As the fight over tasteless-to-racist Facebook posts continues to escalate between the DFL and Republican Party in Minnesota, the RPM's Tea Party allies in Rochester are doing their bit for the war effort.
On November 13, under the head note, "Notice anything???," the Rochester Tea Party Patriots posted the old canard "A 1981 Columbia University student ID card identifies Barack Obama as a foreign student named Barry Soetoro" that's listed in Snopes' "Card Trick" entry.
We've posted a screenshot.
Snopes rules that the claim is "False":
Numerous rumors have been circulated over the years claiming that Barack Obama attended college in the United States as a foreign student and/or under the name Barry Soetoro (the latter reflecting the surname of his Indonesian stepfather), evidence which would supposedly demonstrate that at some point in his life Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen and is therefore ineligible to hold the office of President of the United States. The image displayed here of a purported 1981 Columbia University student ID card identifying Barack Obama as a "foreign student" named "Barry Soetoro" is yet another entry in this vein.
However, the ID card pictured above is not a real Columbia University student ID issued to Barack Obama (under any name) in 1981; it's simply an altered version of a Columbia University ID card issued to another student in 1998. . .
Aditionally, the pictured card couldn't possibly have have been a Columbia University student ID issued to Barack Obama in 1981, as the digital ID card format it uses wasn't introduced at Columbia until 1996.
Finally, the pictured ID card is obviously a forgery, as the photograph it bears is not a picture of a 20-year-old Barack Obama from 1981; it's a picture taken several years later, during or shortly after Barack Obama's time at Harvard Law School (1988-1991).
More here on the Fakeness of the ID.
Apparently none of the RTPP's facebook fans are the least bit skeptical of the birther claim. Diana Lynn Friemann, who lists her employers Impeach Obama Now, Stop Workplace Bullies Now! and Stop Workplace Bullying and Harassment is outraged because she notices something:
Diana Lynn Friemann Yeah, it says foreign student! He was born in Kenya there're he can't be our pres! Take him to court! Oust him! Where did u get this?
The Rochester teabaggers got it from FaithFamilyFreedom.com, billed as a conservative news site, which posted the image on its own Tea Party United Facebook page on November 13 as well. So far, 5,862 people like the image and there have been 5,051 shares. Over 1,000 people have commented, mostly to say that it's old news and a shame that nothing can be done about it.
Update: MNCD1 GOP contender Jim Hagedorn was at the meeting last night, according to his Facebook page.
Screenshot: The Rochester Tea Party Patriots share a birther moment. As we pointed out yesterday in SNAP judgment: Roch Tea Party Patriots guest repeats food stamp user/wild animal analogy, the local Republican county BPOU and the RTPP are pretty close.
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He was a non citizen but it was before he was a he, or a fetus, or anything else
Posted by: Shivabeach | Nov 16, 2013 at 07:52 PM
These are the Best and the Brightest of Conservatism?
This is the best the conservative movement has to offer?
No wonder Barry Goldwater bailed on these people before he died.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Nov 16, 2013 at 11:50 PM