MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is the left’s version of a ‘birther,’ says Pat Buchanan

(By Jeff Poor, The Daily Caller) - We’ve heard the conspiracies. They’re rampant all over the Internet that President Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya or Indonesia. Though they have been roundly dismissed by many on the left and the right, left-leaning outlets still use the conspiracy theory to marginalize conservatives.

However, on Thursday’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan makes a good point – that people who want to connect former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the tragedy in Tucson last weekend may be invoking their own “birther”-like conspiracy into the dialogue. That is something “Hardball” host Chris Matthews has been willing to do since his first broadcast following the tragedy.

“You mentioned the birthers, but I’ll tell you Chris on the right – guys who go out and say somehow because Sarah Palin put out some silly map that this guy could not have conceivably seen – she is morally complicit. They think guys like you are like the birthers of the left.”