But so far right-wingers claiming that Clinton somehow faked her concussion have gone virtually unchallenged on Fox News and right-wing sites like Newsbusters and the Daily Caller. Everyone from Charles Krauthammer to Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton have gotten into the act. Even after reports that Clinton also suffered a dangerous blood clot between her brain and skull, Bolton not only failed to apologize, he suggested that she was dodging Benghazi questions in order to protect her 2016 chances.

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On Monday, the state's 11 electors officially cast their votes for Mitt Romney -- but three of them said they still have questions about the president's birth certificate. "I'm not satisfied with what I've seen," said Tom Morrissey, state GOP chairman. "I think for somebody in the president's position to not have produced a document that looks more legitimate, I have a problem with that."

“My issue isn’t whether he was born here,” he told KFYI radio on Monday. “I have questions [the birth certificate]. … You know, I have a law enforcement background. I come at this with a little different perspective. It just doesn’t ring right with me.”

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But honestly, what did any of us expect?

Whenever Trump promises big news, there are three things you can expect:

1) It is likely to be of dubious provenance.

2) It is not going to be the politically meaningful event Trump says it will be.

3) Trump, like a hideous car wreck, will be difficult for passersby to ignore.

Trump is willing to traffic in innuendo and racial provocation. And he exaggerates, often in ways that amount to lying. These attributes, most clearly on display during his fake gesture toward a presidential bid, may not be great for his brand. But each of his stunts has won him the attention he craves.

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King once again defended his comparison of the "vigorous" U.S. immigrant selection process to how dog buyers would choose the "pick of the litter."

"It was a compliment," he said to the host.

He went on to say "I don't know where he was born" of the president. He then doubled down on claims that Huma Abedin had family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, telling the host, "I say it appears to be the objective truth and I think we should look at those relationships, especially when someone's that closely related to the staff of the Secretary of State. It becomes a critical issue and if you broaden this thing out to the Libyan situation and see the kind of performance we've had of this administration."

He also said has no position on whether states should be allowed to ban the sale of contraceptives.

Watch the video below via YouTube, apologies for poor quality:

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The event is not technically a fundraiser, because, as Zeke Miller explains, the funds have already been raised. It is a special "finance event" for mega-donors who enjoy being spoken to condescendingly by a ridiculous fraud. Not making it a real fundraiser also gives the Romney campaign an excuse to exclude the press corps, despite the campaign having agreed months ago to allow pool reporters to attend most fundraisers.

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The campaign for the elder Thompson, who is running for Senate against Tammy Baldwin and was not at the event, told BuzzFeed: “The Governor has addressed this with his son, just like any father would do. Jason Thompson said something he should not have, and he apologizes.”

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The theory, which departs from that of the more traditional "Obama-is-a-Kenyan" birthers, goes something like this: Obama's grandfather was an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry Obama's mother to cover up the fact that she was pregnant with then-55-year-old Davis' baby.

Yesterday, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, Bill Armistead, reportedly dipped his toe into the latter category, telling a Republican women's group that a film that purveys that theory is "absolutely terrifying." The report came from Mobile Press-Register political editor George Talbot, who attended the event.

Joel Gilbert, the director of the film, called “Dreams From My Real Father," describes it thusly:

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Kris Kobach, a Tea Party Republican who is also an informal adviser to Mitt Romney, is a member of the State Objections Board. He and Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Republican Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer are reviewing a complaint from Joe Montgomery, a concerned citizen, who says that the president has not adequately proven that he's a natural-born American citizen. They have put off making a final decision until Monday, and have asked Hawaii, Arizona and Mississippi for more documentation.

"I don't think it's a frivolous objection," Kobach said, as reported in the Topeka Capital-Journal. "I do think the factual record could be supplemented."

Montgomery, who filed the complaint, is not buying the long-form birth certificate President Obama released last year, saying in his complaint that Obama holds both British and Kenyan citizenship. "There is substantial evidence showing that much of Mr. Obama's alleged birth certificates have been forged or doctored, and have not been confirmed as legally valid, true and accurate."

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"I've said throughout the campaign and before, there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the U.S. This was fun about us, and coming home. And humor, you know -- we've got to have a little humor in a campaign."

