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LITERARY AGENT RESPONDS TO ‘BORN IN KENYA’ OBAMA BIO: ‘NOTHING MORE THAN A FACT CHECKING ERROR’
The Blaze ^ | 05/17/12 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 05/17/2012 2:59:13 PM PDT by barmag25

The text editor of the 1991 literary agency booklet that described Barack Obama as “born in Kenya” said Thursday the line in question was “nothing more than a fact checking error.”

Miriam Goderich issued a statement to the Political Wire saying the future president never suggested “in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii”:

“You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”

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121 posted on 05/17/2012 6:48:25 PM PDT by bitt
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To: smoothsailing

A cocked 38 pointed at point blank range at your genitals will cause one to revise and extend their remarks. She remembers this from 21 years ago. Bovine excrement!


122 posted on 05/17/2012 6:52:16 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: Jeff Head; TheOldLady; netmilsmom; tomdavidd; Freeper; Gvl_M3; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; ...
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They have to reign this one in fast. Hehehe. Too damaging.

But if it was a simple fact check error...why did they use it until after 2006 or so?

Hmm...seems like a huge CYA by this agent instead, covering Obama.

Too late. Cat’s out of the bag.

Arizona to Hawaii: Show verification of Obama’s Birth

http://www.jeffhead.com/verifybirth.htm

“If Hawaii cannot or will not show verification, I will not place Barack Obama’s name on the ballot.” - Arizona Secretary of State.

Article, also check out # 88 , and 100.

123 posted on 05/17/2012 7:02:59 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: liberalh8ter

Just as funny as it taking fifteen, sixteen years to discover the error....Talk about being SLLLLlllllloooooooow

Meme: Is Obama lying now or was he lying back then?


124 posted on 05/17/2012 7:03:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: miss marmelstein
She’s claiming she was a secretary at the time. When all else fails, blames the staff!

Which probably meant she was in a higher tax bracket than her boss. We all know that leads to 'mistakes'.

125 posted on 05/17/2012 7:06:39 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Obama vs. Romney: Zero x Zero = Zero.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

One question for Ms. literary agent:

WHAT “FACTS” WERE YOU BASING THIS “FACTUAL ERROR” ON?

And one for Obama:

HEY MR. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EXPERT - YOU OBVIOUSLY BEING SO VERSED IN CON LAW KNEW ABOUT THE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN REQUIREMENT, so why didn’t this obvious “FACTUAL ERROR” jump up and smack you in the face?


126 posted on 05/17/2012 7:16:46 PM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: bitt

Dodge ball anyone? :)


127 posted on 05/17/2012 7:26:53 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: NoLibZone; All

Please send all links to Brietbart.com. There is a tip tab on the right side of their page. They need as many sources as possible to show that this is not an isolated insident.

Meme: Is he lying now or was he lying then?


128 posted on 05/17/2012 7:30:53 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: All; barmag25; Jeff Head
Arizona to Hawaii: Provide verification of Obama’s birth http://www.jeffhead.com/verifybirth.htm “If Hawaii can’t or won’t provide verification of the president’s birth certificate, I will not put his name on the ballot.”- Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett

Planet Earth to Planet Kolob: Provide verification of Romney's claim to be "spirit born" on Kolob...

Doesn't that make Romney an alien "non-citizen" of this planet...sent to take over a human body here?

All: Ask Jeff: Be honest with all the posters here: Don't you believe you're one of these "spirit birth" aliens, too?

I hope states mount an effort to get Romney to publicly confess what he already privately believes...that his origin was NOT as a U.S. Citizen nor even as an earthling!

129 posted on 05/17/2012 7:33:15 PM PDT by Colofornian (Mom when I grow up, I want 2B like Ike. Mom when I grow up, I want 2B a god from Kolob like Mitt.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Hello Sarah...yea, she’s covering. There’s no way you’d come out of thin air and say he was was Kenya uness she had spoken with him.

But then this is the path he goes...it’s all fraud.


130 posted on 05/17/2012 7:47:29 PM PDT by caww
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To: LucyT

Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Until the weasel pops ;).


131 posted on 05/17/2012 9:33:26 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: taterjay

Plus, one would think the former first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review would be a good enough editor to factcheck his own biography and catch a mistake ... if this is indeed a mistake. It reminds me of how Wikipedia listed Obama as born at Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu several years before it was changed to the new official Kapiolani Hospital.


132 posted on 05/17/2012 9:50:27 PM PDT by edge919
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To: edge919

Indeed. The man is bogus.


133 posted on 05/17/2012 10:14:41 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: rhubarbk

Someone had to/has to be pushed under the political bus.


134 posted on 05/17/2012 10:54:09 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: barmag25
So, when Ted Kennedy made a Big Deal about the "16 words" in Bush's SOTU address about Saddam and yellowcake, saying on the floor of the Senate that Bush told "lie after lie after lie," was that just a fact-checking error?

-PJ

135 posted on 05/17/2012 11:00:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: Windy City Conservative
Meanwhile, all handwringers in the Republican media refuse to acknowledge the existence of the Breitbart story, or continue to put their hands over their ears and repeat, “he was born in Hawaii, he was born in Hawaii, he was born in Hawaii, la, la, la,”

BTTT.

136 posted on 05/18/2012 2:16:06 AM PDT by snowsislander (Please, America, no more dog-eating Kenyan cokeheads in the Oval Office.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I have lived in Kenya, Tanzania, Japan, Costa Rica and a bunch of other countries. Yet nowhere did anyone ever say I was born anywhere but Ohio USA.

Exactly. I cannot think of any instance where a public figure, born in the 1960s, has ever been widely and repeatedly misidentified as to the place of his birth.

The willful ignorance of the press which studiously straight-arms this issue and gleefully mocks anyone who questions the Kenyan Clown's origins is shameful behavior.

137 posted on 05/18/2012 2:26:15 AM PDT by snowsislander (Please, America, no more dog-eating Kenyan cokeheads in the Oval Office.)
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To: donhunt
Barrack Obama is to America what Elizabeth Warren is to the Cherokees.

LOL, perfect! And what John Kerry is to war heroes...

138 posted on 05/18/2012 2:48:58 AM PDT by abishai
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To: hoosiermama
Exactly. I'll be on the phone with my reps this morning. I've had enough of this illegal grifter, his wife and their blatant theft of taxpayer funds.
139 posted on 05/18/2012 4:21:30 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: liberalh8ter

Thanks for the reminder. Mine will only allow you to leave messages. Pointed out Drudge’s front page, said there were many more articles around the world and asked IHLNOWHLT meme and stated I wanted to see his college records.


140 posted on 05/18/2012 5:59:36 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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