USA Watchdog | April 2 2012
About a month ago, renowned Arizona Sherriff Joe Arpaio made an astounding claim in a public press conference, “A six month long investigation conducted by my cold case posse has lead me to believe there is probable cause to believe that President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate released by the White House on April 27, 2011, is a computer-generated forgery,” said Arpaio. The Maricopa County Sherriff claimed President Obama’s Hawaiian selective-service card was, also, “most likely a forgery.” (Click here for the complete press release from the Maricopa County Arizona Sherriff’s office. This includes 6 videos explaining the Obama birth certificate investigation.)
From what I can tell, every single mainstream media (MSM) outlet covered this press conference. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and many more all covered this story at the very beginning of March. Then, poof—the coverage stopped. (Click here for the complete unedited press conference where reporters were shown video of how Arpaio’s investigators allege forgery in President Obama’s birth certificate.) My question is why? This story has profound implications that might question the legitimacy of Barak Obama’s presidency and the entire vetting process for the nation’s highest office.
It seems the MSM has discounted this as a ploy to divert attention from a federal civil rights investigation. MSNBC reported, “Arpaio’s probe comes amid a federal grand jury investigation into the sheriff’s office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009, focusing on the sheriff’s anti-public corruption squad. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department has accused Arpaio’s office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish. Arpaio denies the allegations . . .” Political deflection was a common theme from all the MSM stories I researched and read. Arpaio, also, denies the Obama birth certificate investigation is politically motivated and that he is not “going after Obama.” Arpaio said he’s just doing his job. (Click here for the complete MSNBC story.)