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Any political issue is exactly as serious as the media decides to treat it. There have been a lot of changes in the influence of the media over the last 30 years, but that is still more or less the truth – even the stories that were pushed by blogs and alternative media only became stories when the media were effectively shamed into covering them.Questions about Obama’s eligibility for President were not a serious news story because the media made the a priori decision to make fun of anyone who raised them. As we noted this morning, look at the brutal disrespect and mockery Obama birthers got every time they were allowed to appear on TV. The tone of this story, from day one, was that it was not a serious story, and anyone who brought it up was a crackpot.Now as it happens, the media was pretty much right about the Obama birthers. But they would be equally right treating the Cruz birthers as crackpots, because they clearly are. The settled law for pretty much eternity has been that children of United States citizens who are born abroad are United States citizens at birth, the end. ....http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/08/foxnews-joins-cavalcade-idiot-ted-cruz-birthers/
