But birtherism still lives, even if it no longer gets as much attention.

There is no way other than racism to explain "birtherism."

But a side effect is that Democrats can make it look like he’s dabbling in birtherism himself.

The first thing you should know about "birtherism" is that it should have died years ago.

Now that birtherism has served its purpose for Trump, he may very well tone it down.

Yet Trump, by so aggressively advocating birtherism, has seen his support there dry up.

The lesson here: When it comes to birtherism, it’s best to stay far, far away.

The renewed preoccupation with birtherism comes just as the 2012 presidential campaign becomes more engaged.

Many on the left say that birtherism is just racism, but there’s more than simple racial animus behind it.

Away from the clamour over birtherism, there are other elements of his message that resonate.

Over the years, it has dallied with 9/11 trutherism, birtherism, and climate change.

More realistically, the release of the birth certificate may limit elite support for birtherism.

And why shouldn’t he find birtherism fun?

Several House members have also been caught recently flirting with birtherism among supporters, only to back off when their remarks found a wider audience.

But in another sense, birtherism is the dual-edged blade of African identity for black Americans.

"And if we kind of begin wasting time on the nonsensical and the silly issues like birtherism."

Yesterday Jesse Jackson described birtherism as racial “code,” but there’s nothing “coded” about it.

Chief among them is that Trump’s lunacy emboldened conservative media sources to fully embrace birtherism.

Obama thinks birtherism works in his favor.

He claimed Obama’s campaign was using “reverse psychology” to make reporters think that birtherism was bad for Republicans.

Like birtherism, it's an ostensible serious question that is ultimately a veiled attack on presidential legitimacy.

But the whole point of Trump’s newly-minted birtherism has always been to capture something larger than the birther constituency.

Obama had contended with birtherism since the previous campaign, when rumors surfaced that there was no record of his birth in Hawaii.

All he did was encourage the communications wing of the conservative movement to go into overdrive in an attempt to make birtherism mainstream.

New Hampshire needs no association with birtherism or 9/11 kookery or any other conspiracy fantasies.

The birther conspiracy theory began life on the outer reaches of the 2008 campaign.

Bloomberg, a political independent, said Republicans should focus on important issues rather than the birther conspiracy theory.

But the birther conspiracy theory refuses to go away.

The Democratic polling organization commented that this was somewhat higher than belief in the birther conspiracy theories.

In July 2009, controversy around Dobbs began when he was the only mainstream news anchor to give airtime to the birther conspiracy theory.

Exhibit B this week: Donald Trump's re-enflaming of the thoroughly discredited birther conspiracy theory.

The birther conspiracy theory was given a megaphone recently by real estate tycoon Donald Trump, who dropped his unofficial bid for the Republican nomination on Tuesday.

Karl Rove, still the GOP’s canniest strategist, told Fox News viewers that Trump was “off there in the nutty right” and a “joke candidate” for pandering to birther conspiracy theories.

This birth certificate was a cornerstone of the "Kenyan Born" subset of the birther conspiracy theories, and Madsen's article was cited in a Washington state petition challenging Obama's eligibility to serve.

Donald Trump did it again this week, grabbing the spotlight from potential GOP rivals by snapping up a winery in Virginia, an important swing state, and continuing to dabble in birther conspiracy theories and court the tea party.

Next in popularity was the Obama Birther conspiracy theory - claiming that the President was not actually born in the US, which 24% of respondents agreed with, followed close behind by the Truther, Iraq War, and Soros conspiracy theories.