Lou Dobbs has been known to go nuclear on MSNBC hosts in the past. He once called Keith Olbermann “a whack job” and “a left-wing hack.” Tough to argue with that.
But now he’s gone too far in attacking Rachel Maddow. Here’s what he had to say about the ratings-challenged host:
“And tea-bagging queen Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC, she wanted another shot so apparently she twisted, she tried to twist my words. She ignored my statements on the issue. In other words, she was not being intellectually honest. Imagine that…She lied. I never said I’m a ‘birther.’ I’m not. I don’t know how many times I’ve said, ‘Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States. Why not release your birth certificate?’ What is the big deal with saying that?”
This is a complex issue and Lou Dobbs doesn’t have his facts straight. So please let us explain.
For the record, Lou, Rachel Maddow is not a tea-bagging queen. She is a lesbian. Anderson Cooper is a tea-bagging queen.
Glad we could help clear up the controversy.
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hahahaha thanks for the correction!
The Lesbian said it about the better!
You know you are using Media Matters to illustrate this point, right? And the State of Hawaii already verified his birth certificate. If this were a legit issue, wouldn’t the GOP have ridden it during the campaign.
Uh, Sean, perhaps you missed it last year, but there was such a “slobbering love affair” with Obama, that NO GOP talking points could gain traction.
Is it curious at all to you why Obama has spent almost a million dollars in attorney fees to keep his college records hidden, and btw, why he only released I believe a single sheet medical history? People with nothing to hide don’t keep this many secrets, especially someone who claimed he would have the most transparent administration in history.
BTW, the hospital did not verify his birth certificate, they only verified his birth with an alternate form.
I find it curious that bloggers such as yourself continue to push the idea that Obama has been burning through millions to keep his past hidden without providing actual supporting evidence for the idea.
Thanks for using Media Matters to illustrate your original point. They are a great organization.
Let’s play it your way for the sake of argument and say that he received free legal services from attorneys and has not spent a dime. That does not matter. Why is he hiding his records from Occidental, Columbia and Harvard?
Oh wait–I know!! Because a foreign government paid for his education and because he listed his religion as Muslim and because he was a foreign exchange student! How else would a penniless orphan with no family connections get through Harvard? EVERYONE who goes to Harvard is the #1 student in their High School class so they don’t give merit academic scholarships. I’m running for Congress to help take America back from these Commies and please support my campaign by visiting my website and telling your friends about me!
The first requirement of debate: In order to have an intellectual argument, both parties must posess and intellect. That eliminates Maddow before the first bell.
Re the “birthers” I personally don’t care if he was or was not born in Hawaii, which had only recently become a state two years earlier, being a natural born citizen does not make you a loyal American, case in point: Timothy McVey.
Perhaps his birth certificate indicates his father was the entire defensive line of the Honolulu High School football team. It’s a little embarassing but who cares? Whatever the birth certificate says does not affect his competency to serve as POTUS. What does concern me is that for the first time in US History our president was born of a man who came to this country, dropped his seed and then left because he didn’t like it here. Obama (aka Barry) was raised by a white mother and grandmother and yet now considers himself African American — to identify with the loser father? His history doesn’t indicate a man of great conviction or even knowlege of the unique values upon which this country was founded. For political reasons he uses his father’s skin color to claim the terrible legacy of America’s history of slavery and take the mantle of first black president implying that he has risen above that heritage — when no one in his family suffered that indignity. The guy has some real problems presenting himself honestly. That worries me.
However, his college and medical records are fair game. they should be released as they can and do impact his competency. I don’t get the conspiracy theory of how he got into Harvard being a poor orphan — I’m sure there are other outstanding students who have done the same and overcome poverty. But — normally they are all to willing to show their records in order to encourage others.
What concerns me about obama is that he lives in a house of mirrors. The birthers just make fools of themselves pursuing an incident that was completely out of Obamas control. there are far more important skeletons in his closet — skeletons of his own making, those are the ones that we should be examining
As far as Obama being black, give me a break. At BEST he’s Taupe.