In a Nov. 18 WorldNetDaily article, Bob Unruh recounts a New Hampshire hearing starring Orly Taitz, who was trying to get the state to kick President Obama off the election ballot for 2012 “because of suspicions of fraud” — in this case, what Taitz claims is “evidence concerning Obama’s use of a Social Security number from Connecticut, even though he has no links to the state while growing up.” It’s a lazy article — Unruh portrays the hearing as told by Taitz herself in a phone interview. He did note that “A spokesman at the commission’s office today told WND that the members had “broken up” their meeting and left immediately, leaving no information about any decisions they made.”
Because Unruh was so lazy about covering this, you won’t hear about Taitz’s latest disrespectful antics.
According to the Concord Monitor, which unlike WND actually covered the hearing, Taitz howled that “This is bigger than Watergate. This is a hundred times bigger than Watergate,” and repeated the standard birther argument that Obama’s birth certificate is fake: “A child can see this is a forgery.”
The New Republic went on to note that after House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt rejected Taitz’s demand that Secretary of State Bill Gardner be removed for failing to address Obama’s purported fraudulence, Taitz exhibited the unprofessional behavior she has become known for by going on a tirade:
Mr. Betancourt (sic), my appearance before the committee was not an outburst, but a testimony with an undeniable proof of Barack Obama using a stolen Social Security number, forged birth certificate, committing elections fraud and treason. Your answer shows that you are another corrupt and dirty politician, who is maliciously disregarding the truth and the Constitution of this nation, who needs to be removed from the position of the Republican majority leader and who should be and will be tried for treason against this nation together with other corrupt politicians who put a complete fraud and a criminal wthout any valid US identification papers in the White House.
As Slate’s David Weigel notes, that drew this rebuke from Bettencourt:
Your outburst was unbecoming of any legitimate political dialogue, never mind one as ridiculous as the continued obsession over President Obama’s birth place. I have spoken to the Representatives who were present and expressed to them my strong desire that they immediately disassociate themselves from you and this folly. This country has an opportunity in less than a year to replace this President and it is my fervent hope that we will do so. However, I wholeheartedly reject your request to remove Secretary Gardner or any attempt to bring a criminal complaint of elections fraud or treason.
Will WND report Taitz’s childish ranting to its readers? Don’t count on it.