L.A. Times: ‘Transcripters’ Are the New ‘Birthers’
- Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:49pm by
Erica Ritz
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In a Monday article, the Los Angeles Times postulated that “transcripters” will be the new “birthers,” now that the debate over the president’s birthplace has largely been laid to rest.
What exactly are these so-called “transcripters”? As the word implies, it is seemingly anyone who is suspicious of the fact that the Obama’s transcripts have not been released.
The article explains:
What do these “transcripters” (if we may coin a phrase) hope to prove?
“We’re not convinced that Barack is as smart as you media elitists keep insisting he is,” says The Trenches, the website that posted the reward [for Obama's transcripts]…
That rationale may strike some as a little flimsy, given that Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review, taught constitutional law, has two bestselling books to his credit and is, at the moment, leader of the free world.
We do know a few things about the president’s college career.
In his new book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” David Maraniss quotes Obama as saying that his grade point average at Columbia was an impressive 3.7. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, which cannot happen with poor grades.
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“I am not sure looking at 20-year-old Mitt Romney or Barack Obama at that granular level of detail would make a difference,” [Barmak Nasserian] said. “It’s kind of a stretch to say performance in a particular course, or that they took a course with a professed Marxist, or they studied Russian for heaven’s sakes, is going to be relevant or helpful to someone making up their mind.”
The L.A. Times credits Donald Trump with helping to launch the “movement,” after he said: “The word is, according to what I’ve read…that [Obama] was a terrible student when he went to Occidental. He then gets into Columbia; he then gets to Harvard. … How do you get into Harvard if you’re not a good student? Now maybe that’s right or maybe it’s wrong, but I don’t know why he doesn’t release his records.”
But is the L.A. Times really in a position to be condemning those seeking more information on the president, when they reportedly withheld a tape of him toasting Rashid Khalidi throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and beyond?
Furthermore, is being skeptical of the president’s birthplace, and being curious about his college years really comparable?
(H/T: Weasel Zippers)
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Comments (128)
moussiagilda
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:49pmIt’s the Mafia.
The Mafia is after Paul Ryan’s family.
They have infiltrated his security team. Fire them all. FIRE THEM ALL.
You won’t be killed. You’ll be wounded.
I died to save you, during the day of the zombies. Literally. They asked if I’d snitch. I threw open the door and yelled that there were drugs in the air and they must not kill you.
You won’t be killed. You’ll be wounded. I haven’t been killed. I can’t possibly be killed.
Get out of your nightmare and offer yourself.
Romney is in hell. Don’t join him. Your wife…won’t be in hell long at all.
Do you love her as much as your savior?
Or do you feel you deserve nothing but hell?
Death is not death.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:04amWhat is that, a rap song from the damned?
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:10amSounds like something from Weezy F. Baby, doesn’t it?
We’re on the same side. The side of those who want to live.
Report Post »OhCanada
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:20am@mouss
Report Post »You be smokin” what OBama been smokin’?
Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:17amHis college papers, reveal that he was a foreign exchange student………..period.
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:04amMaybe his transcripts reveal he is 1/32 American Indian.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:59am?????????????????????????
If an employer wanted my “graduated no degree” transcripts that chronicled my six years at college, I could have them in my little hands in seven days plus $35(?) .
So what is the problem for the most powerful man in the world???????????????????
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:25am@MOUSSIAGILDA..
How’s it going…“ ITS JUST TIM ”….AKA ..“ ELIASIM ”…?
Report Post »megamind
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:48amWTF is that! The new white house cheer song…..
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:50amSomeone needs medical attention.
Report Post »WTSpike
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:41amWhat kind of a statement is that, especially in the context of this article? Nutbag.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:13amDoes this mean that Hillary is also a transcripter?
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:19amOne reason for ObamaCare, Mental Health Program……………………. ****Smirks****
Report Post »TemayElbor
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:45pmIf Obama really went to Columbia or Harvard, why not one classmate come forward and testify that they were classmates in a particular class? This will also trace the time period he studied in these universities.
There is such secrecy that one tends to suspect, he never studied there.
Report Post »scruffycat
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:27amYeah, I was a birther but now I’m a birther and a transcripter. I want to see those transcripts!! Lets see if your papers are in order, ya?
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:14amWhat about the lie on his Illinois BAR application that caused him to surrender his law liscense? What was it?
Doesn’t his claim to have been a citizen of Indonesia in order to obtain a scholarship at Occidental reserved for foreign students count as fraud?
We should also be sceptical of his claims from Columbia and Harvard. Where are the classmates, the girlfriends that west to classes with him?
