A document from Australia appears to be the basis for a forgery that captured the Birthers' attention
Over the weekend, Birther-in-Chief Orly Taitz released what could have been a shocking discovery: A document that was purportedly a certified copy of President Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate, showing that he’d been born in Mombasa, Kenya, not in Hawaii.
It took just 48 hours to definitively expose Taitz’s find as a forgery, and for the document that it was apparently based off of to surface. It’s a certified copy of a birth certificate for one David Jeffrey Bomford, born in South Australia in April 1959.
Images of both certificates can be viewed below — for comparison purposes, you can see a larger, more legible version of the forgery here. The similarities are striking; they bear the same seal, have the same document numbers at the top left and top right corners and have identical book and page numbers. The names of the registrar and district registrar listed on each document are remarkably similar as well — the source has the registrar listed as “G.F. Lavender,” while the forgery names him as “E.F. Lavender.” In the original, the district registrar is “J.H. Miller;” in the forgery, it’s “M.H. Miller,” and the M is slightly askew, overlapping the period.
The source material was indisputably published prior to the revelation of the forgery; it was available on a family genealogy Web site and popped up in Google image searches. (The Web site is no longer accessible, apparently due to the sudden increase in traffic prompted by the exposure.)
Indeed, that’s how it was discovered, by a California man named Steve Eddy, who posted his find to the forum at Politijab.com.
“I was just Google image searching and … happened to come across a thumbnail. I spotted one, said, ‘Oh! That looks similar,’ pulled it up, and there it was,” Eddy told Salon.
He’d been involved in debunking the Birthers before, on his own blog, but had eventually become tired of it, thinking there was nothing new to the story. The appearance of the forgery rekindled his interest, and inspired him to go looking for the basis of it.
“Normally I don’t hang around political places much,” he says. “Years and years ago I started a political channel on IRC, but that kind of burned out and I’ve been hanging out on the audio boards” – he runs a high-end home audio business — “and most recently they had a section there for people to talk about non-audio things, and there was this one nut there that kept posting, ‘Oh, yeah, Obama’s birth certificate’s fake.’ …. That got me hooked on that whole thing for about a year.”
Now, even some of the most dedicated Birther supporters, like World Net Daily editor Joseph Farah, are pulling back and proclaiming their skepticism about the forgery. Farah, whose site published the forged certificate and gave it the boost into the Web at large, wrote in a column Tuesday, “if I had to bet on its authenticity, I would wager it is not.” The column was, however, also full of distortions about the truth regarding the certification of live birth from Hawaii that Obama released during the campaign, and didn’t acknowledge Eddy’s find, which Farah might not have been aware of by the time his article was published.
The question of who produced the forgery, and why, is still open. It could be, as some debunkers have suggested, that someone was pulling a hoax on Taitz in order to further discredit the Birthers. It could also have been a true believer, or, of course, someone who just wanted money for it — there have been attempts to sell a purported Kenyan birth certificate for Obama on eBay before this.

http://www.bomford.net/
The apparent source document for the forgery.

http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/
The forged Kenyan birth certificate.
Update: Just after publishing this post, I was alerted to a story in the Australian media, which has tracked down David Jeffrey Bomford, the man whose birth certificate was used in the forgery. He seems amused by the whole thing.
“That is ridiculous. Little old person in Adelaide, the President of the United States. I don’t know whether to laugh about it or not, be worried about it,” Bomford said. “It is interesting, someone from here being involved in a conspiracy — that is so funny …. It’s definitely a copy of my certificate. It’s so laughable it’s ridiculous.”
Romney welcomes birther clown Trump’s support
Notorious former fake candidate robo-calls for the "electable" Republican
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Julie Jacobson)
Oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul and sexist buffoon Donald Trump is figuratively hitting the campaign trail in support of the man he endorsed earlier this month, Mitt Romney.
The repellent reality television personality has recorded robo-calls for Romney, because nothing makes a person more excited to vote than the sound of Donald Trump invading your personal space and hectoring you for no reason. Citizens across Michigan can look forward to unsolicited phone calls from a recording of the guy who tells D-list celebrities that they’re fired, only instead he will be telling them that the former governor of Massachusetts is “a good man” and former Sen. Rick Santorum is a “career politician.”
