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Media foam at the mouth over Mitt’s ‘birth certificate’ joke

Aug. 24, 2012 6:05pm Meredith Jessup

Mitt Romney cracked a joke at a campaign stop this afternoon in Michigan which has people on both sides of the aisle in a frenzy. Some say it was a poke at birthers, yet birthers are taking it to mean that Romney’s coming on board with them. Some say it was a poke at liberals who whisper about Romney’s racist undertones. In response, liberals are… well, continuing to call Romney a racist.

But I disagree with both of these assumptions. I think the joke was aimed squarely at the media.

Let’s face it — the “birther” movement has had no bigger fan than the mainstream media who likes to paint all Republicans as hateful racists who cling to God, guns and conspiracy theories to protect themselves from an apocalyptic invasion of minorities and gays, or something. So while the reporters at the Romney rally today gasped at Romney’s supposedly overt racism, the audience got the joke, responding to Romney’s dry humor with applause and laughter.

It’s a perfect example of a “secondary reaction” joke, Ace of Spades HQ writes. “The joke itself is lame. The humor comes from imagining the reaction of the thin-skinned Obama and his hyperprotective partisans in the press.”

It’s true — the reaction of the media to Romney’s joke has been hysterical:

– Never one to overreact, MSNBC calmly discussed the “breaking news” of Romney’s quip and labeled it the “most despicable bigotry we can imagine.” (Seriously? Dear MSNBC, open a history book once in a while, will ya?)

– Mediaite’s resident boy-who-cried-racist Tommy Christopher proclaimed that MSNBC’s Touré was right in accusing Romney of using “n***rization” as a campaign tool to “racially marginalize” President Obama.

–CNN’s John King tweeted that his “birther comment” ruined a perfectly good day for Romney.

–Reporters at the Huffington Post were beside themselves, saying it was “awkward for Romney to play on the birther conspiracies that have plagued Barack Obama.” Uh, awkward for whom, exactly?

–Salon.com headlined their report, “Romney Goes Birther,” and said the joke was proof the GOP candidate was “doubling down on whiteness.”

–The Washington Post also weighed in, writing that Romney’s joke “injected the toxic issue of birtherism into an already bitter presidential race.” Wah-wah.

Like the media and any other “rational” person, the Obama camp also didn’t think Romney’s joke was funny:

“Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them,” said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. “Gov. Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”

The outraged Obama campaign wasted no time in trying to use this “new low for Romney” as a springboard for a new email fundraising push. Yet the Obama campaign itself has repeatedly joked about the conspiracy theories surrounding President Obama’s birth certificate — they even make money off of it!

Media foam at the mouth over Mitts birth certificate joke

(Image: BarackObama.com)

Gee, you know who else likes to joke about birthers? Barack Obama does:

I think perhaps Romney should just randomly insert the words “birth certificate” into every stump speech he delivers from here on out — it’s the best way to get media attention. Obama accuses Romney of being a tax-dodging felon and the media yawns. Romney cracks a birth certificate joke and they soil themselves. I bet if Ann Romney added “birth certificate” to her remarks at the upcoming convention, the media wouldn’t hesitate to broadcast it.

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Comments (40)

FEMALL
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:52am
Can’t wait for October…

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noslave
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:13am
the propadanda media will always whine,in order to protect their messiah,the saddest thing eventually some day after hes gone from office,we’ll find that with help he really was an imposter/communist plant ,to screw america,like we now know,but too late ,mc carthy was right about communists in govt.,hopefully we can punish him for his impersonation of the most incompititant u.s. president and the damage he’s wrought.

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Hiswill
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:59pm
This got more boo hoos than, “put you back in chains” by our wonderful vice president.

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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on August 26, 2012 at 8:50am
  British National Archives show a son was born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/british-national-archives-show-a-son-was-born-to-obama-sr-in-1961-in-kenya/
  
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13thCousinOfTheAntiChrist
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 7:37pm
I disagree with the author: the joke was funny on its own. Without getting into the whole “where was he born” argument, it touches on the fact that so many people feel within their core that Obama is not one of them, that he is the polar opposite of everything America stands for. No one questions where Mitt was born. He _believe_ in America. Barry, not so much.

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- 13thCousinOfTheAntiChrist
  Posted on August 25, 2012 at 7:38pm
  Sorry, –> believes.
  
