Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama, Race and Civil Rights
On Wednesday, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell (pictured left) had Birther Movement member Orly Taitz (pictured) on his "The Last Word" show to admit that she was wrong about President Barack Obama's birth of origin and apologize for leading a dubious-yet-damaging campaign against the President with her false information.
O'Donnell: "There is now, no longer, not an inch of room for any sane doubt about the time and the place of Barack Obama's birth or his parentage or the fact that he is a natural born citizen of the United States of America.
"Are you ready to apologize for the crusade that you have mounted against these simple truths?"
But instead, Taitz, looking fresh off her Looney Tunes gig, presented yet another document, claiming that the President was a "liar" who was also telling falsehoods about his ... wait for it ... selective service certificate.
You can't make this stuff up!!!
O'Donnell, shaking his head in disbelief, loses it:
"I want you to talk about the birth certificate! The selective service has nothing to do with proving his citizenship. Yes or no! I want you to talk about the birth certificate that you saw for the first time in your life. Do you accept the veracity of the birth certificate that you saw for the first time in your life?"
With several bumbling stops and starts, Taitz finally asks whether O'Donnell will allow her to speak, but when O'Donnell replies, "No," she continues asking for close-ups of her shameful papers until O'Donnell kicks her off the show, saying:
"I invited a crazy person on the show to see if a crazy person faced with the thing that the crazy person was trying to get for two and a half years could say something responsive, something human, to the document that was released today, that she's never seen before in her life and she wants to play with all of her of other kids' toys and all of her other crazy documents. I did not expect this to go this way."
O'Donnell's interview is one of the best videos I've seen in a long time, but it's not just because he goes in on the crazy Birther lady. It's also because his interview reveals one key point: This entire Birther issue has never been about where President Obama was born. Instead, it has always been about racist delusional people trying to find something, anything, to discredit Obama as commander-in-chief.
Clearly, Taitz is so desperate to defame the President with her pulled-from-the-ass paperwork that she has thrown all remnants of sanity to the wind.
I'm just glad O'Donnell called her and the movement out and said everything that we've been hoping, wishing and praying to say since this bogus "movement" was started.
I'm team O'Donnell from this point on.
Watch the crazy Birther lady here: