Rachel Maddow took the opportunity of the president's birthday yesterday to report that birtherism has finally been put to rest. A gaggle of believers (including members of congress and several state legislatures) have come to their senses and now realize that the massive conspiracy supposedly undertaken by Obama's parents back in '61 to lay the groundwork for his future presidency probably didn't happen. But, she points out with her usual humor, putting the birther issue to rest still doesn't make him an American. Watch. It's fun.
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8/6/11 correction to above story by Maddow (and apology to Rush Limbaugh). Which is funny because I thought Limbaugh was probably just joking when he made the comment she quoted above. Just because it seemed like a joke in light of whole birth certificate thing. Tuirns out it wasn't a joke. He'd actually said it a year ago.
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