

      That's the point, Michelle...there must be some reasonable, rational, factual BASIS for our suspicions. Otherwise they are simply paranoid delusions...or you're just f***ing with the President because you don't like him for whatever reason.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (April 28, 2011 9:26 am ET)
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        BTW, Michelle, what's next...a legitimate concern that Obama is not Constitutionally eligible to serve because his grades at Columbia were not exceptional?
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        • Author by Egbert Sousé (April 28, 2011 9:33 am ET)
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          It's because he doesn't have legitimate U.S. degree. Everyone knows Columbia is located in South America! Plus, his diploma (the long form one) is probably written in Mexican.
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          • Author by David2012 (April 28, 2011 9:47 am ET)
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            Nope, not Mexican.

            Arabic.

            And certified by the Grand Mufti.

            And witnessed by Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

            Face it, the loons aren't going to let up, not ever. And the fact is, despite their attempts to inoculate the public discourse against the acknowledgement of this obvious fact, that most of this is racially motivated. They pulled a lot of the same idiotic crap on Clinton, phony "scandal" upon phony "murder upon phony "drug trafficking upon phony "mysterious deaths", but not with the same dog whistle language of race underlying it.

            These people are without any serious moral principles, are fundamentally deeply dishonest, all their chest-beating to the contrary notwithstanding.
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      • Author by tgrigsby (April 28, 2011 2:55 pm ET)
           
        Bingo.

        But remember who's making the statements. Michelle Malkin is a complete whackjob "moran". She makes a living the same way Glenn Beck and Michael Savage do, by appealing to the angry fringe with fact-bereft, emotional sound bites and GOP talking points designed to leverage the minority's sense of disenfranchisement.

        She has a financial incentive to screech at Obama no matter what he does. Her crap sells.
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    • Author by Maimon (April 28, 2011 9:26 am ET)
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      We also have a right to demand real journalism and not propaganda pretending to be news.

      Malkin is a puppet for the GOP. She makes all kinds of claims that are not factual or that are pure conjecture. She uses doubt as a tool to promote her failed movement conservative ideology. Many in the GOP want us distracted from 40 years of failed GOP policies and this is simply another way to promote false memes.

      Malkin, O'Riley' Rush, Hannity etc... are all getting rich from manufacturing doubt and fear.
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      • Author by CAL (April 28, 2011 9:31 am ET)
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        Time to take ownership of exactly what you are FOX. You are the racist propaganda network. You've worked very hard to earn that distinction.

        It's long past time that the public and legitimate journalists make sure FOX is labeled as exactly what it's worked so hard to earn.
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      • Author by blueline99 (April 28, 2011 11:05 am ET)
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        Michelle Malkin is the product of punditry for a paycheck.

        She has no real moral center or expertise in anything other than pushing racist buttons... but as an "anchor baby" herself and a person of Asian descent, and yet claiming that the Japanese internment was correct... just goes to show that she has nothing on the inside but goo.

        Without Fox News, Michelle Malkin would not exist.
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    • Author by AB-001 (April 28, 2011 9:27 am ET)
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      Not no more!
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    • Author by GBU-15 (April 28, 2011 9:29 am ET)
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      You know its the NeanderCons who are always the first to talk about the "greatness of America" and how it is the "Land of Opportunity". But then this Black man has the audacity to become the President of the United States. Now I don't know how this happened but something must be wrong here. If Barak Obama was a basketball coach or a military leader. Maybe if he was a fry cook. But President? Horrors! But there is nothing racial here. We have to make sure the first Black President didn't pull a fast one here! Or in other words let's make sure the First Black President is the Last Black President!
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    • Author by wookie (April 28, 2011 9:29 am ET)
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      This is a perfect example of how the right promotes crazy BS and uses terms like Constitutionality to make it seem credible.

      "If Obama were a shape shifting space monster from Jupiter that would raise serious questions about the Constitutionality of his presidency!"
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    • Author by raine315 (April 28, 2011 9:30 am ET)
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      Same people who wanted to change the constitution some years back when Gov. Arnold was the republican darling in order to have him run for POTUS
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (April 28, 2011 9:31 am ET)
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      Any who had "legitimate" concerns should have shut the hell up after the short form birth certificate was released in 2008.

      Those who continued to scream about this topic have now, unquestionably, been proven to be fools, frauds, bigots, and/or con artists.

      Anyone who offers a defense for those idiots is simply showing themselves to be the same.
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    • Author by aj6525 (April 28, 2011 9:32 am ET)
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      "Birthers Have "A Legitimate Concern About The Constitutionality" Of Obama's Presidency" Please just keep this kind of talk up I feel a backlash coming.
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      • Author by dogbreath (April 28, 2011 9:39 am ET)
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        Yep. I think the vast majority of Americans are done with this. It is getting to be a laborious to watch as the Royal Wedding.

