by Joe KovacsEmail | Archive
Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs says he’s mystified by an apparent “taboo” Republicans and the national media have as they continue to bury any question or news story probing the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president of the United States.
On Friday night’s edition of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network, the veteran broadcaster was having a political discussion with National Research founder Adam Geller.
“Let me ask you a question,” Dobbs said to Geller. “Why aren’t the Republicans talking about what was all over Drudge which is from 1991 to 2007, a publisher’s document talking about him being born in Kenya? I mean, there’s like there’s a taboo about it. How did this wall come up around that?”
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“The straightforward answer is,” Geller said, “by the time this is all said and done, there will be some entity that probably talks about that. But the reality is, the independents, the people in the middle, they care about one thing and one thing only: fix this economy. And as a corollary to that, let’s create some real private-sector jobs.”
“I buy all of that except for one thing,” Dobbs responded. “I don’t know where the national media was in 2008. I don’t know where it is now.”
The story on Drudge to which Dobbs was referring was research by Breitbart.com and WND revealing a literary agent’s promotional brochure from two decades ago declared Barack Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” Promotional material saying Obama was Kenyan-born remained online through 2007, as Obama began his presidential quest.
A video clip of the exchange has been posted at Media Matters.
This is not the first time Dobbs has touched on the subject of Obama’s eligibility.
In fact, as WND previously reported, his refusal to drop “birther” stories about challenges to Obama’s constitutional eligibility was reportedly a major source of contention with CNN management, leading the unconventional anchor to walk away from the network and lucrative paycheck.
The New York Post, citing anonymous sources, said the beginning of the end of a long-simmering dispute came in July 2009, when CNN President Jonathan Klein told Dobbs’ staff in a memo to stop reporting on lawsuits that demand Obama produce evidence he’s a natural-born American citizen, as required by the Constitution.
“It seems this story is dead because anyone who still is not convinced doesn’t really have a legitimate beef,” Klein’s memo said.
A source told the Post Klein’s move incensed Dobbs.
“They have been talking pretty regularly since then,” the source said. “And it’s been pretty bad.”
Dobbs, who also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, told his radio audience in July 2009 that “even though I said I believe the president is a citizen of the United States, I don’t understand why he shouldn’t produce a birth certificate. My God, you’re talking about the third rail of American journalism, baby! That’s it. I’m not going to back off.”
Notice that he has not even asked to see Romney’s birth certificate?
No need to check Romney’s. He made news when he was born here, he has released his school records, and has a public record – everything obama does not have.
Here are the facts on Romney: Wish we had this kind of documentation on the alien in chief:
Romney was born at Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan,[1] the youngest child of George W. Romney, a self-made man who by 1948 had become an automobile executive, and Lenore Romney (née LaFount), an aspiring actress who had become a homemaker.[2][3] His mother was a native of Logan, Utah, and his father was born in a Mormon colony in Chihuahua, Mexico, to American parents.[4][5] Romney is of primarily English descent, and also has more distant Scottish and German ancestry.[6][7][8] Romney is a fifth-generation member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).[9][10] A great-great-grandfather, Miles Romney, converted to the faith in its first decade, and another great-great-grandfather, Parley P. Pratt, was an early leader in the church during the same time.[11]
He was preceded in birth by three siblings: Margo Lynn, Jane LaFount, and G. Scott.[12] Mitt followed after a gap of six years.[13] He was named after his father’s best friend, hotel magnate J. Willard Marriott, and his father’s cousin Milton “Mitt” Romney, a quarterback for the Chicago Bears during the 1920s.[12][nb 1] When he was five, the family moved from Detroit to the affluent suburb of Bloomfield Hills.[15] His father became CEO of American Motors and turned the company around from the brink of bankruptcy; by the time he was twelve, his father had become a nationally known figure in print and on television.[16] Romney idolized his father, read automotive trade magazines, kept abreast of automotive developments, and aspired to be an executive in the industry.[15][17][18] His father also presided over the Detroit Stake of the LDS Church.[19]
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Mitt Romney began attending Cranbrook School in the seventh grade.
He attended public elementary schools[14] until the seventh grade, when he began commuting to Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, a traditional private boys’ preparatory school where he was the lone Mormon and where many students came from backgrounds even more privileged then he.[15][20][21] He was not particularly athletic and at first did not excel academically.[15] During his sophomore year he participated in the 1962 campaign in which his father was elected Governor of Michigan.[nb 2] When his parents moved to the state capitol as part of George Romney taking office, Mitt took up residence at Cranbrook’s Stevens Hall.[22] George Romney was re-elected twice; Mitt worked for him as an intern in the governor’s office, and was present at the 1964 Republican National Convention when his moderate father battled conservative party nominee Barry Goldwater over issues of civil rights and ideological extremism.[15][17] During these years, Romney had a steady set of chores and summer jobs, including working as a security guard at a Chrysler plant.[20]
At Cranbrook he was a manager for the ice hockey team and a member of the pep squad,[22] and during his final year joined the cross country running team.[14] He belonged to eleven school organizations and school clubs, and started the Blue Key Club boosters group.[22] During his final year at Cranbook, Romney improved academically, but was still not a star pupil.[15][21] He won an award for those “whose contributions to school life are often not fully recognized through already existing channels”.[21] Romney was involved in many pranks.[nb 3]
In March of his senior year, he began dating Ann Davies, two years his younger, whom he had once known in elementary school;[25] she attended the private Kingswood School, the sister school to Cranbrook.[21] The two informally agreed to marriage around the time of his June 1965 graduation.[15][25]