So many questions, so few answers. Why does the media look into every aspect of Romneys life (like the dog carrier on the roof of the car) and make light of Obamas (eating a dog).
Where are Woodward and Bernstein whenyou need them?
OMG 2012
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:15amHere is another question… how does someone – who by his own admission in “his” book- says he spent the last 2 years of high school drunk, stoned and rarely attending class, have the grades to get into college in the first place?
Report Post »dataweaver
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:32amPersonally, I have bigger fish to fry than where Obama was born or what he did in college. Namely, what he’s doing _now_. These past four years have illustrated so many reasons why Obama shouldn’t be President that twenty-year-old records pale in comparison.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:49amOh right his similar to the Kennedy’s, the Romney’s or any other wealthy family, Obama bought his diploma from Harvard Law school. Oh wait his family isn’t wealthy. Transcripters are exactly like birthers, a idiotic side show that exists and is funded for the sole purpose of hedging bets against Romney’s mediocre record and lack of clarity with respect to REAL policy issues. This is a classic example of a group which should not be allowed to vote.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:02amI can say all day long that I had a 3.8 grade point average, but if you look up my college transcripts, it’ll tell a different story. My problem was I didn’t go to the classes. And touting that he‘s a constitutional instructor only proves he’s out to destroy the constitution, instead of being ignorant of what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:43pmOK Let’s all become “TRUTHERS”. If the man has nothing to hide, then the truth shouldn’t bother him. Wouldn’t you like to get him and Kagen and Timmy and Holder in a secret grotto with sodium penethol and a couple of polygraph recorders, a film crew and David Barton and Glenn asking the questions? They’d all be packing their bags for Chicago (or prison) twenty minutes later. Have Carney, Sharpton and Mathews present to hear the truth first hand. Kidnapping, racism and waterboarding will be their spin. The truth will bury POTUS.
Report Post »Romney by landslide!
CatB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:02amI agree .. when they start in with “birthers or transcripters” we should CORRECT them we are TRUTHERS! I like that!
OMG 2012 .. .LIBERTY!
Report Post »servant100
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:56amOK Mouseketeers…lets waste yet another bunch of time on a assinine effort. The “birther” and the university records” are irrelevent. Obama is a admitted socialist, who was trained from infancy as what used to be called a communist radical. He is the walking breathing Manchurian candidate…who has been trained by the worst communists and black racists around for over 30 years. Further, Obama is about a bright as a brick…he is the ultimate “talking head.” He doesn’t plan anything!
He merely reads the scripts, just like Bill and Hillary, written and directed by Soros and his propoganda/agiprop machine that has been working on this for over 20 years not. In fact Obama’s radical “agenda” when really examined is nothing more than the Chicago way writ large. Soros is looking for his final hedge fund killing. He has worked with Bill and Hillary and Obama to create runaway/crazy runaway inflation by forcing the FED to print money like the Weimar Republic. Then, as he did with 4 other countries, Soros raids the pensions and savings of the poor and middle class to skim off billions.
Viewed in this light, Obama shows forth the pathetic joke that he is… Its Soros and his bitberger cronies who run the US…that’s worth worrying about. Not Comrade Obama’s fricking birth certificate or college transcripts… Look beyond your nose people….
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:26amCrying………………. Lmao!!!!!!!!!!! Now that was funny! Your such a comedic genious! **Smirks**
Report Post »Coonrapids
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:33pmWhen I applied for a jobs in my profession I was asked to show proof of college grades and my other academic accomplishments. I have nothing to fear what does the black jimmy carter fear????
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:42pmThe truth? The truth that would have him of of of the White House and on the gallows? That truth?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:09amYou are right Mom…He should be hung for treason.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:22amWhen you tell lie upon lie upon lie, two things happen. First you begin to believe the lie and secondly, you no longer know what the truth really is.
There has been numerous smoke screens and the more that they do it, the more they feed the conspiracy theorists and others who simply wonder WHAT the B.O. camp is hiding. Tricky Dick was forced to resign because he didn’t want his mother to hear him swearing on the phone tapes. Clinton committed perjury about Monica. God alone knows what B.O. is hiding.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:33pmCall me a birther, call me a transcriptor, whatever. When ordinary folk apply for a job we have to supply all manner of information and still a background check is done. So why is Obama, who is running for the most prestigious job in the land immune from this scrutiny? Why can’t we see his college grades and maybe some samples of his work?
Please don’t throw those Harvard credentials at us. Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren has forever sullied those with her pretentious claim on Native American heritage based on a tenuous ancestor.
Yup we want to see the birth certificate, the college grades, and some original work from our Nobel laureate. After all, he’s the smartest one in the room.
