Willie Horton Ad Creator: Birther Story ‘Not Dead’

Wash. Independent ^ | 7/27/09 | David Weigel

[3niner]

The “announcements” aren’t paid vanity announcements. They are in the birth listings from the Hawaii Dept. of Health Statistics.

I did not say that they were "paid". Many smaller newspapers print the announcements, as called in by interested parties, as a public service. Since many people like to call in non-local announcements, many papers require a local address

Do you know for a fact, that the The Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin worked the way you describe in 1961, or did you just make that up?

[Redwood Bob]

” I did not say that they were “paid”. Many smaller newspapers print the announcements, as called in by interested parties, as a public service. Since many people like to call in non-local announcements, many papers require a local address

Do you know for a fact, that the The Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin worked the way you describe in 1961, or did you just make that up?”

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Since I’ve never worked for them, I’m not in a position to directly report how they did it. But they say the listings are from the reports of the Hawaii Dept. of Health Statistics. Not vanity listings. Not from anybody just phoning it in. But maybe they’re part of the Vast Conspiracy.