Birtherism... has become the GOP’s more widespread manifestation of racial codespeak in the Obama era. Although Obama deftly quieted the elite media trolls with the release of his long-form birth certificate just after Donald Trump had ridden birther hysteria to the top of the GOP primary field in April 2011, the GOP base was never really dissuaded. In fact, nine months later, in January 2012, a YouGov poll found that more Republicans than ever questioned Obama’s citizenship. Those denying his American birth outright were up 50 percent, from 25 percent of all Republicans to 37 percent, while those accepting his American birth were down 10 percent, from 30 percent to 27 percent of all Republicans. INDISPUTIBLE HARD EVIDENCE DID NOTHING AT ALL TO DISSIPATE THE BIRTHER DELUSION, IT ONLY MADE IT STRONGER. That’s not something Mary Landrieu made up. The GOP’s own partisan media did that. CAPS MINE.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:03:14 +0000
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