Posted by Orin Kerr:
"Because of the Internet, all points of view can live forever.":
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_07-2008_12_13.shtml#1228710776
The [1]Chicago Tribune has a story, via Howard, arguing that the
Internet is helping to keep alive the very silly rumors that Obama's
birth certificate has been forged and that he is ineligible for the
presidency:
This is a different army at work, in an environment increasingly
influenced by the Internet.
"It's only being mentioned by a relative few, by the real
die-hard, anti-Obama crowd," said Michael Harrison, editor and
publisher of Talkers magazine, the trade bible of the talk-radio
industry. "On mainstream talk radio, it's not a big deal right now.
I think it's run its course."
"But," Harrison added, "we live in a time that, because of the
Internet, all points of view can live forever."
I suspect that when we get to the bottom of the Obama birth
certificate story, we will learn that Obama's true mother is Trig
Palin. I mean, have you noticed that that there are no photographs
available of Trig Palin in 1961, the year Obama was born? What is the
media hiding?
References
1.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-birth-certificate1dec08,0,7258812.story
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