Brian Williams: The Palace Guard

With at least 58 percent of the American public now questioning Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to serve as president – and still only getting ridiculed by the major media – some are turning to civil disobedience in one form or another.

Thursday, a passionate young woman who has been demonstrating outside the White House for over three years about the issue interrupted the reading of the Constitution in the House of Representatives when a member got to Article 2, Section 1, which lays out presidential eligibility requirements.

"Except Obama!" she shouted. "Except Obama! Help us Jesus!"

Meanwhile, a distinguished Army surgeon, Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, is serving a prison sentence for simply asking for proof of Obama's eligibility before being deployed to a foreign war, again, under his command.

Attorneys who have brought lawsuits demanding proof Obama is a "natural born citizen" as the Constitution requires have been fined for following the legal remedies. Several U.S. citizens who have brought lawsuits have been told they don't have legal standing to challenge the president. The handful of journalists who have pressed the issue have been caricatured as conspiracy theorists because they simply want to see the documentation that will prove Obama eligible or ineligible.

Then along comes Brian Williams of NBC News on Thursday.

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Evidently, Williams sees his position as a member of the White House palace guard.

In an interview with new House Speaker John Boehner, he showed no concern for the majority opinion of Americans – only concern for protecting Barack Obama's birth secrets. And well he should since he is a part of the media establishment that failed miserably in getting answers to these fundamental questions of American governance through journalistic malfeasance.

Now, Williams and his colleagues in the establishment press have a vested interest in stonewalling on Obama's secrets – almost as much as Obama himself does.

Can you imagine how much egg will be required to cover the faces of the entire media elite if and when Obama's dirty little secrets are unveiled publicly?

I don't know exactly what those secrets are, but I know they must be very important to Obama. Why else would he go to such lengths to hide his birth certificate and virtually every other document about his past – from passport records to school records to health records? I don't pretend to know what he's concealing, but it doesn't take a multimillion-dollar TV news anchor salary to conclude that he is.

I've been in the news business for more than 30 years. What have I learned in that time?

Lesson No. 1: "Politicians lie."

Lesson No. 2: "Politicians cover up their lies and mistakes."

Apparently Brian Williams never learned this lesson. The only alternative conclusion is that he reveres Barack Obama so much that he is willing to serve as an unofficial member of his palace guard, betraying his professional duty as a journalistic watchdog on the high and mighty.

He is hardly alone in that position.

But watch carefully his grilling of Boehner.

His goal is to get Boehner, the highest elected Republican in the country, to side with Obama and the media against even his own colleagues.

I didn't like Boehner's conclusion that what the state of Hawaii has said about Obama's birth is enough for him. As speaker of the House, he should know that Hawaii's statements have been both contradictory and ambiguous at best on the issue of Obama's birth. It is simply not the job of the state of Hawaii's health department to determine the constitutional eligibility of the president. It should be John Boehner's and the new House of Representatives.

This was a warning shot by Williams to Boehner: It was a signal that you better not mess with this issue of eligibility. You can have fun with health care. You can argue about taxes. You can read the Constitution all day long in the House. But just don't actually take the Constitution seriously when it comes to Article 2, Section 1.