This Sucks (With Update)

From Salon:

Seems like CNN executives have finally spoken up on Lou Dobbs' embrace of Birtherism. TVNewser is reporting that CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein e-mailed some of the staffers from Dobbs' show before it aired Thursday night to say, "[I]t seems this story is dead -- because anyone who is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef." * * *

I hope Lou Dobbs and his staff ignore Klein's e-mail and continue to run with the story, because this whole "Obama is an undocumented alien" movement is a giant turd in the GOP's pocket and I hope it doesn't go away anytime soon (and it won't go away if Lou Dobbs continues to speak out on it).

I for one hope the rumors that Obama was born in Kenya are true, because if they are, that means someone from Obama's camp traveled back in time to 1961 and planted Obama's birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser, which necessarily means that Obama has access to time travel technology, which would be really cool.

UPDATE: Yes! Klein leaves the door open for Dobbs to continue claiming that Obama is an illegal alien:

CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Thursday that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate -- a topic Dobbs has avidly pursued on the air -- is a "dead" story.

But in an interview, the cable news chief left open the possibility that Dobbs may continue to raise questions about why the president has not produced a long-form birth certificate. The absence of such a record has spawned rumors that Obama was not born in the United States, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

"He's got more than 30 years as a television journalist, and I trust him, as I trust all our reporters and anchors, to exercise their judgment as various stories evolve," Klein said of Dobbs, whose daily CNN program is a mix of news and opinion.

That appeared to be a step back from the stance Klein took in his e-mail Thursday, in which he wrote that CNN researchers had determined that Hawaiian officials discarded paper documents in 2001. Because of that, Obama's long-form birth certificate no longer exists and a shorter certificate of live birth that has been made public is the official record, they reported. * * *