Let me say right from the top that I think the Obama birth certificate controversy is complete BS. It’s a fringe issue for the kooks. If you’re a “birther” you have no credibility as far as I’m concerned. That said, I have to laugh at the position the governor of Hawaii now finds himself in. In an effort to stamp out the “birther” crap once and for all, Gov. Neil Abercrombie promised to release Obama’s birth certificate even if The White House didn’t want him to. Now he looks like an ass because he can’t find it. Rather than stamping out the controversy, he’s actually poured gasoline on it. 

His mistake was to get in the middle of the thing to begin with. You will never convince a conspiracy theorist that a conspiracy isn’t true. He can produce all the BC’s he wants, but the kooks will never believe it anyway. They’ll say the government created the birth certificate after Obama took office. Any explanation can be countered with another conspiracy theory.

A judicial hearing officer allowed Dan Rather’s conspiracy laden lawsuit to go forward today, but threw out all the silly conspiracy portions of it, which in effect rendered the suit nothing more than your typical contract dispute.

The lawyer said it was hard to see how the ex-anchor’s assertion of a conspiracy between CBS and the Bush administration “will have any traction going forward”.

Instead of accepting responsibility for his incredibly shoddy journalism and simply apologizing, Rather claimed the whole “Rathergate” scandal was a conspiracy between the White House and CBS News executives. The convoluted story Rather laid out in his lawsuit was so preposterous that it almost makes you almost feel sorry for him.

A man once considered a titan of journalism has been reduced to a crazy old guy mumbling to himself about his former employer conspiring with The White House to do him in.

-Chris Jones