Tonight's J. Danforth Quayle Award For Republican Stupidity goes to THE WASHINGTON TIMES

[MrScorpio]

"Republicans understand the importance of
bondage between a mother and child."

J. Danforth Quayle
Vice-President of the United States
1989-1993

Washington Times Runs Anti-Obama Birther Ad Featuring Racial Undertones

This latest national edition of the Washington Times features a full-page ad that claims that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. The ad was purchased by the anti-Obama website ProtectOurLiberty.org. While the group has placed several birther ads in the Washington Times in recent months, the version that ran this morning contains far more inflammatory imagery — three monkeys, apparently intended to represent the U.S. Congress, courts, and the media:



The hardly intelligible ad copy claims that under a 60-year-old British law, President Obama is a citizen of Britain and “is currently also a British protected person and/or a British citizen to this day.” The Center for American Progress’ Ian Millhiser points out that if this rule were actually applied to the presidency, every foreign nation would have the power to remove the President of the United States simply by granting the president citizenship.

The website promoted by the ad is run by Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., a plaintiff in a birther lawsuit filed against President Obama in New Jersey.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/30/birther-ad-monkeys/

These stupid racist assholes never give up, do they?

[gratuitous]

1. Why should they give something up?

Even when something has been laughed out of court numerous times, proven to be a complete and utter falsehood, and rejected by every thinking person that comes in contact with it, there is still a platform for the basest nonsense. Why is that? Because someone is making a buck off it. More properly, a lot of bucks. As long as the hard-earned follows these canards, there will be plenty of peddlers for it. There's no penalty; nobody who subscribes to this trash will ever be called to account for his or her endorsement. Nobody will lose their credibility. In fact, it will enhance their reputation of free-thinking (one might almost call it thought-free) contrarianism, and willingness to examine all controversial "issues."

If this crap actually cost someone his career, it just might be a cause for pause. But as it is, the money for cheapening our national discourse is just too good to pass up.

[rfranklin]

2. I see no problem...our Founding Fathers were British subjects....

And nobody has a problem with that.

[MrScorpio]

3. Kickage!