Lou Dobbs Calls Maddow a 'Tea- Bagging Queen'

(NEWSER) - Butt-of-hipster-jokes Chuck Norris has leaped into the birther movement, challenging President Obama to cough up his "long form" birth certificate. Norris wishes Obama happy birthday on Creative.com, then not-so-subtly sequés into: "Speaking of birthdays," why do "you refuse to reveal your original birth certificate?" Not to do so is simply "enabling" the birther movement, the karate chop king cautions his president. The Republican martial arts actor backed Mike Huckabee in the presidential sweepstakes last year. More»

Scam would have had to start in 1961, after all

(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!” More»

(NEWSER) - The conspiracy theory that the first black president is an alien and not an American citizen is bizarrely growing a full head of steam and spitting out a wacky cast of characters, notes Eric Etheridge in the New York Times. The fact that Barack Obama has a Hawaiian birth certificate has had little impact on the so-called "birthers" whose ranks have been supported in recent days by Lou Dobbs, Liz Cheney, and 10 congressmen sponsoring a bill requiring birth certificates from presidential candidates. More»

Law would limit access to Obama's birth certificate

(NEWSER) - Fed up with the constant pestering from birthers, Hawaii's legislature today voted in favor of a bill that would allow the state to ignore any repeat requests to see Barack Obama's birth certificate. The law, which now goes to Gov. Linda Lingle, would carve out an exception to the Hawaii's normal public records law, allowing officials to skip all kinds of duplicate requests from the same organization or person, including those for the birth certificate. More»

Bill requires Obama to show birth certificate to be on 2012 ballot

(NEWSER) - The Arizona House has given its initial blessing to a bill that would require Barack Obama to show his birth certificate before he can be put on the ballot in 2012, the Arizona Republic reports. The House voted 31 to 22 to add the so-called “birther bill” as an amendment to an unrelated Senate bill. Similar laws have also been proposed in Florida, Oklahoma and Missouri. More»