オバマの出生地の疑問を仄めかすだけで、オバマを支援するメデアが攻撃する一例。オバマのハワイ出生地への疑問を投げかける事実があるにもかかわらず、保守派の陰謀として、真実から目を背けさせる努力がいたるところに見られる。
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Candidate's son makes Obama/Kenya joke
3:12PM EDT October 15. 2012 - The campaign of a Republican Senate candidate has apologized for a Kenya joke about President Obama made by the candidate's son.
Jason Thompson, the son of former governor and current Senate candidate Tommy Thompson, told a brunch sponsored by the Kenosha County Republican Party: "We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago -- or Kenya."
One woman said: "We are taking donations for that Kenya trip."
Obama's father was born in Kenya, but the president was born in Honolulu.
The Huffington Post picks up the story:
"The video was taken by a Democratic Party operative and posted at BuzzFeed Politics on Sunday, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ...
'The governor has addressed this with his son, just like any father would do,' the campaign said in a statement. 'Jason Thompson said something he should not have, and he apologizes.'
Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin is running against Thompson. Her campaign's spokesman, John Kraus, said Monday that the Thompson campaign is becoming increasingly desperate and dishonest.
The candidate himself 'has not apologized for these comments, nor has he disavowed them,' Kraus wrote. 'Thompson needs to start taking responsibility for what his campaign says and does.'"
