(You'd think someone who'd been practicing journalism for 35 years would be a little more careful in his phrasing, but I guess he's got Crisis Cookers and Tea Party Manifestos to sell.)
So let it be resolved: by his own ill-chosen words, Joseph Farah has revealed himself to be a Birther. Maybe he is not willing to go on record as saying he doesn't believe that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii, and maybe he does actually think he was born there, and just wants to see if the mythical long-form Birth Certificate has some tasty tidbit he can use to Whitewater a sitting President.
But if he seriously believes that Obama is "possibly" a non-US citizen because of his father's nationality and his mother's age, in spite of the law saying otherwise, then he is a Birther by any standard of the current use of the term.
Period.
Please let me know if I have misstated or mischaracterized the issue before us in any way, Mr. Farah. But I think you owe a whole lot of people -- especially Newsweek -- a very large apology right now.
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