WND Editor: I'm No Birther -- I Just Think Obama Needs To Release Birth Certificate

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WND Editor: I'm No Birther -- I Just Think Obama Needs To Release Birth Certificate
Zachary Roth | February 16, 2010, 2:45PM



Prominent right-wing columnist Joseph Farah is threatening to sue Newsweek, after the magazine reported that he believes President Obama was not born in the U.S.

Farah, the founder and editor of WorldNetDaily (WND), claims he's never said that -- he just wants Obama to release his birth certificate, in order to put "concerns" about the issue to rest.

The brouhaha was kicked off by a Newsweek.com column that appeared Friday, entitled: Know Your Conspiracies: NEWSWEEK's guide to today's trendiest, hippest, and least likely fringe beliefs." The piece, perhaps ill-conceived from the start, listed "Barack Obama was not born in the United States," as one such fringe belief, and included Farah as one of its "proponents."

The column was written by David A. Graham, whose LinkedIn profile describes him as a reporting intern at Newsweek.com.

But in a public letter to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, posted yesterday on WND, Farah writes:

While I have written tens of thousands of words about the subject of Barack Obama's eligibility and talked for dozens of hours on the public airwaves and given hundreds of interviews on this subject, never have I stated that Obama was not born in the United States.

Therefore, I demand an immediate apology and retraction.

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[KingOfLostSouls]

1. Show us Sarah Palin's high school diploma first

[Lochloosa]

5. Show us why she went to 5 Universities.

Caught with the test answers on her hand?:shrug:

[Cha]

2. Ignorant mediawhore needs to get up to speed..

Fucking "spreading disinformation" twit.

[FrenchieCat]

3. I'm no birther either, and I Just Think Joseph Farah Needs To Kiss my Black/White Ass!

That's what I think.

[provis99]

4. written in the same spirit as racists who say "Well, I'm not a racist, but..."

f.u., Mr. Farah.

[Jennicut]

6. We should all walk around with our birth certificates taped to our chests or something.

Isn't that a privacy issue anyway?

[NJmaverick]

7. If the tin foil hat fits joey...

[TrogL]

8. I can't produce mine either

All I've got is a wallet card.

When my grandson was born, somebody filled out a certificate of life birth, but that particular people of paper will be used to produce the official Birth Certificate and then be recycled.

[Arkana]

9. "I'm no birther--I just think that n*gger ain't no AMURKIN."

[zulchzulu]

10. I'm no drunk. I just drank a gallon of whisky n/t

[WeDidIt]

11. If it walks like a birfer, talks like a birfer, and demands a birth certificate like a birfer

it's a goddamn birfer.

[Kyril Enko]

12. Hey, I'm no rapist,

I just like to force women to have sex with me!

:banghead:

[Monk06]

13. I hope he does sue. Newsweek could use the extra cash after they counter sue for harrassment..

[davidpdx]

14. Self delete

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. just how many birth certificates does he have to release?

Hawaii confirmed that he was born there - period.