Obama Cracks Birther Joke During Betty White’s NBC Birthday Special
- Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:16pm by
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In an NBC special that aired Monday night in honor of Betty White’s 90th birthday, President Obama cracked a birther joke during a pre-recorded bit from the Oval Office.
The segment featured a voiceover of Obama reading a letter he was composing to the elderly actress who has resurrected her career. That letter referenced White’s “long form birth certificate:”
Dear Betty,
You look so fantastic and full of energy, I can’t believe you’re 90 years old. In fact, I don’t believe it.
That’s why I’m writing to ask if you will produce a copy of your long-form birth certificate.
Thanks, and happy birthday, no matter how old you are.
Obama is then shown placing a picture of White behind his desk and listening to the “Golden Girls” theme song through his headphones:
(H/T: HuffPo)



















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Timothy_Reid
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:50pmGuy can’t even let someone have a birthday without makin it about himself……….
Report Post »HoggKilla
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:09pmHey BHO… Is she one of the old white people who are scared of the black man? Should of made a joke about that funny guy.
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:33pmThe planning to catch and kill Osama Bin Laden was months in the making. Obama chose to release his birth certificate 5 days prior to killing Osama. Timing is everything.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:48pmThank You GWB and Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld for the hard work in obtaining the intelligence to find and exterminate OBL. Barry was dragged kicking and screaming to the kill OBL party. I still chuckle at the little boy chair they made Jugears sit in while the Seals did their work.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:55pmA) She is a comedian and probably had a good laugh. B) It wasn’t about him it was about the loons who spent years making an issue out of nothing.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:56pmHog kills
Report Post »Lol. I am surprised he didn’t.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:27pm.
Report Post »I met Betty White a while ago backstage.
I was a tech and she was….well, Betty White.
What a sweetheart! I love her!
Probably the most sincere, down to earth person I ever met.
Happy Birthday, Ms. White, keep it up!
Lucy Larue
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:39pmTIMOTHY REID,
OMfreaking G!
I read all the posts thus far. You got it right.
His “MESSAGE” to Betty didn’t even make sense. Where is the segue?
It was so awkward.
Let’s see…,Betty White is celebrating her 90th. birthday. President Dunham brings up her long form Birth Certificate. UGH!
How about a simple thank you to a woman who has brought many happy moments to her public?
Report Post »How about thanking her for being a champion for animals?
How about a thank you for all the work she does on behalf of the countless canine waifs who are dumped at shelters nationwide by irresponsible human owners.
Nah….,let‘s see Betty’s Birth Certificate.
It disgusts me!
Miami
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:08pmOf course he did,
It was his backers/handlers who started the story to distract from his background.
20+ years in a Marxist Liberation doctrine “Church”
Lack of any achievements to justify his lore and Top Secret school records to boot.
Distract, distort and divert oh yeah I almost forgot, boast!. Is this not the formula they’ve repeated over and over again? Can you all recall how they bragged about manipulating the press during the 08 campaign?
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges07
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:47pmBarack Hussein Obama, AKA Barry Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro, AKA …
Oh, did someone say … birth certificate?
http://i3.ytimg.com/bg/jKZugo0aaREqEyqXIzGDVw/102.jpg
Now, can someone say … arrest, prosecute, and hang?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:46pmGuess who the joke is really on.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:48pmSome day all this will come out but it will be after he has done significant harm to this country.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:37pm@huey
Report Post »He already has done significant damage….
riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:51pm@13imam. what have you been smoking. bush and pals barely went after obl. obama stepped up the chase and got him. obama has, without question, been better at antiterrorism than bush. fact are a bitch.
Report Post »HoggKilla
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:08pm@ RIVERDOG1 – While Barry was in Navy Seal training, GW was blowing up levys in N.O. Do leftist really think BHO killed OBL? They act like he was dropped in with Seal T. 6. I guess Barry was on the ship and took the sniper shot on the Somalian Pirates. Was he the spotter or the trigger man Riverdog?
Report Post »lunchmeat
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:46pmDoes anyone believe obama is even aware of Betty White’s existence?
Report Post »BJC
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:05pmWe all know he can‘t even stand Betty’s last name. It makes Michelle and him shutter. What a stooge.
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:35pmWhat?!
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:42pm“Very Interesting Bit Of Detective Work”
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 used at that time?
2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama’s
birth as August 4, 1961. It also 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”.
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 particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate
dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978?
