Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WND.com and WND Books, will appear on Sean Hannity's syndicated radio program today at 4:05 p.m. EDT to discuss the questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.
The questions have been around – and WND has reported on the issues – since even before the 2008 election. That's when several legal challenges were filed contending that Obama has failed to document his eligibility under the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural born Citizen."
Few other organizations have followed the challenges – and reported on Obama's defense strategy of ignoring the questioners and ridiculing the question – as has WND, with literally hundreds of reports on the cases.
The new level of questioning was prompted when billionaire Donald Trump warred this week with Whoopi Goldberg over Obama's eligibility
"I want him to show his birth certificate! There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like," said Trump on ABC's "The View."
The comment enraged co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who fired back, "I think that's the biggest pile of dog mess I've heard in ages. It's not 'cause he's black is it?"
"It has nothing to do with that," said Trump.
Goldberg interjected, "Because I've never heard any white president asked to be shown the birth certificate. When you become a president of the United States of America, you know that he's American. I'm sorry, that's B.S."
Discussion of Obama's birth certificate can be seen in the following YouTube video:
"I really believe there's a birth certificate," Trump explained. "Why doesn't he show his birth certificate? And you know what? I wish he would. Because I think it's a terrible pall that's hanging over him. He should show his birth certificate.
"The other thing. If you go back to my first grade, my kindergarten, people remember me. Nobody from those early years remembers him. If you're going to be the president of the United States, it says very profoundly that you have to be born in this country."
As WND reported this week, not even one person in 10 says Barack Obama has shown that he is eligible to
be president, according to a new scientific poll
that also reveals political independents have less tolerance than even
Republicans for his efforts to obfuscate the issue. Another 32 percent would
disregard the questions entirely, concluding they are not valid.
Much of the concern centers on Obama's birth certificate – he's refused
to release his original document specifying the birth hospital and doctor's name, substituting instead a computer-generated
summary of information purportedly in the Hawaii state archives.
Hannity also took on the issue last night on his Fox News program.
The questions came on his "Great American Panel" show segment, when U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas; LeeAnn Tweeden, host of NBC's late-night "Poker After Dark;" and syndicated talker Jerry Springer were guests.
Burgess, Tweeden and Hannity actually ganged up on Springer, who claimed that questions about Obama's eligibility stem from his race, and not the fact that he grew up in Indonesia, his father never was a U.S. citizen and documents including his passport records, kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago scholarly articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records and schedules, medical records and adoption records remain out of public view.
Here's the exchange, excerpted by the left-leaning Media Matters:
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