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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Birthers Fall For a Forgery

By Ed Brayton (all)

Dave Weigel, my Center for Independent Media colleague, has an article at the Washington Independent about the latest idiocy from Orly Taitz, the endlessly ridiculous leader of the birthers. It's a fake Kenyan birth certificate. Naturally, it's the Worldnutdaily credulously publishing about it and calling it real:

The new document released by Taitz bears none of the obvious traits of a hoax.

Really? None of the obvious traits of a hoax? Take it away, Mr. Weigel:

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).

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