Busting Out the Old Saw

I was directed to classy journalistic piece of work on MSNBC today, done by Rachel Maddow. The whole piece was set out to dump on the "birthers", those who believe Barack Obama was not born an American citizen.

I noticed that they showed a "certificate of live birth" on the piece, but it was so fuzzy you could not see anything in detail. So I scoured the web a bit to see if I could find it. Sure enough, you can get a good look at it here. I have no idea whether Obama is an American born citizen or not, and I'm by no means a "certificate of live birth" expert, but I'd be willing to bet my life savings the document the Obama team provided is a fake.

Here are a few articles that do a little more in depth study of this certificate:

• Unstamped Certificate - Isralinsider
• Polarik's Final Report - Free Republic