“Birthers” can neither be ignored nor engaged

To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless by Gary Younge in today’s Guardian

They shouldn’t be engaged with, according to Gary Younge, because their claims are fantastic and have been proven wrong again and again; they can’t be ignored because their claims are taken seriously by mainstream TV anchors and the right-wing media, and were running the country until recently.

Also, thanks to Ginny, someone debunked a fake Kenyan birth certificate in a diary on Daily Kos by pointing out a series of facts which meant it couldn’t be genuine.