Resources:
http://www.kapio
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:51pmlook at the map of africa in 1960 it lists kenya as well kenya. kinda blows you source don’t it scrappy.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:55pmExcellent points!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:14pmDo you ever get tired of being called a lunatic conspiracy theorist?
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:29pmThe formal name for Kenya was British East Africa. In 1961, Kenya was a common name for that country.
Of course, I wish that the birth certificate theory was true.
Report Post »Duey2000
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:37pmKenya was known to be a region of East Africa, and a birth certificate would have said African-American because his father was African and his mother was American. Interesting bit about the hospital though. It should be pointed out though that even if there was no controversy regarding his birth, he would not be an American citizen. When he was born the naturalization laws stated that a child retained his parent’s immigration status until a certain age. Obama’s mother (who he was in the care of) moved to Indonesia and became a citizen of Indonesia therefore making Obama an Indonesian citizen. He never applied for citizenship in the US and that is why his passport never said US when he was allowed to enter Pakistan (at a time when US Citizens were not allowed entry into that country).
At least he can laugh at it I guess…
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:47pmThe term “african-american” does not exist on the birth certificate.
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:00pmgood god scappy look at the certificate is says AFRICAN! you source can’t even READ!
Report Post »glrivera
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:31pmI was living in Hawaii in 1975 and I went to Kapi’ olani Hopsital many times. Where are you getting your information from? Plus in June of 1976 Cher had Elijah Blue Allman at the hospital and it was still called Kapi’olani Hospital. I never heard it called a maternity Home. Ever.
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:50pmGive it up fool. Guess you didn’t get the memo, even most birthers themselves don’t believe the birther hogwash anymore. I feel sorry for you, you‘re like one of those poor old Japanese soldiers stranded on some desert island thinking World War II hasn’t ended yet…. Plus, if the “evil” Obama administration really were to fake a birth certificate, do you think they’d do such a botched job of it that a numbskull like you could expose the fraud?
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:42pmHe’s just trying to stir the pot to bring up some dead issues to divert attention from his bad presidency
Report Post »ForMyKidsVA
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:41pmI never believed that he wasn‘t a citizen but he is starting to make me reconsider only because he won’t stop bringing it up. It’s as if he needs to convince us. As Shakespeare wrote, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Stop protesting Mr. President or people are going to start to wonder.
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:45pmsorry but hes not the always bringing it up. as the idiot twins corsi and tait. also look at world nut daily every freeking day for 3 years.
Report Post »Roy Baty
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:28pmTo many questions about this birth certificate. Why would his good friend former Gov (of Hawaii) Abercrombie say a week before this birth certificate was “produced” that it could not be found and in fact did not exist. The Dems waited until some of their media pals like Chris Mathews began complaining about it publicly before they created this certificate.
Report Post »ForMyKidsVA
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:21pmRIVERDOG1
I only hear about the birth certificate when Obama moans or jokes about it and he does do it quite often.
World Nut Daily? Is that a website for squirrels? I googled it but couldn’t find it. I have a lot of squirrels in my yard. Perhaps they might enjoy the site? I did find a World Net Daily though. It is an interesting site that seems to offer opinions that are polar opposite of your own. You might want to consider lowering your stress level by sticking to the MSNBC, CNBC and HuffPo sites.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:40pmNight as well ask her if her real mane night not be Bari Malak Shabazz (son of malcolm X) while he’s at it! http://terribletruth.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/bari′-barry-barack/ Many articles have disappeared but this is who barry really is. follow the paper trail, do the math..
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:53pmThis is Yuri Kochiyama’s story, she is 91 a socialist activist, living in Oakland California, perhaps a person could gather her data and find out how many times she talks to “her son”?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:38pmObama,
Report Post »Chuck you Farley! Your not so mucking Futch! Go back of in your own jack yard!
After three years or your race baiting, manipulative politicizing of every breath you breath, failure to lead a nation, pandering to treasonous UTOPIANS and outright unconstitutional behaviors in all you do. I can definitively state, that no matter if you are or if you are not does not matter, what matters is that you, and your globalist utopian cabbal never get into a political office ever again in America.
Having said that, my fear is that America no longer exists, and that very soon long, shallow scars shall be lain upon the amber waves of grain, and shall be filled with millions of the silent tools, and innocents of another socialist utopian failure, one formaly known as the land of the free and home of the brave.
BetterDays
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:07pmAnd I said to myself, self….
