According to Wayne Allyn Root, former 2008 Libertarian VP candidate, President Barack Obama must have been a foreign exchange student, because Root remembers everyone who went to Columbia. Except for Obama, who Root also figures, must have been lurking around campus with all the other foreigners occuppying his time "smoking pot and attending socialist meetings." This is a truly bizarre segment, hosted by Sean Hannity, who has the second highest rated show on cable primetime news. Crooksandliars:
Sean Hannity, always the shrinking violet concern troll, is never the birther, of course. He just allows idiots with idiot theories to be softball interviewed on his show to sound the dog whistles, which will then be echoed by the likes of Breitbart, Glenn Beck, and the Fox morning crew.
But this one is particularly stupid. Even the dumbest Fox viewer ought to be scratching their head over this one. Wayne Allyn Root has been pimping his story for a very long time on sites like World Net Daily and more recently, Glenn Beck's The Blaze. It goes like this: Root went to Columbia at the same time that Barack Obama went to Columbia but Root has no recollection of Obama, therefore, Barack Obama must have been a foreign exchange student.
Root's story is so weak even Reason.com is embarrassed by it (and him):