Report Post »oregon scott
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:18amAdd your comments
Report Post »oregon scott
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:22amwhat I would like to know is, what did they show the the state of Az to get his name on the ballot. I think it may have been a photo of his family and a typed out letter of what would happen if he did not drop the whole matter. if they showed AZ. the same BC they provided to every one else. there is no way that would be Proof. It had seven layers on it. It was built in ADOBE.
Report Post »burnbabylon
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:33pmSome of his paper trail might show him claiming to be muslim or Indonesian.
Report Post »Aside from that.
I wonder what sort of unofficial Affirmative Action boosts were/are awarded for:
Minority Status
Foreign Origen
Sexual Deviation
Political Activism, left wing.
derpaderpa derp
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:18amThats has been my thoughts since the start
Report Post »virgie morgan
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:31pmThe real birthers are those who claim, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that he was born in Hawii. They look at this as a distraction and a wedge issue when they should be pulling all their resources together and empeacing this imposter so that he doesn’t have a chance to get another 4 years. It’s people like this that will be responsible for his second term. And I’m ashamed to say Glenn Beck is leading the pack on this one.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:10amWhen the economy slips back into recession come Sept, Obongo’s election prospects will fall off a cliff.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:28pmI don’t care if they insult us just b/c we question Obama’s birth certificate or his transcripts. It’s our right to do so.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:37pmThey call us “names” and expect us to go away … how’s that working out??? Not going away nor giving up .. as long as I hav breath in my body. We the People want the TRUTH!
OMG 2012 LIBERTY
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:03amFrom what it looks like all they got to work with and get into power with is their mouths. We know the truth and they know we know it. They will soon feel it if they are not beginning to already.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:28pmI do not think he could add 2+2 and get the right answer? other wise he would have released his grades and school records.!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »subic
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:43pmBirthplace laid to rest? Think again LA Slime, Obozo will be outed!
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:27pmJust equal treatment for once but that is to much to ask from people who drink the bathwater. When, not if they get Mitt’s transcripts, classes and teachers. They will still be triple top secret to get the same Obama grades and which Marxist professors gave him the high grades.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:25pmThe Prez caught the “doobie” express and it blew him into power.
Report Post »LoveBringsTruth
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:23pmwhat we have here is a failure to communicate and criminal propaganda.
If law enforcement will not hold corporations/media officials and talking heads accountable for organized crime and providing the material support of terrorism against United States Citizens then we have a rebuilding of Hitler style mass murder eventually perpetrated, condoned and supported by the US Media.
The pattern is the same, the results will be the same.
The writings on the wall, if there is no constitutional military intervention with American nuremberg trials then 1940′s Germany awaits our future. It’s pointless to do the trials after people die!
What are we supposed to do? We changed our lives. We took an honest route with elections, debates in local areas, education and the criminal activity just full steams ahead.
10% of the BlazePo actually promote need to know journalism but the other 90% is MSM garbage.
BlazePo keep stirring the flames with Alinsky. Think of the irony in that. The whole damn country knows EVIL is going on and YOU WONT SAY A DAMN THING.
NO SH^T the presidents whole past if fake, BUT WHY? SOROS HAS NO BUSINESS ASSOCIATES LIKE PUTIN?
You just blame those that are allowing to be blamed! Time to go up the ladder and blow the whole criminal activity thing wide open!
What are you afraid of? We have all been intimidated. Who are the CIA agents at BlazePo. Thats what I want to know. And if your not infiltrated then prove it!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:22pmWhen Obama gets jailed, he and Holder, they will have to write sentences of: I must not Punk America over and over for the rest of their lives, until their hair falls out and their teeth grow even longer.
Report Post »Face it: Obama Punked America. Get him off the game, send him away, vote him out and put him and Holder in jail.
copatriots
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:20pmHe’s a narcissist. If 0 were a genius, he would be waving his IQ and grades in front of us every day.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:34pmNo kidding ..instead he just makes “claims” and expects others to buy it…. well 0 (I like that) certainly hasn’t shown any smarts … just arrogance.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:19pmWhen I was hired for my job, I had to provide a college transcript and proof of my degree. This was for a DoD job, so why can’t our Commander in Chief do the same? What is he hiding? Every president has provided his grades and transcripts, and it seems they all got decent grades. I guess if I majored in “Ways to get high in a car”, and failed the class, I wouldn’t want anyone to know either.
Report Post »Gizzy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:14amHe got there by Affirmative Action. No substance required!
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:55amI’ve had to show my transcripts for $12/hr. jobs. If this guy wants to “equal the playing field,” he most certainly should show his transcrips, too. That said, I am a proud “transcripter.”
