Because it’s makes for good television. This isn’t rocket surgery.
Bartiromo wanted to scoop the other media outlets with a Trump declaration and Trump preferred to make his announcement at a time of his choosing.
According to your linked article - Factcheck.org has investigated this claim and wrote in Nov. 2008 that the claim that Mr. Obama had not been born in Hawaii had been circulated in late spring of that year by “diehard Hillary Clinton supporters,” as the Democratic nomination slipped away from Clinton. The journalists who reported the story, Byron Tau and Ben Smith, told Factcheck.org that the rumor came from Clinton’s supporters, and they had not ever found a link to her campaign.
Why did Byron Tau and Ben Smith report such a story if they had no confirmation? Just another great example of political journalism.
The birther story started with Tau and Smith. Unless they can name their source(s).
The issue failed to help boring ol’ Hillary’s campaign against the much younger, and certainly more likable, Obama.
Obama could have choosen to release his birth certificate at any time. That would have ended the speculation. But what’s a political campaign without speculation?
Obama did release his birth certificate. There was no suspense, since there was no evidence, ever, that he was born anywhere but Hawaii. There was never any reason to believe anything else. The birth certificate was released and freely available for all to see since his 2008 campaign.
But…but…but Trump, in 2011, finally got President Obama to release his birth certificate. Just ask him, he’ll tell you. It was all Trump. Before that, who really knew the truth (besides anyone with >1 working brain cell (after all, something has to keep the autonomous nervous system going))?
How about that? Some of Hillary’s supporters, not actually connected with the campaign, may have started a rumor. Totally her fault and not Donald’s!
Actually, he couldn’t have released it. The long form certificate is not normally released by the state and only came out because of the intervention of the Hawaiian governor. Plus, why should he find super-duper records of his birth and no other candidate ever has? What is it about Obama that makes him different than the rest. Think, think, think… what could it possibly be?
Trump will not utter the words because he’s an asshole and his brain dead followers don’t want to hear him say them.
I agree with this Washington Post editorial that Trump played the media for free coverage. Trump knows that he has the media by the balls, so why not squeeze for some free airtime?
I sincerely hope he doesn’t figure out a way to do the same thing to the debates.
BREAKING: Trump admits world is round, water is wet, the sun is hot and birds suddenly appear every time you are near. Stay tuned for six dozen in-depth analyses from every major news operation.
He just got totally sick of lyin’ tired ol’ crooked Hillary saying Obama wasn’t really President, and he put a stop to it! Period! He is now totally done talking about it. Nope! Not gonna do it!
While Yogi provided many bon mots, “ain’t/isn’t/not rocket surgery” wasn’t one of them. (Did you know that Yogi served on a rocket ship during the Normandy D-Day invasion?)
Unless Tau and Smith can provide the names of the Clinton supporters, they did start a rumor. A very popular rumor. And you’re right, it wasn’t Donald fault.
The long form??? Obama could have chosen to release his birth certificate at any time. Obama chose to let the issue fester. It only seems to have hurt Hillary’s campaign, so why not.
Obama chose not to release his birth certificate. How very un-transparent of him. But the suspense was incredible.
One of the big Hollywood studios had a huge year-long ad campaign in the 1930s, consisting almost entirely of the phrase “Can They Keep It Up?”
“It” was never specified. We can only assume the campaign was successful.
As for “suspension,” I note we are exactly where I said we’d be, months and months back: In An Absolute Dead Even Race My God Anything Could Happen Folks. Just like always. Even when one candidate pretty clearly has it in the bag, the media juggles polls and interpretation to maintain the fiction that it’s “too close to call” until midnight on election day.
Remember when news wasn’t a revenue stream subject to ratings?
Never in the history of our country has anyone demanded the long-form birth certificate of their president. This was completely unprecedented and ridiculous. How could Obama have known so many racists would’ve been so obnoxious about the whole thing for so long? He didn’t leave it to fester, the racists did. He would’ve been within his fucking rights to have never released it at all, as this demand was never made of any of the white guys in the Oval Office.
“Why won’t you do the completely ridiculous dance we demand of you? Come on, Mr. President, dance! No? Sheesh, what an asshole!”
So? Just because he couldn’t do anything about releasing the long form doesn’t mean he didn’t choose not to! If he tried to have it released and the Governor wouldn’t let him, then you could say he chose to release them, but couldn’t! But he might not even have tried, so, that way, he chose not to release them! Also, tired ol’ lyin’ Hillary.
Of course, :smack: Obama is above answering questions put to him by the media who insisted on keeping the story alive. How dare anyone question a Presidential candidate, or U.S. Senator, or community organizer.
I take it you haven’t the advantage of being born and raised in Waco, the “Athens on the Brazos”? It tends to a subtlety and nuance that can be elusive. Don’t worry on it, you be fine without it.