Following is a continuation of the now-infamous interview of Ben Shapiro, the Editor-at-Large of Breitbart.com, by Tea Party Power Hour talk-show host, Mark Gillar on Saturday, March 17, 2012. The Author was Mark’s second guest in the segment that followed on the same broadcast.
Mark Gillar: I’m going to…put you in a tough situation because it’s a subject that nobody wants to talk about, but you said “if you have tips, contact us.” Why isn’t the mainstream media covering the eligibility issue? ….we have a birth certificate that looks like it was cut and pasted together with Elmer’s Glue. We’ve got a Social Security Card that won’t pass E-Verify. We have a Selective Service Card where the Pica Stamp is clearly faked…. You’re an intelligent guy. I know you understand computers. I could send you tapes that I’ve made of why this thing is fake, but yet the mainstream media is yawning at this, and so are a lot of conservative media outlets. Why?
Shapiro: Well, you know, I’m one of the people who yawns at it, because I just…I…I think it’s…I think that the amount of conspiratorial intent that would have to go into falsifying this stuff from forty years ago…
Okay. Let me explain to Ben what that statement makes abundantly clear. It’s quite obvious to any of us who have actually looked into this – that would be “investigated” it, Ben – where you got that line of “reasoning.” Here it is, from the always-reliable Annenburg Foundation’s FactCheck.org (posted on August 21, 2008 – desperately attempting to douse this fire before the November election some 9-10 weeks away at the time.)
Of course, it’s distantly possible that Obama’s grandparents may have planted the announcement just in case their grandson needed to prove his U.S. citizenship in order to run for president someday. We suggest that those who choose to go down that path should first equip themselves with a high-quality tinfoil hat. The evidence is clear: Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A. (At least their moniker isn’t “Fair and Balanced” or “The No-Spin Zone,” because they, like PolitiFact, Snopes, and even Wikipedia, are clearly neither as I document ad nauseam in O’Reilly!)
Okay. Call it a Red Herring or a Straw Man (the intent is the same – to distract and/or mislead), it is also what one learns in Seventh Grade English Class to be a “faulty dilemma” – a circumstance or event represented as having only two possible explanations, when there are clearly others. So, according to FactCheck, either the birth announcement (two sources, one announcement, so not “corroborating testimonies” as is universally held) was “planted” by the grandparents (totally allowable under HI law, as extensively documented in the book) “just in case their grandson needed to prove his U.S. citizenship in order to run for president someday.” Of course, this is an easily recognized and dismissed absurdity (even to those of us who didn’t go to Harvard Law, Ben) or, it is proof positive that he was born here (in Hawaii, and thus in the U.S.)!
The totally plausible, and far more likely explanation, of course, is that they did it in order to afford to their grandson the abundant advantages which accrue to all U.S. citizens. There is an entire industry in the U.S. today known as Birth Tourism, which exists for the very purpose of bestowing such coveted privileges on the children of non-U.S. citizen parents. The U.S. is the only country in the world at this late date which still allows this practice.
Meanwhile, O’Reilly, one of the “subjects” of my book, claims to have “discovered” this information (the “twin” birth announcements). He also arrogantly and absurdly tells fellow “non-conspirator” Karl Rove that “We’ve done the investigation!” (Rove’s own theory that the O. Admin. orchestrated all of this simply to embarrass the “fringe” Right is, indeed, a conspiracy theory!) As an aside, while I did not set out to make BO’s legitimacy the subject of my entire book, the evidence of both fraud and cover-up – by all concerned – was so massive that I ended up writing in excess of 155,000 words on the subject! And yet, just before the above conclusion in the same the “FactCheck,” we find this gem:
We think our colleagues at PolitiFact.com, who also dug into some of these loopy theories, put it pretty well: “It is possible that Obama conspired his way to the precipice of the world’s biggest job, involving a vast network of people and government agencies over decades of lies.”
Actually, the “vast network” of lies (also extensively documented in O’Reilly) have all taken place in roughly the last five years, since 2007 – although as only the Postman knows, the preparation of the marionette started at about the mid-way point of his life.)
“Anything’s possible. But step back and look at the overwhelming evidence to the contrary…
I hardly need recite the astonishing lack of evidence for anyone who is a regular reader of this site, of course, but the Annenburg Foundation’s (former employer of both Bill Ayers and Barack Obama) FactCheck, just like you, Ben, refers to the “overwhelming evidence.” Could we please see even one scrap? I’m still waiting for him to unseal (or “find”) his school records, starting with Kindergarten and continuing on through three separate prestigious colleges, and his time as President of the Harvard Law Review. There is not a single paper out there published by the reputed “most able writer to win the presidency since Lincoln” – unless one reads my friend Jack Cashill’s Deconstructing Obama. In this book, Jack proves beyond any doubt that Bill “Just-a-guy-who-lives-in-my-neighborhood” Ayers, wrote Dreams from My Father), and, continuing on, the records regarding his disbarment. Amazingly, the President of the United States no longer maintains a law license, nor does his wife– his Illinois State Senate records, his passport records, and his health records are mysteriously unavailable. Pretty overwhelming alright…!
