Who is Lord Monckton?
On
Dennis Miller’s radio show Thursday Lord Christopher Monckton, a former policy
adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and an activist against
global warming “alarmism,” went all-in on questioning President Barack Obama’s
citizenship.
Monckton,
the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, hinted about his position on the issue in April 2010 at a
tea party rally on the National Mall near the White House. But on Miller’s
show, he said the birth certificate issue was far more important that
combatting so-called anthropogenic global warming.
“I mean,
hey you got a president who has a false birth certificate on the Internet, on
the White House website,” Monckton said. “It’s not even clear where he was
born. You’ve got a national debt which is rising into the stratosphere. You’ve
got unemployment certainly here in California at 11 percent, 50 percent in the
construction industry. These are real problems. You’ve got real environmental
problems — overfishing, deforestation, pollution, not so much in the west but
certainly in other countries. These are real problems which ought to be addressed.
You’ve got poverty. You’ve got disease. These are again serious problems in
Africa for instance, that we could be helping with. But no, we’re obsessed with
making the rich even richer and making the absolute bankers richer still by
going for global warming and cap-and-trade and other nonsenses of this kind.”
Miller
protested by saying he disagreed with the suggestion that Obama has a
fraudulent birth certificate. But Monckton dug in his heels.
“I don’t
know whether he is Kenyan or not,” Monckton said. “The point is that if I were
you, I would want to make absolutely sure that he was born here before allowing
him to be elected. And the birth certificate that he put up on that website, I
don’t know where he was born. But I do know that birth certificate isn’t
genuine.”
Monckton
firmly asserted that the birth certificate on the White House website wasn’t
real, and claimed it could be dismantled with software.
“It
appears in layers on the screen in such a way you can remove quite separately
each of the individual dates,” Monckton said. “You use Adobe Illustrator and
each of the individual dates is in its own separate layer. This thing has been
fabricated. Sheriff [Joe] Arpaio of Arizona has had a team on this for six
months. And he has now gone public and said there’s something very desperately
wrong with this and of course nobody is saying anything because the entire
electorate has been fooled.”
“I’m no
birther, don’t get me wrong,” Monckton said. “I haven’t a clue where Obama was
born and I wouldn’t want to entreat into the private grief behind
investigating. But the point is, is what he has done on the White House website
is he has put up a document which is plainly a forgery and I would regard
that as a very serious matter.”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/22/lord-monckton-im-no-birther-but-obama-birth-certificate-plainly-a-forgery/