I am very glad to hear this:
CNN/US president Jonathan Klein is rebuffing the mounting criticism of the network over Lou Dobbs’ continued airing of “birther” theories, saying that Lou runs “his own show” that merely hosts “panels” with birther theorists and asserting that CNN respects viewers enough to let them “make up their own minds.”
Klein, in an interview with me just now, also took a shot at Dobbs’ critics, saying they’re politically motivated: “I understand that people with a partisan point of view from one extreme or anther might get annoyed that certain subjects are aired.”
CNN is under mounting pressure to get Dobbs to stop giving airtime to birther theorists and suggesting there’s something to their case, which he’s been doing even though the network has repeatedly debunked the theories. Jon Stewart recently mocked Dobbs for not even watching his own network. Media Matters has blasted CNN for “mainstreaming the fringe.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center called for Dobbs’ firing today, and MoveOn is demanding CNN apologize for Dobbs’ “helping to spread hate and fear.”
“Look, Lou’s his own show, and CNN in general has repeatedly and thoroughly reported on the facts behind this situation,” Klein said to me, adding that Lou had merely hosted “a few conversations with people representing a wide range of opinions.”
Klein said that Dobbs has repeatedly stated that he believes that Obama was born in Hawaii, and has simply been examining the “phenomenon that for some people this won’t go away.”
I publicly thank Jonathan Klein for not knuckling under to the liberal fascists, who would like to censor, repress and destroy those who are not drinking Obama’s Kool-Aid. I too personally, would like to see Obama Original long form Birth Certificate. Although, I won’t hold my breath seeing that the Birth Certificate was discarded in 2001, when the hospital records went digital. That is, if that was actual hospital he was born in.
On one hand, I think this story is a good thing. I believe that President Obama should be forced to release his original long form Birth Certificate. But then again; if he does and it does in fact show that Obama was born in Hawaii. Would not that totally destroy or at worst; discredit the right wing media? These are the questions that keep me awake at night. Why would the media or any other outlet pursue something that could in fact bury them, if it turns out that they were totally wrong about it? On the other hand, if Obama is truly a citizen, then why is he spending all the millions that Obama has paid to keep his Birth Certificate private?
The man is a public figure, he is the President of the United States of America. President Obama should release the long form Birth Certificate to end this madness for good.
