“The agency assistant did NOT say she failed to fact check the FACT of Obama’s Kenyan birth. She said she fact checked it & it checked out. Reread the assistant’s statement. Someone kindly posted it upthread. Show me where she says she did NOT fact check the item. In point of fact, the statement says just the opposite.”
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In fact, she said neither — she did not say that she failed to check it and she did not say that it checked out.
What she said was,
“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.”
All she said was that it was “a fact checking error.” Any speculation about the nature of the error is simply that, speculation.
The only way you can make an fact checking error is by fact checking erroneously. They had a fact. They checked it. Now they claim they checked it erroneously. That’s what the statement says. Or are you so blinded by your Obama love you can no longer even read plain English?
The literary agency run by BigGuy22:
Agent: Obama’s bio blurb is ready to print, but we need to know where he was born.
Assistant: I’ll ask him.
Agent: No, no no. Don’t do that..
Assistant: Why?
Agent: It’s just something agents never do. We never ask our clients where they were born.
Assistant: Why?
Agent: That’s not really your concern, is it? All you have to do is find out where Obama was born without asking him. How hard can it be?
Assistant thinks. “Can I ask him for a birth certificat?
Agent: Don’t bother; he wouldn’t have one.
Asistant: Of course he has one. He’s got a driver’s license, so he must have a birth certificate.
Agent: He may have had it then, but no doubt he’s lost it by now. Figure out some other way, okay?
Assistant thinks. Do you want me to hire a PI?
Agent rolls eyes. Surely there is a simpler, less expensive, more straightforward, efficient & easier way to acquire such a basic piece of info.
Assistant thinks to self, ‘My boss is certifiable.’ Aloud says: I suppose I could ask Harvard.
Agent: I was hoping you’d come up w something a bit more creative. But if that’s the best you can do, okay; ask Harvard.