…and your sense of what’s reasonable has to take over.”
“Reasonable”…like spending three to four years and millions of dollars – I have copies of actual Perkins & Coie Law Office billing records in the Appendix of O’Reilly – fighting in court to this very day on multiple fronts the release or examination of the original documents of which he claims before the whole world that he has bona fide copies posted on his official website? Yep, that’s reasonable in the Left’s apparently distant galaxy, at least!
And so, Ben, I suggest that that was perhaps the extent of your “research”!
Shapiro (Continued): ….it’s just…it’s too heavy, and…there’s no, you know, to my knowledge, there’s no evidence to suggest this…and I just don’t believe it. I know there are people who are concerned with this. I think it’s a waste of resources. Number one I don’t think it’s true, and number two, even if it were true, it would have no impact on the political debate, because nobody is going to do anything about it. So it’s a waste of resources, and a waste of time, and it makes people look like kooks, even if they aren’t. So I would recommend that…I would really recommend that people drop this topic, and focus on who this president is, as opposed to…an issue that is not going to be an issue in this election cycle, and something I believe to be baseless anyway.”
What you really mean, Ben, is that you don’t want to believe it! While there is a mountain of additional evidence, Sheriff Arpaio’s Posse has already provided enough to start legal proceedings, and NO ONE – who isn’t afraid of the truth – could even peruse the Posse’s findings without being floored by the sheer volume and irrefutable nature of the evidence. But you, Ben, “just don’t believe it”? A bit of an odd statement coming from someone who refuses to even consider the matter, don’t you think, Ben?
With respect, Ben, I find that to be breathtaking in its not-uncharacteristic pairing of arrogance and ignorance – common bedfellows of the willfully (and woefully) un- or mis-informed!Gillar: Why can’t one more issue be brought on the table?
And with that, I’ll end this portion of my diatribe…to be continued in the third installation of my “Open Letter to Ben Shapiro” in the coming days!
Tom Ballantyne – Author of Oh Really, O’Reilly!
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The Author may be contacted at ThomasMBallantyne@gmail.com
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Where did this Ben Shapiro come from anyway? When he has appeared on TV with Joel Pollack, I root for Pollack and can’t wait for Shapiro to shut his mouth. I smell a rat.
Andrew Breitbart’s reputation as a tireless supporter of the truth and a thorn in the side of this usurped White House and the progressive America haters, is now in the hands of a spineless sellout, a sniveling coward who brings shame to the cause of Andrew Breitbart, instead of honoring his memory and supporting demands for transparency from the greatest criminal in American history. We have instead a traitor who promised transparency but delivers anything but because he is but a puppet, whose strings are being manipulated by the cabal intent upon the end of America as we know it. Ben Shapiro, another Jewish sellout to a Muslim in the White House intent upon the demise of Israel, America, the last bastion of freedom, liberty and justice in the world. That this is the greatest threat to our nation seems to elude sniveling Ben, it’s inconvenient to be a patriot, while our veteran brothers die for a useless campaign in the middle east, with no end game. Hey, but little coward Ben doesn’t want to be bothered with facts, with evidence and with behavior that supports the evidence. Of course, you fail to mention that we have no president, he was never legally sworn in. The oath was flubbed on purpose by justice Roberts and not repeated, as required in front to the nation, bible in hand. Instead it was repeated behind closed doors in the map room. One big glaring problem, there was no bible in the picture shown of the second recitation of the oath. NO BIBLE………NO PRESIDENT. Barry wanted a koran, the judge refused ………no President. I can’t believe nobody has brought this overriding issue up!
Thank you for verbalizing the very concerns that crossed my mind upon hearing about Breitbart’s untimely passing. I continue to be convinced that Andrew’s passing was not from “natural causes” as first suggested to the public and yes, it certainly appeared that his co-workers have tarnished his memory and reputation by holding back on whatever it was that their employer had in mind to reveal to the nation before Obama could be re-elected to usurp a second term in office by which to finish off the nation. I hadn’t known that detail about the swearing in having been falsified for lack of a Bible, either but it doesn’t really shock me given the fact that Obama has been the first Occupant of the Oval Office in our history to refuse to celebrate the National Day of Prayer while for the first time ever disgracefully celebrating Ramadan in the White House. Barrack bows to the Arabs and tells the rest of the world that we are the biggest Muslim nation on the globe when in fact we were founded a distinctly Christian nation, and have every intention of remaining established in that faith despite the fact that Obama thought it inconsequential that a Ground Zero victory mosque had been proposed for the very site where Islamic terrorists shed the blood of thousands of our innocent citizens back on 9/11/01. If Breitbart’s former co-workers don’t have the same level of courage and determination as their former boss, they need to say so and then get out of the way as Sheriff Arpaio finishes the job himself!
