I'm calling thinly veiled ploy to be able to say "We're fair and balanced."
Yup second sentence says it all: "You might think birthers are crazy conspiracy theorists, but you can't say they're inconsistent."
When this is over in a few days because the certificate was "verified"/no one cares/whatever, it'll be something to point back at to say "see, we're fair".
Except that people will actually believe that because a TV somewhere said that and will actually use it as a serious argument and I'll just be
