Anti-Obama Group Rolls Out New Birther Infomercial In 7 States

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A new birther infomercial running on a CBS affiliate in Texas and elsewhere around the country tells viewers a "got a birth certificate?" bumper sticker can be theirs for the low price of $30.

The 28-minute program -- quite possibly the first ever birthermercial -- features community access production values, heavy use of foreboding strings soundtrack, and standard-issue Birther ideology.

For a $30 contribution, viewers also get a fax sent in their name to the 50 state attorneys general and Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that President Obama produce his real birth certificate.

Here's the TPMtv highlight reel of the infomercial:

(The full program is here.)

One of the men behind the infomercial is attorney Gary Kreep, executive director of the Ramona, CA-based Birther group United States Justice Foundation. He told TPMmuckraker in an interview today that the initial buy was for two and half weeks at TV stations around the country, and he's now looking into a second round buy. He says he'll give us a list of stations playing the infomercial.

One of them is CBS affiliate KLBK in Lubbock, Texas. That's where Lubbock resident Jim Schermbeck saw the infomercial last night at around 12:30 a.m., after The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, he tells TPMmuckraker. A scheduler at the station confirmed to us that the infomercial is running, but the employee in charge of paid programming did not immediately return our calls.

In its first week on the air, the infomercial generated "something like 1500 to 2000 faxes," Kreep says. The money goes to the price of the faxes and to the cost of airing the program, with any extra money going to the United States Justice Foundation.

(As a side note, it's worth noting that Kreep is currently engaged in an intra-movement feud with the pioneering Birther attorney Orly Taitz.)

The program was produced by LivePrayer.com, a Web site affiliated with Bill Keller, a fundamentalist Christian minister who also hosts the infomercial.

Imprisoned in the late 1980s after an insider trading conviction, Keller later committed his life to God, attended Liberty University in Virginia, and founded Bill Keller Ministries, according to his bio. LivePrayer.com was "founded for the sole purpose of having a site on the internet where people can go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for prayer."

Besides being a forum for prayer requests, LivePrayer.com features the Birther infomercial and a "False Hope" program advertised with a picture of Obama crudely photoshopped next to Hitler. Keller has called Islam a "false religion that follows a false god that will lead them to eternal condemnation."

In the infomercial, Keller promises late-night viewers a "special look at where Barack Hussein Obama was really born."

"Today, you could join hundreds of thousands of other Americans and force President Obama to produce his birth certificate [*foreboding string music*]."

Between interviews with Kreep, Keller repeatedly asks viewers to add their name to "a petition going to GOP leaders to force President Obama to obey the law."

"As a thank you," he says, "you will receive a specially created, 'got a birth certificate?' bumper sticker."

A logo on the screen during the infomercial features the outlines of the United States, the state of Hawaii, and the continent of Africa, with the red-white-and-blue-colored words "Where was PRESIDENT Obama BORN?"

Kreep comes off as a considerably calmer, more self-controlled figure than his Birther rival Taitz. But he clearly feels irritated after being shut out by the mainstream media.

"The vast majority of the media doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to admit when they're wrong. They're all a bunch of cowards," Kreep says, praising Rush Limbaugh's crack that God and Obama are alike because neither one has a birth certificate.

Keller ends the program this way: "Thank you for watching this very special presentation. This is a legitimate issue. Don't let people tell you otherwise. If the man was not born in Hawaii as he claims, he is not legally president."

If you've seen the infomercial in Texas or elsewhere, let us know.

Late Update: April Morehead, who deals with paid programming at Texas CBS affiliate KLBK, confirms to TPMmuckraker the infomercial ran last night, and says it will run again Sunday at 1 a.m. United States Justice Foundation paid $100 per airing. Morehead said the station doesn't show programs with sexually or racially derogatory content, and the station saw no problems with the birthermercial.

Late Late Update: Group behind birthermercial says it's running in seven states across the South.

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[mawilson 2,133]

One of the men behind the infomercial is attorney Gary Kreep

Nuff said

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Where's Danno on this? After all those numerous threads he started challenging the legitimacy of Obama's citizenship and now he's silent? Wow....

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So...what is the point of your post Batman? That kooks don't like Obama, so that is prima facie evidence that anybody that doesn't buy into Obama's bullshit 100% is a kook?

Surely you can come up with a better example of why everyone must submit to total Obama worship or else be labeled a kook. I know it is painful that not everyone is madly in love with Obama as you are, but such stretches of logic are no way to make friends and influence people to your corner.

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He is a kook because he believe Obama faked her certificate.

[Pooky 3,930]

He is a kook because he believe Obama faked her certificate.

Are you inferring that President Obama is a transgendered individual?

Does his wife know?

[Ban Hammer 14,665]

He is a kook because he believe Obama faked her certificate.

Are you inferring that President Obama is a transgendered individual?

Does his wife know?

lesbians in the white house! :dance: :dance:

Edited September 28, 2009 by charles!

[zqt3344 21]

Do you think Ovomit is not a USA citizen? What if the birthers are right in their assessment and what about Joe Biden, someone said he was Canadian, which might explain why he is so damn stupid and liberal all the time!

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... what about Joe Biden, someone said he was Canadian ...

Someone call Orly

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Call them now pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

... what about Joe Biden, someone said he was Canadian ...

Someone call Orly

[Joseph & Ana 0]

Obama has 2 family members who claim to have been present at his birth in Kenya. May or may not be true, but they've been silenced now.

I just want an independent council to verify the BC. If its cool, then there's nothing to worry about. We'll get rid of him in 2012.

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It's already been confirmed by the Republican governor of Hawaii but that's not good enough for some people

So...what is the point of your post Batman? That kooks don't like Obama, so that is prima facie evidence that anybody that doesn't buy into Obama's bullshit 100% is a kook?

Surely you can come up with a better example of why everyone must submit to total Obama worship or else be labeled a kook. I know it is painful that not everyone is madly in love with Obama as you are, but such stretches of logic are no way to make friends and influence people to your corner.

this would be a lot easier if so many of the detractors weren't actually bats$hit crazy. I am far from an Obama lover, but quite frankly, the stupidity of most of his detractors is too embarrassing to want to associate yourself with them

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It needs to be verified by the feds, not the governor of Hawaii.

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like the people who work for the federal government who issue passports?

Seriously, you people won't be happy until the doctor who delivered the baby Obama is risen from the dead and gives a sworn statement.