If there’s a clip that can be shown now to indicate why birthers deserve this theme song, it’s Orly Taitz’s appearance on the MSNBC show of Lawrence O’Donnell, who always has one of the more compelling hours on that liberal-skewed network (he reportedly is getting a young demographic in his viewership these days). O’Donnell’s teaser was that he was going to have relentless litigator Taitz on to “apologize” to Barack Obama now that she was proved wrong about Obama’s birth certificate.
Now, it’s clear Taitz would never apologize. The apology is a device used by right and left to put someone on the defensive and in most cases the target doesn’t apologize but tries to finesse the response.
She didn’t even try that.
She just tried to filibuster and avoid it. It didn’t work. And all thoughtful viewers of both or no party probably thought THIS. O’Donnell finally ordered her off the air.
Watch the segment for yourself. Whether O’Donnell was simply doing “good” television (conflict…controversy..anger..rage) or genuinely cut the interview short will be debated by partisan (liberals will say he cut it short; conservatives will say it was what he intended to do all along) is almost irrelevant.
What is relevant is how she refused to respond and the way she did: the issue was never the certificate. It was hating and demonizing Obama.
Watch and decide for yourself:
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FOOTNOTE: Here are three more theme songs for birthers (which we’ve run before) that seem more fitting after today’s events.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.