Fox News Military Analyst Comes Out As Birther

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

August's slow-news period would have seemed to me to be a prime period for some sort of Birther flare-up, but just past the deadline comes the news that Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney has signed an affidavit in support of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin.

Lakin -- a Birther cause-celebre -- is facing a court martial after refusing to report for deployment to Afghanistan because he doesn't believe President Barack Obama is eligible to be President of the United States.

It's one of the more unfortunate instances of Birther Kool-Aid overdose. And now, McInerney has jumped aboard. Dave Weigel reports that McInerney is -- or at least was -- "a serious person": "He's a West Point graduate who ran the Alaskan air command during the Exxon Valdez disaster."

Of course, he also contributes to Fox News as a military analyst.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/fox-news-military-analyst_n_702516.html

[Axle_techie]

1. and in other news...

the sun is hot

Edit to add: rec

[wtmusic]

2. Either that, or he just realized that dodging Taliban snipers

would be a tad more precarious than taking pictures of an oil spill.

[brewens]

3. Hopefully that is like pilots that report UFOs. No more promotions

or key assignments. Labeled as wackjob.

[niyad]

4. he has been retired since 1994

[mackerel]

5. Who has been retired since 1994?

[alp227]

6. Good. I don't have to listen to anything that he says. n/t

[The Wizard]

7. Let's stop calling Fox

a news network. Always refer to it as the Republican propaganda outlet.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Fox Propaganda, Inc. (R)

And that's the way it is.

[Roland99]

10. Faux News covers it rather well for me.

[wookie72]

13. the trouble with that is that it presumes people know French.

[wookie72]

9. In that odious Pamela Geller "book"

While she doesn't actively support the Birther cause (although she snipes that Hawaii had only recently become a state when Obama was born, and that it's not part of the contiguous states... what does that say about Hawaii), she whines that the media insulted them by referring to them as "Birthers," making an unfair connection with the 9/11 Truthers.

God, I hate that woman.

[wookie72]

11. DO these people think we have no memory?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/18/SCHWARZENEGGER.TMP

And for a real laugh, check out the Amend For Arnold site...

http://www.amendforarnold.com/

[ixion]

12. Remember when these same folks berated us to no end for "not respecting the office"?

I guess they've gotten over it.