{"id":27329,"date":"2018-01-11T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27329"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:27:27","slug":"birtherism-its-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27329","title":{"rendered":"Birtherism: It&#8217;s back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arpaio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27330\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arpaio-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arpaio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arpaio-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arpaio.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Political nut jobs have this annoying way of getting attention they don&#8217;t deserve.<\/p>\n<p>The newest Exhibit A of this phenomenon happens to be the new Republican candidate for the U.S. senator from Arizona, the former Maricopa County sheriff and convicted (and later pardoned) felon Joe Arpaio.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-sheriff says former President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate is a phony document. He doesn&#8217;t believe the 44th president was born in Hawaii. He said he has &#8220;evidence&#8221; that the president served two terms illegally. Will he produce the &#8220;evidence&#8221;? No, he said on CNN last night.<\/p>\n<p>He had this exchange with Chris Cuomo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><em>&#8220;We have the evidence, nobody will talk about it, nobody will look at it, and anytime you want to come down or anybody we&#8217;ll be glad to show you the evidence,&#8221; Arpaio said.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><em>Cuomo pressed Arpaio again on the topic: &#8220;So you believe that President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate is a phony?&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><em>&#8220;No doubt about it,&#8221; Arpaio said<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ugghh! No, double, maybe <em>triple ugghh!<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the guy, lest we forget, who was convicted of disobeying a federal court order that mandated he stop profiling Hispanics in his quest to find illegal immigrants. He then was pardoned by the president of the United States, the nation&#8217;s &#8220;birther in chief,&#8221; Donald John Trump Sr.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now he wants to serve in the U.S. Senate?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please. No!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political nut jobs have this annoying way of getting attention they don&#8217;t deserve. The newest Exhibit A of this phenomenon happens to be the new Republican candidate for the U.S. senator from Arizona, the former Maricopa County sheriff and convicted (and later pardoned) felon Joe Arpaio. The ex-sheriff says former President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birtherism: It&#8217;s back!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[540,6860,1043,1424,7266,5051],"class_list":["post-27329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-birtherism","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-arpaio","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27331,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329\/revisions\/27331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}