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Isn't It Ironic Orly Taitz, "Birther" Leader, is Foreign Born and Raised Making Lunatic Claim Obama Wasn't Born in U.S.?

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By Mark Karlin

The Big Corporate Media is giving the "Birthers" a second wind of publicity, when they should have been confined to the loony bin after their first wave of press coverage.

That is in large part due to two realities: 1) The Big Corporate Media that runs television covers the lunatic fringe right as though they have a legitimate role in news, while ignoring meaningful ideas from progressives that stray from the self-defined "center" (which is any idea that won't upset entrenched wealth and power) and ; 2) the media loves, as Chris Hedges calls it in his brilliant new book on the topic, "spectacle."

In a society that no longer can distinguish between entertainment, fact, celebritydoom, and politics, "spectacle" boosts ratings. 

One of the best articles written on the ubiquitous, disputatatious face of the birther movement, Orly Taitz, is in the Orange County Weekly News, where she practices dentistry (when not threatening legal action using a law degree that she received over the Internet).

The article offers a full picture of Taitz's peculiar and factually unfounded crusade, but the most telling quote may be from a blogger who critically keeps track of her largely theatrical activity (no court has upheld any of her legal challenges, or of her rivals for the birther mantle, including attorney Philip Berg -- her nemesis in the movement):

Patrick McKinnion of Yes to Democracy puts it a different way: “There’s a certain amount of fascination with unbridled insanity, and that’s what you’re seeing with the birthers: a level of hatred that borders, if not absolutely pole-vaults, into insanity.”

In a sidebar article in the Orange County Weekly News on Taitz (in which we learn that she claims to have a black belt in Taekwondo), McKinnion comments:

Good article. The sad part is that people like Dr. Orly are so blinded by their hatred that they're not seeing the things around them - or who they're associating with.

The day after I was interviewed for this piece, a gunman who turned out to be a Neo-Nazi shot two guards and killed one at the National Holocaust Museum. Turns out he was posting the same claims and demands that Dr. Orly posts. She's freely associating with people fully willing to hate her simply due to her faith, and that's pretty sad. (One birther in particular, Andy Martin, is a known anti-semite)

The major flaw with the entire birther cause is that there is not a single piece of credible evidence that supports any of their claims. No Pakistan travel ban. No way for a US minor citizen to give up their US citizenship. No credible proof of forgery (just the writings of faceless, nameless internet "experts". A full recording with Sarah Obama that she says clearly "born in Hawaii". Not a single piece of evidence to back up any of their claims. Instead they demand you take it all on faith - and proclaim any evidence to the contrary to be part of the "conspiracy".

And the people involved are just as questionable as the evidence. A dentist [Taitz] with a law degree from an on-line unaccredited law school.

But one of the biggest ironies in this tragic farce of a television media -- particularly cable -- that diverts attention from real issues with coverage of such a psychotic "movement," is that Orly Taitz is herself not born in the U.S.  She was raised in Moldavia, during the Soviet Era, was allowed to emigrate to Israel (where she met her husband), and in turn they moved to the U.S. at a time when the government was allowing former Soviet Jews a large quota to immigrate and proceed on a citizenship track.

We saw the MSNBC interview the other night when Shuster and another reporter questioned Taitz, who was in a studio in Tel Aviv, with an aggressive grilling the likes of which I hadn't recalled seeing on corporate media, except on Hannity or Bill O'Reilly when they have a "liberal" rabbit in their sites.

Taitz, who has a heavy accent, kept trying to bully her way out of directly answering questions.  (It reminded me of debating an NRA true believer.) 

The birther movement is full of malcontents -- anti-Semites, skinheads, political malcontents, white firsters, and a radical right wing Jew -- in the case of Taitz, I speculate (as a Jew who knows the landscape of Israeli politics) -- who fears for Israel (in the Netanyahu paranoid style) under Obama.  The birthers are a group of psychos who would be shooting each other if they didn't share a common hatred of Obama and the fear of America becoming a nation where whites are in the minority and our foreign policy is to join as partners in the international community.

Only in America would corporate big media spend such extensive amounts of time covering a foreign-born and raised nutcase challenging the nationality of the president of the United States.

It is, as Christopher Hedges writes in his new book, "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,"  an age when corporate media values spectacle over the truth and a discussion of vital public policy.

It's the circus -- not news -- on a television screen.

