Race, which is all of a sudden very important again in terms of understanding whats going on right now in todays news and politics. And yes, in 2012 the 2012 republican president ial primary ultimately produced nickname mittens mitt romney as that partys president ial nominee. But at the very beginning of the president ial cycle in 2012, when they first started polling Republican Voters in 2012 on who they wanted to be their nominee, you know who was at the top of the list . You know who was at the top of the heap for republican candidates or potential candidates when they first started polling at the very beginning of that cycle . You want to know who was polling in first place . Donald trump. And im not talking about this president ial cycle for 2016. Im talking about the last one. This is the representative headline. This was about a national cnn poll of Republican Voters taken in april 2011. Donald trump tied for first place. And donald trump ended up at the top of a lot of polls at that time in that race. He made the decision that year ultimately to not run. But while he was flirting with it, while he was saying he might run, while he was talking about himself as the potential next president of the United States and doing campaignstyle things, he had one very specific basis for his campaign. This was the basis not only of his campaign but apparently his considerable popularity among Republican Voters who thought he was going to run on this at the time. Three weeks ago when i started i thought he was probably born in this country. And now i really have a much bigger doubt than i did before. But based on what . You know what . His grandmother in kenya said he was born in kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth. Okay . He doesnt have a birth certificate, or he hasnt shown it. He has whats called a certificate of live birth. That is something thats easy to get. When you want a birth certificate its very hard to get. But its considered the equivalent in the its not the equivalent. In the state of hawaii they said they have seen the document. It is evidence that he was born in the United States. Its not the equivalent. Thats good enough for them scholars a birth certificate is not even close a certificate of live birth is not even signed by anybody. I saw his. I read it very carefully. Doesnt have a serial number. Doesnt have a signature. Theres not even a signature. Do you believe hes lying . Im starting to think that he was not born here. Do you believe hes lying, donald . Come on, just answer. Meredith, he spent 2 million in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. And if he werent lying, why wouldnt he just solve it . And i wish he would because if he doesnt its one of the greatest scams in the history of politics and in the history, period. You are not allowed to be a president if youre not born in this country. He may not have been born in this country. And ill tell you what, three weeks ago, i thought he was born in this country. Right now i have some real doubts. I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what theyre finding. You have people now down there searching in hawaii . Absolutely. And they cannot believe what theyre finding. That was how donald trump ran for president in the 2012 election cycle. He did not run for very long. He was out by may of 2011. But when he was running, he was polling right at the top of the heap. In multiple polls. Tied for first or in first place in a whole bunch of polls that were taken around that time. And the basis of his campaign at the time when he was doing so well was that he believed that president obama was not really the president because president obama, or this guy pretending to be the president named barack obama, was secretly foreign and had faked his birth as part of an elaborate conspiracy to put foreign powers in uh. Thats what he ran on. Theres a real question about the birth certificate. Theres a real question about his own citizenship. There is no question. Hes got a certificate of live birth george, i know exactly what youre getting at. The facts. No, theyre not the facts. He doesnt have a birth certificate or he hasnt provided hes given a certificate of live birth. Its a much different certificate of live birth meets the standard in the state department for anyones citizenship. George. There were contemporaneous reports in two hawaiian newspapers theyve coopted you. Whos they . Obviously obama and his minions. You sent investigators to hawaii and you said they cannot believe what theyre finding. Were going to see what happens. What have they found . Its none of your business right now. Were going to see what happens. Have they found anything . Were going to see what happens. What have they done . We are going to see what happens. When . George. Next question, george. Next question, george. His minions have this is only 4 1 2 years ago. Its kind of weird that its already been forgotten now that donald trump really is running this time around and he really is the republican president ial frontrunner. But its true, when he very briefly tried out running for president in the last president ial campaign in the 2012 cycle his