The "birthers" may have just jumped the shark, said Jimmy Orr in The Christian Science Monitor. Orly Taitz, "a longtime chieftain of the birther posse (and a dentist)," imploded during an MSNBC appearance Monday, (watch Orly Taitz on MSNBC) accusing anchor David Shuster of being one of President Obama's "Brownshirts" in the media. And all Shuster did was ask perfectly legitimate questions about why Obama's mother would have lied and put birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers if he had really been born in Kenya.
The Orly Taitz vs. David Shuster shouting match was "a video testament to the buffoonery of both sides," said Allahpundit in Hot Air. "Taitz was on to promote a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama that was debunked within about 10 minutes after it hit the web." MSNBC was out to "humiliate her" by exposing the document's flaws, "except that they, er, forgot to ask her about it. Good stuff."
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