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With his joke today that "No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate," Mitt Romney moved down to the lowest rung of the Republican Party – the racist demagogues who know better.

I don't forgive poor, isolated, ignorant whites their racism, but you can understand some of the cultural programming that's embedded it. Romney knows Obama was born here. And he also knows exactly what he's doing with his birth certificate joke: He's telling the bedrock Republican reactionary base to pay no attention to that Todd Akin mess, Romney will cater to their basest political desires.

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Certain things should not be mixed together. Bleach and ammonia. White wine and red meat. Alex Jones and Joseph Farah.

Proof of the latter mixture’s toxicity came last week, when Jones, the gravelly voiced Internet personality best known for his obsession with “truther” theories about the government’s supposed complicity in 9/11, interviewed Farah, the mustachioed overlord of all things “birther,” on his radio show.

For the most part, the two conspiracists’ conversation went pretty much as you would expect: chitchat about a supposed plan to disarm all Americans; furious denunciations of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act; speculation that the government would soon declare that “mom and apple pie and George Washington are terrorists.”

Then Farah dropped a bomb.

“By the way Alex, remember when you were in my office in Virginia, one of my crew asked if you’d ever seen a drone, and you answered no you hadn’t,” he said. “I get home and within a week or two of that conversation, I’m taking my dog for a walk, and guess what I see right over the tree line?  Right above my head is a drone.”

The “confirmation,” Farah said, came from online images of drones that “resemble what I saw.”

Farah, who lives in a Virginia suburb about 20 miles outside of the nation’s capital, could think of only one reason why a drone (if that is really what he saw) would be monitoring the area.

“There could only be one thing that this drone was spying on, and that would be me,” he said. “That would be my property.”

Jones lapped it up. “It was obviously looking for something on your property, probably harassment,” he fumed. “You have to ask the police, I mean, if that scenario happened, and like a Simpsons episode, and a giant green lizard was at the podium, would you submit to them? This is an outside globalist takeover.”

Jones and Farah seem to be reacting to recent reports that the government has permitted limited use of unmanned drones in civilian airspace. Last June, an antigovernment “sovereign citizen,” whose family had chased police off their North Dakota farm with high-powered rifles, became the first American citizen to be arrested with the aid of such a device. The government reportedly plans to expand the use of drones within the next few years, an idea that unsettles civil liberties watchdogs on both the left and right – and leaves antigovernment activists like Farah and Jones giddily unhinged.

“This is a game of control for them,” Farah told Jones. “We have to resist all attempts to control us, whether they’re telling us our kids have to have these mandatory vaccines, or they tell us in order to get on an airplane you’ve got to be groped. This is where the resistance starts, because this is part of conditioning for what is really the endgame for them, which is, you know, we’re all going to be global citizens, we don’t have any say in our government and so forth. It’s everything our Founding Fathers fought against, and we’ve got to be like our Founding Fathers all over again, and the only question in my mind is whether we have the fearlessness, and the courage and the conviction that they had to do that.”

He continued, “If [Obama is] re-elected, it’s gonna be war. We will be at war. We will be hunted down like dogs, Alex Jones, just keep that in mind. That’s what the stakes are.”

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“We think it removes any reasonable doubt and it is the nail in the coffin,” Sam Begley, a private attorney in Jackson who serves as general counsel to the party, told Salon.

And they have “birther queen” Orly Taitz to thank for it. Taitz, a dentist, lawyer and erstwhile Senate candidate, filed a suit against the state Democratic Party and the Mississippi secretary of state in February alleging that Obama was not eligible to appear on the ballot because he is not a natural-born citizen. While most states only allow registered voters to make ballot challenges, Mississippi has a vague statute that allows “any aggrieved person” to bring a case. She also accused the party of aiding and abetting in forgery and fraud when they submitted a copy of Obama’s birth certificate to the court.

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“Birther Queen” Orly Taitz had a surprisingly strong fifth place showing in yesterday’s California Senate primary, where she captured 130,000 votes. Things in the Golden State are also looking good for “birthermercial” star Gary Kreep, who has a razor thin lead for a judgeship in San Diego County. Meanwhile, reality TV star Donald Trump continues his campaign.

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