RC Radio celebrates two years on Blogtalkradio

This month marks the second anniversary of Reality Check Radio (originally Land of the Obots). Over the next few weeks there will be a special Wednesday night show that will feature some of the more entertaining (IMHO) shows from the first years of the show. Tonight's feature is a replay of the show with Rikker and Jimbot as they reported on the case of Rivernider v US Bank and a hearing held on January 12, 2010 before magistrate Judge Snow in Florida. The circumstances of the hearing are not really of importance except that it brought together for the first time in one court room a collection of birther crazies never equaled since.

Tune in at 9 PM EDT: Great Episodes from the past: The Rivernider Hearing

Dentist Orly Taitz must think all drilling is the same

Dentist and self proclaimed constitutional and civil rights attorney Orly Taitz must be confusing drilling cavities with drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. How else could one explain Orly's latest escapade? it is her attempt to intervene in a case in federal court in Louisiana concerning the now expired ban on new off shore drilling permits imposed by the Obama administration after Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and massive oil spill over a year ago.

Last night our friend Georgetown JD gave us a first hand report on the impromptu motion hearing yesterday in New Orleans that was granted by Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Wilkerson, Jr. despite Taitz's failure to follow local rules and properly request oral arguments. Judge Wilkerson followed other well meaning judges down the garden path and let Orly have a a hearing she didn't deserve.

Also, thanks to Stern for calling and providing the great analysis of the local rules for the Eastern District of Louisiana and Taitz latest desperate antics. Stern had the quote of the night:

"All Orly wanted to do was to slime President Obama and put out on the public record that there is now an official document on file in a federal court in Louisiana from two "experts" [amateurs she recruited on her blog] claiming that the recently released long form birth certificate is fraudulent.     ... She is a shit disturber. She is a helter-skelter person who just wants to create crap and spread lies and she doesn't care how she does it."

I couldn't have said it better, Stern. 

(To listen to the show just click on the BlogTalk Radio player on the right side of the page.)

Here is the full report on the hearing posted yesterday on Jack Ryan's SCRIBD page:

HORNBECK v SALAZAR (E.D. LA) SUMMARY OF MOTION TO INTERVENE HEARING OF ORLY TAITZ HELD 5-11-11

Dwight Eisenhower's Social Security number was geographically associated with California!

Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969

An RC Radio tip of the cap to poster "poutine" at The Fogbow who has obtained - legally - a copy of President Eisenhower's SS5 form. This is the form on which Ike applied and received his social security number in 1962. Guess what? Even though the mailing address listed on the application was "Gettysburg, PA". The number assigned was 572-64-0315. A quick check will reveal that the geographical location for the number beginning with "572" is California. So was Ike the first president to commit social security fraud? Will we have to close and raze the interstate highway system?

Of course Orly Taitz has literally made a federal case out of the fact that a social security number for Barack Obama has a prefix geographically associated with the state of Connecticut. The Social Security Administration cautions not to make too much of the geographical "area number" part of the social security numbers. The numbers are normally assigned based on the zip code where the SS5 forms are mailed today.Before 1972 the numbers were assigned based on the location of the office where the person applied for the number. We can all speculate on why at least two president's social security numbers are not geographically tied with their birth place but suffice it to say the odds are as low as Orly Taitz making a cogent legal filing that fraud was involved in either case.

RC Radio is contacting social security fraud expert Orly Taitz for comment. Stay tuned on that one.

President Eisenhower's SS-5

RC Radio Covers Barnett v Obama Tonight

Orly Taitz - World's Worst Attorney

There will be a special edition of RC Radio at 9 PM EDT tonight to cover the oral arguments in the Ninth Circuit in Barnett v Obama. I hope to have reports from several attendees on the sights and sounds of the arguments presented by Gary Kreep, Orly Taitz, and the US Attorneys.