Report Post »And this is why I favor Ron Paul, not because he is a great orator- he isn’t. And not because I don’t have my concerns about his defense strategies, though last night did ally some, but not all of my fears. And not because he always uses caution in who he “seems” to be in bed with, he’s made some questionable and strange alliances.
But because of all the candidates running, it is him alone who passes the ” not allied with socialist, one world government utopian’s” litmus test. And as GOD is my witness we might not survive the one we have now, we most assuredly won’t survive another on his heels!
Sometimes, we must do what’s right even when it seems to entire world is telling us otherwise, we are at such a nexus.
Self, agrees completely with my comment BTW, lol.
13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:20pmOr how RP sees that a bill will definitly pass, LOAD it full of Pork, then vote against it so he can exclaim, “I Voted Against the Bill, don’t blame me. “
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:27pmor how both Romney and Santorum have Natural Born Citizen issues , just like Obama, but they are republicans ( RINOs) so that doesn’t matter?
Report Post »Or how Romney care was the “blueprint” for Obamney care, and Romeny just yesterday day said “ repeal it” for the first time, yet he’s flip-flopped on every issue under the sun?
Or that Gingrich is a member of the CFR, a new world order guy like Romney and Santorum?
Or how Santorums congressional voting record match’s that of Harry Reid?
You mean stuff like that, 13th?
13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:52pmMy point was that every of our candidates has baggage, but one is proven , and some are flighty. As a fourty year Republican, I take umbrage at being called a Progressive, by my own team.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:06pmThe republican party today, is not the republican party you joined 40 years ago I think. And if you have failed to see that, or fail to acknowledge that, then you should have your intellect, honor, and wisdom called into question I think.
Report Post »Anyway NeoCons are NOT progressive, though they serve the same master, Global Governance utopian society, as old as Platos republic and as proven useless as any idea has ever been.
Vote how you choose 13, I’ve no bone to pick with you, and I respect your opinions when you post them, even when I disagree.
13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:05pmTherefore I am not a progressive??
But just a Neocon,, wanting for intellect,no honor,questionable wisdom and working for an invisible world master, that only RP’ers can see.
Report Post »I call that an underhanded compliment
EqualJustice
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:36pmBarry can joke about it NOW because he knows he pulled a fast one. He made it ALL about his BIRTH location and NOT the fact that he is NOT a NATURAL born citizen, since his Dad was African with allegiance to another country. Obama is an Indonesian citizen, IMO, since his Mom took him there and he was legally adopted by his INDONESIAN father. Maybe that’s why there are so many problems with his SS numberS… just saying. Laugh away Barry, your days as President are numbered anyway.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:15pm“the fact that he is NOT a NATURAL born citizen, since his Dad was African with allegiance to another country.”
Bzzzzzt. Incorrect. Try again.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:31pmABSOLUTELY correct… and in conjuction with holding an Indonsian Passport and Citizenship.. he is NOT QUALIFIED as a **Natural Born Citizen.** BOTH PARENTS MUST HOLD US CITIZENSHIP. unless, like Obama, you want to try and REDFINE the qualifications changing words like NATURAL BORN to NATIVE BORN??? http://www.federalistblog.us/2008/11/natural-born_citizen_defined/
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:35pmToo many questions remain about Obama including his place of birth and his real birth certificate.
He and the left make jokes to make people who don’t trust him seem stupid. All questions about his past before Chicago were disallowed or called racist. I still want answers.
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:42pmno questions left. all have been answered. only motivation is based in raceism. it was stupid from the begining.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:00pmName calling much there, there was no racism, the fact is most with a brain at all believe he is hiding something. Questioning isn‘t what isn’t racism, it’s what those with a brain are expected to do.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:34pmI am not a birther but I hope obama is grilled non-stop about all the things in his past (Ayers, Dorn,Wright, Rezko, his Commie friend as a kid, drugs, drug dealing, grades in school, early friends and associates, girlfriends/boyfriends, his voting record in the senate,…all the things that were completely ignored when he took over the country)…and if thety question him on why his father was listed as an “African-American” in 1961….so be it.
Report Post »We knew…and still know nothing about his past and you can bet he‘ll dig so far into the Republican nominee’s past and records we will know his sperm count and colonoscopy results as well as whether he stole a cookie in the third grade.
This time the light needs to be directed at the chosen one.
BetterDays
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:50pmYou can be sure that the propaganda outlets shall crucify any republican candidate who tries to pin Bari down on the glaring voids in whom he truely is. Who is Yuri Kochiyama ?
