But I think the wheels fell off his "Global Travelling Medicine Show"
The OTHER recent sighting ...
Is there no end to the delights of his lordship Christopher Monckton, also known as Viscount Monckton of Brenchley? Or perhaps it would be accurate to ask: is there no beginning to the delights of Lord Monckton?
To the list of his eccentric views on climate change, Europe, HIV/Aids and ... well, most things, we can add his public subscription to the "birther" cause: the idea that Barack Obama may have been born in Kenya and is therefore not the legitimate president of the United States of America.
The vigilant blogger David Weigel, now at the Washington Post, witnessed Monckton's speech yesterday to tea party-ers at the Mall in Washington DC, at an event organised by FreedomWorks, the right-wing-funded astroturf (as in, fake grass roots) noise machine:
"America!" said Monckton at the start of his speech. "Land of opportunity! You can be born in Kenya and end up as president of the United States!"
That remark was well received in the crowd, if not as boisterously applauded as Monckton's other jokes. After the speech ... a reporter from USA Today and I both asked Monckton whether he was joking.
"I have no idea where he was born," said Monckton, who was working the crowd and signing autographs. "What I do find strange is that the public records of his Hawaiian birth have been sealed, and can not be obtained by the public. His lawyers have spent a lot of money trying to seal the records of his public life. All of those records should be open to the public, as they always were for previous presidents."
I pointed out to Monckton that the state of Hawaii released Obama's certification of live birth nearly two years and ago, and that the persistent challenges to his citizenship have inspired some members of the military to refuse to serve under Obama.
"The effective classification of all of these documents of his early life is surely contrary to the spirit of freedom and openness in the Democratic west," said Monckton. "It's bound to raise questions in some peoples' minds. However! I have no idea where he's born, but it made a nice joke."
In fact, the public record of his Hawaiian birth have been released and confirmed by the Republican governor and state of Hawaii. There is no question of that, and to suggest otherwise is to put yourself into a very small and unhappy subset. Monckton's "nice joke" is on himself.
Luckily for the Conservative party, it parted ways with Monckton some time ago. His lordship is currently a member of the UK Independence Party.
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