# The Secret Origin of the Birthers--great research.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 24, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723 "2011-06-24T16:34:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723/1 "2011-06-24T16:34:42Z")

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Published on his blog two days ago, in two parts. It represents the best bit of detective work on Obama and the whole birth certificate story.

[Story here](http://birthofanotion.com/home/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers)

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**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723/2 "2011-06-24T16:48:12Z")

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**samclem** , I got a “Page Not Found” error until I removed the extraneous characters from your link.

Now on to the story . . .

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723/3 "2011-06-24T16:57:41Z")

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Shouldn’t the title be “Birth of a Birther”?

[fixed the link, BTW]

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723/4 "2011-06-24T17:08:05Z")

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Interesting piece. Really dynamites the teabagger myth that the Birther smears started with Dems. It was some Freeper jackwad. Figures.

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723/5 "2011-06-24T17:14:54Z")

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Even though the link from ‘legal hypothetical’ to ‘I was told this happened’ is circumstantial, it’s pretty convincing. Cool piece.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-origin-of-the-birthers-great-research/586723/6 "2011-06-24T19:46:55Z")

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Nice bit of reporting and research there.