Did Dobbs get a tallking to? CNN President Jon Klein declares Obama birther story 'dead'

[wndycty]

CNN President Jon Klein declares Obama birther story 'dead'
11:03 AM PT, Jul 24 2009

CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers at the cable news network Thursday night that the supposed controversy regarding the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate is a “dead” story after anchor Lou Dobbs drew attention for raising the issue repeatedly on his radio program.

The website TVNewser reported today that Klein sent an e-mail to staffers of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” just as the program went to air, informing them that CNN researchers had determined that Hawaiian officials discarded all paper documents in 2001. A long-form birth certificate with details about the doctor who delivered Obama no longer exists, they reported. The shorter Certificate of Live Birth noting Obama’s birth on Aug. 4, 1961, that has been made public is the official record.

“It seems to definitively answer the question,” Klein wrote, according to TVNewser. “Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead -- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef.”

In his show Thursday, Dobbs did note the explanation from Hawaiian officials, though he went on to devote another segment to the topic, interviewing CNN contributor Roland Martin and Rep. Ted Poe, a co-sponsor of a bill that would require future presidential candidates to produce their birth certificates.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/07/cnn-president-jon-klein-declares-birther-story-dead.html

[TrogL]

1. I believe the legal term is "document of record"

I have a nice little plastic card that is my "birth certificate" and is the only thing I am allowed to use when this document is requested. If I were to actually come up with the "original", I wouldn't be allowed to use it and I'd probably be charged with theft (of the original) and/or presenting a false document.

[TheKentuckian]

2. The danger of being written off as a loon was too high. It was time for Lou to get back

to his regularly scheduled racism quick or risk losing on that front too.

[annabanana]

3. "Hawaiian officials discarded all paper documents in 2001"?!?!?!?!?

omg!! - Hawaii is IN ON THE SCAM!!

[EarlG]

4. So much for this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6140765&mesg_id=6140765

:D

[wndycty]

5. Well Lou may tell CNN's president to piss off. . .

. . .and then it gets interesting.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Lou is going rogue!!!

:rofl:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. Lets hope so!

[NatBurner]

6. i guess it's back to hating on mexicans for an hour, eh lou?

old buck-toothed goat-smelling fart knocker

[leftynyc]

7. Was this before or after

the Southern Poverty Law Center asked for Dobb's firing?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8550184

[kestrel91316]

8. Certified copies of vital records are ALWAYS "the official record".

They are "certified" to be true and complete. That's what constitutes certifying a doc.

[pdxmom]

11. I doubt this will stop Lou from talking about this on his radio show. N/T