Any decent human being with a modicum of shame would be embarrassed to be seen publicly with Mr. Trump, which is partly why Romney refused to be photographed with the grotesque parody of American wealth-worship when meeting with him late last year, but Romney is in desperation mode as he seeks to win the support of a bunch of people who just don’t like him very much. Now Trump is headlining Romney fundraisers and making radio appearances on behalf of the candidate and making sure that Americans know that they can expect Mr. Romney to be as fine a president as Trump University is a (non-accredited for-profit online) college.
Romney, truly the “Trump Steaks” of Republican presidential candidates, is statistically tied with Rick Santorum in the most recent Michigan poll, and running even with Santorum nationally as well, but this Trump endorsement should be a huge help in his efforts to win over the all-important “credulous racist birther moron” vote.
Trump made sure his big endorsement coincided with the premiere of the new season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” and he is also counting on the fact that everyone basically forgot exactly how toxic his own pretend run for the nomination eventually became last year. And basically only liberal blogs are even bringing up the fact that Trump’s “platform” as a candidate was dark insinuations about the president’s birthplace and personal history, and that it collapsed entirely after the president actually released his “long-form birth certificate,” which showed that his already released regular birth certificate was genuine and accurate. (Though a couple conservatives have criticized Romney’s open embrace of Trump, more because Trump is extremely unpopular than because he’s a racist fraud.)
Romney indulging Trump by accepting his endorsement was gross, and Romney recruiting Trump to actively campaign for him should be universally declared well outside the realm of “acceptable” national campaign behavior, but it’s maybe too obviously sad and desperate for people to get up in arms about. (And the political press is uncomfortable explicitly calling a ridiculous con artist a ridiculous con artist, even when it’s post-birtherism Donald Trump, so the lack of “nationally reviled untrustworthy clown endorses candidate” headlines at the traditional news organizations is not terribly surprising.) But it’s also gross that NBC renewed Trump’s contract and launched a new season of his terrible show, and it did it for similar reasons as Romney: He gets ratings, and headlines.
It just shouldn’t be forgotten or ignored that the only substantial difference between campaigning with Donald Trump and campaigning with Orly Taitz is that Trump is considered kosher because he’s a major-network TV star. (Well, and Orly has much better hair.)
Nine NH Republicans help birther cause
GOP state representatives join activist Orly Taitz in trying to get Barack Obama's name off the state ballot
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Orly Taitz (Credit: AP)
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A remarkable story has been unfolding in New Hampshire just below the national radar: No fewer than nine state representatives are openly supporting birther Orly Taitz’s effort to get Barack Obama off the ballot because they believe he is not a citizen.
I wrote late last month about a contentious hearing at the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission featuring lawyer/dentist Taitz and a pair of Republican representatives — Harry Accornero and Susan DeLemus — who were furious when the panel voted to keep Obama’s name on the ballot.
But it turns out that there are at least nine elected Republican reps who have lined up behind Taitz’s effort, signing a Nov. 17 letter attached to an election law complaint against Obama.
I’ve obtained a document from Taitz and posted it in full below. The text above the nine signatures is faded but reads:
“We are greatly concerned in regards to undeniable evidence of Mr. Obama using CT Social Security number 042-68-4425, which was never assigned to him … as well as evidence of forgery in the alleged certified copy of the long form birth certificate of Mr. Obama.”
A meeting between the representatives and the Republican House speaker, Bill O’Brien, was canceled late last month amid concerns about unruly behavior by some of the representatives at the ballot commission hearing, which is now under investigation. And House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt has attempted to distance his caucus from the birthers, calling out their “ridiculous … continued obsession over President Obama’s birth place,” the Concord Monitor reported.
Meanwhile, the Monitor published a blistering editorial on Friday calling out the nine representatives by name:
Later, when the ballot commission unanimously denied Taitz’s request, pandemonium ensued. Shouts of “treason” could be heard. Accornero rose from his seat and began shouting, “Why don’t you rip up the Constitution and throw it out. You all should be accused of treason, and we’ll get people to do that too.” He went on to call Obama a treasonous liar and warned Mavrogeorge that he’d “better wear a mask” when he came to Laconia.
The video is being aired nationally, and the unruly representatives have brought shame on the institution they serve and the state of New Hampshire. They deserve the censure of their colleagues. They also deserve to be replaced by voters.
The nine reps are: Harry Accornero, Susan DeLemus, Al Baldassaro, William Tobin, Moe Villeneuve, Laurie Pettengill, Larry Rappaport, Lucien Vita and Carol Vita.
