News wire feeling ire over Palin (Fact checking the AP)

NY Post ^ | November 20, 2009 | ANDY SOLTIS

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EXCERPT

AP wouldn't say how many reporters are typically assigned to fact-check. The agency has roughly 3,000 employees for news gathering. Palin supporters said she was being unfairly targeted for scrutiny.

(AP's director of media relations, Paul)Colford said AP didn't fact-check Obama's two books, for example, because "neither of those books were published when he was a major player on the scene."

His latest book was published in 2006, as he was being mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138573,00.html

Obama shrugs off hype - Spending most of his time on issues close to home, senator-elect says talk of him running for president is 'silly'

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) -

Monday, November 15, 2004

Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROCKFORD (AP) - In the days since he was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has chatted by phone with President Bush, had his picture in People magazine and appeared several times on national television.

He's also been quizzed by 17-year-old Abby Longbottom, who joined her senator-elect in the stuffy basement of the Rockford Public Library to hear him talk about after-school programs.

Such is the life of the nation's only black senator, who comes to Washington wearing the label of the Democratic Party's great hope but promising only to work for the folks back home.

"I have not taken the hype too seriously," Obama said after bidding farewell to his colleagues in the Illinois Legislature last week.

But the limelight continues to seek out Obama , who became a political star after a rousing address at the Democratic National Convention.

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* Hardcover: 384 pages * Publisher: Crown; 1St Edition edition (October 17, 2006)

[manc]

why not fact check his books now.

Ask him why he says he sough radicals, Marxists, blacks, chicano’s out so as to avoid being looked as as a sell out.

That to me sounds racist towards whites and sounds he was looking to fit in with radicals because he was a radical but hey why not ask him and fact check him.

Also while they’re at it ask why his family say they saw him born over there and why does he hide his past life even his school record results and B/S.(not saying he isn’t American but why hide it)

[Diogenesis]

AP has no interest in real facts. Just propaganda.

Kenya Sunday Standard headline — “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate”

The Nigerian Observer — “Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next President with Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win. The Kenyan-born Senator will…”

USAfrica — “Kenyan-born OBAMA makes history…wins presidential nomination of U. S. Democratic party; eyes on White House…”

AllAfrica.com — ” Little wonder then why Kenyan-born Barack Obama, America’s first Black President…”

GraphicGhana.com — “For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this
presidential visit to the continent of his birth.” The same article, with the same quote, appeared in ModernGhana.com.

The Ghana Times — “So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois state. A Congressional Quarterly
(CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rivel, John McCain.”

From the comment section:
(”AmericanDaughter“) NPR.org — “…She also describes the stories that have been exciting, including the U.S. presidential race of Kenyan-born Sen. Barack Obama.”

(”AmericanDaughter“) AllAfrica.com — “Kampala — Ugandans have formed a group to mobilise support for Kenyan born-senator, Barack Obama for the US presidency.” "

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“Kenyan Historian: It's Odd that Kenyan Luo Tribe Member (Obama) Elected President in US Before Kenya (Audio)
We already knew that Barack Obama's brother Malik was a Luo activist and a militant Muslim
who argued that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture."

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“Article in Nairobi Paper June 2004 - Barack born in Africa
An ongoing poll by AOL News currently shows that 58% of Americans have doubts
about Obama’s citizenship. The poll was started on July 28 and continues — you can go
here to vote. And lest you think that this survey is being conducted in a very anti-Obama
venue, the title of the article is Birthers, Beer and Stuck on ‘Stupidly’ — it is an
environment contemptuous of skeptics. So we can conclude that the results of their poll
are not what they were hoping for.

A scant five years ago, Barack Obama was a little known Illinois state politician, aspiring
to move up to the United States Senate. Undoubtedly, the Marxist handlers behind this
Manchurian candidate had long range plans to capture the US presidency since he was
groomed as a youth by Frank Marshall Davis. But the general public and the press were
not privy to this information.

