Notes From an Exclusive Interview With Orly Taitz (Rolling Stone)

[struggle4progress]

What Birthers Want
Notes From an Exclusive Interview With Orly Taitz
TIM DICKINSON
Posted Sep 21, 2009 2:17 PM

... The Birthers have been egged on by members of the GOP who have winkingly raised doubts about Obama's birthright, including Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ("I can't swear on a stack of Bibles whether he is or isn't") and Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who .. said of their crazed fearmongering, "I don't discourage it" ... The Republican base and the Birther movement are nearly one and the same, says PPP pollster Dean Debnam. "That is really who their core is" ...

Appealing to naked Islamophobia, Taitz titled her article "Osama bin Laden Can Be on Your Next Ballot," in which Taitz recalls, "I argued that, hypothetically speaking, Osama bin Laden could come to this country, bring hundreds of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and put his name on the ballot. Nobody's going to check and he could be elected president" ...

... The crazy keeps cascading from there ... Referencing an incident in 2008 in which the passport records of the presidential candidates were breached, Taitz claims a young man who was cooperating with the FBI in the investigation was found shot in the head. "Maybe there was something that they found," she says in a conspiratorial whisper, "something that somebody's hiding. We need to get to the bottom of this" ...

Taitz is sincere in her paranoia. She insisted to Rolling Stone that she had a date to make her case before the Supreme Court, but that her case was disappeared from the court's docket just following Obama's inauguration. "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts agreed to hear this case in the joint meeting of all nine justices on January 24th," she claims, "and right after the election, on January 21st someone erased the case from the docket of the Supreme Court" ...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30205785/what_birthers_want/

[Richard D]

1. Wow

Don't people like this belong under medical care?

[xultar]

2. You just martch up to the Supremes and get shit on the docket?

[struggle4progress]

5. I gave up tryin t'figure out how stuff like that works in OrlyWorld™

[JDPriestly]

3. Where does Ms. Taitz get the money to do this?

From her dental practice?

[gateley]

4. She needs help. Seriously. nt