platform, his very narrow platform was that president obama was secretly foreign and had a forged birth certificate. He was an agent of a foreign power. And donald trump sent his investigators to hawaii. And you wouldnt believe what they were finding and they were going to reveal the explosive truth that our kenyan overlords had wrested control of the u. S. Government so wed all be, i dont know, put in camps or given tinfoil teeth covers or something. I dont know. It was, a, a very shortlived campaign. B, it was a very Popular Campaign among Republican Voters. People forget how well he polled for the few weeks that he was in the race. And c, his campaign was totally based on this birtherism claim by donald trump. And since then in the ensuing 4, 4 1 2 years, birtherism, this idea that president obama is a secret foreign agent, it has mostly fallen out of favor in most republican circles. The few journalists who have asked mr. Trump this time around if he Still Believes that president obama is secretly foreign, if he Still Believes in the fake birth certificate, the few journalists who have asked him about that this time around have mostly been brushed off by donald trump. He doesnt want to talk about it this time around. But just the fact that he doesnt want to talk about it anymore and the fact that it is mostly out of favor doesnt mean that there arent Still Corners of the conspiratorial conservative media world where president obamas birth st. Is still definitely a forgery and his status as a secret alien is still a very compelling contemporary issue. The headquarters of that basically is of course our friends at world net daily. And world net daily was always kind of the headquarters for the obama birth certificate Conspiracy Theory. But still today, still at world net daily you can buy your where is the real birth certificate yard and rally sign. You can get your where is the birth certificate bumper sticker. Its magnetic. Easy on, easy off. You can get your question of eligibility obama birth certificate forgery dvd. You can also get your autographed hardcover copy of the where is the birth certificate world net daily book. World net daily is able to get i think an inside line on those autographs for that book because the author of wheres the birth certificate is a senior staff writer at world net daily. He has not only advanced his theory and sold all his books and merchandise about president obamas faked birth certificate at world net daily, hes also used world net daily to advance his deeply compelling theory that president obama is not only secretly foreign, hes also secretly muslim and hes secretly gay and hes secretly gay married to another muslim. Yeah. You didnt know, did you . Specifically the theory from this guy is that president obama is secretly gay and muslim married to his pakistani roommate from college and that that ring that the president wears might look like a wedding ring but its actually his secret muslim gay wedding ring to a pakistani guy which is also evidence of his own foreignness if you know how to read the secret inscription on the ring correctly. Got it . So this is the senior staff writer for world net daily who pushes this stuff. His name is jerome corsi. The guy who runs world net daily overall is named joseph farah. Hes known primarily, as you can see, for having the worlds most luxurious mustache. But in addition to that World Champion facial hair, he is also running world net daily and still now as of a week before Christmas Joseph farah is still writing columns at world net daily about president obamas fake birth certificate and how he was secretly born in kenya. This is from the week before christmas. Even if obamas fake birth certificate were real, which it clearly is not, it would still not prove his eligibility to be president. Well, now over the holiday break world net daily has proclaimed that its man of the year for 2015 was donald j. Trump. Mr. Trump facebooked an announcement of his world net daily man of the year status. He wrote, thank you for this amazing honor, to be named man of the year. He was also quoted by world net daily in their man of the year article about him saying, it is my great honor to be named man of the year by your publication. I very much appreciate your informative polls and coverage. And now people for the american way brings to our attention this event in march which will be honoring joseph farah, the world net daily mustache guy. Hes going to be getting a hero of Freedom Award from some conservative group. Its an awards dinner to honor the world net daily guy. And the keynote speaker at that awards dinner will be donald trump. This year. Sometimes it takes having a few days away, you know, but a few days with cold hands and fish to come back to something with fresh eyes and see just how crazy it is. That said, with this celebration of his world net daily man of the year status republican president ial frontrunner donald trump is also just flat out reminding us that he really is that guy. He really is the guy who ran for president , albeit briefly, on the basis of a Conspiracy Theory about president obamas birth certificate in the 2012 cycle. He is the