[JohnnyP]

Someone claiming to be an editorial assistant posted this comment:

Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:

“You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. 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.”

[JennysCool]

Problem is, it wasn't just the pamphlet. The same language was used on the Dystel website for the next 16 years.

[no-to-illegals]

very interesting. Wonder if Miriam Goderich has been vetted?

[ml/nj]

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 saw this. It is SUCH bullsh*it.

My wife's first job was to do publicity for McGraw Hill. I know how this works. Where would a publicist ever come to think he was born in Kenya? And even if some publicist DID do this, does anyone really think that Obama wasn't given a review copy of whatever release and/or promotional material that might be used on his behalf?

ML/NJ

[bunster]

Ha Ha (Re: Editor Goodrich response in NY magazine)

So, they let the original run for 10 years or so with a “fact checking error” in it and then discovered there was an error and only changed “raised in chicago” but left the born in Kenya.

Breitbart is great. throw out 1/2 a bomb and save the other half for later, after the response.

[kevao]

"You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time

LMAO! So she just pulled that factoid out of her ass all on her own? She expects people to believe that since Obama didn't give her any biographical info on himself, she put down Kenya as his place of birth just for kicks or something? Then how did she know he had been president of the Harvard Law Review, etc., if he provided no biographical info?

[butterdezillion]

Somebody needs to ask Ms Goderich if they routinely made stuff up out of whole cloth at that company, without presenting what they wrote to their client for proofreading.

[BerryDingle]

Breitbart News attempted to reach Goderich by telephone several times over several days. Her calls are screened by an automated service that requires callers to state their name and company, which we did. She never answered.

She couldn't talk to Breitbart, but now, "all of a sudden" she has a story.