{"id":2020,"date":"2009-08-03T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/08\/03\/birthers_can_neither_be_ignored_nor_engaged"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:41:24","slug":"birthers_can_neither_be_ignored_nor_engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/08\/03\/birthers_can_neither_be_ignored_nor_engaged","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Birthers&#8221; can neither be ignored nor engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/aug\/02\/obama-birthers-us-presidency\">To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless<\/a> by Gary Younge in today&#8217;s Guardian<\/p>\n<p>They shouldn&#8217;t be engaged with, according to Gary Younge, because their claims are fantastic and have been proven wrong again and again; they can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Also, thanks to Ginny, someone debunked a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/8\/2\/761071\/-Birthers-crack-the-case!\">fake Kenyan birth certificate<\/a> in a diary on Daily Kos by pointing out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/8\/2\/761144\/-Debunking-the-unbearably-stupid\">series of facts<\/a> which meant it couldn&#8217;t be genuine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless by Gary Younge in today&#8217;s Guardian They shouldn&#8217;t be engaged with, according to Gary Younge, because their claims are fantastic and have been&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-wA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}