Andrew Walden: 9/11 Truthers Meet the Birth Certificate Brigade
“The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.” – Saul Alinsky
For years, the "9/11 Truth" movement -- which claimed George W. Bush knew about, or even perpetrated, the 9/11 attack -- enjoyed a friendly home in the far-Left's netroots. As the netroots consolidated their grip on the Democratic Party, "troothers"were left behind. Now, many of the same personalities are behind a movement demanding to see Barack Obama's birth certificate, a coalition in which a surprising group of leftists rub elbows with LaRouchies, Klansmen, Holocaust deniers, and discredited conspiracy theorists of all stripes.
After years of quietly tolerating the troothers in their ranks, Democrats changed tack as the 2008 election season began. On October 19, 2007, Democrat Bill Maher chose to take demonstrative action -- famously launching himself at a gaggle of troothers heckling from the audience of his TV show shouting “out, out, out!” Four days later Bill Clinton challenged troother hecklers, saying, “An inside job? How dare you. How dare you. It was not an inside job.”
Their twin demonstrations worked as intended. Troothers walked away from the Democrats and went to the presidential campaign most friendly to them—that of Texas Republican Ron Paul. (An October 20 article posted on InfoWars even denounced Maher as “an apologist and advocate for the criminal cabal.”) With two short strokes the Democrats not only removed an albatross from their neck but hung it on the other party.
It didn’t take long for the word to get to the troother rank-and-file. As if ordered by Clinton and Maher, Pennsylvania Democrat Phil Berg, a former deputy attorney general, dismantled his website www.911forthetruth.com in October 2007. (It is now available only on the Wayback machine.) Berg is now a leading Obama ‘birther’ who has filed several bogus lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility even as he quietly pursues conspiracy-related 9/11 litigation.
A typical Berg trooth rant states: “Bush and his cronies made 9/11 happen or let it happen. And, if they let it happen, then they made it happen. Either way, they are responsible; and more important, they have completely and unequivocally covered-it-up!…The 148 Iraqi deaths for which Saddam was tried pales in number to the 750,000 dead at the hands of George W. Bush as a result of this illegal invasion of that country which includes babies, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, elderly grandmothers and grandfathers, killed without remorse by George W. Bush and his war profiteering supporters.”
These are the words of the man birthers claim will deliver them from Obama. Based on the movement Phil Berg’s lawsuits started, a petition gathered 325,000 signatures and is now selling “where’s the birth certificate” bumper stickers. A poll claims that over 10,000 people out of 10,296 responding said Obama’s eligibility was of concern to them.
Commentary on Free Republic runs about 3-to-1 in favor of the birthers. Sean Hannity’s discussion board wisely reduces birther pollution by restricting them to one thread -- that thread has more than 11,000 posts. A speaker at CPAC drew a round of applause when he said, “Back during hate 1980's, at least we knew that our president was born in the United States.”
Leftist sites are having a field day ferreting out anything that looks even remotely like a mainstream conservative endorsement of the birther scam. One poster on Democratic Underground writes: “People get sick of the Birthers, and I can understand why, but I LOVE these hapless morons…I LOVE a group of hapless morons who are turning the GOP into the party of tinfoilhat nutters who only have conspiracy theories about birth certificates? You gotta LOVE that!” Other DU comments: “It's like driving past an accident. I have a weird need to slow down and look.” Writes another: “I feel sorry for them. They truly don't have a clue how ridiculous they look.” ...
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For years, the "9/11 Truth" movement -- which claimed George W. Bush knew about, or even perpetrated, the 9/11 attack -- enjoyed a friendly home in the far-Left's netroots. As the netroots consolidated their grip on the Democratic Party, "troothers"were left behind. Now, many of the same personalities are behind a movement demanding to see Barack Obama's birth certificate, a coalition in which a surprising group of leftists rub elbows with LaRouchies, Klansmen, Holocaust deniers, and discredited conspiracy theorists of all stripes.
After years of quietly tolerating the troothers in their ranks, Democrats changed tack as the 2008 election season began. On October 19, 2007, Democrat Bill Maher chose to take demonstrative action -- famously launching himself at a gaggle of troothers heckling from the audience of his TV show shouting “out, out, out!” Four days later Bill Clinton challenged troother hecklers, saying, “An inside job? How dare you. How dare you. It was not an inside job.”
Their twin demonstrations worked as intended. Troothers walked away from the Democrats and went to the presidential campaign most friendly to them—that of Texas Republican Ron Paul. (An October 20 article posted on InfoWars even denounced Maher as “an apologist and advocate for the criminal cabal.”) With two short strokes the Democrats not only removed an albatross from their neck but hung it on the other party.
It didn’t take long for the word to get to the troother rank-and-file. As if ordered by Clinton and Maher, Pennsylvania Democrat Phil Berg, a former deputy attorney general, dismantled his website www.911forthetruth.com in October 2007. (It is now available only on the Wayback machine.) Berg is now a leading Obama ‘birther’ who has filed several bogus lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility even as he quietly pursues conspiracy-related 9/11 litigation.
A typical Berg trooth rant states: “Bush and his cronies made 9/11 happen or let it happen. And, if they let it happen, then they made it happen. Either way, they are responsible; and more important, they have completely and unequivocally covered-it-up!…The 148 Iraqi deaths for which Saddam was tried pales in number to the 750,000 dead at the hands of George W. Bush as a result of this illegal invasion of that country which includes babies, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, elderly grandmothers and grandfathers, killed without remorse by George W. Bush and his war profiteering supporters.”
These are the words of the man birthers claim will deliver them from Obama. Based on the movement Phil Berg’s lawsuits started, a petition gathered 325,000 signatures and is now selling “where’s the birth certificate” bumper stickers. A poll claims that over 10,000 people out of 10,296 responding said Obama’s eligibility was of concern to them.
Commentary on Free Republic runs about 3-to-1 in favor of the birthers. Sean Hannity’s discussion board wisely reduces birther pollution by restricting them to one thread -- that thread has more than 11,000 posts. A speaker at CPAC drew a round of applause when he said, “Back during hate 1980's, at least we knew that our president was born in the United States.”
Leftist sites are having a field day ferreting out anything that looks even remotely like a mainstream conservative endorsement of the birther scam. One poster on Democratic Underground writes: “People get sick of the Birthers, and I can understand why, but I LOVE these hapless morons…I LOVE a group of hapless morons who are turning the GOP into the party of tinfoilhat nutters who only have conspiracy theories about birth certificates? You gotta LOVE that!” Other DU comments: “It's like driving past an accident. I have a weird need to slow down and look.” Writes another: “I feel sorry for them. They truly don't have a clue how ridiculous they look.” ...