You know who haven't made the news in a while? The Birthers, that's who.

[Bicoastal]

I know that nonsense will never be done with--it'll continue underground for the next 8 years, I'm sure--but have the media finally grown tired of covering the Wile E. Coyote-like antics of these determined-yet-loco clowns?

Furthermore, this drop-off coincides with the sudden popularity of demagogues like Beck and Bachmann. Is this their way of coping with reality?

[laststeamtrain]

1. Are 'The Birthers' Birchers? As in John Birch Society?

Sometimes I miss the birth of current DU jargon.

[Bicoastal]

2. Birthers = "Obama's Birth Certificate is a fake!" = "He's not a US citizen! Let's sue him!"

= "We spent our entire childhood eating paint chips!"

[laststeamtrain]

5. Thanks. Now I know. n/t.

[JayMusgrove]

3. No it's the Birth Certificate idiots. They still think Obama was born

in Kenya, or on the North Pole, or somewhere, even tho his mom was American, they refuse to admit he's an American, probably because he is black.

[rvablue]

4. What "drop-off"????

I don't remember any of the networks or cable channels (save Fox, which I don't think even really touched it) giving any coverage to these total paranoid, racist maniacs.

Even they wouldn't touch it. Says a lot. If I'm wrong please correct me with some links. And blogs don't count as they are quite MSM yet.

[leftynyc]

6. You would think the fact that

fox news along with rush, sean, glenn, even ann freeking coulter are ignoring this would be a clue to these morons. Same people who are still waiting for Hillary to be indicted.

[Bicoastal]

8. No they never made TV--but for a time, they WERE covered in blogs and even print media...

...and you'd hear notes from the front on a steady weekly basis: "The movement to kick Obama out of office due to his supposed lack of US citizenship recently suffered a major blow after Dumbass vs. Obama was thrown out by Judge Whatshisface after a stern rebuke to stop wasting taxpayer money on blahblahblahblahblah..."

But recently, nothing.

[rvablue]

9. I think most of the print coverage they got was critical of them and

exposed their ridiculousness and delusion.


I have no idea what "notes from the front" means unless you are speaking of the alerts that were posted on Free Republic and other wingnut sites that frankly will never change as ginning up hate and paranoia is how they get their meal ticket.

[Keno76]

7. wackos

Glad I haven't seen those wackos around lately