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You:Because UPI admitted it.

To be accurate, as I told you before, UPI didn't change anything, they did nothing about it until WND gave the matter attention:

"News sites swap Obama's birthplace like magic UPI, Snopes change location within hours of WND report

By Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Posted: July 09, 2009
12:27 am Eastern

If you happened to read online news sites such as United Press International or the popular hoax-busting Snopes.com anytime up until Tuesday night, you would have seen definitive statements that President Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii."

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You: If the source had been Obama, then there would be something to indicate it in the original article, and it would be Obama's error, not the writer's.

I was specifically speaking about the original source. The Queens hospital story, Obama's birthplace came from some where. The most likely source are the Obamas. UPI dodged the controversy by stating this:

-snip-

"WND had contacted UPI on Tuesday to find out specifics about why it had published the birthplace as Queen's, which is contrary to the president's new assertion in a White House celebratory letter to Kapi'olani. The news agency says that story was a background piece compiled from available sources, and it did not believe there was any original reporting or interview that UPI conducted with Obama himself, but added it was looking into the matter."

You: If the source had been Obama, then there would be something to indicate it in the original article, and it would be Obama's error, not the writer's.

Well, you think you know more than UPI's writing than they do. LoL. UPI was unsure how they came upon the information to where Obama was born as I underlined the UPI's statement as seen above. Gee, did UPI ever do "a real" follow up like they said they would...to find out?

Many? I know of only two: UPI and a high school student newsletter. Which other ones?

You need more? Your fellow travelers at Snopes.com said they were more. See Snopes screen shot below:

You: And what makes you think they were even aware of the erroneous reports?

I seriously doubt Obama or any member of his family regularly reads either UPI or the rainbow newsletter.

You may have a point here. Obama may have been too busy reading his autographed copy of Mao's little Red Book or some other similar anti-capitalist or anti-American book.

The bottom line here is that the public does not really know to where Obama was born. It's like flipping a coin when Obama says believe me. Tails Obama is stating the truth and heads he's is lying again.

Psssssst Obama has a two headed coin.

To be accurate, as I told you before, UPI didn't change anything,

Yes they did change it, once WND made them aware of their error. Furthermore, they didn't just scrub the error. At the very bottom of the story, they acknowledged the error and stated it was the writer's.

I was specifically speaking about the original source. The Queens hospital story, Obama's birthplace came from some where. The most likely source are the Obamas.

Not according to UPI:

"This item was corrected July 8, 2009, to fix the name of the hospital where Obama was born. The original item incorrectly identified the facility as Queen's Hospital, an error made by the writer."

Can you read? What part of "error made by the writer" can't you understand?

If it was an error by the writer, then Obama could not have been the source.

The bottom line here is that the public does not really know to where Obama was born.

Yes we do. Obama and every single member of his family has always maintained he was born at Kapiolani. The fact that exactly one reporter made an error and said it was Queens doesn't change that.