[Defiant]

If the newspaper announcements are genuine, I consider it pretty damn conclusive. There is no way she called from Kenya to the US just to tell them to register the birth in a Hawaiian newspaper so they could claim US citizenship 49 years later. For a lower middle class family, a call from Africa would be prohibitively expensive.

I have seen some people question whether the newspaper clip is a photoshop. Has anyone seen the actual newspaper that this supposedly came from?

[Cheburashka]

For a lower middle class family, a call from Africa would be prohibitively expensive.

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Back in 1961 they still had and used telegrams, a lot cheaper than phone calls.

Different problem: how did they find the money for an extremely expensive airplane trip to Kenya?

[El Gato]

If the newspaper announcements are genuine, I consider it pretty damn conclusive. There is no way she called from Kenya to the US just to tell them to register the birth in a Hawaiian newspaper so they could claim US citizenship 49 years later. For a lower middle class family, a call from Africa would be prohibitively expensive.

Maybe, but one from Canada would be less so, and a telegram cheaper still from either place.

[bluescape]

“If the newspaper announcements are genuine, I consider it pretty damn conclusive”

So conclusive we don't need to bother with actual documentation for this president like we do with every other person in the universe.

[Fred Nerks]

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT FORGERY ATLAS SHRUGSLINK

Here’s a comment on Atlas Shrugs from Infidel Granny, reminding Pamela just where the birth announcement came from. It was a scan, e-mailed to her.

“Pamela, Infidel Granny here. I am the woman who sent you the birth announcement from the Honolulu Advertiser in July 2008. You gave me a hat tip on July 23, 2008. I sure hope you don’t think I had anything to do with a forgery.

The woman I spoke to at the Advertiser suggested I contact the Hawaii State Librbary for the info. That’s where I got it from just as it states in the blog on July 23. The librarian stated another woman had asked for the same thing about one week before I did. You might still have my email and phone number. Feel free to contact me if you like.”

I’m putting this up here now because the link to Texasdarlin where Lori Starfelt explains how she came about her material (from the same source, by e-mail) has been removed.

Maybe factcheck didn’t appreciate me drawing attention to that fact they ‘validated’ an announcement that was an electronic image of a scan received by e-mail from an anonymous poster?

8,014 posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:47:12 PM by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)