From the departments of "You can't this up" and "The conservative's reality has once again lapped our satire" comes this gem courtesy of Kay Steiger at Jezebel.
Birthers Want To See Obama's Penis
Birthers have now decided that what makes a person a true, blue, red-blooded American is not the color of your complexion but how much foreskin you have.
Commenters (and circumcised Americans) over at Free Republic struck on a revelation yesterday: if Barack Obama has not been circumcised, then he must not have been born in the United States. Why? Because all of their boys were circumcised.
Follow me through the looking glass into the mirror universe that is Free Republic after the jump.
In a weird corrolary to Godwin's Law (which the Freepers, Birthers, and Deathers managed to invoke long ago and still not realize that they've lost the argument), it seems that as a discussion thread becomes long enough, the probability of any possibly relevant topic being mentioned approaches 1. Thus it was that 9623 posts into a 9800+ thread about Barack Obama's Birth Certificate, the subject of the President's penis came up.
Read a copy of Larry Sinclair's book this afternoon. Quick read. The list of character who attacked his character being names we see regularly and a few attached to Axelrod.
The only other thing that hit me was that Sinclair said BO was not circumcised. When my son was born in a hospital that was done as a matter of routine without even consulting us. Would the same be for Hawaii? OTOH People born at home or in some other cultures are not circumcised.
9,623 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:44:51 AM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
With hoosiermama mentioning the Presidential member and connecting it to a possible foreign birth, the Freepers were off to the races, having found, as Jesus' General put it, "Obama's achilles heel: his Long Dark Staff of White Insecurity."
hoosiermama,
A relative of mine was born (in a hospital) a couple of years after BO's alleged birth date. He was circumcised also (as a matter of routine, not according to any family request).
9,625 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:28:57 AM by thecodont
Psst, thecodont! Do you know that your namesake was used for a group of extinct reptiles even more primitive and ancient than the dinosaurs? If you do, you're probably quite proud of the fact.
My son was born in June of 1961 in a hospital in CA, and the nurses released us because of miscommunication in a day and a half before the circumcision was done. We had to go back to the doctor’s office to have it done a week later, and the doctor was NOT HAPPY. My second son was born in the same hospital 4 years later. I don’t remember them asking me about it. Routine procedure for little boys.
9,626 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:35:19 AM by afraidfortherepublic
Thank you for your anecdotal evidence. I'm sure Glenn Beck is proud that you're using one of his signature lines as your handle.
Wish we had someone to make a phone call to the hospitols in HI and askif they routinely do circumcism and when that practice started.
9,627 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:07:31 AM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
What's the matter, hoosiermama--are both your phone and your spellcheck out of order?
And, now bit of support in favor of the "hypothesis"--not really, as a hypothesis is an educated guess that can be falsified; this guess is ignorant, just like the guessers, and falsification is the last thing they're interested in.
From:
http://www.circumcision.org/...
Worldwide prevalence: The U.S. is the only country in the world that routinely circumcises most of its male infants for non-religious reasons. Over 80% of the world’s males are intact (*).
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If indeed Bo is intact, as Sinclair states, might this be another indication that he was born outside the US. (as young as he was in Seattle, she may have also left medical care before the procedure was done....There is a few days waiting period after birth. Varies with local medical staff.
9,629 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:04:33 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
You're like a dog with a bone now, hoosiermama. Now that you have "evidence" that Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. (never mind that lots of American males are not circumcised), you won't give it up. Speaking of dogs, "Bo" is the dog's name, not the President's.
Back to the Freepers playing Inspector Clouseau (more like Inspector Clueless).
You might want to make that call to a Canadian hospital ...
9,637 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:47:35 PM by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
Canada? That's a new wrinkle in the conspiracy theory!
No...it would have been in Kenya....not Canada.
http://www.freerepublic.com/...
9,640 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:50:13 PM by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
Kossacks, you have just observed Free Republic's version of fact-checking--serving the Right Kool-Aid to keep the conspiracy theory on track.
Oh, and shield, here's a reality-based hint for you, not that you'll take it: a normal person's heart extends from the center to the left side. A heart that is on the right side is abnormal. I guess that explains why all of you are on Free Republic.
BTW, the Kool-Aid worked.
Interesting! Thanks for the ping, shield.
9,641 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:08:15 PM by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
Now that that everyone has their tinfoil on straight, it's time to return to where the real action is--below the waist!
Looks like we’ve got them studying and reading. Wonder if they will check with the HI hospitols where the procedure was done routinely in 1961. Sure sounds to me like another nail in the coffin that he was born in Kenya.
Just read an article about female circumcism done in Kenya.....That should give them something to think about. They circumcise the women but NOT the men????? Naw did both from age 8 till adulthood with the same knife. Real sanitary. Part of the Moslem tradition.
http://www.suite101.com/...
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There are some tribes that do not circumcise their members at all. One of these tribes is the Luo tribe. Because the Luo tribe does not circumcise neighboring tribes view that tribe as consisting of children. You will find boys from the neighboring tribes teasing and bullying members of the Luo tribe.
In 1992, the first multi-party elections took place. What does that have to do with circumcision? Kenyans wondered what would happen if an uncircumcised male won the election. Since the uncircumcised are viewed as children, in their eyes it would be the equivalent of having a seven year old become president of the United States. (Looks like that’s what we have!)
http://cc.bingj.com/...
9,652 posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 11:58:10 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
That's a long way to go to dog-whistle "boy." Just the same, thank you peeling away the layers of denial to expose the racism underneath all of this.
Speaking of exposing what lies underneath all this prurient speculation, another train of what passes for thought on Free Republic is exploring other subconscious motivations.
I am having a vision of a court room scene. The judge turns to O sitting in the witness chair to his left and says "I am sorry, Mr. President, but I am going to have to ask you to stand and drop trou ....."
9,636 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:45:05 PM by Natural Born 54
Thank you for sharing your sexual fantasies with us. Got anything kinkier?
More than likely an exam from a court appointed DR. :~)
Humiliating either way....caught by his own private parts....er something like that!
9,639 posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:55:34 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
Why, yes, you do. "Humiliating"--thank you for showing us your Freudian slip. You repressed people really need to contact a dominatrix to scratch that S&M itch of yours. We'll all be happier if you do.
The above was the last post in chronological order on the subject of whether Obama was circumcised or not. However, the topic was getting long in the tooth before then.
Is this the END of this thread? I can’t believe that I read the WHOLE thing!
9,642 posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 10:22:44 AM by afraidfortherepublic
Neither can we, afraidfortherepublic, neither can we.