{"id":7180,"date":"2012-05-29T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2012-05-30T02:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:37:16","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-reviving-trump-birther-charges-to-attack-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7180","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Reviving Trump Birther Charges To Attack Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about desperate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-reality-trump-birther.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation - Trump\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Fox Nationalists have posted this article asserting that a desperate Obama campaign is <em>&#8220;Reviving Trump&#8217;s Birther Charges.&#8221;<\/em> And it is a devious strategy that Obama is plotting by somehow managing to get Donald Trump to reiterate his lunatic position on Obama&#8217;s citizenship. Last week, without any noticeable provocation from the Obama camp, Trump volunteered that <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s very simple. He said <\/em><em>[Obama]<\/em> was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia.&#8221; Imagine the sophistication of the Obama Machine that can revive the Trump Birther charges straight from the mouth of Trump without anyone, including Trump, catching on.<\/p>\n<p>And now that the charges have been revived, Obama can use Trump&#8217;s delusional extremism to attack Mitt Romney. This is also evidence of just how complex the Obama strategy is. After successfully manipulating Trump into making idiotic statements, Obama&#8217;s team has somehow maneuvered Romney into embracing Trump and forcefully declining to repudiate Trump as his chief surrogate. Romney responded to criticism of his association with Trump by saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don&#8217;t all agree with everything I believe in. <strong>But I need to get 50.1% or more<\/strong> and I&#8217;m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.&#8221; <em>[Note that Fox Nation excised the part in bold from their article]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How on earth did Obama get Romney to say publicly that he is willing to abandon his principles in order to get a majority and win the election? Then again, perhaps that wasn&#8217;t the hardest part of the plan since Romney&#8217;s principles are fairly malleable to begin with. It&#8217;s true that Romney may not agree with all of his supporters. On most issues he has taken positions in stark disagreement with himself.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, it should be noted, has not been cowed by this controversy. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitlonger.com\/show\/hk2dlp\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted today<\/a> that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;@BarackObama is practically begging @MittRomney to disavow the place of birth movement, he is afraid of it and for good reason. He keeps using @SenJohnMcCain as an example, however, @SenJohnMcCain lost the election. Don&#8217;t let it happen again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/do-the-wright-thing.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Wright\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" \/>If directing criticism at Romney for his connection to the birther movement is evidence that Obama is afraid of it, then Romney&#8217;s criticism  of Obama&#8217;s campaign for raising Bain Capital as an issue is evidence that Romney is scared Mittless of that. The difference is that Bain Capital is real and birtherism is a manifestation of acute mental decay. And that makes it all the more remarkable that Trump believes the reason McCain lost in 2008 was that he didn&#8217;t latch onto birtherism. While everyone else knows that the real reason Mccain lost was because he wouldn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7126\" target=\"_blank\">hit harder on Rev. Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only Fox Nation could look at this situation and come to the conclusion that it was Obama&#8217;s campaign that revived Trump&#8217;s inane attack. But that&#8217;s the purpose of Fox Nation &#8211; twisting reality into unrecognizable pretzel bits in order to to keep their audience as ignorant as possible. How else could their candidates win?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about desperate&#8230; The Fox Nationalists have posted this article asserting that a desperate Obama campaign is &#8220;Reviving Trump&#8217;s Birther Charges.&#8221; And it is a devious strategy that Obama is plotting by somehow managing to get Donald Trump to reiterate his lunatic position on Obama&#8217;s citizenship. Last week, without any noticeable provocation from the Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[183,612,554,527,260],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-birther","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-nation","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1RO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7165,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7165","url_meta":{"origin":7180,"position":0},"title":"Where&#8217;s The Birth Certificate? 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