MORE LAME BBC U.S. COVERAGE
>> MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011
Check out this BBC article about the Obama impersonator whose act at the Republican Leadership Conference was cut short. It's basically an excuse for an unnamed anti-Republican BBC hack (ie any BBC journalist covering US affairs) to reproduce some jokes at the expense of the leadership contenders, but it's also noteworthy for this piece of anti-Tea Party propaganda:
The ultra-conservative Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had questioned the legitimacy of Mr Obama's presidency, claiming he had been born outside the US and was thus ineligible to hold the highest office in the land, as mandated under the constitution.
The, ahem, "ultra-conservative" Tea Party (wiki offers the somewhat less loaded "conservative and libertarian") is not a birther movement. Linking the two is a ploy by opponents (eg lame comedians) to discredit the Tea Party - which is of course why the anonymous lazy biased idiot who wrote the piece included it. There are undoubtedly some birthers who would also call themselves Tea Party supporters but Obama's citizenship is a fringe issue and has never been central to the small government movement. It's worth remembering that the midwife of birtherism was the contest for the Democrat nomination between Barack and Hillary, but you won't find a BBC article which makes sweeping birther generalisations about Clinton supporters. That's because they're Democrats - the good-guy Americans - and BBC journalists are only interested in making the American Right [cue scary music] look bad.
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