Oh, this is very interesting.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/may/11/sdqt-schooled/
TAKING A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER, POINT LOMA — It
wasn’t supposed to go down like this. When San Diego’s High Tech High
International was named as one of six candidates nationwide to receive a
commencement address from president Barack Obama this year, it was
supposed to be a validation of how far the fledgling school had come in
its first decade of existence. Chief administrative officer Ben Daley
boasted that the selection proved the value of his school’s emphasis on
“producing meaningful work for a real audience — making things that have
lasting value and presenting them to professionals in the field.”
“All this ‘birther’ bullshit sounded like more of the same to us,” adds
Rivera. “We knew that the people who believed that Obama was born in
Kenya — and that his Hawaiian birth certificate was a fake, and that he
therefore had no constitutional right to be president — wouldn’t be
convinced by this long-form release. When you’re crazy, you’re crazy,
and you can always find a way to justify your craziness. But we figured
it couldn’t hurt to at least head them off on this whole typography
question. Here at High Tech High, we knew we had the equipment, the
training, and the critical thinking skills required to do just that.”
“Yeah, we did,” concluded Bhangoo. “Damn it.”
The title of the students’ report on their work says it all: “Say It
Ain’t So: An Inquiry into the Validity of ‘President’ Obama’s Long-Form
Birth Certificate.” “We tried to think like the nutjobs,” recalls
Rivera. “We started by asking why they inserted the green-pattern
background underneath the original text. Then we started looking for
other obvious oddities. Long story short — yeah, this is kind of a
fake.”
FULL STORY AT THE LINK ABOVE!!!
Oh my.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
