Astonishingly underreported: Father of the birther movement is a Republican named Andy Martin

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/777168607474180096

Birtherism began with this Andy Martin press release, posted to the Free Republic site in 2004


https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/777169146450542593

[niyad]

1. thank you

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Found this in 2004 & 2007 at the FReak site

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1192827/posts?page=61#61

He was not born in Hawaii, he immigrated there when a child

61 posted on 2004-08-17, 5:14:07 AM by JustPiper (~ It can be good news when there is no terror threat to report ~)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1773468/posts?page=69#69

How does one prove they meet the Constitutional requirement, born in the U.S., to be president? Submit a birth certificate to whom?

I want to see OB's BC.
69 posted on 2007-01-25, 11:40:26 AM by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)

Andy Martin, as you have shown, made a big fuss in 2004 to see Obama's birth certificate to see if it stated he was Muslim, i.e. to dispute his "heritage" which would include of course his birth.

[annabanana]

3. Nice to have the whole story..THANK you!. . . .n/t

[underpants]

4. kpete wins today

[underpants]

5. Again, thanks. I was looking last night and found something interesting on Wikipedia

I know that Wikipedia is not a great reference but it is where a lot of people get info.
It is still very manipulated as this shows.


From Wikipedia "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories"
Wikipedia

Origins of the claims
In March 2008, rumors that Obama was born in Kenya were spread on conservative websites.[26] During the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential primaries, anonymous e-mails from supporters of Hillary Clinton surfaced that questioned Obama's citizenship in an attempt to revive Clinton's faltering primary election campaign. These and numerous other chain e-mails during the subsequent presidential election circulated false rumors about Obama's origin, religion and birth certificate. (27)(28)

What are references #27 & 28?
#27
This is an article from the Tampa Bay Times June 2008. It makes no ZERO mention of the Clinton campaign or anyone associated with it.

Tampa Bay Times

#28
This is a Politico article from April 2011. It is a Politico on Facebook post. It contains the following text but nothing in the short post supports it at all.

The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. (See: Bachmann: Birther issue settled)

http://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/birtherism-where-it-all-began-053563#ixzz4KZ63a2Cd

[underpants]

6. "The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America."

This guy is some piece of work.

I know it's ironic that I'm posting a Wikipedia link but it is the page on the Twitter post.


His 1996 run for the Florida State Senate unraveled when it was revealed that he had named his campaign committee for his 1986 congressional run "The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America." The revelation led the state Republican Party to renounce him. Just before the election, he assaulted two cameramen from WPTV, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach. He was convicted of criminal mischief and sentenced to a year in jail. He was freed pending appeal but made personal attacks on the judge while on the way out of the courtroom. The judge held Martin in criminal contempt of court and sentenced him to seven months in jail. However, he was let out of jail after only a month due to a "paperwork glitch". Martin never returned, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. If he is ever arrested, he will have to serve 16 months in jail.[8] The warrant was still outstanding at least as of the time of Martin's 2008 Senate run, but he said the issue is being "resolved."[17]

Wikipedia

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Funny how this was hiden in plain site.

[annabanana]

8. kicking because the surrogates are STILL

pushing this crap!!!