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Birther Army doctor Lakin refuses to deploy, his Greeley family supports Obama

By | 04.05.10 | 3:55 pm

Greeley Native, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and full-fledged birther Terry Lakin is refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until he sees evidence he can believe in that Pres. Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States. Lakin released a…

Wolf Auto posts new ‘President or Jihad?’ billboard for Denver-area commuters

By | 11.20.09 | 10:54 am

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The Wolf Auto “birther” billboard inspired by talk-radio host Peter Boyles and paid for by wingnut blogsite WorldNet Daily has been replaced. Commuters on I70 will no longer be confronted by the question “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and…

Birther talk-radio host Boyles now ‘80% sure’ Obama was born in Hawaii

By | 10.07.09 | 8:43 am

Talk-radio host and voice of the “birther” movement in Colorado Peter Boyles yesterday told Joseph Farah, editor of right-wing website World Net Daily, that he was “80 percent sure [Barack Obama] was probably born in Hawaii.”

The admission came…

GOP Candidate Cory Gardner hates and loves the nanny state

By | 09.28.09 | 8:43 am

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State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, staked political ground in the far corner of the Republican-Libertarian right the last few years, voting against proposed tough state-wide drunk-driving laws, which he decried as part of a series of tax

Denver birtherboards ask The Big Question

By | 09.25.09 | 1:16 pm

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From a wingnut corner of the mediasphere, talk radio’s Peter Boyles and World Net Daily have teamed up to bring the Denver metro-area fully into the birther era. Together with roadside billboard owner Phil Wolf, the team has posted…

Boyles vs. Huttner: More snippets from talk radio’s endless birther discussion

By | 09.21.09 | 8:51 am

Michael Huttner of progressive advocacy group Progress Now appeared on Peter Boyles’s right-wing talk radio show Friday to discuss a competition sponsored by Progress Now to discover the top “50 ways you can help Obama.” The winner will…

GOP struggles with ‘two-headed monkey’ anti-Obama fringe

By | 09.14.09 | 9:10 am

Dave Weigel, writing for the Washington Independent, has been doggedly covering the right-wing fringe this past year, including the forever undead birther movement. This morning he highlights a quote from an LA Times piece, where Peter Wallsten asks…

Radio host Boyles’ birther billboards to grace Denver interstate

By | 09.02.09 | 4:01 pm

KHOW radio’s Peter Boyles wears labels like “xenophobe” and “racist” as badges of honor, often comparing himself to Galileo and Copernicus; that is, as an outsider-advocate for the truth. During Tuesday’s broadcast, Boyles announced his commitment to the truth sought by the “birther” movement, explaining that he has joined with World Net Daily (WND) to launch an ad campaign questioning Pres. Obama’s citizenship and asking to see the president’s birth certificate.

McCain campaign investigated and dismissed Obama citizenship rumors

By | 07.24.09 | 8:30 am

In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the state to strip Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of the Democratic nomination on suspicion that he was not an American citizen. The complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief was filed by Phil Berg, a former deputy state attorney general who left government in 1990 for a series of gadfly political campaigns. His last round of notoriety had come when he filed RICO complaints against George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein and multiple members of the Bush administration for “accountability” for the 9/11 attacks. Still, Berg’s complaint had gotten glancing local media attention, and the Democratic National Committee’s counsel had filed a motion to dismiss it. One lawyer who was doing some work for the campaign was tasked with reading Berg’s lawsuit and gauging its chances of success.