Ethics

Orly Taitz Channels Her Inner Child

By Ed Brayton

Orly Taitz, the dentist/real estate agent/lawyer who helps lead the birther movement, is hilarious. When she went to a book signing by Chief Justice John Roberts and badgered him about the 14,000 lawsuits she's filed against Obama on the birth certificate issue, he gave her a polite and cognitively empty "if the case reaches the court we'll give it its due attention" response and she ran to the Worldnutdaily and exclaimed, "OMG, he likes me, he really likes me!"

Now it seems to be getting worse. She's like a really insecure and needy teenage girl looking for validation, going so far as to announce to the world when famous people sign up as her Facebook friends. No, seriously.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).