Facts, History Don't Matter: AP Refuses to Acknowledge That Hillary Started the 'Birther' Controversy
By Tom Blumer | September 25, 2016 | 10:32 PM EDT
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In a "Fact Check" published Wednesday afternoon, the Associated Press's Thomas Beaumont insisted that Donald Trump's September 16 statement that "Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy," namely that then-candidate Barack Obama was not born in the United States, "is as untrue as his original lie." Some readers who don't get past paragraph three might even believe that Trump started it all. And this is a "fact check"?
Beaumont's bluster appears to be in response to center-right bloggers and pundits who correctly refuse to let Hillary Clinton campaign and her gatekeepers in the press get away with revising history and ignoring new corroborating facts. To believe Beaumont, one has to believe that longtime Clinton aide and confidant Sidney Blumenthal's rumor-shopping to various members of the press doesn't matter, because he "was not officially part of the (Hillary Clinton 2008) campaign staff." What rubbish. The facts show that he was much more important to Hillary Clinton than that.
A September 20 Washington Examiner editorial reminds us that Blumenthal's association with the Clintons and with smear operations on their behalf goes back almost two decades (link is in original; bolds are mine throughout this post):
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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