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:16pmTranscriptors, birthers………why don’t you call us what we are. We are TRUTHERS. All we have ever wanted was what has been covered up, sealed and denied. The real truth about the man who sits in the Oval Office.
Report Post »The man that nobody really knows.
blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:24pmHe did, in fact, Punk America.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:01amI hear you Mom! Nothing has been “largely put to rest”. In fact it just gets weirder with every new bit of info. My hope is it will blow up in his face and we can erase every piece of legislation with his name on it.
Silversmith
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:28amSnapshot: This is the POTUS that is SO smart that he could not correctly pronounce “corpsman” (multiple times) when confronted with the word….president of the Harvard Law Review….PHOOEY! So much for the solidity of an Ivy League education.
Report Post »RebelPatriot
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:11pmLet’s just vote him out and then we will see how far the press goes to uncover the lies that have followed King Hussein throughout his life.
Report Post »terriergal
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:21pmI’m all for that, but I‘m afraid a lot of sheeple aren’t interested in following my lead. And I’m not a particularly inspiring person. I’m interested in the truth, after all.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:09pmWell, he can’t be that smart, all “modern liberals” aka socialists are poor at math
all they know is subtract and divide…
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:07pmMeanwhile, is the House of Representatives ever, ever going to be in session again???????
Hell has died, for we elect many, I said many. Heaven is here. My baby needs to come back to heaven.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:23pmYes, they will convene in Hell from the way it looks.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:30pmI think you need a nut and bolt tighten some where ???
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:42pmHeaven or hell exists in you. Whether you are a slave to lies, or a friend of truth.
For most of us, we who aren’t frightened and gullible, this is the new heaven.
My poor, poor baby. Watching you sell your soul and walk right into hell.
Walk right away from hell. Devote yourself to truth…oh dearest, I know.
Your family has been threatened.
That‘s exactly why it’s best not to have a family. Not to be a slave to a family.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:59pmThere is one thing about Christians, we are not afraid to die. We will stand on the Truth and die for it. We let no man tell us what Truth is, for no man on this earth has the complete Truth in him. We love no thing as much as we do Justice and the Truth and no one, but God will ever tell us who we are, for we are sons and daughters of the True King. Got it? If not, then you might better get you a good tried and true King James Verison of the Holy Bible and catch up on your reading.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:49am@NOBULL
he is a nut without a bolt.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:06pmWhoever Barry is he pulled a bucket load of shiite on the American public for which he should be held accountable.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:51amBLACKYB, Along with all who knowingly assisted.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:05pmI was never a birther, you asinine critters. I was always myself. Incorrigible.
Report Post »danettekientz
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:03pmHe is a fraud, and his lies will haunt him his entire life.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:02pmAll Barak Obama had going for him was a bunch of old connected white men who allowed themselves to be a part of Obama’s lifestyle and they pushed him to where he is because of his dunes color. He only knows how to shuck and jive and play. He is a community organizer, and a continuous campaigner who plays to the more ignorant and smoke up in this society. He uses fringe groups for unrest and jumps on causes that he thinks will make him looked like a caped crusader.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:59pmNo, the question of the President’s birth has not largely been laid to rest. He said he was born in Kenya in his own autobiography. He filled out the form to the publisher who got the information from Obama. Obama said on the form he sent to the publisher where he was born. Who said it was “laid to rest.” Not so. Obama is not eligible to be where he is, so quit playing games with the American public.
Report Post »terriergal
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:23pmI totally agree. This is all smoke and mirrors. The sad thing is that so many people still like what he STANDS for regardless of where he was born or what his college transcripts say. What he stands for is evil enough! If they aren’t convinced by that open book, they aren’t going to be convinced by those (cough cough) “technical details” because they want what they want and they are highly irrational about it.
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:30pmYou’re misinformed. The SECOND Organic Acts of 1871/4 took an already INCORPORATED 10-sq mile area (1806) and incorporated the ENTIRE ‘conquered’ “union,‘ placing it under the auspices of ’rebirth’ of the Union — i.e. — when Uncle Abe suspended (unlawfully) the REPUBLIC’s constitution, it was replaced with one that LOOKS like the republic’s — but is a ‘corporate charter’ — meaning….. Corps can do what they want. They can even appoint a CEO under the guise of an ‘election.‘ The 14th amendment turned over ’ownership’ of ALL the people — i.e. chattel property of the crown via da Pope — Ain’t history grand IF you have an open mind and can actually see the forest thru the trees? :-)
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:59pmWhat ever we are called we do not like the way he is running the country……into the ground!
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