Here’s a comment on Atlas Shrugs from Infidel Granny, reminding Pamela just where the birth announcement came from. It was a scan, e-mailed to her.
“Pamela, Infidel Granny here. I am the woman who sent you the birth announcement from the Honolulu Advertiser in July 2008. You gave me a hat tip on July 23, 2008. I sure hope you don’t think I had anything to do with a forgery.
The woman I spoke to at the Advertiser suggested I contact the Hawaii State Librbary for the info. That’s where I got it from just as it states in the blog on July 23. The librarian stated another woman had asked for the same thing about one week before I did. You might still have my email and phone number. Feel free to contact me if you like.”
I’m putting this up here now because the link to Texasdarlin where Lori Starfelt explains how she came about her material (from the same source, by e-mail) has been removed.
Maybe factcheck didn’t appreciate me drawing attention to that fact they ‘validated’ an announcement that was an electronic image of a scan received by e-mail from an anonymous poster?
8,014 posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:47:12 PM by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
Until the actual newspaper in which the announcement was printed is examined and analyzed, the announcement cannot be automatically assumed to be genuine. It certainly appears other documents have been forged in the course of this, including COLBs posted on web sites that Obama has endorsed as genuine. There are a lot of people with a lot of resources who have been supporting Obama over the course of his career, and they have been scrubbing information on him all over the place, from the State Legislature, his colleges, his grade school records and so on. I would not blindly accept the birth announcement. It needs to be examined. What I have said is that if it is genuine, then the odds that he was actually born in Hawaii become extremely high.