Commentary On The "Birther" Conspiracy Theory

David Freddoso points out that "twenty-eight percent of Republicans believe President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and 30 percent are "not sure," according to this poll. But before liberals begin to smirk, here's a poll from 2007, in which 35 percent of Democrats said that President Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks, and 26 percent were not sure. So if 58 percent of Republicans are living in a delusional fantasy world because they are out of power, then 61 percent of Democrats were doing the same thing until just recently (perhaps they still are). It's a clean, apples-to-apples comparison with a clear lesson: People get a bit kooky when they're out of power, Democrats about 3 points kookier -- which is probably within the margin of error."

Yet for some reason I doubt that MSNBC and the mainstream media in general provided the 9-11 Truthers nearly the same attention it has been devoting to the Birthers. Why would that be the case? Bias, perhaps?

For another article on the "birther" media frenzy by Andrew C. McCarthy, visit http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmJhMzlmZWFhOTQ3YjUxMDE2YWY4ZDMzZjZlYTVmZmU Tweet