People who've insisted for five years that the White House is
covering up the truth of President Obama's birthplace have a
theory about news of the death of a Hawaii official in a plane
crash: It is part of the conspiracy. It is almost as though
birthers will accept any evidence that can be twisted in their
favor and ignore the preponderence of evidence rejecting it.  On
Thursday morning, USA Today reports that Loretta Fuddy was the
sole fatality in the crash of a Makani Kai Air plane off the
coast of one of the Hawaiian islands. Fuddy was the acting
health director in the state of Hawaii in 2011, when she oversaw
the release of the detailed version of Obama's birth certificate
to the White House. Obama hoped that the document's release
would curtail the long-standing rumor that he wasn't born in the
United States. But, since you can't trump irrationality with
reason, it didn't.  The release of the birth certificate only
served to further fuel the conspiracy. Faulty interpretations of
the digital file release