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So, where did the literary agent get the information? Lemme guess, the guy down at the coffee shop told the newspaper boy who told the bum in the alley who mumbled it to the lady walking her dog who told her cousin who told the dry cleaners who told the literary agent and the literary agent ran it back past the coffee shop guy who in turn approved and signed off on the write up and somehow after all these decades, the author never once saw it so couldn’t possibly have known to have it corrected.

“So, where did the literary agent get the information?”
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What an odd question! Are you suggesting that I have knowledge of where the information came from? I don’t, and I never suggested that I did.

It sounds to me like you are asking me to speculate on where it came from. But my speculation is legally worthless, and so is yours.

There have been claims that the information must have come from Obama himself, but as far as I know there is no evidence to support it. Therefore, as I have said repeatedly, such a conclusion is based purely on speculation. I have no desire to throw my specluation onto the pile.

Have you got any evidence?

So, where did the literary agent get the information? Lemme guess, the guy down at the coffee shop told the newspaper boy who told the bum in the alley who mumbled it to the lady walking her dog who told her cousin who told the dry cleaners who told the literary agent and the literary agent ran it back past the coffee shop guy who in turn approved and signed off on the write up and somehow after all these decades, the author never once saw it so couldn’t possibly have known to have it corrected.

LOL!!!

Fantasywriter: “Why would Obama tell his own literary agent he was born in Kenya?”

bgill: "So, where did the literary agent get the information?"

On 2/6/90, the New York Times published an article titled "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review." In it, they said:

"The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University... His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii."

Compare that to the blurb put out by Acton & Dystel:

"Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University..."

So there are two options:

1) Acton & Dystel either had newspaper clippings of its authors and/or it did a NEXIS search of newspapers and ended up mis-copying from the many articles appearing in 1990 when Obama was elected to head Harvard's Law Review. Easy to believe. Things like that happen all the time.

or

2) According to the Breitbart.com article which published the publicity blurb, Obama was clearly born in Hawaii. However, the Breitbart article accuses Obama of telling the publisher he was born in Kenya, and claimed that was just proof of Obama's manipulating his public persona and fictionalizing aspects of his own life. So, in other words, according to Breitbart, you've been punk'd!