Posted on 07/27/2009 8:23:58 PM PDT by DouglasKC
Stay with me here. Tonight this thread was posted:
Bama Hawaii Born, Insist Isle Officials.
It links to a website that has the story. But there's something strange.
This statement does not appear on the hawaii.gov website.
No TV station website in Hawaii has this story.
No other Hawaii newspaper website has this story.
Any stories on the web are based on this one story.
Questions: Is there an official source for this story? Does anyone find it odd that a story posted at 2:57 PM isn't being reported in any other Hawaii media?
Is it possible this story is a plant? Is it possible this reporter got a scoop and that's why no else is reporting it? How come the story is so sketchy on details? How come no links in the story to an official statement?
"Hawaii official reaffirms President Obama's citizenship Posted: Jul 28, 2009 4:24 AM EDT Updated: Jul 28, 2009 5:05 AM EDT "
The first story about this appeared yesterday, supposedly about 3 PM Hawaii time. If there WAS a press release by Fukino how come this TV station didn't get it and didn't have a story until 4:24 AM Hawaii time (10:24 AM eastern) today?
There is STILL no press release or statement by Fukino on the official Hawaii department of health website.
You said — If the state of hawaii put out an official statement on a matter that has great interest don’t you find it strange that it wouldn’t be up on their website almost immediately?
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No, that’s not surprising to me at all, knowing how behind websites are... LOL.. I would expect to get breaking news from a news report first — and not a state website. I would say that we will be lucky to see the state move so fast as to get it on their website in a week... LOL...
You said — Where is the statement? Besides just a reporters say so? When Fukino made a similar statement in October of 2008 it was posted of the Hawaii dept of health website. The old statement is is listed here.
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Yeah, it was put up after it was reported... :-)
But, I like what Fox News has always said — “We report, you decide.” And that works well here. They report and we decide.
So, basically you can decide any way you want from your own perspective. From mine it looks fairly obvious.
It will be obvious if it's ever official. But a reporter saying something doesn't make it so. It's nearly 8 am in Hawaii and so far nothing has officially been said or posted.
You said — It’s nearly 8 am in Hawaii and so far nothing has officially been said or posted.
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Note that I said the same thing about Lou Dobbs and his report regarding the State of Hawaii. I said that if it was false (which remained to be seen at that time), then it would be denied by the state, relatively soon, and that there would be news reports on it and posts here on Free Republic about it, too.
And that took about three days, before the denial came out from the State of Hawaii...
So, it may come and then again, it may not... and that remains to be seen. But, as it stands right now, this is the news report that has been given.
Oh... one more thing I should say here...
You said — It will be obvious if it’s ever official.
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I should ask how “official” was it when the report came out that denied the paper birth certificate was *not destroyed*. I haven’t seen that one up on their website either.
As far as I know, the *second* a reporter said that — it was accepted as the “gospel truth*, and no confirmation directly from the State of Hawaii, other than the reporter himself... (but eventually that will come out, too... in the days to come... if it is true).
You see.... a lot of this accepting a reporter or not accepting a reporter *really* has to do with what one likes to hear and what one does not like to hear.
The better way to do it — is to simply accept the report as a “news report” and see if a denial comes up later or some kind of further proof comes up later that offsets it.
It would seem to me that many are “accepting” or “denying” according to what they prefer to hear...
You said — There is STILL no press release or statement by Fukino on the official Hawaii department of health website.
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It took them three days to issue a denial of the Lou Dobbs report on the paper being destroyed on the birth certificate. And *by the way* that *denial* was *only* a “news report” and nothing is on their website about that Lou Dobbs denial (about paper birth certificate), even now... It’s just one reporter saying it.
Confirmed...
Today, from the State of Hawaii website...
http://hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2009/09-063.pdf
“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‘i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”
Yup...thanks...
Just following up to some old posts that needed confirmation on several threads...
Many times people never follow up with the final information... LOL...
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