Kevin Richert: Say this for the ‘oathers’: They aren’t birthers | Opinion | Idaho Statesman
Today, I’m going to tick off the birthers. And many of the women I work with.
OK, birthers. Enough already. Your fabricated flight of fancy of an issue is history. It is now yesterday’s news that never was.
And please, fans of the royal wedding (this week’s great gender-gap issue around the newsroom). I know you care, and I know it’s romantic and all. But I’m trying not to care. And at the risk of immodesty, I’ve exceeded my own goal in that department.
Talk amongst yourselves. Birthers, feel free to call me a gullible dupe. Fans of the royal wedding (or, may I call you “oathers”?), call me a jerk. Or — and the thesaurus will back you up on this one — call me a guy.
But let me redeem myself, at least with the oathers. For the contrived purpose of a column, I am placing you — and yes, the overblown coverage of the royal wedding — in unfair company.
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