Just when you thought the birthers couldn't get more offensive, apparently they have. People for the American Way noticed that last week, the lead investigator for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "investigation" (read: fishing expedition) that "concluded" Obama's birth certificate was fake hinted that Ann Dunham might not be Obama's real mother.
Mike Zullo dropped by Peter Boyles' show on KNUS in Denver last week to talk about an investigation of his own that he's launched into Obama's birth certificate. When Boyles asked Zullo if he thought Obama's Social Security number and birth certificate were real, Zullo said flatly that he thought they were fake, and that Obama isn't who he says he is. He then dropped a bombshell--he thought that in order to get more answers about who Obama "really" is, "I would be focusing real hard on who's the mommy." Listen to the audio here. It came from pro-birther site Birther Report, so pile up the dislikes.
Did I just hear a dog whistle? At risk of veering into tinfoil hat territory, this sort of talk plays right into the traditional stereotype of black kids being born illegitimately. But even if it isn't veiled racism, Boyles did not even try to cut Zullo off when he made this outrageous claim. I thought that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.