How stupid was it to release President Obama ’s long-form birth certificate ? Let me count the ways. As Dan Pfeiffer said , the Birther issue was “good politics and good TV,” but I strongly disagree thatit was “bad for the American people,” especially from Barack Obama’s point of view. His decision to cash in the Birther chips is an awful decision for them, unless he believes the country would be better off without him as president in 2013, .
As a writer for a media criticismwebsite, the apparent death of the Birther story as a mainstream news meme is beyond tragic. Covering the media’s coverage of Donald Trump ’s Birther and Bailey Circus has been like shooting arthritic fish in a barrel with a shotgun.
With any luck, Trump will stick around the Teevee, and the top of Republican primary polls, with a steady regurgitation of other chain emails, crazy talk, and just plain dickishness, but this definite’y puts a crimp in The Donald’s media mojo.
The American people have been well-served by this Birther story, for precisely the reasons President Obama gave to end it.While it did give rise to an absurdly popular Donald Trump candidacy, it also revealed to Americans the unserious nature of an absurdly large number of Republicans. This issue promised to be a crucible against which GOP candidates (as they eventually declared) could be judged sane or not.
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