same guy. And when he ran on that platform in 2011 for the 2012 president ial race, that platform, that belief of his, his association with the whole birther Conspiracy Theory movement, that was crazy to the point of journalists laughing in his face about it in 2011. Now, though, hes the prohibitive frontrunner to be the republican president ial candidate this year. Even though nothing about him has changed. When mitt romney ultimately won the nomination back in 2012, you might remember it ended up being kind of a big embarrassment for the Romney Campaign that summer when mr. Romney and his wife flew out to las vegas to get Donald Trumps endorsement. Mr. Romney landed on the tarmac and he parked his plane next to Donald Trumps plane and they did their big event together, and then donald trump went on cnn and told wolf blitzer about all the problems about president obamas birth st. It was a tremendous embarrassment to the Republican Party and their nominee. When he brought up this birth certificate stuff and they were trying to get away from seeming that crazy. Now, though, this is the guy who very well could be their nominee. And the birth certificate stuff is apparently not at all embarrassing to him. Nor are the extravagantly mustachioed conspiracy theorists who have been making a living all these years off of selling this birther craziness. In this president ial race, there have been a lot of unusual things. There have been a lot of things that have sort of broken the mold in terms of the way things usually go. One of the unusual things about the race so far this year is that mr. Trump has been able to completely dominate the rest of the republican field for half a year now if not longer without raising any significant money and without running any tv ads. It was not until early october that mr. Trump and his Campaign Even started talking about the possibility that they might run ads. Mr. Trump and his Campaign Manager told robert costa at the Washington Post in early october that eventually they would run tv ads and they had some ideas about what they would be. They had some plans. The Campaign Manager said the ads would be nontraditional. Mr. Trump and his Campaign Manager explained that mr. Trump himself was coming up with the concept for these ads. They both explained that they were going to hire a firm to make Donald Trumps tv ads, a firm that had never done political advertising before. It was going to be something totally different than anybody had ever seen. That was the promise from the Trump Campaign in early october. Well, today we finally got the first donald trump tv ad thats going to start running in iowa and New Hampshire this week. First time hes running an ad at all. This is the ad. They posted it online today. Its going to start running on tv. Theyre going to spend they say 2 million a week between now and the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Its these visuals and theres a guy saying that donald trump is going to stop isis and Donald Trumps going to stop muslims from entering the United States and hes going to build a wall on the mexican border. All right. So this is supposed to be the big nontraditional like nothing youve ever seen before donald trump ad. This is the donald trump ad what im showing here actually, i should mention, i should explain, this is the donald trump ad in the context of other ads that are exactly like it. This is trump in the upper lefthand corner. Thats jeb bush upper righthand corner. Chris christie lower lefthand corner. Lindsey graham lower righthand corner. I put them all here simultaneously together because theyre all exactly the same ad. Scary terrorism footage, then your campaign man speaking at a rally or town hall saying islamic terrorism as if those magic words will make isis go away. Its all the same thing. Its an absolutely totally normal republican mainstream political ad that donald trump has just rolled out. Indistinguishable from almost all the other candidates. Theyre all running ads like this. So much for it being Something Like youve never seen before. Its exactly like everything youve ever seen before. Its totally not newsworthy. Its exactly like every other ad that mentions terrorism. And so, welcome back. Happy 2016. Whats scarier . 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Built for business. This is a question i legitimately have no answer for. I cannot explain this. Perhaps you can. We are 28 days away from the Iowa Caucuses. We are 36 days away from the New Hampshire primary. Can you spot what is weird about this video of folks waiting outside in the cold tonight for a donald trump rally . Whats weird about them is that they are in neither of those two states i just mentioned. These folks waiting in the cold tonight, this huge long line outside the donald trump rally, are in deep blue taxachusetts. This is a line to get into a donald trump rally tonight in lowell, massachusetts. Lowell, massachusetts. Yes. And this is the third major Campaign Event that donald trump has mounted in the state of massachusetts recently. And if that is not weird enough, later this week mr. Trump is going to be making a big Campaign Stop in burl