Report Post »Where are the heroes of my fabled shore ?
Their voices silent, no act is shone !
Their space is emptied, sold for a tomb ?
They have all departed, shall return, nevermore.
riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:55pmagain, his father was listed as African.
Report Post »littleQueenie
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:04pmRiverdog – You’re a tool, goose stepping right in line with the Obamanation.
Report Post »That’s the whole tactic; make anyone who questions that BC look like a lunatic, laugh at them. Hoho it’s such a joke, (Deflect, deflect).
That long form BC is so blatantly, obviously FORGED. It’s embarrassing that it isn’t front and center at the FBI. There’s so many other questions too – SS#’s, sealed school records, cover-ups within the Hawaiian DOH.
And why doesn’t the FBI investigate it? Supposedly because the FBI feels if they were to investigate it there would be race riots across America.
BHO – the perfect Manchurian Candidate.
CatB
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:34pmHey Barry .. how about those school records??? We would love to see those .. seems to me if the grades were any good he would be showing them off all the time … what’s the problem ;-) Something you don’t want us to see .. like what your name was, who paid, foreign student … etc?
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:42pmput Orly and Trump on the case, those fools don’t mind looking like idiots
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:35pmWhy Steelyhead … the one who looks like an idiot is Obummer!
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:33pmAlways thinking of a way to divide the country and can’t even wish a Golden Girl Happy Birthday without attempting to reach his goal. He is pathetic!
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:50pmhe wish betty white a happy birthday and this site posts as if HE is the divider? look at yourselves. beck, rush, hannity et all, are the dividers.
Report Post »war7412
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:33pmBetty White has a LONG FORM………..do YOU ????????????
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:49pmBetty White has a birth certificate at a time when not everyone did.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:32pmEnjoy your time in the limelight, Barry; it’s coming to an end this November.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:41pmHi TRON …
I am going to see Santorum in person one week from today .. without the media spin.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:30pmI find no humor in having a foreign-born enemy “president” in the White House.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:18pmDitto! & whatever he is, HE IS NOT ; A Red Blooded American!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:29pmPretty funny Barry, maybe you can land a gig on SNL next January…you’re going to need one.
Report Post »icarenough
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:28pmHe’s nothing but a puke
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:26pmDoes this piece of excrement Barry O , have to stick his goofy puss into everything?? To this thief , the only thing he sees is a fat Hollywood Whitebread pocketbook to plunder, forced or not. Saw the show,, missed the scoundrel.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:51pmI am never disappointed by the people at the Blaze and the complete disrespect given to the United States and the President.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:16pmHey Rustnoggin
Sure hate to disappoint the likes of you.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:03pmThe president should be the best and the brightest, not this idiot that has never earned anything, but have been given and lived off others because of his skin color.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:07pm@ Steelhead – Want to keep giving you a reason for hanging out somewhere you don’t like…. we live for your disapproval …..
Report Post »war7412
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:25pmHe should KNOW ?????????????????
Report Post »war7412
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:23pmI bet “BETTY WHITE” can show the LONG FORM…………..but OBAMA can you show a REAL COPY of the SHORT FORM ???????????????????????
Report Post »Brett Riggs
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:21pmHey Mr. President….bet she can produce one. How about you???????????? “Just Sayin”
Report Post »JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:21pmYuck Yuck – He is such a joke………….Literally
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:21pmbirthers are morons
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:36pmAfter Nov 2012, Barry can pack up the ball and chain, the two burdens, and shuck off to Kenya, Chicago, Hawaii, , preferably to an island that will tip over. Please shuck off,, Barry
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:42pmDoesn’t this make Obama a “birther” ;-)
Report Post »BOstinks
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:47pmand besides your daddy is bigger than their daddy anyway – so there! I suggest before you lower your self to calling names ask yourself why did Obama allow the question to fester for several years without providing an answer. We are told constantly he is the smartest man to ever be dumb enough to want the job. Why did he let that issue boil for so long? I’d still like to hear anything from a former roommate, classmate, girlfriend or anyone else that knew him as a student – little to nothing? If you became president you can bet someone from high school would come forward with something to say good or bad don’t you think?
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:19pmAt least he can tell jokes, and kill people. Too bad he doesn’t have the slightest clue how to run a country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVPyIXZzRg
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:52pm@bostinks… there is quite a list of people who knew him at high school college and law school. the lying fools that claim have been proven to be the lying fools that they are. come on man think.
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