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Stewart to 'Birther' Dobbs: Do You Even Watch CNN?

Scam would have had to start in 1961, after all

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 23, 2009 8:36 AM CDT

(Newser) – The “birthers” who doubt Barack Obama’s citizenship are multiplying, but CNN performed a “thorough debunking of this silliness on July 17,” Jon Stewart said last night on the Daily Show. So why did Lou Dobbs bring it up again three days later? “Do you even watch CNN?” Stewart asked. “It’s your own fucking network!” And Kitty Pilgrim “debunked that theory filling in for you on your show, Lou!”

Stewart then realized how Obama’s father pulled it off: “First you gotta find yourself a good old American willing to reproduce with you. Then you have that child on foreign soil while simultaneously placing the birth announcement in one of our fringe states’ local newspapers.” Then, “you sit back and let that child go out and win the election for president of the United States. It’s almost too easy!”

In this March 12, 2009 file photo, Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart  in New York.
In this March 12, 2009 file photo, Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York.   (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)
Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Thursday, March 12, 2009 in New York.
Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Thursday, March 12, 2009 in New York.   (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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Jon Stewart takes "birthers" to task on his July 22, 2009 show.   (hulu.com)

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She debunked that theory on your show, Lou. I mean, her last name is Pilgrim, how much more American can she get? Don’t you remember, you came in the next day and your seat was warm and didn’t have the mean old man smell anymore? - Jon Stewart

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COMMENTS
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Shannonals
Jul 24, 2009 4:55 AM CDT
What's worse is now you have cowards in our Armed Forces using that as an excuse as to why they can't deploy.
bacimom
Jul 24, 2009 4:37 AM CDT
It is U.S. soil. as are embassies for some things but according to others (including those who protested McCain's white house attempts, they are not on the continent, and in the country so those people are not Natural born citizens. As T.R. would have said... BUSHWAH!
bacimom
Jul 24, 2009 4:35 AM CDT
Phil Berg, the same genius who filed RICO complaints against GWB, Saddam, etc. for "acccountability" in the 9/11 attacks. Please note also that there were Birther complaints against McCain in 2000 and 2008. Then there are various other lunatic fringe Carl Swensson, Mario Apuzzo included who do not believe any person born in the U.S.A. of only one parent who is a citizen (even if the other parent is a legal alien, or predeceases the child's birth) is any type of American citizen at all. These are the sme people who would deny citizenship to the U.S. born children of any type of alien unless both parents have gone through the citizenship process prior to the child's birth.
 

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