Right Wing Watch reports that Bill Armistead, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, told an audience of Republican women that they should see the “documentary” Dreams of My Real Father, which claims that Obama’s real father is Frank Marshall Davis, who is supposedly a communist. And they point out how this movie has caused a wingnut rift:
Gilbert’s film has divided the birther movement, since its assertion that Davis is Obama’s real father would seem to be incompatible with the theory that the president was born in Kenya. Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily, apparently untroubled by the contradiction, has embraced the film. Birther leader Orly Taitz, however, claims that by promoting the film, Corsi is “trying to kill the case by making up an American citizen father for Obama.”
It also contradicts Dinesh D’Souza’s equally nutty documentary about Obama inheriting an “anti-colonial” mindset from his father, Barack Obama Sr. This is so much fun, isn’t it? Someone should make a documentary about these conflicting documentaries. They all know Obama is evil, but can’t agree on exactly why.
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DaveL
September 24, 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Fixed.
Michael Heath
September 24, 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I see no problems with birthers, those who think the president is a Muslim, or those who claim he’s a socialist accepting all assertions simultaneously.
Alverant
September 24, 2012 at 1:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
September 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s worse than we thought: He has two fathers, both evil.
Larry
September 24, 2012 at 1:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey, when you’re the antichrist, you are able to appear in many disguises to different people at the same time. Its what makes Obama such a potent, evil, enemy.
Oh, and the fact that he is black.
slc1
September 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Whatever happened to the hypothesis that Obama’s father was really Malcolm X?
John Hinkle
September 24, 2012 at 1:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And we all know who else had two fathers. That’s right, Jesus!
lofgren
September 24, 2012 at 1:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Obviously Frank Marshall Davis impregnated Obama Sr., and then they placed the Kenyan baby with Ann Dunham like some kind of brood parasite.
Christoph Burschka
September 24, 2012 at 1:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They also can’t seem to decide whether he’s a Muslim, an atheist or a satanist.
roggg
September 24, 2012 at 1:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There’s almost as many creation myths for Obama as there are for the universe. This is fun!
timgueguen
September 24, 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What benefit is it to the right if Obama’s dad was a Communist? It’s not illegal to have a Communist father. They might also want to consider the can of worms claiming this makes Obama an illegitimate president would open for their candidates.
Didaktylos
September 24, 2012 at 1:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
No you see what happened was a time travelling cloning operation. A way was found to create a child with two genetic fathers and no mother …
Area Man
September 24, 2012 at 2:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
As we’ve learned from the wingnuts, a person’s religion, ideology, and loyalty to a nation are all 100% inherited. Their own pundits who purport to be former left-wing radicals or satanists before they found Jesus don’t count of course.
matthewpickard
September 24, 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I am surprised that the Birthers haven’t claimed that the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to Obama because his father (Barack Senior) wasn’t born in the U.S. Who cares what Obama mindset is? I mean, if you’re going all in, why not go all in?
oranje
September 24, 2012 at 2:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The “Obama’s father is a communist so he must be” line would be great coming from Murray.
Stevarious
September 24, 2012 at 2:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
DEEP RIFTS!!1!
crowepps
September 24, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The fact that his mother was definitely a citizen being totally irrelevant? Weird how race bigots are usually misogynists.
thalwen
September 24, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Two fathers? No wonder he’s shoving gay marriage down our throats.
Wingnuts don’t really understand or care what Communism, socialism, Islam, etc. are, they just know they’re evil so you can be all of the above without contradicting each other.
YankeeCynic
September 24, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh. My. God. THOSE RED BASTARDS FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE MARXISM GENERIC!!!!1one
We’re through the looking glass here people!
YankeeCynic
September 24, 2012 at 3:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That sarcastic second sentence should have read “genetic.”
The autocorrect people are in on this nightmare too!
Abby Normal
September 24, 2012 at 3:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wait, I think I’ve seen this episode. Spoiler alert, his real father is actually his mother!
Michael Heath
September 24, 2012 at 3:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
matthewpickard writes:
That was a popular argument when the birthers were initially getting the public’s attention. I haven’t followed them since I’m unaware of much it gets bandied about now.
Tsu Dho Nimh
September 24, 2012 at 3:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If Davis is Obama’s real father … he’s an American citizen!
YAY!
iknklast
September 24, 2012 at 5:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“There’s almost as many creation myths for Obama as there are for the universe.”
Total win. I’m stealing this!
thalwen
September 24, 2012 at 5:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The stupid thing is, that it doesn’t matter who the father is. It could be Satan, or Darth Vader or the Pope, as long as the mother is an American citizen, so is the kid. Oddly, I’ve only seen one birther claim that Obama’s mother isn’t his real mother, most of them are all about the father, making their already stupid point that much more stupid.
Yoritomo
September 24, 2012 at 5:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Arguably Obama could be Frank Marshall Davis’ biological son and still be influenced by Obama Sr.’s anti-colonial attitudes.
I really like Taitz’ attitude: She doesn’t critizise Corsi because the claims are wrong, but because they are bad for the movement, and more precisely don’t acknowledge Taitz’ role and work. Good to know her priorities. Her reaction is from April, though: Old news.
Another amusing sidenode: Taitz claims she worked for her cause “for 4 years 24/7/365“. Does she only sleep on leap days?
amyjane
September 24, 2012 at 8:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Gee whiz. Do they know what chromosome Communism is on?
some bastard on the net
September 24, 2012 at 9:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@crowepps #17
It’s worse than you know. One of the trailers for Dreams of my Real Father is actually trying to make the case that Ann Dunham was a nude pinup model based on nothing more than a vague resemblance to Marcy Moore.
llewelly
September 24, 2012 at 10:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant) says:
September 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm:
You forgot Malcom X. Three fathers.
democommie
September 25, 2012 at 6:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“And we all know who else had two fathers. That’s right, Jesus!”
That’s heresy! We all know that JESUS only had ONE daddy. Wadeaminnit!! That means he came from a single parent home!!!
sunsangnim
September 25, 2012 at 7:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If ideology is genetically inherited, then Romney really is way too moderate for the Tea Party crowd to support him.