PolitiFact Dissects Forged Birth Certificate Put Forward by Tim Jones and Cynthia Davis in Federal Lawsuit
That Jones, Davis and their birther friends are wasting a lot of time and money with their federal lawsuit is not new information -- but Polifact's breakdown of the alleged Kenyan birth certificate is a great central resource for the many reasons why Jones and Davis should be thoroughly embarrassed by their latest filings in US District Court.
Right before the media light dimmed on birthers, however, birther attorney Orly Taitz made a bit of a splash - at least in the birther community - when she posted a birth certificate purported to be for Obama from the Republic of Kenya and filed a motion in federal court to determine its authenticity.
The conservative WorldNetDaily.com, which has long beaten the birther drum, quickly ran a story under the headline, "Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?"
But even WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah later ran a column saying he doubted it was real...
The fact-checkers go on to explain their conversations with the Kenyan government, the Australian man whose birth certificate was used as a model for the birthers' forgery and even South Australian officials --- doing far more research that was necessary. They conclude:
We think that's enough to definitively put this particular issue to rest. The purported Kenyan birth certificate posted by Taitz is a fake.
As always, we have no delusions this changes anyone's mind in the birther movement. So please, spare us the vitriolic e-mails. At PolitiFact, we have explored several of the birthers' claims, and have concluded that there is ample evidence that President Obama was born on Hawaii. We simply post this item in case anyone came across the Kenyan birth certificate on the Internet and wondered what to make of it.
Obama's Kenyan birth certificate? Pants on Fire.
Jones and Davis could have figured all these out at any point in the past week or two, after their initial filing. But they chose to double down with the fraudulent document yesterday -- why?
