Dick Storey
First, happy turkey day all !!!
Nova—to your post # 7544 Is this just an alleged trend among liberals, not conservatives? I wonder how you define liberal and conservative?
Nelson—yes.
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To Sheriff Joe and his version of the big lie:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-news-blog/2012/mar/01/forgery-sheriff-joe-arpaio-barack-obama-birth-certificate
Forgery most foul! Sheriff Joe Arpaio's birth certificate revelations
Arizona sheriff's six-month investigation ends with Arpaio vowing to find whoever 'forged' Barack Obama's birth certificate Ed Pilkington
Thu 1 Mar 2012
It's hard work being a conspiracy theorist. Just look at Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-styled tough guy of American policing, who has released the preliminary results of his "birther" investigation into whether Barack Obama is a true American.
The details of the inquiry – announced at a packed press conference in Arizona – were enough to make you want to lie down in a darkened room for a week just to recover from the terrible exertion of it all. And that's even before you hear his conclusion: that Obama's birth certificate is probably a computer-generated fraud.
A stream of conspiratorialists as numerous as the Dead Sea Scrolls have already been down this road, of course, led by that epitome of investigative integrity Donald Trump. But leaving that aside, let's look at Arpaio's inquiry and the extraordinary lengths it took.
It all began when Arpaio received a delegation of 250 Tea Party members from his district of Maricopa county pleading with him to save America from the disaster of an alien president. It was an appeal, he told the Guardian, that he could not ignore.
"I'm not the kind of guy who turns his back on people when they ask for help," he said.
So off he goes and pulls together what he calls a "cold case posse" of his mates – former cops, other law enforcers, and journalists.
Arpaio's inquiry had nothing at all to do with the fact that he is currently himself under investigation by the US department of justice – ie, the Obama administration – for blatant racial profiling in his police district. "This has nothing to do with politics!" he bellowed at the press conference. "If we could find evidence that the president was born in this country, I would be very happy."
The Republic | azcentral.com (2016) (did not save the address--whoops)
It was a presentation hyped by a tantalizingly brief media notification more than 24 hours earlier: On Thursday afternoon, it said, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio would present the newest revelations in an investigation into President Barack Obama’s birth certificate....................
The sheriff’s pursuit of the birth certificate issue has outlasted many of its other disciples. Even President-elect Donald Trump, who helped fuel the “birther” movement several years ago, officially abandoned his position before his Nov. 8 election................
Arpaio, though, stuck with the review – despite widespread ridicule of the idea, despite the point that Obama’s mother’s U.S. citizenship would have made him a citizen regardless of where he was born, and despite the November defeat that ended Arpaio’s long run in office.......
Arpaio insisted that the investigation was not linked to his legal conflicts with the Obama administration; it was about the allegation of a forged document......................
Arpaio's focus on the outgoing president has spanned several years. Obama was a favorite subject in Arpaio's fundraiser emails, speeches and campaign ads, and the president was blamed for the lawman's civil-rights-related legal battles.
The bulk of the hourlong news conference belonged to Mike Zullo, a posse member, who launched into a 50-minute presentation on the document’s “9 points of forgery.”
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally closes his five-year investigation into authenticity of Obama's birth certificate
The Daily Mail website: (2016 article)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4038208/Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio-dives-Obama-birth-certificate-again.html
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona has finally closed his five-year investigation into the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Arpaio had fixated on the investigation for years, going so far as to send a deputy and member of his volunteer posse to Hawaii to question officials.
He also earned plaudits from Donald Trump and became one of the nation's leading voices on the debunked controversy over Obama's birthplace.
The sheriff took up the 'birther' mantle as he faced some of his worst legal troubles, including a racial profiling case that discredited his patrols targeting immigrants and a grand jury inquiry into his failed investigations of local political enemies.
He refused to back away from the investigation three months ago when Trump - an Arpaio ally - relented on his claim that Obama wasn't born in the U.S.
Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo - a longtime Arpaio critic - said the investigation was a publicity stunt to raise the sheriff's national political profile and bring in campaign dollars.
'He was trying to throw meat to his base, and that's exactly what he did,' Gallardo said. 'He threw red meat.' ..............................
Arpaio has said he launched the probe after nearly 250 people connected to an Arizona tea-party group requested it. He pressed forward despite aides warning he would be ridiculed.
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