Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:
"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."
As for the Kenyan Parliament, where on earth wd they get such an idea (i.e.: that Obama was born there)? Name one other POTUS claimed by an entire foreign parliament [subsequent to the grandfathering stage] to have been born there. Just one.
I'm still looking for one. The entire Kenyan Parliament did not state Obama was born there. One Kenyan, while speaking to the Parliament, made the assertion that Obama was born in Kenya. That's it. One uninformed Kenyan. Of course we should believe him instead of our U.S. Congress! Sigh.
So the agency possessed the FACT that Obama was born in Kenya. The checked that FACT. It was sufficiently confirmed to go to publication & remain in publication for 16 yrs. Now they claim their fact checking method was in error. This is an explanation ONLY an Obot wd believe.
Re: the Kenyan Parliament. Can you get nothing factually correct? Two different members of parliament on two different occasions acknowledged Obama’s Kenyan birth. Now I’m sure that if both were wrong, at least one member of the Kenyan Parliament wd have pointed that out. Kindly provide such a link. Thank you in advance.
Okay, here’s one for you. Francois Hollande is the president of France. Let’s say that shortly after he was elected—perhaps even on the day he was elected—a prominent US congress person stood up during a live session & said, ‘This is a great day for America! A man born in America is now the president of France!’
According to you, all the other congress people wd simply nod their heads in agreement.
A short time later a different congress person stands up during a live session. He/she says, ‘The big news is that France is no longer nationalistic. If they were, they wd not have elected as president a man born in America.’
According to you, all the other congress people say, ‘Hear, hear!’ - & let it go at that.
Well guess what? Hollande was born in France. So why wd we claim he was born here, & why wd no member of congress politely point out that he was NOT born on US soil, rather than leave such a misstatement in the congressional record?
Your position is nonsense drivel. It makes sense only to an Obot.