[Updated May 3, 2:06 PM]

Thanks to Ducktape, Sterngard, and Wavey Davey for calling with their observations and analysis of the hearing. This was the fourth hearing in this case that WD has attended. That is worthy of an as yet unnamed award for watching Orly in action w/o getting violently ill. Thanks to Kate520 for her live blogging on TFB both from the night before and during the hearing yesterday. The audio of the hearing should be up shortly so we can see how accurate our reporters were. I have no doubts they were spot on with the analysis.

You can download a podcast of the complete show here or listen using this player:


[Updated May 4, 2011]
The video of the hearing is up now:

The Fogbow is down this morning

For those of you looking for The Fogbow forum Foggy is having some database issues this morning and it is down. I will post any updates here that I can find. Please feel free to uses this as an open thread for news.

[Update: TFB seems to be up and running again. Woohoo!]

RC Radio Special Comment

This is the editorial I read on the show tonight:

RC RADIO SPECIAL COMMENT

April 27, 2011

I checked The Fogbow about 9:15 this morning and there it was - news that Hawaii and  the President had released a copy of the Birther Holy Grail, the long form birth certificate. I quickly opened the link and found exactly what I expected to see. Barack H. Obama II was born at Kapi’olani Hospital and 7:24 PM on August 4^th, 1961. His mother had signed; the doctor had signed but I couldn’t read his handwriting. No surprise there. They all go to school to learn to write illegibly. The certificate number checked as did everything else. We even knew what the form would look like because we had seen them before. We had seen the ones supplied by Mrs. Nordyke. Dr. Conspiracy had even constructed a version of what he thought it would look like and it was damn close.

At first I felt vindicated. But at the same time I felt sad for our country. Sad that those complete racist lying scum bags known as birthers could find a lying racist scum bag leader like Donald Trump who could elevate this fringe movement to the media circus it had become that moved the President to do this. As always, President Obama put his country first. He knew that with this carnival sideshow controlling the news it would take the spotlight off the Republicans attempts to completely decimate the middle class in America at the expense of transferring even more wealth to their true constituency, the top 1% of the wealthy in this country. I watched Trump’s news conference with disgust. He may have well had said “well the nigger showed that nice shiny birth certificate. I made him do it. I can’t say whether it is real or not. Now let’s see the boy’s college records because no black boy could be that smart and get into Harvard. Oh yeah, did I tell you some of my best friends are Negroes?“  I can imagine what most blacks are thinking today. This is just another time when a black is held to a higher standard just to get to the same position.  How sad for our country that we have really progressed so little since my childhood when blacks had to pass rigged literacy tests just to vote.

And the birthers reacted predictably. They said it is a forgery, why did it take so long for him to release it? It doesn’t matter since his father was Kenyan. Not one of the familiar characters that we have followed on this show issued an apology. Are we surprised? No because they are lying scum bag racists. We already knew that.

I am prouder than ever of my President today. As a person of black heritage he must be seething inside that he would have to take such an unprecedented and somewhat humiliating step to get this lie out of the media so he can work on the real issues facing America. He loves America however, and that is why he did it. That is something these hate filled, racist, lying scum known as birthers who hate this country will never understand. I am ashamed for the Republicans who molly coddled this bunch of vermin for two years. Congratulations to a very few like Mitt Romney who called them out. To those people like Mark Hatfield, Carl Seel and May Beavers who crafted these racist birther bills you also have my disgust. To the liars like Joe Farah, Jerome Corsi, Phil Berg, Tim Adams, Orly Taitz, Terry Lakin, and Lucas Smith words just fail to express my contempt for you.

I hope that when history is written it will be noted that April 27, 2011 is the date that marked the end of the sad chapter in American history known as the Birther movement. We shall see won’t we? We shall see. I am planning a show next week just in case.

Where's the Birth Certificate?

Why it it's right here assholes:

Tune in for a special Wednesday night edition of RC Radio tonight along with a a RC Radio Special Comment.