It’s understandable that Americans have grown tired about the Obama-as-foreign-agent canard. But that doesn’t mean that late-night comics, and bored copy editors, will stop joking about the whopper any time soon.

Sometimes, the birther claptrap issues from the poor dunderheads who really believe it. This time it likely came from an ink-stained quipster, who likely won’t use the newspaper for sport ever again.

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