What's Next For The Birthers?

Yesterday, President Barack Obama allowed the world to see his "long-form birth certificate," proving something that was already widely known, but not accepted in some dank, idiotic circles: that he was born in the United States. And so, this great controversy has finally been put to rest. Ha, just kidding! It will do nothing of the sort, actually. Did you think that Pestilence is going to pull up short on his steed to tell the other Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse, "Yo, man, I'm out. I think that penicillin makes a lot of good points."
No, no. Implacable Birtherism and all of its attendant annoyances will roll on, in some cases evolving, but never dying off. The only question is: In trying to kill it, do you make it stronger?
For the moment, it appears that the birther true believers are just going to keep on believing. One thing I've continually pointed out is that there's no satisfying the dedicated birther. As with anyone in any "truth" movement, if you use facts to deny them the space to operate, their gaseousness just gets more concentrated in the areas that remain. And it's impossible to get people to play by the rules of logic and reality, if they've abandoned those principles from the outset.
It didn't take long for the people who have been fueling the fire to come out and say that they couldn't accept that it had been doused. Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips says that the birth certificate leaves other important questions to be answered. Birther attorney Phil Berg now says, "I don't care if he releases his birth certificate or whatever."
Orly Taitz, goggle-eyed "Queen Of The Birthers" called that release -- which should have been the final blow to her movement -- a "step in the right direction." Now she's insistent that the fact that Obama's father is listed as "African," and not "Negro," is a new damning fact.
The only thing that a dedicated conspiracist sees in the debunking of his conspiracy is more reasons to continue the conspiracy. If there's something that they can nitpick, it soon becomes a hole in the debunker's argument. And if need be, they can just start making things up, like ornate conspiracies over PDF layers, or "rollerball" pens.
But even if the birthers couldn't nitpick and reinvent the conspiracy back to life, they could always do the next best thing: cover their ears and shout, "Nyaah-nyaah-nyaah I don't hear you, I don't hear you."

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/obama-birth-certificate_n_854915.html