In his June 27 column published at WorldNetDaily and Newsmax, Pat Boone joins the birther conspiracy by repeating discredited claims.
Boone wrote of the birth certificate released by the Obama campaign: “Some found the document, which does not list the hospital of birth or attending physician, to be fake.” In fact, FactCheck.org has “seen, touched, examined and photographed” the certificate and declared to the authentic — a claim that has not been credibly contradicted. Further, WorldNetDaily itself has declared the certificate to be “authentic” — a claim it has never retracted.
Boone also asserted that “some reported seeing a videotaped proclamation by his paternal step-grandmother that she was in the delivery room and saw Barack H. Obama born in Mombasa, in what is now Kenya!” As we’ve detailed, the claim that Sarah Obama made such an assertion is bogus.
Boone also forwards some baseless theorizing by the right-wing United States Justice Foundation that Obama’s mother was “about to have her child in Kenya, had booked a flight to Hawaii but was prohibited from flying because delivery was so imminent.” Boone (or the USJF, for that matter) offers any evidence to back up this claim.
And that’s pretty much it — discredited claims and baseless right-wing conspiracy-mongering. That’s all Pat Boone has to offer. Sad, isn’t it?
UPDATE: The Washington Independent and Salon weigh in.