Rehashing the nonsense spewing from the Birther movement, Limbaugh said he doesn't believe today is Obama's birthday.
"They tell us Aug. 4th is the birthday, we haven't seen any proof," Limbaugh said in his latest idiotic rant.
Wow. I thought we had moved passed this already. The sight of an African American in charge is such a shock to some people that they had to make up an entire mythology to prove why his election is not legitimate.
And the number of people who question when and where Obama was born is frightening. A Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that one in five people believe Obama was not born in the United States. For people who self-identified as Republicans, that number jumped to one in three.
These are the stats despite the fact that it has been proven beyond a doubt that Obama was born in Hawaii.
Even Hawaii's Republican governor Linda Lingle is tired of the Birther movement. She sent her health director to examine Obama's birth records to put the false controversy to rest:
"I think it's one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that's just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it's, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this. ... It's been established. He was born here."
Limbaugh's charges just reek of desperation, but they still flow from voices in the Republican Party, including J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging Sen. John McCain in Arizona, Lou Dobbs and others.
I wish I could just dismiss this rhetoric, but it is dangerous: All it takes is some mentally unstable ultra-conservative to try something lethal to remedy his so-called illegitimate situation. Look at what happened with Glenn Beck and his targeting of the previously relatively unknown Tides Foundation.
Luckily, mainstream Republicans know how nutty the Birther rhetoric makes them look. This country needs to move beyond this nonsense and have a real, honest discussion about race and why some people feel so uncomfortable with a black man as president, that they're willing to make up fairy tales.
Since it won't be coming from Limbaugh anytime soon and Sasha, Michelle and Malia are out of town, happy birthday, Mr. President.
28-July-10 - An Ohio woman who helped counsel countless couples experiencing marital discord was found stabbed to death on Monday. The suspect is her husband.
27-July-10 - Mocienne Petit Jackson, a Netherlands woman who claims to be the child of pop sensation Michael Jackson and Diana Ross' sister, Barbara Ross, has filed documents in a Los Angeles court, according to TMZ.
23-July-10 - Could it be that Rangel simply forgot the rules? Did it slip his mind that he wasn't supposed to use his letterhead to get corporate donations for a building named after him, as charged? That's not the Charlie Rangel I knew, but that Rangel will surely be exposed when his trial starts.
23-July-10 - R&B heartthrob Brian McKnight, who was accused of being a long-lost baby daddy to a 14-year-old Florida boy, is not be the child's biological father.
22-July-10 - Staying out of trouble is not an easy feat for rapper Foxy Brown, who was arrested in Brooklyn on Wednesday for violating an order of protection, according to TMZ.
23-July-10 - A child pyromaniac is suspected of murdering his mother and siblings, setting fire to his home, and then slitting his own throat with a razor.
22-July-10 - Ieshuh Griffin is a legislative candidate from Wisconsin who seems willing to do whatever it takes to get elected. In the five words that candidates are allowed to put on the ballot to describe themselves, Griffin put the phrase, "Not the white man's b*tch."
21-July-10 - DeFarra Gaymon, a father of four and the CEO of Credit Union of Atlanta, was shot to death in a Newark, N.J. park known for male prostitution.
20-July-10 - Snoop Dogg and his wife revealed to People Magazine that the discovery that their then-6-year-old daughter, Cori, had lupus helped bring their family closer.