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ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:44pm
AND LAST QUESTION -
4. Perhaps a clue comes from Obama’s book on his father. He states how proud he is of his father fighting in WW II. I’m not a math genius, so I may need some help from you. Barack Obama’s “birth certificate” says his father was 25 years old in 1961 when he was born. That should have put his father’s date of birth approximately 1936—if my math holds . Now we need a non-revised history book—one that hasn’t been altered to satisfy the author’s goals—to verify that WW II was basically between 1939 and 1945. Just how many 3 year olds fight in wars? Even in the latest stages of WW II his father wouldn’t have been more than 9. Does that mean that Mr. Obama is a liar, or simply chooses to alter the facts to satisfy his imagination or political purposes (still qualifies as a “liar”) ?

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ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:43pm
I don’t believe that I have seen these questions before.

1. Back in 1961 people of color were called ‘Negroes.’ So how can the Obama ‘birth certificate’ state he is “African-American” when the term wasn’t even used at that time ?

2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama’s birth as August 4, 1961 & Lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right ? At the time of Obama’s birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama’s father was born in ” Kenya , East Africa”. This wouldn’t seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama’s birth, and 27 years after his father’s birth. How could Obama’s father have been born in a country that did not yet exist ? Up and until Kenya was formed
in 1963, it was known as the “British East Africa Protectorate”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya)

3. On the Birth Certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is “Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital”. This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called “KauiKeolani Children’s Hospital” and “Kapi’olani Maternity Home”, respectively. The name did not change to Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this name of the hospital be on a

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ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:40pm
VOTING IN CHICAGO

My father lived in Chicago his entire life.
He was a staunch conservative and voted a straight Republican ticket
until the day he died.

Since then, he votes Democratic.

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pindy686
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:07pm
The “media” is upset because they know it’s true. Obama is the first “birther” he is the one that started it by having his publicist write for 16 years that he was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia.” It’s Obama who has spent 2 million dollars in attorney’s fees to prevent his birth certificate from coming out, rather than pay 20 bucks and mail it in, like you or I would do. He started. Only he can end it.

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sinsay7
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:48pm
the media was foaming at the mouth way before Mitt’s birther comment.

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blackyb
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:13pm
All the issues of the economy and where Obama is taking America has been and will continue to be covered, but this is a real issue for the American people to consider. This man is not eligible to be in our White House and if people do not stand up for what is right now, they will not be able to later.

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blackyb
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:12pm
When you are over the target getting flack, you better finish your job or the flack will blow you out of the air. Fight back. Demand proof that will satisfy the real investigators and the birthers. Why not. If they can produce this, the real things needed, then we can spend the next years apologizing daily, but that does not mean he will get my vote for his policies are not in sync with America.

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blackyb
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:09pm
Why are those who can, trying to make this look like a “joke” by Romney. There was no joke. He should prove who and what he is. That is no joke either.

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blackyb
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:08pm
Joke? This is not a joke like the media afterbirth wants you to think. They are wanting to make it look like a joke because they know it is the truth.

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blackyb
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:06pm
As I said, quoting some very wise man: “You must be over the target if you are catching flack.”

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raderby
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:20am
MUST HAVE HIT a sensitive spot, huh? Get over it media. You suck and you know it. PROVE THE DAMN BIRTH CERTIFICATE already! Have a team of experts – both “sides” on the issue, and have them go and examine it. That settles it, one way or another. What are you afraid of?

Or does liar in chief just amuse himself with all the secrecy? Want Mitt’s tax forms going back 12 years? Good – a trade: let’s see Obama’s transcripts from the 3 schools he attended. How about how he financed the colleges? Loans? Gov’t loans? Foreign student loans? Prove it, Barry. Let’s see some articles from the Harvard Review?

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Chinnubie
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:41am
I really love Romney mixing it up out there, he’s clearly gotten under the media’s skin and I would suggest to keep it up. This stuff gets reported over and over and over again to all of the so-called main stream media outlets even though nobody’s watching which gets to my main point the press are the only ones watching or paying attention to those people so this is a great way of showing them what we’re about. The big thing is how we can laugh at stuff like this and watch the media blow up.

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Wat Tyler
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:53am
Smart move taking my advice, Mitt.

Now, YOU personally don’t bring it up again unless asked….But don’t apologize..Hold the line on it…

You got the point across….Now let your surrogates hammer on it, and DON”T APOLOGIZE for them, rather turn the tables, and put Obama on the defensive with it

Also, it’s time for some FAST AND FURIOUS action…It’s a real scandal…Creating crime on purpose so as to make a political point? Seriously?..That would be downright criminal…HE (AND HOLDER) NEEDS TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT by the American people.

