Oh, For Goodness Sake

Citing a growing unease over public opinion in his little world of Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, where he works in communications, Joseph Montgomery withdrew this ballot challenge on Friday. It’s unfortunate his hobby seems to have crossed over into his professional life. I don’t approve of harrassment of these lunatics on their jobs, if that took place, but perhaps the university found his very public Birferism embarrassing, distracting and unprofessional, especially for public relations staff. If that’s the case, the university isn’t saying so.

From TPMMuckraker:

Joe Montgomery of Manhattan, Kan., wrote in an email to state officials that he no longer wanted them to investigate whether Obama was really a natural-born U.S. citizen or eligible to run for reelection. The email said that he, along with his friends and colleagues, faced a significant backlash after a state elections board took up his case and agreed to look into whether the president’s birth certificate was real.

“There has been a great deal of animosity and intimidation directed not only at me, but at people around me, who are both personal and professional associations,” Montgomery wrote in an email to the office of Secretary of State Kris Kobach, which released it to TPM. “I’m don’t wish to burden anyone with more of this negative reaction, so please immediatley [sic] withdraw any action on this objection.”

Besides his day job, Montgomery is a full-time online poster. This is a man who posted 46,537 times as ksdb (the call letters of the public university’s KSDB radio station) at Hannity’s site alone. Posting as ksdb at Forbes, his personal blog URL is: http://blogs.forbes.com/people/joemontgomery/; not exactly hiding his identity. At Doc Conspiracy’s site, on a single day in 2010, he posted 58 times from the school’s network, between 8:58 AM and 5:50 PM. Last year, as edge919, on FreeRepublic, he was organizing for ballot challenges.

Trying to keep President Obama off the ballot in his mother’s home state of Kansas, where 499,979 Kansans voted for him in 2008, and would be disenfranchised this time around, if Montgomery had his way, seems particularly low to me, not to mention the ease with which he insults the First Lady. But Montgomery doesn’t have a high opinion of us, either:

There’s a cottage industry of people who make excuses and provide apologies for the Kenyan Coward™ and his lack of vital credentials. One of the sites is Fogblow, so an appropriate term for them is Foggers, not Forgers. And some of these folks are not only Foggers, but many are dumb Mother Foggers.

About the followup to Thursday’s hearing, scheduled for this morning at ten, Kansas election director Brad Bryant told TPM:
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