Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Jones And Davis File New Fake Evidence In Birther Suit

Reps. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) and Cynthia Davis (R-O'Fallon) aren't giving up their efforts to have Barack Obama booted from office.  Their lawyer, Orly Taitz, has been a little busy fighting a $20,000 fine imposed by a federal judge in a similar federal lawsuit in Georgia, but did file a new request and 'evidence' on behalf of Jones, Davis and their fellow plaintiffs that they say would help them verify their allegations that Obama orchestrated a massive scheme to steal the presidency.

Like their previous filings of fake Kenyan birth certificates, the birther plaintiffs are asking the court to help them verify the authenticity of a document that any sane person would be able to debunk with a few minutes of research.  This time, they point to a 2004 article that appeared in the Kenyan-based Sunday Standard newspaper. 

If it were possible to authenticate the source for this information, and/or to trace, locate, and depose the authors and informants, and also to track the subsequent changes in the "story" as told over the newswires over the following four years, the Plaintiffs submit that they would obtain additional and important, and very solid, grounds for outlining the contours of a Complaint for Civil Racketeering (18 U.S.C. §1964(c)) concerning the 2008 Presidential elections, involving a massive scheme to defraud using the postal (document delivery) and electronic wire services for the purpose of depriving the American People of their intangible right to honest services.

The 2004 Sunday Standard article does contain content from the Associated Press, but included extraneous information that has the birthers all aflutter. Snopes.com breaks down the manufactured controversy:

A popular item of "birther" chatter in October 2009 concerned the discovery of an archived copy of a 27 June 2004 article from the web version of the Kenyan-based Sunday Standard newspaper. The article was a reproduction of an Associated Press (AP) wire story which dealt with the withdrawal of Republican candidate Jack Ryan from the race for a seat representing Illinois in the U.S. Senate, paving the way for the Democratic contender, Barack Obama, to win the election. Why this article was of particular interest to birthers was its lead-in sentence, which referred to Barack Obama as "Kenyan-born." Surely, claimed birthers, such an august news agency as the Associated Press would not have identified Barack Obama as "Kenyan-born" if they did not have ample evidence to support its use of that term.

However, the Associated Press made no such reference; the identification of Barack Obama as "Kenyan-born" was added to the Sunday Standard's version of the AP story by someone else (who misspelled the politician's given name as "Barrack" in the process) and is apparently unique to that publication. The full text of the "Jack Ryan Abandons Senate Bid" article as originally issued by the Associated Press is retrievable from the LexisNexis archive of global news sources, and it contains no reference (in the lead-in or elsewhere) to Barack Obama's being "Kenyan-born"...

Likewise, archived versions of U.S. newspapers that published the same AP wire story (such as the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Seattle Times) do not include lead-ins identifying Barack Obama as "Kenyan-born."

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