Many words have been written about our country’s poor level of education in comparison with much of the civilized world. Nothing — and I mean nothing — offers more proof of that sad truism than these two simple facts, as reported by CNN:
- The new book by serial conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, Where Is The Birth Certificate? — which a reasonable person could conclude would not sell very well after Pres. Obama produced his “long form” birth certificate — is No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list.
- Seventeen percent of Americans (that’s around 53 million people) still believe Obama was “definitely or probably” not born in the U.S.
Even worse news? These people vote, and have influence on lawmakers. Not to mention that they also reproduce.
This article appears in May 31 – Jun 6, 2011.
Meh, he’s probably got the World Net Daily buying in bulk.
Those people are the new Republican Party base.
That said, no amount of evidence will ever derail a conspiracy theory. There will always be fools who believe that:
An alien space ship crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947.
We have never really been to the moon.
President Bush was behind 9/11.
Elvis is still alive.
Richard Nixon had President Kennedy killed.
Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA.
Crop circles are being made by aliens.
WWE is real.
Etc.
This is a sad, sorry, substanceless burp. Did you look at anything Corsi has said? Have you looked at any of the forensic examination of this scan of a document? Ah, hell no. Corsi sure had the goods on Kerry, no one wanted to look at THAT either.
“Corsi had the goods on Kerry” — megapotamus, say no more – you’ve identified yourself as someone on the far, bitter fringe of the right wing. In other words, a wingnut. Corsi’s book was debunked and disproven so many times, you’d have to be a drooling idiot not to know it.
And forensic examination of a scanned document? Have all you guys let your irrational hatred of Obama send you off the deep end, or what? Damn, megapot, looks like you’ve been drinking the latest flavor of uber-conservatives’ goofball conspiracy theory Kool-Aid. Talk about “a sad, sorry, substanceless burp” — that’s you, dude.