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Look At How Much AIRTIME "The Liberal Media"

gave Whacko Joe, The UNlicensed Plumber"? Notice that it took The Daily Show to point out to CNN that Orly Taitz claims she is A Dentist, A Lawyer and A Real Estate Agent. To paraphrase Jon Stewert, Taitz could pull your wrong tooth, sue herself and then find you Your Dream House. How much airtime has CNN given about C-Street's "THE FAMILY"? How much airtime has CNN given to telling the viewers about Phony Protesters that get Bused In from out of state locations and who these "protesters" work for? Yet, CNN let ALL THIS BULLSHIT Pass!! ***** Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?

Where is the FBI???

Keep focused people. As of today 08-06-09, Orly Taitz still has the photo of the KBC posted on her website. If this document was a fake, by now the FBI would have: - Immediately shut her website down - Stormed her office seeking evidence - Arrested her for treason against the United States - Started a nation/world wide man hunt for the forger(s) You would see this story plastered on every news channel in the world! Until the FBI acts or makes a public statement on the KBC, arguably the crime of the century, this story will never die and may never have the truth. You have to ask yourself... Someone or group is attempting to overthrow the Executive Branch of the government... WHERE IS THE FBI???

How can you believe anyone...

...who doesn't even have her own entry in Wikipedia?

I Have A Friend With A Solution

I have a friend who has built what he claims is a "time-space displacement unit". According to him, anything he puts inside can be instantly sent to the time and place of choice. We can send Orly back to the USSR (sorry, Comrade Lennon). I've seen it work - or, at least, everything my friend has put in the machine has vanished in a haze of artificial lightning, never to return. We could send all the conservatives to a time where they feel more comfortable - like before the discovery of fire. "Conservatives wouldn't change their underwear if they didn't have to." -- David Eddings

Something's Fishy

Are we entirely sure that this Oily Taint character is not in reality, Chris Kattan putting one over on us all? It feels like a SNL bit to me.

Birthers and Religion

I reject the birthers arguments for the same reasons i reject Organized Religion: They both expect you to accept their outrageous arguments based solely on FAITH. If something can't pass the smell test, it's CRAP.

and the smell test is

and the smell test is exactly what portrays organized religion and birthers...

Who the HELL is this person?

I don't know about you but I'd like to know who the hell is this person and why does she think we want to hear what she has to say? Why are they giving this women air time? Why are they not just looking at what and who she is and saying, shut the f*&k up? I've seen enough of these "birthers"! Their message is a lie and proven time and time again that it is a lie and I DON'T want to see or hear them anymore!!!!

Did USSR breed paranoia?

Maybe if you grew up in a paranoid environment where you couldn't trust anything your government told you you don't learn to think for yourself and evaluate evidence. Further you may have learned how to manipulate the paranoia of others.

Then you come to the U.S. where there's freedom of speech and you just lose any mental clue you might have and enjoy the public platform where you can say anything you want.

Everywhere there are lesser paranoids who will believe anything that suits their suspicious world view.

Just hypotheses.

Anyway, the best way to deal with Taitz is to give her a platform only insofar as she ties herself up in verbal and rhetorical tangles. Otherwise, ignore her.

I suppose she believes in flying saucers too. My former father-in-law, a psychiatrist, said believers in extra-terrestrials were paranoids.

Colleen Clark
Cambridge, MA

It may be "Ironic", but Buzzflash fails to connect the dots...

Buzzflash, it may be "ironic" that the self-annointed leader of the US Right-Wing "Birthers" lynch-mob (who seek to UNDERMINE the current Democratic administration, just as the Ken Starr witch-hunt inquisition sought to undermine the Clinton presidency; and just as the "Sore-Loserman" Republican-Party & right-wing corporate sponsored protesters sought to first undermine, then steal, the popular AND electoral victories from DEMOCRATIC Party VP AL GORE in the 2000 presidential election)
...is a Right-Wing Jewish woman with a thick accent, REPORTING FROM TEL AVIV !!
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/03/orly-taitz-melts-down-on_n_250441.html


....but this is a nearly verbatim REPEAT of Neo-Con founding Queen AYN RAND,
author of "Atlas Shrugged", widely credited as "The BIBLE of the neo-con agenda."
Ayn Rand also a female Jewish "intellectual" refugee from Soviet Russia, who is credited by 'conservatives' and Neo-Con 'intellectuals' with motivating and encouraging many RIGHT-WING neo-con careers, including I believe PAUL WOLFOWITZ, and certainly ALAN GREENSPAN
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/24/greenspan-shrugged-how-di_n_137465.html
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/25-6

There can be no doubt that LEO STRAUSS, MILTON FRIEDMAN, and AYN RAND were all founding "godfathers" of the Neo-Con right-wing agenda; Milton Friedman was of course pals with AUGUSTO PINOCHET , the murderous right-wing DICTATOR who came to power in Chile in a murderous, CIA supported Coup - that had the blessings of another infamous Neo-Con dictator-lover, HENRY KISSINGER.

