"In Positive Economic Sign, Republicans Starting to Say Obama Wasn’t Born in US Again"

[krispos42]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]File this one under Humor is Stranger than Fiction:

I have been back and forth via email with some folks of a broad political spectrum (little or no party affiliation) about how bizarre the GOP primary has become. When Andy Borowitz tweets something hilarious: In Positive Economic Sign, Republicans Starting to Say Obama Wasn’t Born in US Again (full article below).

Hahaha, very funny — except for the numbers. The NYT’s Floyd Norris, on a hunch, decided to crunch them to see if there is any math underlying the funny business. As it turns out, there is: Anyone can check the numbers to see if Borowitz was right — he is.

The top graph shows the number of articles in Nexis, by month, in which the words “Obama” and “birth” appear within five words of each other. The bottom one shows the three-month average of jobs added in the economy.



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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/03/birther-economic-index/

[JNathanK]

1. They have plenty of real reasons to not like him.

However, they're so hung up on his race that they want to make it about him being the offspring of a foreigner.

He passed the NDAA bill and is probably going to sign HR 347 into law that makes free speech a felony in certain areas. There's a lot that's terrible about him and the Republican and Democratic parties as a generality. However, they want to focus on completely fictitious, irrelevant bs.