The AP was a “birther” organization?
LOL !!! Someone should tell that mom and pop team ( that is all Snopes is. It is a website run bu a husband and wife. The husband does the web design, the wife is the sole "investigator.) that "birthers" were not around in 2004 ( the date of the article ). Of course Snopes would try to say it was recently changed by AP. Well, if you look at the source code from the waybackmachine on the page of the article, it clearly shows it was archived in 2004 :
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I don’t see where Snopes claimed anything of the sort. They just pointed that no article claiming Obama was Kenyan Born was released by the AP, which is correct. The article was altered in a Kenyan Newspaper, which Snopes acknowledges did exist. That, however, does raise the question as to why the Kenyan Newspaper would claim he was born in Kenya.
That was exactly my thought. The term “Birther” wasn’t around in 2004.
Did you ever see the 8th grade graduation test from 100 years ago that was harder than most college exams?
Snopes “debunked” that as well. If you read their debunking you will see all they did was insert their opinion into the matter. But to most who would just click the link, would think the test was fake because it says FALSE in big fat letters.
Total crap.