It occurred to me. But which scenario sounds more probable?
1) A 2004 Associated Press release referred to Obama as "Kenyan-born" in its opening. Multiple newspapers around the world ran versions of the AP article. Years later, the Associated Press decided to participate in a cover-up, and deleted the reference not only from its own archives, but also from Lexis and from every other newspaper archive in the world. (That includes scrubbing digital, microfiche, and physical records.) However, the conspiracy slipped up, and failed to remove the reference in, coincidentally, a single Kenyan newspaper.
or:
2) The Kenyan newspaper added the reference, and made a mistake.
Lessee...massive and sweeping conspiracy and cover-up involving lots of people and the manipulation of hundreds of archives, or single foreign newspaper fact-checking error?
I’ll take “massive and sweeping conspiracies” for $1000, please Alex!
Hope your day is happy. :-)