No, I probably wasn’t clear. The Duckworth story was written by a Honolulu reporter in 2006. He blamed the birth in Indonesia claim on an Internet search and not on Tammy Duckworth making the claim. What isn’t clear is how a famous “native son” like Obama wasn’t known to this reporter or why he would have to search the Internet to see where he was born. Further, what site would have said Obama was born in Indonesia in 2006?? He had already made a famous speech at the Democrat National Convention in 2004.
My main point was that the Honolulu reporter took the blame for this born in Indonesia “mistake” the same way the literary agent recently took the blame for the born in Kenya claim from 1990.
Actually it was also a failure of reading comprehension on my part, because I saw the word "article" in your sentence and keyed in on that to the exclusion of "Duckworth" and so ASSumed you were referring to Alise O'Shaughnessy who authored the 1990 Vanity Fair piece.
It's of course easy to see why I might confuse "Duckworth" and "O'Shaughnessy since they're so similar.
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IIRC, the Duckworth article was corrected a week after publication.