FOX IS BEGINNING TO PUKE-FUNNEL THE OBAMA-AT-COLUMBIA NONSENSE

Wayne Allyn Root, a guy who's been a sports handicapper, broadcaster, author, and libertarian political candidate, but mostly a self-promoting blowhard, failed four years ago to interest anyone outside the wingnuttosphere in his theory that his Columbia classmate Barack Obama never really attended the school, so now he's back talking that smack with a slight twist, over at Glenn Beck's Blaze, which is also widely ignored by non-wingnuts. Root's new twist is that Obama did attend Columbia, but under false pretenses:

If you could unseal Obama's Columbia University records I believe you'd find that:

A) He rarely ever attended class.
B) His grades were not those typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard Law School.
C) He attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student.
D) He paid little for either undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and scholarships given to a poor foreign students like this kid Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.

If you think I'm "fishing" then prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of?

I attended Columbia and graduated three years before these guys, and I'll cross (A) right off the list. Columbia transcripts don't record attendance, fer crissake -- it's not a high school. As for the rest, well, Root is just parroting what a lot of neo-birther crazies believe. And he's doing it at the site of a lunatic who once had a mainstream-media gig but was deemed too extreme and bizarre even for Fox.

So this charge is going to stay on the fringes -- right?

Er, no:




And the best-known Transcript Truther -- better known even than Root -- just so happens to have media appearance tonight. On Fox! What are the odds?

Tune in for my interview with @gretawire tonight at 10 pm, @foxnews

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2012

Is this enough to get the country to stop wondering about Mitt Romney's tax returns? No. It's enough to make wingnuts feel that tax returns for transcripts is an appropriate tradeoff (the rest of America doesn't care about Obama's college years, which he isn't offering as the main reason he should be president; Romney's tax returns are a very different matter). Trump isn't limiting himself to Fox -- I see he was peddling this on CNBC today -- but I think he and Root are going to be tag-teaming this on Fox for the next couple of weeks, with Fox's own hosts and regulars as an amen chorus.

Meanwhile, here's a lovely photo of Wayne Allyn Root:





UPDATE WEDNESDAY: Puke funnel fully functional: Wayne Allyn Root was discussing this on Sean Hannity's Fox show last night, while Trump on Greta Van Susteren's show also focused on Topic A.