The big story out of Hawaii over the Christmas weekend: Gov. Neil Abercrombie tells national news organizations that discrediting “birthers” will be a priority. “More than demonization — this is self-evisceration of politics,” said Abercrombie, who raised the birthplace issue unprompted during an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Empires fall and countries fall when that takes the place of discourse.” Abercrombie told The New York Times that he had already talked with the state’s attorney general and the chief of its Health Department about how he can release more explicit documentation of the president’s birth. There are 2,335 articles on the topic linked from Google News.

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