It’s like Watergate squared!

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- Wat Tyler
  Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:08am
  I don’t see how questioning Obama’s eligibility given his parentage, living arrangements in Indonesia, and his own admissions (his book promotion in his own words) can somehow be spun as the tired old “racist” accusation mantra..Yawn.
  
  Don’t sweat it…Believe me, the vast majority see right through the cheap desperation…The vast majority are also really sick of it and the political correctness agenda dominated by a handful of elite reporters.
  
  They know it, too…That’s why they’re worried…I can hear the shrill…
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on August 25, 2012 at 1:50pm
  Mitt has an extra challenge that Obama doesn’t have. Mitt has to deal with the “chosen people” ran Marxist Media on a daily basis, while they are in partnership with Obama. Obama gets a free pass at whatever he says or does by the Marxist Media while Mitt is constantly put on the defensive by those “chosen people” media elitists. Mitt and all Republicans are at a definite disadvantage when they have the Marxist Media constantly attacking them.
  
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sgtbrown01
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 2:17am
This quip from Romney along with the other day when he said Bless Obamas heart but socialism will never work no mater how hard he tries.is Romneys way of showing us that he can have a little fun while pummling his opponent…Its refreshing…the media is in a tizzy but no surprizes there we know they would be.

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Kent Perry
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:45pm
Oh he informs us that the cartoon was a joke? That’s exactly what I asked him when he posted his long form birth certificate because I wasn’t quite sure and said: “This is a joke right?”

The one who really disappointed me was Romney saying he was only joking.
No Guts No Glory Romney.

It gets harder to see why anyone would want a gutless chicken hawk like you for POTUS Willard, it really is a mystery to me but I bet Beck was biting his nails full of anxiety mumbling “say you were only kidding! Say it was a joke!” then when he found out it was a joke, “Whew! Next thing ya know he will be saying 911 was an inside job and then we will really have our gooses cooked”

Restore Courage my ass, you’re both rubberboned spineless *****’s

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- blackyb
  Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:19pm
  He knows, as well as we that much Truth is said in jest. He wanted it outed. He just has other things to cover as well. The man knows what he is doing 24/7 for he is not a drunk or drug user who thinks clearly and lives above board. This is the type man we need in our White House. He thinks long and hard, weighs things out and acts. He knows exactly what he is doing. He is like the rest of us and can see who and what is in our White House and what this phoney, ineligible man is trying to do to America. It is just not the time for a full face off on it for this is the worst thing that has ever happened to America from within since the inception of this great country.
  
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blackyb
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 11:14pm
That was Romney’s way of telling the liar-in-chief phoney President to back off. The birthers are not joke it is the afterbirths of Obama who are the joke. All you who are trying to make lite of the truth will see, but it may be too late, especially if Romney was not to be elected this coming November. All of Congress and the Clintons and even that book publisher of Obama’s know the truth. The truth is that sheriff Joe is right.

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Talafofotom2
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:22pm
All of the liberal twins must be all a twiiterr,you know Mike Moore and Rosie Odonnel-Bill Mauher and Chris Mathews- Rachel Maddow and Chris hayes Ed schulz and a horses **** remember if you’re public- people will joke about you even the first gay Prezzeee from Zambeeizzee.(lets not forget James Carvil and the Mars Attacks cast. accch acch.

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dodgedart1966
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 8:58pm
racism? Bigotry?? That’s all they can respond with?
The ‘press’ is a complete and utter joke

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 8:49pm
He got the easy to predict knee jerking.

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Kankokage
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 7:36pm
This is reminiscent of when Tom Cruise consumed the Mohammed goo and developed a censor box around his body, effectively shielding himself from criticism – only it didn’t work when Stan and the boys continued to make fun of him. Obama and the media thought they had their man protected completely, that they had made him impervious to all criticism. Then BAM! Mitt delivers the silly one-liner and their whole suit of armor is worthless. Obama is vulnerable, and they are pissed about it.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on August 24, 2012 at 8:07pm
  Kind of reminds you of a little boy shouting during the parade….”THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES! THE EMPEROR IS NAKED! Very much the same reaction likely!
  
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kjama
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 7:31pm
Has anyone seen this? Comes out of his own mouth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded

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