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June 06, 2012 08:24 PM UTC

CO Senate Candidate believes Obama should have been scratched from Georgia election ballot

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  • by: Jason Salzman

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

If you’re a connoisseur of conspiracy theories, you know that consparicists take great pleasure in each other. They thrive in the closeness they achieve through their shared beliefs, especially because everyone else thinks they’re crazy.

That’s why talk radio is such a beautiful medium for conspiracists. The voices and emotion on talk radio, and the familiarity of the hosts and guests, create  a sense of  intimacy doesn’t exist on blogs or other media.

This is the kind of environment, as others have pointed out, that validates fringe beliefs, where the embattled can feel good about themselves.

As a case in point check out this discussion yesterday between KHOW’s Peter Boyles and John Sampson, a private investigator who’s also running for Colorado Senate District 25.

Sampson and Boyles were both selected by The Denver Post’s Curtis Hubbard as top birthers in Colorado. Sampson got the number five spot; Boyles hit pay dirt, snagging number one.

BOYLES: Well, so, congratulations on being number five.  You certainly deserve more than that.

SAMPSON:  Well, you know, I’ll leave you to be number one.

BOYLES:  You know, Terry [Lakin] … I mean, every one of you guys… I mean, I’ve tried to make this point.  Sampson, Hollister, Wolf, Doc Lakin … All you guys risked a hell of lot more than I ever did.  I just get up at three o’clock in the morning and do a radio show.  But Terry lost everything.  Phil Wolf took an enormous amount of heat.  Hollister took huge heat.  You’ve taken heat.  And, you know, and, you guys, well, set aside.

SAMPSON:  Well, we swore an oath to defend the Constitution, Peter, and that’s where my core value is.

BOYLES:  Long story short, I’m, I mean, like Sheik was saying, you know, we’re number one, but, truly, looking at you four guys, I don’t even belong on the list.  But…

SAMPSON:  Well,  you’ve been carrying the water, also.  I mean, you’ve been persistent covering this issue where others… where angel fear to tread… you know, it’s…

BOYLES:  It’s “Fools rush in.” [laughing]

SAMPSON:  Yeah.  Fools rush in.

See what I mean by embattled people feeling good about themselves? This is what talk radio does best.

The birthers are on the run (witness Rep. Mike Coffman), but there’s obviously a different reality on Peter Boyles’ radio show.

But Sampson is candidate for public office, and so media types should pull out some of the things he’s saying, extract them from the false reality of talk radio, and subject them to rationality.

In a previous radio interview, Sampson said, “I have not and do not have sufficient evidence that would warrant me to make a statement as to whether or not he is eligible or not eligible.”

But yesterday Sampson said on the radio, straight up, that he thought a George judge should have found President Obama ineligible to appear on the November ballot in Georgia. Sampson said that because the President of the United States did not make a personal appearance to defend himself against lunacy, Obama’s name should have been scratched from the ballot.

Discussing the Georgia case yesterday (And you can find a summary of it here, including a link to Sampson’s testimony at the trail.), Sampson had this exchange with Boyles:

SAMPSON:  And from what I had been told, the judge was indicating clearly, unequivocally, that he was going to issue a default judgment–

BOYLES:  Yes, against–

SAMPSON:  Against Mr. Obama.

BOYLES:  Yeah.

SAMPSON:   Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out that way.

Sampson said some other strange things on the show that merit scrutiny.

In a discussion of how Obama could have been issued a Social Security number that belonged to a Connecticut resident, which is what Sampson believes, Sampson, with no hint of humor in his voice, threw out this “rampant speculation:”

SAMPSON: You know, there’s been some rampant speculation that Bill Ayers and his wife, given their prior affiliation with the Weather Underground knew very well how to obtain counterfeit or false documents.

Sampson also believes there’s convincing evidence, even though he says we don’t know for sure, that Obama’s Selective Service records have been falsified:

SAMPSON:  Okay.   However, the Selective Service record that also has that Social Security Number of 042-68-4425 was purportedly filed by Mr. Obama in 1980.  But then again, you know, Zullo has very convincingly shown me, and has shown a bunch of people either in presentations or behind closed doors how he recreated that postal cancellation stamp, and there are problems with it.  But, you know, we don’t know.  We simply don’t know. And that’s where it’s a little problematic.  At some point, hopefully, the truth is going to come out, and we’ll see what happens.

