OK, we already knew about Willard’s penchant for pretending to be a policeman, and his fondness for holding down gay kids while he cut their hair, but in this Conan O’Brien clip Romney’s sons shed new light on the pranks so beloved by their famous father.

For example, Mitt loves that one where he says, “This butter is spoiled, here, smell it,” and then as soon as you lean over to smell it he pushes the butter into your face. Or whipped cream, that’s also a hoot. Never gets tired of it. His kids fall for it every time.

Also see:
On ‘Conan,’ Romney Sons Describe Dad the Prankster

Make no mistake. Show up at a tea party with signs that say “I Like Ham,” and “Oy! My Bunions!” and you’ll get your ass kicked.

That “Kenyan birth certificate” promoted by World Net Daily, Orly Taitz, Free Republic, and quite a few bloggers turns out to have been a deliberate prank on the Nirthers. They were well and truly punk’d.

The first words I wrote immediately after seeing the latest incarnation of the Nirth Certifikit:

Today we get a ludicrous effort by head Nirther Orly Taitz to foist off an obviously fake “Kenyan birth certificate” with Barack Obama’s name on it.

Not that I would ever say “I told you so.”

Or nya nya, Freepers, nya nya.

Or anything childish like that.

Just sayin’.

UPDATE at 8/6/09 5:29:52 pm:

Here’s the anonymous blogger who posted the high resolution images proving the punkage: Birthers Punk’d! Hoax Kenyan Birth Certificate.

Fine cotton business paper: $11

Inkjet printer: $35

1940 Royal Model KMM manual typewriter: $10

2 Shilling coin: $1

Pilot Varsity fountain pen: $3

Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless

I always love discovering that some leftist or jihadist site has “hotlinked” to one of my graphics (i.e., linked directly to the image on the LGF server instead of making their own copy), because the possibilities for mischief are endless. Today Brian at Snapped Shot found AlJazeera.com (not affiliated with JihadTV in any way except ideologically) hotlinking to a photo at his site, and arranged a most excellent surprise for the mujahideen: Glorious Jihadi Linkage.

The hotlink surprise is still at AlJazeera.com as of this writing…

UPDATE at 2/6/07 10:05:11 am:

The jihadministrator at AlJazeera.com finally noticed the prank and removed the Snapped Shot picture. (It was a takeoff of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, certain to make steam shoot out of the ears of the holy warriors.)

Snapped Shot had a small server problem, but should be back up soon; there’s a screenshot of the hotlinked image there.

UPDATE at 2/6/07 10:18:43 am:

Correction: as soon as Brian’s server comes back online, you’ll see that his image is still at the AlJazeera.com site.