TPM is reporting A new birther infomercial is currently running on CBS affiliate in Texas and elsewhere around the country.
The POS behind this is attorney Gary Kreep, executive director of the Ramona, CA-based Birther group United States Justice Foundation.
He told TPMmuckraker in an interview today that the initial buy was for two and half weeks at TV stations around the country, and he's now looking into a second round buy. He says he'll give us a list of stations playing the infomercial
One of them is CBS affiliate KLBK in Lubbock, Texas. That's where Lubbock resident Jim Schermbeck saw the infomercial last night at around 12:30 a.m., after The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, he tells TPMmuckraker. A scheduler at the station confirmed to us that the infomercial is running, but the employee in charge of paid programming did not immediately return our calls.
In its first week on the air, the infomercial generated "something like 1500 to 2000 faxes," Kreep says. The money goes to the price of the faxes and to the cost of airing the program, with any extra money going to the United States Justice Foundation.
The program was produced by LivePrayer.com, a Web site affiliated with Bill Keller, a fundamentalist Christian minister who was imprisoned in the late 1980s after an insider trading conviction and now claims to have given his life to God. How convenient to use God as a cover for hate.
I checked out Lubbock County 2008 election results and not surprisingly it is a wingnut stronghold. Almost 70% voted for McCain.