By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,WorldnetDaily
Bill Maher makes a living ridiculing conservative ideas
After stalling,the old-line media is beginning to cover the controversy around the failure of our political system to test Barack Obama’s eligibility under the U.S. Constitution to serve as president. For months now,Internet-launched campaigns have flooded traditional newsrooms with tens of thousands of personalized faxes,e-mails and petitions,all with the goal of spurring coverage. But old-line coverage persistently is riddled with errors,full of vitriol and dishonesty.
Most of the coverage carries the same tone as this Miami Herald headline,"Here’s the truth:‘Birther’claims are just plain nuts."But let’s do more than name-calling and examine the arguments in the old-line media stories. Their arguments fall into three categories.
Their first line of argument is evidenced by this sentence from the Kansas City Star:"White House aides say only that Obama has produced his birth certificate. That’s true. It is a birth certificate,issued by the state Health Department and acceptable to prove citizenship to the federal government for purposes of obtaining a passport. It’s also true that it isn’t THE original birth certificate."
We call this the "what I’ve produced is good enough"argument. Most coverage then references the website factcheck.org,which has a dubious record and is funded by the same Annenberg Foundation that funneled money to Obama’s early career. Sorry,but our days of trusting government officials and their echo choir in the media are over.