        Keep it up wingnuts and you'll get what you deserve - nothing.
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    • Author by nerzog (April 28, 2011 9:33 am ET)
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      The 9/11 Truthers have much more "evidence" to support their theories than the Birthers.... should we open investigations into what Bush knew and when he knew it?
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      • Author by appachi99 (April 30, 2011 7:45 pm ET)
           
        We all knew as well as Georgie B. knew at the time. Using his own, hand picked search teams, telling him, THERE ARE NO WMD's in Iraq. There's gott'a be a box of machine gun bullets somewhere Karl. Not'a. Well, go look some more Karl, find something, somewhere, I want to start a war. Just a short one, say three weeks long.
        How many of our brave young men and women were lost to this mans ego? He had to be so anxious to get out of the whitehouse, I'm sure he ran his little legs off all the way to Texas. Amazingly, they let him in.
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    • Author by MJPollard (April 28, 2011 9:37 am ET)
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      To quote what I said in the other thread:

      Malkin is an ugly woman. Ugly of mind, ugly of spirit. If there is an afterlife, she surely deserves whatever hell awaits her.
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    • Author by dogbreath (April 28, 2011 9:37 am ET)
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      Pit viper in horizontal stripes. Not good. She looks a bit like she belongs in jail. That would be the perfect place for her.
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    • Author by Tony195616 (April 28, 2011 9:38 am ET)
         
      Shall we then talk about you & your right wing buddies calling the President a "thug". Oh no, nothing racist there
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    • Author by Johaely (April 28, 2011 9:39 am ET)
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      Birther concerns are as legitimate as truther concerns.
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    • Author by whydoineedanaccount (April 28, 2011 9:39 am ET)
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      Huh. She's been singing quite a different tune on her website. I guess the birther hat comes with being on Fox.
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    • Author by bintx (April 28, 2011 9:41 am ET)
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      No, they don't. They just don't like the fact that there is a black man in their White House.

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    • Author by whydoineedanaccount (April 28, 2011 9:41 am ET)
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      Oh, I get it. It's the old "No conservative could ever be racist, no sir!" line that she's known for.
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    • Author by Handyman (April 28, 2011 9:46 am ET)
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      Actually the Birthers are more concerned over having to eat crow for a very long time!!
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      • Author by MidnightWriter (April 28, 2011 9:57 am ET)
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        You're assuming they have the minimum level of common sense that would allow them to recognize their foolishness.

        A quick review of the "arguments" offered by some of the Birthers who wander in here shows that's not about to happen. We're already hearing the same screams of "forgery!" they offered after the short form certificate was released and verified, and we'll continue to hear from the wackadoodles who will insist the long form document is the product of some absurd, nearly five decades long conspiracy, and/or will push the idea that Obama still can't be called a natural born citizen because his father was born in Kenya.

        The stupid and hate filled simply see this as one more indisputable fact--something they have not, and will not, allow to get in their way.
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        • Author by dogbreath (April 28, 2011 10:28 am ET)
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          They aren't about to let facts and common sense stop their racist tendencies. Never has in the past.
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        • Author by Andy Kreiss (April 28, 2011 11:37 am ET)
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          something they have not, and will not, allow to get in their way


          I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I still feel surprise. Thie was predictable, and predicted. It's what most reasonable people were saying, the president shouldn't dignify the birfers with a response because nothing is going to have any effect on them.

          And I knew this was true. But I think I actually expected the lunacy to shift away from the mainstream a little, that the fringe bloggers would go into overdrive, but the conservative media at large might, if not apologize or admit they were nuts, to sweep it under the rug.

          Reality and facts just don't seem to matter to them. They can go with the most complicated and far-fetched explanations in order to make the world fit into their crazy little box.

          Hats off to them. The wingnuts can still surprise me with their madness.
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    • Author by Nihilist (April 28, 2011 10:15 am ET)
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      doesn't fox care that their audience today is picking up toothpicks that used to be their mobile homes? i guess that would have to make fox realize that climate change is happening, and the worst of it is hitting right in their demographic. i guess nothing if more important in the world than excoriating the pres..... and the red state dolts still dont get it.... but at least in the south cable tv is down all over....

      and the fact that every red state federal hating is seeking federal money and help, aint that a kick in the pants?
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      • Author by Ninure (April 28, 2011 10:19 am ET)
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        Well of course they don't care...