You might also be interested in this info also….senator obama and senator obama tried 8 times to change the Constitution to make obama eligible to run……..
http://www.westernjournalism.com/congressional-attempts-to-make-obama-a-legal-potus/
you are so right, I knew from the beginning that he was a crooked liar and not an american citizen, his eyes are shifty and the smile never quite reaches his eyes
Thank you Combatvet, I agree 100 % with you. We are still waiting for the damaging tapes to be revealed but I don’t think we should hold our breath on it considering this turncoat has been compromised by obama et al.
It occurs to me Ben has never been in a real fight of any kind and is as naieve as a young child suffering from abuse, the experience has yet to teach the rules of combat. Real enemies unless they are eradicted do not stop just because you yawn or want to quit, they continue to find ways to make you miserable 24/7 in rain, wind, sleet and snow…..Its your job as a staff magr. to not accomodate these cretins but learn to kick their ass.
Thus Ben, I suggest you get up off your soft butt and enter the arena of political combat like a man who has cajones and knock off the disbelief crap your handing out…..
A person born in the U.S. to two American citizen parents is definitely a “natural born citizen” (NBC). All other circumstances are suspect and should be investigated. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone while his parents were stationed there. Rather than get a ruling from SCOTUS on the definition of NBC, the U.S. Senate gave McCain the fig leaf of a non-binding resolution stating he was a NBC by virtue of American citizen parents and his father’s military posting. Obama was a British citizen at birth by virtue of his father’s citizenship and British law. There is no solid evidence Obama was born in Hawaii. Obama was adopted by an Indonesian and for a time Barry was an Indonesian citizen. It has not been disproved that Obama claimed Indonesian citizenship after his 18th birthday to travel and to apply for scholarships. No “controlling legal authority”, to borrow Al Gore’s phrase, has investigated and determined that Obama is eligible to be POTUS. Innocent until proven guilty, but ineligible until proven eligible. The Democratically controlled Senate investigated the old, white, Republican, but ignored the young, black, Democrat. So, is the Senate agist, racist or merely partisan … and why did Republicans roll over and play dead? The answer is more simple. McCain was obviously eligible. Obama, on the other hand, was unlikely to be determined to be eligible. Our gutless elected officials were caught in a Catch 22; declare Obama eligible and be labelled incompetent or declare Obama ineligible and be labelled racist. They escaped by ignoring the entire issue. They ignore it still. Is there no one to defend and uphold The Constitution? Who will stand up, risk ridicule and clearly state for the record, “POTUS is not wearing any clothes!” Deep down, even Obama supporters know the truth because they fear and investigation. If they were confident Obama was eligible, there would be no need to fear an investigation. If those of us who love this country, those who respect The Constitution, stood together and demanded an investigation, there would be no need to fear criticism because we would likely outnumber them.
you need to see this…….senator clinton and senator obama tried 8 times to change the Constitution to make obama legitimate to run……….
http://www.westernjournalism.com/congressional-attempts-to-make-obama-a-legal-potus/
his own words say he is a muslim, how can he be a christian too what a laugh
Unfortunately, the simple truth is that people in a position to question everything about Barack Obama have been threatened and fear for their jobs, their families and their lives. The Chief Evil One is totally in charge of the US Government and will do anything to stay in power and destroy the United States of America, and then to become the King of the World. Just ask the Saudi King that he bowed low to. That King Owns Otraitor.
Where is my comment you piece of Sh!t.?
What if it’s all true? What if Obama is a poseur? I love America, and I want to know all the facts. I am damn sick and tired of the media coverup. I don’t want to be told not to discuss it. I am not told that about ANYTHING ELSE! Everything I see looks worrisome. If the plot thickens and Obama pushes us more and more torwards Marxism, there’s going to be a lot of blame to go around.
The media should at least take up what has been presented by Sheriff Joe and try to prove it wrong. If they can’t, what is the alternative?
Brilliant Tom! I’m ready for Chapter III!
O’Rei LIE ly
PP,
It doesn’t work. Give up.
For a little background on the Annenberg Foundation, check here: http://mafiahistory.blogspot.com/2006/09/moses-l-annenberg.html
Think Joe Kennedy and his boys.