Buzzflash also fails to make THE DIRECT, LINEAL CONNECTION between the 1970s era "godfathers of neo-liberalism" with TODAY's Neo-Cons; for example WOLFOWITZ, PERLE, FEITH, LIBBY, MUKASSEY, BOLTON, BOLTON, CHERTOFF, "heckuva job Brownie" and other MAJOR PLAYERS in the Bush-Cheney administration's SERIAL ASSAULTS ON THE US CONSTITUTION; Treasury-gutting TAX CUTS FOR RICH (RIGHT OUT OF the Ayn Rand/Leo Strauss/Milton Friedman textbook); LIES-to-WAR, and POLICE STATE abuses of power!!
(Much less the neo-con apologists in the "major media," including Safire, Sulzberger, Brooks, Judith Miller, Kurtz, Krauthammer, Kristol, Kagan, Podhoretz, and dozens of other pro-wars, tax-cuts for rich types infested all through media & academia, including of course the Judith Miller hysterical "Iraq has WMD PROGRAM!" on front page NY Times, and the uber pro-wars neo-con Washington Post .

None of this is rocket science. Chertoff was Director of Bush's "Homeland Security," Attorney General Mukasey was just behind Gonzales & Ashcroft in whitewashing KARL ROVE's "Purge-gate" corruptions and perjuries at the US DoJ; "Heckuva Job Brownie" was dining in 5-star restaurants in Baton Rouge as New Orleans drowned (and Coast Guard rescue copters were GROUNDED by lack of orders at a neighboring Florida Coast Guard base); Josh Bolton as Bush's Chief of Staff was helping Bush EVADE and destroy US laws, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was not only at the center of the "OUTING" of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame (when her husband 'went off the reservation' and publicly condemned Bush's LIES-to-WAR about Iraq's alleged purchase of yellowcake uranium from Africa for Saddam's alleged nuclear program, the Cheney White House RETALIATED by "outing" Ms. Plame's ENTIRE CIA organization - a bureaucratic HATCHET JOB that had the hallmarks of Cheney & Rumsfeld's backstabbing style, and Scooter Libby's POLISHING touches) - but FAR MORE IMPORTANTLY, as VP Cheney's Chief of Staff, Washington DC neo-con 'Superlawyer' Libby WAS POINT MAN, whitewasher, and enabler of EVERY Dick Cheney assault on the US Constitution!!!!!

In sum, Orly Taitz is a virtual "AYN RAND WANNABE", the self-annointed leader of the "president is a fraud" movement seeks to take up as the wannabee leader of the US Right-Wing REACTIONARY, dictatorial, elections-denying crowd, just as AYN RAND advocated the very ENTITLED, AUTOCRATIC, MULTI-MILLIONAIRE ELITES policies that the ideals of America as "AN ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY" in the desperate WWII fight against facism supposedly demolished...

- and, STILL, even today, the so-called "liberal" websites, REFUSE to draw the DIRECT line between the AYN RAND neo-cons, the BUSH-CHENEY neo-cons, and the OBAMA Goldman-Sachs "tax cuts for rich, DEREGULATION, and BAILOUTS for Wall Street BILLIONAIRES" policies, those now OBAMA policies have always been THE SIGNATURE AGENDA of the Neo-Cons, whether Republican or so-called "Democrats" !!!

WTF???Methinks you talk too

WTF???Methinks you talk too much...You might have something positive to share but your presentation sucks, to say the least...

Orly Taitz

Two thoughts to ponder next time you see Orly Taitz on tv:

1) Would you let this woman work on your teeth?;

2) Didn't the Reagan Supreme Court rule that if a case is found to be "frivilous", the plaintiff must pay all court costs?

Unaccredited law school?

Fact check: I question whether or not Orly Taitz attended an "unaccredited law school" as suggested in the article. I believe she said that she was admitted to the California bar six years ago. She's filed lawsuits in California and Georgia I believe. I don't know for certain but it doesn't seem likely that the lawyer's cabal would allow anyone from an unaccredited school to join the bar.

In some cases

you can practice law legally without passing the bar exam if you attained your JD from an accredited school in that state. I'm wondering if the main criteria here is either you qualify that way, or if you pass the bar exam you are admitted to practice. I don't know how that might impact on being allowed to bring cases to the USSC, however.