At that time, there would have been no reason to fabricate a story about Obama’s birth
that would disqualify him for the highest US office. This would be especially true for an
African paper that was simply proud of their native son. So it is reasonable to take the
press clippings of the day at face value. The following item has been on the web all
along, but apparently did not get much attention. It is a June 2004 article from the online
version of the East African Standard, an English-language paper published in Nairobi,
Kenya, titled Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate.“

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Br> “US Presidential Polls:Obama, McCain slug it out today
WASHINGTON – Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next President with
Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win.
The Kenyan-born Senator will, however, face a stiff competition from his Republican
counterpart, John McCain who has taken the presidential battle to the finishing line with
vigorous campaign strategies.”

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“Americans Decide Today - go Obama (this site hasn't been scrubbed yet)
So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois State .
A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rival, Senator McCain.”

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“D.C. Tech Official Is Accused of Bribery(Birth Certificate Forgery)
A D.C. government official and a business executive were arrested yesterday on bribery
charges involving city technology contracts that included "ghost" workers and
kickbacks, federal authorities said. Until recently, the technology office was headed
by Vivek Kundra, who has taken a job as President Obama's chief information officer.
A White House official confirmed last night that Kundra has taken a leave of absence.
“Yusuf Acar, 40, who has worked in the technology office since 2004, was charged with
bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and conflict of interest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Hibarger told a federal judge that Acar is a flight risk because agents
seized $70,000 in cash in his house and because in recorded conversations, he boasted that he could easily flee to his native Turkey.
Acar also told the informant that he could use
computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said. “

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"Security Breach May Lead To Obama Natural Born Status
A series of 2008 security breaches at the US State Department may indicate that someone knows Barack Obama’s true status as a natural born citizen - and is waiting for the right time to reveal it. The breaches, which occurred on January 9, February 21 and March 14 of 2008, were done by two “low level” contractors and another in a mid-level position with no management role.
... An investigation of the incidents revealed that all three major presidential candidates - Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain - had their passport files compromised.
... News of the security breaches prompted a statement from then-Senator Joseph Biden, who had not yet been chosen as Obama’s running mate. Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had oversight of the Foreign Service and the passport office.

“I am deeply troubled that State Department contract employees sought access to Sen. Barack Obama’s passport files,” the statement from Biden read. “Firing or disciplining those responsible is an important first step. But we need to understand why these employees had access to this information in the first place, why they sought the information, and why it took over two months for this matter to come to light. I urge the Secretary of State to promptly refer this matter to the State Department Inspector General for investigation.”
... On April 5, 2008, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport Services Ann Barrett resigned from her post after a credit card scheme using US passport date was uncovered by the security probe. State Department Spokesman Tom Casey told The Washington Times that 24-year-old Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr. told federal authorities he obtained “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.”

From The Washington Times report:
The investigation began after Metropolitan Police on March 25 pulled over Mr. Harris in Southeast on suspicion that the windows of his vehicle were tinted too darkly.
After searching Mr. Harris and his vehicle, police found marijuana and 21 credit cards that were not issued in his name or the name of a female passenger with him. Police also found eight printouts of State Department passport applications, and four of the names on the applications matched four of the credit cards.
Upon questioning by agents from the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Postal Service and State Department, Mr. Harris “admitted he obtained the passport information” from a State Department employee, court documents say.

Mr. Harris also said the fraud ring submitted credit-card applications using the names and “identifying information” of the persons listed on the passport applications, and that a postal service employee then would intercept the cards before they were delivered to the appropriate residences.
Then, on April 17, 2008, Lt. Harris was found fatally shot dead slumped over the steering wheel of his car in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast DC."

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Key Witness in Presidential Passport Tampering Case Murdered in 2008, No Arrests
On April 8, 2008, Obama confessed to having taken a trip to Pakistan in 1981. Here is what Obama said - Jake Tapper was there:
"So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa --knowing the leaders is not important -- what I know is the people...I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college -- I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
... Much speculation has been made about what national passport Obama used when he traveled to Pakistan in 1981.
So Obama confessed to this trip two weeks after his passport was tampered with.


.... A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday. Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division.
Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car."

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"Mysterious Dead Person Connected To 2008 Elections
The Washington Times reported April 5 that contractors for the State Department had improperly accessed passport information
for presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, which resulted in a series of firings that reached into the agency's top ranks."

