Donald Trump has now moved on to in effect charging that Barack Obama got into college on affirmative action and the theme is now being picked up on some conservative talk radio and cable shows and on some websites (that’s how a narrative begins). But here is a complete set of the embeddable videos of CNN’s investigation proving Obama was born in the U.S. — not that it will matter to the ongoing narrative in some quarters (it is working in the polls).
These are all courtesy of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.
Part One (run on TMV earlier):
Part Two:
Extended Online Interview with Dr. Fukimo:
And here’s Pat Buchanan picking up the unproven suggestion that Obama got into school on affirmative action and running with it. This is on Hardball. A sign of what is to come:
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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.