{"id":5237,"date":"2010-08-24T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/08\/24\/first-there-were-birthers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:44","slug":"first-there-were-birthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"First There Were the Birthers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19060,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.borowitzreport.com\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/23\\\/poll-one-out-of-five-americans-do-not-believe-obama-exists&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.borowitzreport.com\\\/2010\\\/08\\\/23\\\/poll-one-out-of-five-americans-do-not-believe-obama-exists&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:19061,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bostonherald.com\\\/news\\\/regional\\\/view\\\/20100824fishermen_plan_obama_vacation_protest\\\/srvc=home&amp;position=recent&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Now there are the Existers. According to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/2010\/08\/23\/poll-one-out-of-five-americans-do-not-believe-obama-exists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Borowitz Report<\/a>, one in five Americans does not believe Barack Obama exists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cThe Birthers say that Obama\u2019s lack of a birth certificate means he was born in Kenya,\u201d says Jerrilene Rance, a leading Exister.  \u201cWe believe it\u2019s proof that he was never born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Rance says that while President George W. Bush was criticized for disappearing every August, \u201cObama is never there to begin with.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;I can&#8217;t speak to the legitimacy of their claims but I do know that<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/regional\/view\/20100824fishermen_plan_obama_vacation_protest\/srvc=home&amp;position=recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a bunch of angry fishermen plan a protest<\/a> in Vineyard Haven to coincide with the Obama family vacation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now there are the Existers. According to the Borowitz Report, one in five Americans does not believe Barack Obama&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}