Taitz tells me she is preparing a petition to the state Supreme Court on the ballot issue and that “there were others who supported me as well” — but their names are not public.
Here’s the letter:
Consent to Join From NH State Representatives
UPDATE: In case there was any doubt that birtherism remains a live issue in the GOP, future primary debate moderator Donald Trump is still raising questions about the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate.
Birthers still dogging Obama
Orly Taitz, the de facto leader of the Birthers, finds allies in the New Hampshire GOP
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Orly Taitz (Credit: Reuters)
Nearly four years after the phenomenon of Birtherism first emerged, and more than a year after President Obama released his long-form birth certificate, the loose group of activists who believe Obama is not a U.S. citizen and therefore not legitimately president are still pursuing their cause.
The tired ravings of conspiracy theorists wouldn’t be worth noting at this point but for the fact that an element within the Republican Party continues to unashamedly embrace the Birthers.
The latest flare-up was at a New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission hearing this month, during which dentist/perennial Birther litigant Orly Taitz demanded that Obama be removed from the state’s presidential ballot.
She got support from state Rep. Harry Accornero, a Republican from Laconia, and a former GOP state representative, Dick Marple.
When the commission voted unanimously to keep Obama’s name on the ballot, another Republican state representative, Susan DeLemus, angrily told the Concord Monitor, “Let’s just bury the Constitution now and have a funeral. It just makes me want to throw up.”
Here, via People for the American Way, are a couple clips capturing the spectacle:
Expect more of this throughout 2012, and, if Obama wins, for another four years.
Trump will endorse a candidate (in a month)
Birther TV clown promises to support a GOP hopeful
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Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Alberto Lowe)
Oft-bankrupt former fake presidential candidate and television clown Donald Trump announced on “Fox and Friends” this morning that he is very close to announcing his presidential endorsement. I am guessing he won’t pick Jon Huntsman.
Trump still has a regular Monday morning “Fox & Friends” call-in deal? I guess Fox can overlook a regular guest being a loyal employee of a rival media conglomerate — Trump abandoned his publicity stunt presidential campaign when NBC threatened to find a new “Apprentice” host, remember — as long as they’re willing to spout birtherist bullshit on live television.
So Trump, who badly damaged his “lovable mogul” brand with his divisive and humiliating fake campaign, will now (or in a month or so) parasitically attach himself to a presidential candidate, in order to flatter Trump’s sense of himself as an important kingmaker, a delusion that has been enabled by Romney and Perry and Bachmann and Cain actually meeting with him. I’m guessing Trump will endorse whomever is polling best next month.
Will the press (the non-Fox press) mention Trump’s noxious, racist birtherism, should the recipient of the Trump endorsement gratefully accept the Trump nod with a joint appearance? I am not holding my breath.
Herman Cain’s weird opinion columns published by birther website
WorldNetDaily has a long relationship with the surprise presidential contender
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain (Credit: AP/Richard Drew)
Apparently for two years now Herman Cain’s been writing an opinion column that is published at hilarious birther conspiracy website WorldNetDaily, and no one noticed this, except for Yahoo’s Chris Moody.
WND has published 113 Cain columns. The site advertises the columns as “exclusive commentary” from Cain, which led Moody to report initially that Cain was writing the columns for WND. Of course, in a very WND twist, it is just making up the “exclusive commentary” thing, because it makes up everything: Cain’s columns are syndicated by North Star Writers Group.
But WorldNetDaily considers Cain one of is own. Cain seems to write the columns himself (or at least he did initially, before his campaign took off), unless his ghost is particularly fond of exclamation points. None of them involve birtherism, which for years now has been WND’s sole driving concern. (Cain did flirt with bitherism earlier this year, thanks mostly to Donald Trump, but he now believes the president is an American.)
Farah, a friend of Cain’s for several years, told The Ticket that he has been surprised by Cain’s rise over the past few months. While Farah would not make an official endorsement, he said Cain is his “favorite” candidate.
Good work, Herman: You’ve got Farah’s support! That should be more than enough to overcome the fact that Cain is basically taking the month of October off from campaigning in order to sell his book, because this entire “presidential run” was basically done to create a little buzz around a burgeoning conservative media personality, and the fact that he’s now tied for second in the polls is due to the hilarious collapse of various other more “serious” campaigns.
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