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Good question. Or, why not fact check on the re-release?

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Obama ‘s fame renews interest in his book - A new edition of ‘ Dreams From My Father ‘ is due out Aug. 10

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) -
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. ( AP ) - The surge of interest in Barack Obama after his speech to the Democratic National Convention is spilling over to the book he wrote a decade ago, with a first edition copy going for $255 on eBay and pre-release orders for a new edition already putting it on best-seller lists.

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” Dreams From My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance” is Obama ‘s memoir of growing up in Hawaii the son of a black man and white woman. He discusses trying to come to grips with his racial identity, a period of rebellion that included drug use, traveling to Africa and becoming a community activist in Chicago.

It was published in 1995 to strong reviews but only modest sales. Obama said 15,000 copies were printed, and he still has several boxes of them.

Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, decided to reissue the book after Obama won the Illinois Democratic Senate primary in March. Then he delivered a keynote address that thrilled Democrats, and interest in the book took off.

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[Dixie Yooper]

"neither of those books were published when he was a major player on the scene."

Obama was the key note speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and went on to win the Illinois Senate seat that fall. A Senate seat that he never really sat in due to his rigorous schedule of making appearances all over the County to build support for his run for the Presidency. Not a major player?

[tobyhill]

Tell your local newspaper that you won't buy their paper as long as they use use the bias AP.

Never mind, no one reads the paper anyway.

[BunnySlippers]

Bump

[mikey_hates_everything]

I hope the AP finds her birth certificate and school records.

[Obadiah]

...Colford said AP didn't fact-check Obama's two books, for example, because "neither of those books were published when he was a major player on the scene."

That is so transparently a lie. What about fact checking the book when Obama became a major player on the scene? What about that? Typical corrupt MSM dissembling.

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Left to right: First Lady Michelle Obama, President of the Associated Press Tom Curley, US President Barack Obama and AP White House correspondent Jennifer Loven stand for the American national anthem at the Hilton Hotel in Washington where the dinner took place. The event is organised by the White House Correspondents Association and usually attracts the President and Vice President as well as a host of celebrities.

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An out and out LIE ...

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http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Barack.Obama.The.2.332948.html

Obama , the author, gets rock-star reception at book signing
Courier, The (Lincoln, IL) -
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Author: DON BABWIN ; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO - They stood in the rain for hours and, when they finally came face to face with Barack Obama , they gushed.

They laughed big laughs at his little jokes. They whipped out cameras and camera phones and started clicking. And as Obama signed copies of his latest book, they begged him to run for president.

While a U.S. senator with a new book might be expected to draw a big crowd in his hometown, Tuesday’s book-signings at 57th Street Books in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and at a Borders bookstore downtown were something else entirely. After all, Obama , a top Democratic party campaigner and fundraiser, is the hottest commodity in American politics.

In Hyde Park, lines stretched around the block. At Borders, people lined up three hours before the store opened and six hours before Obama arrived.

“For our generation he is kind of the lighthouse, the hope,” Allison Ringhand, a 19-year-old University of Chicago student from Milwaukee said at the senator’s first stop. “He’s changing the face of government in America.”

One after another, college students, retirees and those in between took turns throwing around words like “charismatic” and “hope” or, if that wasn’t enough, “shining hope.” They even tossed out the “K” word, as in John F. Kennedy.

“You know Kennedy was in the Senate for two years when he ran for president,” said Barbara O’Connor, 76, a few minutes before buying three copies of Obama ‘s “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” at the Hyde Park store.

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[RSmithOpt]

Most ‘reporters’ today in the state run media haven’t a clue as to actually perform fact checks. Most information that actually proves or disproves a fact is found in microfish from past editions of newspapers, books in libraries, & goobermint records.....the Internet is the most unreliable place to find such info unless one has direct access to the above mentioned data on-line. Microfish records from newspapers are slow to be converted onto servers.

[shiva]

Damn! He always looks so arrogant! Sticking out his chin like that.

[finnsheep]

I am not usually one to complain about discrimination against women, because usually I don’t see it much, but the way Palin is asked can you do the job of President with 5 kids when she had one more child than Joe Biden rankles me.