{"id":7319,"date":"2012-03-06T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2012-03-06T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T08:01:42","slug":"bucks-for-birthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/bucks-for-birthers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks for Birthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three days ago in Birtherism in Brewerstan<\/a>, I covered Crazy Joe Arpaio\u2019s attempt to resurrect the absurd Birther conspiracy theory.  Spreading GOP lies may not be the only motive for this move.  It has turned out to be a test for the financial gullibility of the sheeple in the InsaniTEA wing of the Republican Party.  It\u2019s fleecing time!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6birther\"By his own account, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio\u2019s investigation<\/a> into the president\u2019s birth certificate is far from over. But already, the supposedly volunteer investigator leading the sheriff\u2019s probe is raking in a profit from it.<\/p>\n

Michael Zullo, the investigator who took center stage at Arpaio\u2019s news conference last week, has already co-authored an e-book about his investigation and is selling it for $9.99 on Amazon [Teabuggery delinked] and Barnes & Noble [Teabuggery delinked].<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book gives Zullo a financial motive to continue stoking the flames of a conspiracy theory that has been debunked numerous times by an array of independent investigations.<\/p>\n

On Thursday<\/a>, Arpaio and Zullo took to a podium in Phoenix to declare that after six months of investigating they believe the president\u2019s birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery.<\/p>\n

In doing so, they joined the ranks of a fringe group of writers and activists who generally believe Obama is ineligible to be president because they doubt he was truly born in the United States.<\/p>\n

The pair stopped short of saying they believe the president is illegitimate, but Arpaio said repeatedly that the investigation is \u201cnot over.\u201d<\/p>\n

A day before the grand announcement, Zullo\u2019s e-book quietly went up for sale online. It was first spotted<\/a> on Friday by a journalist for Phoenix television station KTVK\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I strongly suspect that Arpaio role in this is to provide name recognition to Zullo\u2019s swill for their mutual profit.  I wonder how many sheeple will say Ba-a-a-a-a-a with credit cards in hand?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three days ago in Birtherism in Brewerstan, I covered Crazy Joe Arpaio\u2019s attempt to resurrect the absurd Birther conspiracy theory.  Spreading GOP lies may not be the only motive for this move.  It has turned out to be a test for the financial gullibility of the sheeple in the InsaniTEA wing of the Republican Party.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}