Politics

Journo: Clinton surrogate Sid Blumenthal ‘spread the Obama birther rumor’

Blumenthal
Blumenthal — Screengrab: You

On Friday, James Asher, the former Washington bureau chief for McClatchy, issued a tweet saying that Clinton surrogate Sid Blumenthal personally pitched the Obama birther story to him during the 2008 campaign.

https://twitter.com/jimasher/status/776607521234685952

He wasn’t finished:

https://twitter.com/jimasher/status/776612456135262212

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

According to Asher, Blumenthal asked the media outlet to investigate the issue:

https://twitter.com/jimasher/status/776633213015982080

Blumenthal, the Daily Caller added, “is a former aide to Clinton’s husband Bill Clinton and their long-time friend.”

Twitchy, citing McClatchy, said a reporter was sent to Kenya to look into the issue:

“During the 2008 Democratic primary, Sid Blumenthal visited the Washington Bureau of McClatchy Co.,” Asher said in an email Friday to McClatchy, noting that he was at the time the investigative editor and in charge of Africa coverage.

“During that meeting, Mr. Blumenthal and I met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false.

“At the time of Mr. Blumenthal’s conversation with me, there had been a few news articles published in various outlets reporting on rumors about Obama’s birthplace. While Mr. Blumenthal offered no concrete proof of Obama’s Kenyan birth, I felt that, as journalists, we had a responsibility to determine whether or not those rumors were true. They were not.”

Now, Hillary Clinton is trying to pin the birther conspiracy on GOP nominee Donald Trump, even though it was her people who actually started it years before.

Naturally, the Democrat-media complex is pushing the party line that neither Clinton nor her team had anything to do with the controversy.

But Jake Tapper says he’s looking into this:

Can you say “deplorable?”

Related:

If you haven’t checked out and liked our Facebook page, please go here and do so.

And if you’re as concerned about Facebook censorship as we are, go here and order this new book:

Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad
Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad – Source: Author (used with permission)

Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

Related Articles

Our Privacy Policy has been updated to support the latest regulations.Click to learn more.×