As you can imagine, there’s much more where this came from. And if you like conspiracy theories or not, you should listen to it, especially if you happen to be a reporter and it’s your job to let the public know about Colorado Senate candidates.

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15 thoughts on “CO Senate Candidate believes Obama should have been scratched from Georgia election ballot”

  2. I’m curious what “Oath” this guy took.  Did he take it at birth or was he a communist for a number of years before trying to cover up his true leanings?  Did he take the oath as his free will or was he forced to?  Were his parents American citizens?  Was he even born in the US, unlike McCain and Rubio.  I’m not sure I would give him a passing grade on speaking English correctly and certainly not reading or writing it.  The judge was going to enter default?  Well, before a defendant answers, the court is always going to enter a default judgment, that’s the way the system works.  And finally, Oath, OATH, OATH?  What is oath.  I thought that the Supreme Court had found it unconstitutional to require a loyalty oath.  We don’t take one.  Only persons in the military take one (and its only good until they are out of the military, which he must be if he was ever in) and elected officials take an oath, and again, that only lasts until their term is up.  

    I’m only pointing this out because once a right-winger who claims to be a Consitituionalist clearly hasn’t read the Constitution and clearly doesn’t understand what it means, yet a member of the conservative media takes what he says a the gospel truth.  

    No truth here.  Just passing by.

    PS, I heard he is mean to his wife and kids, has a secrete gay lover and, Oh well, you get my point.  Asshole.  Idiot.  Stupid. Why does anyone put him on the air?  Why would any lawyer call him to testify in a trial.  That lawyer should be disbarred for allowing such obviously false testimony.

    Oh, and one last thing.  Obama transferred to Columbia University in 1981.  I suppose it’s too much for the feeble minds of the birther community that he actually might have lived in Connnecticut in 1980 when the application was filed.  You know, Manhattan-Connecticut is a really long distance to commute and I’m quite certain that no big time Republicans would lower himself even to consider communting from Connecticut to Manhattan to work.  So clearly that can’t be the case.  Clearly even the idea of a poor student on complete scholarship would commute from Connecticut rather than live in Manhattan is just not believeable.

    PS.  Please quit writing about this stuff.  It is clear that it just makes me needlessly upset.  I’m just really, really sorry that Orly Taitz got rejected yesterday by California voters.  Really, the nerve of them.  This woman is right.

  4. You know, there’s been some rampant speculation that Bill Ayers and his wife, given their prior affiliation with the Weather Underground knew very well how to obtain counterfeit or false documents.

    Not that logic ever graced this asshole’s brain but just stop to think about chronology here folks.

    Obama didn’t meet Bill Ayers until 1995 after Obama had moved to Chicago.  Obama was 34 yrs old by that time.  Obama had already been thru public school system, had been issued passports and emigration visas, had valid drivers license and had already been a viable contributor into the Social Security system, (since he’d been issued a # & card years before).

    Does this IDIOT birther even know how time works?  Ignorance can’t be bothered by facts.  

        1. with this kind of power why doesn’t he just go ahead and take over?  Why would anyone capable of bending time & reality futz around with the US democracy?  

        2. If Obama or Huey Newton or Angela Davis or whoever was able to leap back in time to plant the birth announcements, doing a little sideways jog to get 1995 Bill Ayers to forge some 1980 paperwork — that would be easy, in comparison.  

            1. When you say “62 years old,” is that in Connecticut years, or did Bill Ayers and his wife, given their prior affiliation with the Weather Underground, know very well how to move things around?

  5. Although these racists have a limited understanding of the world outside the bubble, they (and this one in particular) should never come up with postal stuff to prove their conspiracies.

    There are postal cancellers out there to buy, you can even buy your own and be your own first class mail canceller. I have 80011 pm1 and 80006 pm1. You can even find old ones around. Sooo

    Why waste time “recreating” when you can make the “real McCoy”?

    I now return you to Losssttt In Space

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