Posted on 06/15/2018 6:46:56 PM PDT by grundle
Barack Obama was born in the U.S.
According to this 2012 article from ABC News, in 1991 Obama’s own book publisher printed a paper pamphlet which said that Obama was “born in Kenya.” An employee of the publisher said that it was a “fact checking error” of hers that caused this to happen, and that the false information did not come from Obama. The bolding is mine:
‘Born in Kenya’: Obama’s Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991
By Dylan Stableford
May 18, 2012
A possible source of the so-called “birther” issue–or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama–has been identified.
Obama’s former literary agency misidentified his birthplace as Kenya while trying to promote the then-Harvard Law grad as an author in 1991.
According to a promotional booklet produced by the agency, Acton & Dystel, to showcase its roster of writers, Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.
“This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me–an agency assistant at the time,” Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. “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.”
A copy of the booklet was published on Breitbart.com, under the headline: ” Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.’ It was part of the “vetting” of the president the site’s late founder, Andrew Breitbart, had promised.
Here’s Obama’s full bio from the 1991 brochure:
“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 and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Breitbart.com published a lengthy disclaimer with the brochure, saying it does not believe Obama was born outside of the United States:
Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.” In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama’s ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.
It is for that reason that we launched “The Vetting,” an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)–not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.
It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below–one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.
It is evidence–not of the President’s foreign origin, but that Barack Obama’s public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.
Despite that rationale, the publication will no doubt fuel “birthers” who refuse to believe Obama was born in the United States.
In a follow-up post, Breitbart.com noted that Obama was listed as being born in Kenya on the Dyster & Goderich website until April 2007, “just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.”
Snopes put this picture of the pamphlet on its website:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp
Claim: A 1991 literary client list promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.
True
In 2008, NPR published this article, which claimed that Obama was born in Kenya. Again, the bolding is mine:
Trial and Triumph: Stories Out Of Africa
by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
October 9, 2008
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR’s Africa-based correspondent, tells why her beat has proved one of the most interesting this year.
She discusses the stories that have been painful and devastating for many nations on the continent such as the violent political fights that have led to power-sharing deals.
She also describes the stories that have been exciting, including the U.S. presidential race of Kenyan-born Sen. Barack Obama.
So where did she get that information?
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I was under the impression that the authors wrote their own bios. Seems like I read that at the time. I think this is what Andrew Brietbart was talking about before his death.
No human born and raised in the United States would EVER claim there are 57 states.
BINGO
Also, the Kenyan newspapers that said “Kenyan born Barack Obama set to win senate seat” or something like that.
If not, why not?
Bingo! I personally know many writers of articles and a few authors' of books. I've written numerous technical pieces that have been published and my brother has 7 books to his credit. For me, this issue presents the strongest case as to Obama's birthplace because I have never ever heard of an author who didn't write his own bio and I've never heard of an author who wasn't asked to do a final proof read of the product before it goes to print. The fact that Obama's bio (with him born in Kenya) was allowed to stand for all those years tells me that a) Obama wrote it as a factual account or b) Obama wrote it and lied about being born there for whatever reason he thought made that a good idea to lie. I don't believe there is a third option. >/p>
No Christian would ever "mistakenly" say "my Muslim faith" (and need correcting by George Stephanopolous).
And how do we know this? Some of the facts we do know seem to contradict this claim.
Best description of what likely happened.
This means one of two things:
1) He provided the material and it is factual
or
2) He provided the material and it is false.
Either way, he's a fraud.
Thank you.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (Pub.L. 82–414, 66 Stat. 163, enacted June 27, 1952), also known as the McCarran–Walter Act,
codified under Title 8 of the United States Code (8 U.S.C. ch. 12), governs immigration to and citizenship in the United States. It has been in effect since June 27, 1952. Before this Act, a variety of statutes governed immigration law but were not organized within one body of text.
Agreed. Can you imagine the day when you might say such a thing?
I think even in the worst situation, saying I was of Muslim faith would be impossible. Unless it was true.
H was thnking of the 57 Moslem states in the world.
And no practicing Christian would say “my muslim faith,” as he did.
“Let’s let this die. He’s out of office. Ignore him.”
Using his OFA organization (Organizing For Action) that’s not about to happen. Obama is a die hard Communist who will fight to his dying days to try and be relevant. The USA dodged a bullet that it aimed at itself in electing Obama by refusing to elect Hillary, a fellow traveler.
and, obviously, Zero had, through several reprints, the opportunity from 1991 to 2000 to correct the ‘misinformation’, but he didn’t.
“Misidentified”. Yeah. Sure. Just like Obama misidentified his “Muslim faith” in an interview.
Right. Yeah. Sure. I never though the Manchuranian Candidate was a genuine possibility until Obama became president. No grades at Harvard. No work at Harvard. Nobody still can find who paid his college tuition. No record in the Senate.
Just an empty suit installed by the New World Order to destroy America. I really fear who follows Trump. A hard communist, probably.
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