Leaders of the birther movement which has sought to discredit President Barack Obama’s status as an American citizen are defending Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown’s suggestion that Obama was born out of wedlock.
Andy Martin, a right-wing polemicist and perennial vanity candidate who claims on the front page of his blog that Obama’s real father was the communist intellectual Frank Marshall Davis, said of Brown’s remarks, “I think this shows Mr. Brown is a lot smarter than I realized and he’s a lot more honest.” Martin told me that he was planning to publish a defense of Brown on his website.
Orly Taitz, the eccentric Orange County-based dental technician who has filed numerous failed lawsuits challenging Obama’s status as an American citizen, told me, “What [Scott] Brown is saying is true, which is that no one has seen a marriage certificate. I think the context in which he was saying this is that a lot of people are asking questions and want answers.”
Brown made his comments immediately after the Republican National Convention in a debate on the now-defunct local CN8 news channel. The key moment, during an exchange in which Brown was defending the honor of Sarah Palin, went as follows:
Brown: Barack’s mom had him when she was, what, 18 years old?
Guest: And married!
Brown: Well, I don’t know about that.
Brown’s suggestion that Obama was born out of wedlock echoes claims Martin made during the 2008 campaign. As Blue Mass pointed out, in July 2008, just before Brown made his notorious remarks, Martin wrote:
Barack Obama, Senior, and Anne Dunham never married. Obama knows this fact. This is also why he keeps his white grandmother a virtual prisoner; she knows too, and she won’t lie.
Through the past several decades Obama has pretended he ‘didn’t know’ the facts about his illegitimate birth. He thought he could get away with the big lie. And he almost did get away with it….
His mother was promiscuous and had a child out of wedlock, in 1961, when that was still scandalous behavior. Is this Obama’s idea of ‘family values?’ Obviously, he has been deceiving the American people and hoping his advertising lies could overcome the truth. He has failed.
Martin, has an extensive history of extreme statements and bizarre behavior, including a series of anti-Semitic rants which he described to me as “thirty five year old rubbish.” When Martin declared his candidacy in the Illinois Republican Senate primary, then attacked frontrunner Mark Kirk as “a defacto pedophile,” Illinois GOP chairman Pat Brady dismissed him as “a sick man.”
Nevertheless, Martin is a prolific and popular figure within far-right Tea Party circles, prompting him to entertain the notion that his writings might have influenced Brown. “I’m not trying to say that [Brown] got the idea from me,” he said, “but the fact is my work has had a lot of impact.”
For Martin, Taitz and the movement they represent, Brown’s victory would be a watershed event. Though Brown has portrayed himself as a moderate, Martin views him as a stealth candidate whose success would help move even the most hysterical Birther claims about Obama’s background further into the mainstream.
“I said to Obama himself that either you come clean about the truth or there will come a time when people will unelect you and delegitimize you,” Martin said. “The mainstream media elected Barack Obama by refusing to tell the truth but I think that we might be witnessing a dam burst here.”
Max Blumenthal may have a brilliant career ahead of him as a fiction writer or illusionist, but as a journalist he is sadly deficient.
I have never been part of any “birther” movement and, on the contrary, have debunked people who believe Obama was born outside the United States. I have debunked Orly Taitz. We are not “King” and “Queen.”
Unlike Mr. Blumenthal, who deals in speculation and paranoia, I deal in law and facts. My views on Mr. Obama’s illegitimate birth are set forth in my response to his inquiry:
http://www.pr-inside.com/illinois-republican-
andy-martin-becomes-r1671839.htm
The reality of what I had to say bears no relationship to Blumy’s pixilated prose.
As for his remarks concerning my political activity, the gentlemen he quotes as attacking me had had to “eat” his words. We attended the same dinner last week, and I was the first candidate speaker at the Republican dinner. Questioning Barack Obama is mainstream Republicanism, as it should be.
The hard left may be in a frenzy, but it is not because of Republicans. It is Barack Obama who betrayed the leftist loonies and exposed them as dupes of Obamanation. The problem with “red diaper” babies such as Tod Gitlin and Blumy is that their mommies never gave them diapers at all.
For all frustrated hard left journalists who would like to keep basing their fiction on me, please contribute to my U. S. Senate campaign to keep us in business through November. The primary is February 2nd.
Andy Martin
Well Andy seems like the truth hurts a bit too much doesn’t it. I see you’ve hit all your inane talking points,and come by to call some names, so classy and intelligent. thanks so much for proving Max’s point.
Andy Martin is desperate to talk about anything except policies that can improve the lot of this country, and Blumenthal is calling him on it. His response only supports Blumenthal’s effort to expose his obsession and lack of substantive policy-focus!
I have a challenge for Mr. Martin: for every character-assassinating remark, also make one policy suggestion with an evidence-based argument that the policy would work.
Martin is like a pathetic bully in the schoolyard, trying to get everyone’s attention by insulting the smart kid.
If you don’t believe Andy Martin, would you believe Michelle Obama?
MSNBC reported, on July 10, 2008, that Michelle Obama was talking about fatherhood, responsibility and accountability, and said the following to describe her husband’s understanding of women’s issues through the prism of the strong — but sometimes struggling — women in his life.
His own mother, she said at the beginning of her remarks, was “very young and very single when she had him.” And, Obama added, he has observed his wife’s attempts to reconcile motherhood with her career aspirations.
“He sees me, his wife, who struggles every day with that guilt that we all hold deep in our hearts as women,” she said. “That guilt that you don’t have the choice to stay home, and even if you do, you feel guilty.”
“He has seen me struggle with this my entire life,” she added. “Trust me, Barack understands the struggles of women.”
Got that, you Obots — Michelle Obama, herself, puiblicly said — His own mother…was “very young and very single when she had him.”
Now, who are you going to believe? You own drug-adled brain or Michelle Obama.
Source: http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/VeryYoungAndVerySingle.mht
See the truth about the scum bag Max Blumenthal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5TOJt6YmQg