Missouri Representative and Senate-hopeful Roy Blunt doubled-down on the birther Wacky™ today. Greg Sargent
asked Blunt spokesman Rich Chrismer for clarification of Blunt’s comments on a video by blogger Mike Stark that made the rounds yesterday, in which Blunt asked “why the president can’t produce a birth certificate,” calling this a “legitimate question.”Chrismer’s response: He’s accusing the blogger of selectively editing the interview and taking Blunt’s quotes out of context. “We encourage this blog to release the video of the entire interview instead of the edited version,” Chrismer told me.
Chrismer admitted not knowing what had been edited out. So Stark’s website, FireDogLake, happily agreed to post both unedited videos:
Blunt agrees that Obama was born in the United States, but then engages in Teh Wacky™ by wondering
“why the President can’t produce a birth certificate. I don’t know anybody else that can’t produce one. And I think that’s a legitimate question. No health records, no birth certificate.”
BIRTH CERTIFICATE:
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
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UPDATE: Greg Sargent reports that Chrismer has confirmed Blunt DOES believe Obama was born in the United States after all. Further proof that Teh Wacky™ cannot survive direct confrontation!
