Well, this story could matter politically IF it becomes an “official” news story, not a “typical product of the blogs and Right-Wing media.” Some “serious” media are on the list you cite, so you may be right that the story could become “official” and thus have an impact. I think you place too many hopes on this in a political sense, however, when that will depend entirely on whether the story is taken seriously by the public. That’s the test.
Very real constitutional questions about Obama’s qualification to hold the office of President, due to uncertainty over his citizenship, are being ignored. Yet they are well-publicized in “alternative media,” suspiciously evaded by Obama, and, I think, widely-known to the public. That’s an “authority” problem: the public seems to believe that if something is not an issue to the “official” media then it’s just not important–even if true.
Somewhere, something has to give on who has the authority to declare an important national “story” that the public should notice. Credibility has already been established by alternative media exposing significant national stories(such as presidential candidate Edward’s extra-marital affair and illigitimate child), but despite strong stories broken by alternative media, for some reason nothing has altered the current news “authority” equation. The habits of the public mind in this regard are clearly hard to break. Maybe it’s cumulative and we are working towards a tipping point.
