Her Own Worst Enemy

"We have met the enemy and he is us," the comic-strip character Pogo famously said. So it is with Orly Taitz, the Soviet-born dentist-turned-correspondent-school-lawyer who has put herself at the forefront of the birther movement. In her relentless quest to prove that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen and so cannot be president, she has done more damage to her cause than a whole squad of debunkers could possibly accomplish.

For example, take this little tête-à-tête yesterday with MSNBC's David Shuster and Tamron Hall:

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She seems to believe that rambling incoherently and yelling at the interviewers will somehow make everyone flock magically to her side.

And if that wasn't enough, she also shrieked on her website (sorry, no link - a virus tried to infect my computer the instant the page came up):

I also did MSNBC TV show with David Schuster [sic] and Tamaryl [sic] Hall- two of them are just Nazi brown shirts, they and their network should be prosecuted under RICO act, a number of people will have to serve lengthy prison terms for aiding and abetting treason

Way to go, Orly. Hope your dentistry skills are up to snuff, because I don't think this lawyering thing is working out.