A Blessed Event?

Were he alive today, Mark Twain might say of our media culture that it consists of "lies, damn lies and Fox News". With that in mind, it will be interesting to see what Fox News and similar "news" outlets will be saying in the weeks ahead about the release of President Obama's birth certificate from Hawaii earlier today (link to story on yahoo.com). Personally, I don't believe for a second that this will convince hard-core "birthers", including Donald Trump, that the issue is settled. The best we can hope for is that this release of records will move the issue to the furthest fringes of the debate and banish whatever little vestige of credibility their argument ever had. Sadly, we live in a world where the oft-discredited Jerome Corsi's yet-to-be-released book on the subject Where's the Birth Certificate is still among the top selling items on Amazon, so maybe even that modest hope is a bit too much. Even being a pragmatic idealist is hard work these days.