I'm sorry, I didn't know you worked there at the time.
There aren't any "assumptions." The publisher didn't just assume Obama was born in Kenya. They wouldn't know anything about him, so HE had to provide the publisher with background information about himself.
I didn't mean the publisher made up the Kenya thing out of whole cloth. Obama probably wrote something about his family being from Kenya, and the low-level person in charge of the bios thought that meant (there's the "assumption") he was born there.
Anyway, like I said, believe what you want about the brochure. The original claim was that Obama said he was born in Kenya on the cover of his book, and I'm just pointing out that that's not true, before it becomes another unquestioned part of birther lore.
I'm sorry, do you have a reading comprehension problem?? I didn't claim to work there. I explained, in general, how bios are written. But, we don't have to simply take my educated word for it; Breitbart already published a story that said the publisher's standard procedure was for writers to submit their own bios. So when a fact-checking error is made, it is a failure to check facts submitted by the author in his own bio — that he would have written himself.
Link to Breitbart, "Dystel & Goderich Ask Writers to Submit Their Own Bios"
I didn't mean the publisher made up the Kenya thing out of whole cloth. Obama probably wrote something about his family being from Kenya, and the low-level person in charge of the bios thought that meant (there's the "assumption") he was born there.
If this is true, then it wasn't a fact-checking error as was claimed. A fact-checking error is when somebody gives you facts and your job is to check to see if those facts are correct or not. It's not about making an assumption. If this were the case, the publisher would have said, "We misunderstood where the subject was born."
Anyway, like I said, believe what you want about the brochure. The original claim was that Obama said he was born in Kenya on the cover of his book, and I'm just pointing out that that's not true, before it becomes another unquestioned part of birther lore.
It's a trivial distinction because there is still a bio that says Obama was born in Kenya and Obama is the only logical source of that information. Whether it was on the cover of the book or not, is trivial. It was still published. It didn't have to be on the cover of a book to be a problem for Obama now. Of course, there are several later news headlines that said he was Kenyan-born, which is consistent with Obama's same factuality problem.