# Should we ask the commentators to supply birth certificates? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 3, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-ask-the-commentators-to-supply-birth-certificates/508783 "2009-09-03T19:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-ask-the-commentators-to-supply-birth-certificates/508783/1 "2009-09-03T19:19:22Z")
I have a feeling some of them are here illegally. Dodging insurance fraud by faking suicide and then getting new IDs by copying info off a tombstone. I personally suspect Beck of having multiple SSN’s so when illegals work for him he keeps the benefits. Just a hunch. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-ask-the-commentators-to-supply-birth-certificates/508783/2 "2009-09-03T19:26:08Z")
> [@Brainiac](#): > > I personally suspect Beck of having multiple SSN’s so when illegals work for him he keeps the benefits. Just a hunch. He’s a loser, baby. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-ask-the-commentators-to-supply-birth-certificates/508783/3 "2009-09-03T20:24:40Z")
No. It would lend validity to the question and they could show their certificates with bride and feel that chest-inflating feeling of having validated that _they_ are backed up by facts. Unless you mean to immidiately tell them that their certificates are fake and immediately start prosecuting them for as many crimes as you can find or invent based on that, while openly dismissing the volumes of evidence proving you wrong. _That_ I could get behind. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-ask-the-commentators-to-supply-birth-certificates/508783/4 "2009-09-03T20:25:15Z")
It’s worse than you know–I heard that the _owner_ of FOX _wasn’t even born in this country!_