Posted by
Steve on Monday, October 24, 2011 12:44:48 PM
Rick Perry made a comment in the last couple of days that has the government owned media in a tizzy. He said that he was not sure that the birth certificate that Barack Obama produced was authentic. Some on the right are also in a tizzy because they bought into the fiction that Barack Obama produced an authentic birth certificate. On the Barry Young show this morning, Barry Markson was on and went over this issue. He and Michelle Larson agreed that Rick Perry made a mistake going down this road.
What the government owned media and those on the right that bought into the Obama birth certificate idea are missing is the evidence against it. An expert on producing that kind of document worked on trying to reproduce the birth certificate. He did so after a lot of work trying to find out how the original forger did his/her job. He then produced a birth certificate that is nearly an exact copy of the original without copying anything that was used on the original birth certificate. In his opinion, the original forger wanted people to find out that it was a forgery, but he wanted to make it as authentic as possible. That way the controversy could continue and those that wanted to believe would be deceived and those that were skeptical would not believe. That is exactly what has happened.
Rick Perry mentioning his opinion on the birth certificate controversy was his mistake. His opinion is not the mistake it is mentioning it in public. Because he is running for office, he is under scrutiny from the government controlled press. To be skeptical of the birth certificate in their eyes is proof that you are not qualified to be President. This is despite the mounting evidence that the birth certificate was a forgery. So, yes Rick Perry made a gaffe, but it is not the gaffe he is being accused of making.
Any thinking person should have asked the question when the birth certificate was produced, why is this birth certificate being produced now? If this birth certificate is really the original, why not release it when the original inquiries came out? Why spend a lot of money trying to fight producing this document if you have it and what was produced was the original? Those are just some of the questions that needed to have answers when the birth certificate was produced. None of these questions were answered at the time and still have not been answered.
The government controlled press is playing a game of “gotcha” with the Republican candidates. That is an easy game to play. You keep asking questions that are designed to make the Republican candidate sound or look stupid. When they finally make a mistake, you cry “gotcha” and label the candidate as unfit for public office. If you do that often enough, you can winnow the field down to the candidates that you deem most acceptable to the liberal elite in the east. That is how the game has been played for many election cycles. With the arrival of the Tea Parties, the “gotcha” game does not work as well. When the government controlled press cries, “gotcha”, everyone knows what is going on. So the negative effect is minimized from this childish game.
You still don’t want to fall into the trap laid by the government controlled press. Rick Perry did just that. No matter what his opinion, he now has the albatross of his opinion on the birth certificate to carry around until November 2012. Can he overcome this albatross and still win? Yes! We still have to wait for the primaries to be held to determine who will eventually lead the Republicans into battle against the Progressives for the Presidency in November 2012.