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"The head of the Alabama Republican Party this week threw his support behind one of the most far-fetched theories of the already bizarre birther movement.
Speaking to a group of GOP diehards on Wednesday in Fairhope, Ala., party Chair Bill Armistead raved about a film called “Dreams From My Real Father.” The movie claims President Obama’s grandfather was a CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she’d been secretly impregnated by a communist.
The Mobile Press-Register reported that Armistead’s comments came after he was asked by someone in the group about another film, “2016: Obama’s Presidency,” which also weaves elaborate theories about the president’s upbringing.
“If you haven’t seen it, you should,” Armistead said, according to the newspaper. “But I’m going to tell you about another movie. The name of it is ‘Dreams From My Real Father.’ That is absolutely frightening. I’ve seen it. I verified that it is factual, all of it.”
Armistead’s comments were first posted to Twitter by the Press-Register’s political editor but quickly caught fire after being picked up by Right Wing Watch.
The 97-minute film, by director Joel Gilbert, has split the birther movement, which generally believes the president is not a natural born U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible to be president.
Instead of focusing on claims about the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate, the film is narrated by an Obama impersonator and claims the president is a closeted communist, bent on instilling a “classic Stalinist-Marxist agenda upon America at home and abroad.” A disclaimer for the film notes that many of the scenes are “re-creations of probable events, using reasoned logic, speculation, and approximated conversations.”
The film’s website does not list any upcoming screenings, but, according to the conspiracy site WND, Gilbert has said millions of copies were being sent to households in swing states this year."
Armistead's mum must have been impregnated by a redneck moron drunk on moonshine.
ReplyDeleteYour theory probably has more substance than Armistead's. He's a former state senator from a little town called Columbiana (in the middle of nowhere and south of Birmingham) with a population of 4,000. Here's more from Right Wing Watch.
Deletehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening
You can always count on Alabama for entertainment.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm dying with laughter.
DeleteCool! The possibilities for speculation about who/what Obama "really" is, based on who his father "really" was, are endless. We could have a superhero comic book based on his father being an alien. That would explain how he was able to turn invisible for everyone but Clint Eastwood when he went to the Republican convention.
ReplyDeleteI really doubt that "millions of copies" are being mailed to swing-state households since that would cost millions of dollars, but even if it's true, the only people likely to watch this thing and take it seriously are the kind of people who already think Obama's the Antichrist.
It's hard to tell. Apparently someone behind this has some deep pockets and copies have been sent out to residents in Ohio -- allegedly.
Deletehttp://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/22/millions-of-copies-of-anti-obama-movie-mailed-to-ohio-residents/
which got it from BuzzFeed.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/anti-obama-movie-mailed-to-1-million-ohioians
Just plain depressing.
ReplyDeleteIt is.
DeleteWell, if Obama is supposed to be carrying out a “classic Stalinist-Marxist agenda upon America at home and abroad” he either didn't get the memo or he's one underachieving socialist son of a Kenyan gun.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, is there a chance that a closer look at Armistead's Columbiana homestead would reveal it's in the kind of trailer park with waist-high grass "lawns," old sofas serving as outdoor furnishings, satellite antennas mounted on rusted pickup trucks that haven't run in a dozen years, and if you ask the owner, he'll show you his collection of old wooden privies, modern-day porta potties and the one he made out of beer cans?
And, if you go there and ask Armistead nicely, he'll probably tell you the names of the voices in his head telling him how dangerous Obama is.
LOL, LOL, LOL. Thanks for this early morning laugh and thank God I hadn't taken a sip of coffee right before reading it. I wouldn't mind doing a little online snooping to get some background on him but don't think I'd care to actually go there. He's probably take one look at my Obama sticker and blow my head off.
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ReplyDeleteSome things never change. And this country's enduring pile of batshit craziness is what the rightwingers have been saying about Democrats as long as I can remember. That a group of southerners is pushing this "Obama is the son of a commie" idiocy is nothing more than the same old rightwing hysteria in the 21st century.
Wow, Joanne. Chilling.
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