        If those people don't have homes anymore they won't be watching FOX, and they can't register to vote, so they aren't worth as much as a dead Black man...
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      • Author by dogbreath (April 28, 2011 10:25 am ET)
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        My heart does go out to my fellow Americans. Hey, I may disagree with a large number of these folks on everything political, but man, I hate to see this happen to anyone. It is just plain heartbreaking and tragic. All I can do is send my best to anyone who was affected. It is just plain awful.
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    • Author by Ninure (April 28, 2011 10:17 am ET)
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      They just won't stop... 'cuz it aint about where he was born, but what race he was born into.
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    • Author by Samsohn (April 28, 2011 10:25 am ET)
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      The Southerners had a fairly legitimate Constitutionality argument about states' rights and seceding from the union, but that didn't mean their secession wasn't fundamentally based in racism.
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    • Author by pam95650 (April 28, 2011 10:26 am ET)
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      Michelle, show us your birth certificate. You don't look like YOU belong here. Right back at you.
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    • Author by shaggles (April 28, 2011 10:27 am ET)
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      This is not surprising. Malkin still thinks Japanese internment during WWII was a good thing and that lots of Japanese-Americans were actually spies. No proof will ever be enough.
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    • Author by TXI (April 28, 2011 10:30 am ET)
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      The only constitutional concerns these people have are those pesky 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
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    • Author by marco21 (April 28, 2011 10:32 am ET)
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      Michelle, there are rumors that your parents had you in this country so you would be an American citizen. Please clear your own mess up before lamely pointing fingers.
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    • Author by txthinker (April 28, 2011 11:01 am ET)
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      Malkin: Birthers Have "A Legitimate Concern About The Constitutionality" Of Obama's Presidency
      Shut up, Anchor Baby.
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    • Author by hoopvillain (April 28, 2011 11:15 am ET)
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      "And the faux hate fest continues..."
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    • Author by hoopvillain (April 28, 2011 11:17 am ET)
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      http://www.thegrio.com/politics/why-obama-shouldnt-have-had-to-show-his-papers.php

      Read this!
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    • Author by jediknight65 (April 28, 2011 11:28 am ET)
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      unless the Constitutionality of Chester A Arthur is challenged and first declared illegitimate the right wingers have no leg to stand on. but that will never happen considering that chester arthur was a republican.........
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    • Author by little poncho (April 28, 2011 11:37 am ET)
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      malkin, show your birth certificate, when your on the t and v, i use the remote to save my tv.....obama should open an investigation on what the bushie knew and when he knew it.... kkklannity, limpag, ms. glenda and the rest of the big mouth no nothing right wingers' will really go nuts.. yah, go nuts then get your health care cut off, see how it feels!!!!!!!!!!
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    • Author by kromecom48 (April 28, 2011 11:41 am ET)
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      My pop psychology diagnosis is that Malkin has self-esteem issues and wants so desperately to be considered a "cauc-asian" American when she's simply an asian American. She should celebrate that. Get some help Ms. Maglalang.

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      • Author by Nihilist (April 28, 2011 11:51 am ET)
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        one a normal day, i would consider ms Maglalang, a very attractive woman.... but then she opens her mouth.... she is poster child, for dismorphic syndrome.
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    • Author by Quiet Tom (April 28, 2011 12:35 pm ET)
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      If Mr. Obama isn't Muslim, why was he heard saying the word "Muslim" twice last week?
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      • Author by mjh (April 28, 2011 3:00 pm ET)
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        "If Mr. Obama isn't Muslim, why was he heard saying the word "Muslim" twice last week?"


        So, simply saying the WORD "Muslim" makes one a Muslim?

        In that case, asalamu alaikum, Quiet Muhammad . . .


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      • Author by appachi99 (April 30, 2011 7:54 pm ET)
           
        You just said it twice. Fess up now, are you???
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    • Author by mjh (April 28, 2011 2:45 pm ET)
         
      Malkin: Birthers Have "A Legitimate Concern About The Constitutionality" Of Obama's Presidency


      . . . and in a sane world, that "concern" would have expired January 6, 2009, when the Presidential Election was officially certified by Congress.


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    • Author by Romario (April 29, 2011 12:48 am ET)
         
      The problem is this woman won't have the guts to go on an actual news discussion program to spew this garbage. Hey Michelle...why not go on Real Time or another political debate program where you can be challenged?
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      • Author by appachi99 (April 30, 2011 7:58 pm ET)
           
        Michelle Balkin came within inches of getting beat to death at one time. And all because of her big mouth. Fortunately, she wasn't which I am glad for, even though I have no time for her and her vicious, lie spewing, mouth.
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