It’s been up since September, visible to every commuter heading south, still promoting the extremely-debunked conspiracy theory that questions the legitimacy of the President (and, by extension, American democracy). It’s only been two and a half years since he released the certificate (while running for President), and just three months since he released the “long form” certificate (on the same weekend, history will reflect, he hired Seal Team 6 to shoot Donald Trump in the face), so this might still fall under the dreaded conversation stopper known as “too soon.” But if we don’t want to take the billboard down and use that space to advertise something productive, maybe we could use it to give play to some other conspiracy theories, like “Did We Really Land On the Moon?” or “Were the South Park Creators Really Behind 9/11?” or, as Zac touched upon yesterday, “Does Glenn Beck Know Who Really Shot JFK?“
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Someone needs to put “Cognitive Dissonance is Curable” on the billboard immediately after it.
Who’s “we”? I have no idea who owns the billboard or who paid for that particular long-outdated ad, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “us”.
Or maybe “How many crazy conservative Christians are hiding in our govenor’s hair?”
Perhaps they paid to have it up for the whole Presidency. Some groups/businesses pay in full for a specified period of time.
Does it have a decal – CBS, Lamar, Clear Channel – that would tell who what media company is selling it so you can ask them when it is going to be changed.
Go ahead, take it down. No one is stopping you. Or, you could let the owner do it once the contract is up or once someone else rents the space.
PBO’s birth certificate – 2 words = photoshop
Where’s the recovery? The college transcripts?
With “we” I was being polite, perhaps optimistically trying to include the people who paid for the billboard by appealing to a sense of community. Though it’s true, the company that put it up is not based here and has vowed to keep them up through the 2012 election. (That same company also claims the campaign was “rejected by three major billboard companies, all owned by major media outlets – CBS, Clear Channel and Lamar.”)
Seriously. It needs to be taken down. It’s embarrassing. I think it was put up by Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND.
They should at least change it to “Where’s the Paper He Wrote For Twelfth Grade English Class,” or “Michelle Ate A Hamburger” or some other, similarly pressing point of contention.
@Trey – The recovery was aborted at the beginning by the Republicans.
As for his college transcripts? Really? REALLY?
You want his 3rd grade drawings and Boy Scout medals too?
What does that have to do with anything meaningful?
How about ‘Are Glenn Beck and the Jonas Brothers going to form a band?’. I wonder what it would be called.
I especially hate the billboard w/ George Bush’s picture (I think it is on the highway near Waxahatchie) that says “Miss me America? How is that hope and change working out for you?”
No dude, I don’t miss you. At all.
Ah, WarNutDaily… part of the vast masses of conscientious objectors to the 21st century that currently dominate the American Right.
Gosh, all of you are so much more intelligent than those ignorant conservatives. I guess it is difficult for them to get their ignorant heads out of the sand and see what great shape our nation is in.
“@Trey – The recovery was aborted at the beginning by the Republicans”
That’s just awesome.
My suggestion “Put down the phone and drive!”
Is Gmoney being sarcastic? I was enjoying the frothy nature of the comments until he came along.
We walked up the steps to the airplane and then I waved at the people and then the plane began to make a loud noise and I was afraid. I could see the big white house where we had lived and it was so small I could put in my hand but I couldn’t put it in my hand. It was outside a window. It was getting farther away and I looked at it and then I couldn’t see it anymore. There there, Laura said. You’re not a poor baby. Are you. Are you. You’ve got your Laura. Haven’t you got your Laura. We’re going back where we’re wanted and loved. There there. Then I asked Laura if where we’re going if they loved us then did they miss us? Did they miss us because we went away? There there, Laura said. Now you just hush. You just hush now.
Laura cradled my head and she smelled like flowers. When we get home you’ll see, she said. They all miss you. Everybody there misses you. Then she put her finger in her glass of water and rubbed it on my eyebrow and it tickled.
I seem to recall so many GWB supporters that exclaimed to me – you can’t tell how good a President is until after he leaves office because his impact is in the years to come. So you just wait @gmoney, because I’m sure Obama has nothing to do with what shape our nation is in. Just imagine how bad the next four years will be!
@Sammy, anything we can uncover about this complete fraud and total phony is meaningful.
Naw, let’em keep their crazy billboard. I hope they did pay for it all the way through 2012. As a matter of fact, I hope they buy another one just like it. It’s safer for all of us if the insane use their money for crazy billboards, versus something more dangerous–like a tea party campaign funds.
@ Trey – Thanks! I worked long and hard on that one.