Disowning Birth Certificates, Disowning Truth

Below is this week's syndicated column: "Is Obama Disowning His Online Birth Certificate?" It takes in the shifting strategy of the Obama defense team in fending off challenges to Obama's eligibility to appear on presidential primary ballots. Obama's eligibility is a signal concern for the nation which should be the subject of informed, serious debate on the front pages, on news shows, and also, most important, in the Congress. Such debate is non-existent. Such concern is non-existent, too. It doesn't seem to matter to the citizenry that a fraudster may be completing one term in the White House while seeking another.
I recently had the occasion to discuss the matter with a very famous American conversative.
Famouse Conservative said to me: Tell me what columns of yours are getting a big response lately.
I had earlier written this column about the Georgia ballot challenge hearing in which President Obama ignored a subpoena for the certified copy of his birth certificate (among other documents). This column elicited a great response from readers, many of whom asked me the same question: why this important story wasn't being covered in the media.
They're really interested in this whole eligibility story, I said.
Famous Conservative: I'll bet they are.
Me: Aren't you?
FC: No.
Me: No? Why aren't you?
FC: If this were happening back at the time of the election, maybe.
I told FC  this is an election (ding-dong).
FC: Exactly. But this will alienate the people we need to defeat him at the polls.
I made some naive-sounding comment (which I thoroughly subscribe to) about the seeking the truth regardless of the outcome, adding that the truth would likely alienate plenty of people from Obama, too.
Impasse.
New tack for Famous Conservative: If this were true, why hasn't Rush or Hannity taken it on?
Me:  They're afraid.
FC: (Scoffs.)
Me: Look, Rush won't talk about a lot of things: Islamization, for one. Sharia. Muslim Brotherood, those kinds of things. He has a comfort zone.
FC: (Disbelief.)
Impasse.
FC: Well, maybe if some respected conservative journalist were to examine the story --
Me: (What am I, chopped liver?) Who, for instance?
FC: John Fund, Daniel Henniger ...
Hey boys, have at it. But there's a problem. According to the FC (1) the truth will alienate voters so we mustn't seek the truth; and (2) it can't be true anyway because otherwise Rush, Sean, John and Dan would be all over the story. Of course, if FC's conservative journalists subscribe to #1 or some variation thereon as partisans or Republicans, we'll never get to #2. Meanwhile, across the journalistic aisle, the MSM has the another, equally heavy stake in preventing the truth from outing. They want Obama re-elected.
What's wrong with this picture? Conservative logic, conservative morality.
Needless to say, I didn't make any inroads with FC although FC's spouse shares my concern in the subject, so that's something.
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The column:

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