O’s Slugger Luke Scott is a birther

(“Answer Man” David Brown posted this story on Yahoo.com’s BIG LEAGUE STEW sports blog, 12/8/2010.)

Answer Man: Luke Scott talks Nugent, hunting and Obama origin
by David Brown

Baltimore Orioles slugger Luke Scott (notes) stopped by baseball’s winter meetings Tuesday and, after some harmless chatter about his team’s offseason dealings, stated with conviction that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Oh, yes, he did. Scott’s opinion about the president’s birthplace — while certainly not unique — was a stunning climax to a friendly and frank 20-minute Answer Man session that spanned his enthusiasm for baseball, hunting, firearms, personal responsibility and smaller government.

“[Obama] was not born here,” Scott asserted to Answer Man in the session’s last segment. “That’s my belief. I was born here. If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go — within 10 minutes — to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, ‘See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.’ The man has dodged everything. He dodges questions, he doesn’t answer anything.”

Continue reading the full Luke Scott interview at Big League Stew.

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One Response to O’s Slugger Luke Scott is a birther

  1. Supports the term “Meathead” for Scott. What an f$&@ing idiot.

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