Posted on 05/18/2012 11:33:25 PM PDT by RobinMasters
No sooner did the literary agency brochure in which Barack Obama was said to be Kenyan-born surface than the media went to work to deep-six it.
"This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me - an agency assistant at the time," Miriam Goderich, now a named partner in the literary agency, Dystel & Goderich, wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News, which was then picked up ABC News. "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."
This confession rings false to the point of preposterous for any number of reasons. Let us start with the obvious. At the time, 1991, the Acton & Dystel agency listed 90 clients, Obama among its least significant. How likely is it that Goderich would have remembered enough about a 1991 "error" to know it was hers, especially since it went uncorrected through several revisions until changed in 2007? To make this claim credible, there would have to be an existing paper trail leading to an Obama submission in which he lists an Hawaiian birth. I am confident that there is no such submission.
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Trying to cogitate more, act rashly less.
Thanks for clarifying.
The stand with Rush part was added when he came under fire for calling a slut a slut.
He was right and I'll stand up for someone when I believe he is right.
Is there a problem with that?
Calling someone a birthers worked because of the nature of the information that birther staked their claims on.
The publicity brochure is a game-changer.
It supports the claim that the birthers were right to be concerned by the blockage of common information, even if they weren't positive about what the information contained. Without knowing what was being hidden, but only claiming that something damning was being hidden, it allowed the credibilty of the conspiracy theorist charge, which is what "birther" is shorthand for.
But with the brochure out there for 16 years, the birther label no longer encompasses what it once did. It's like shouting "birther" instead of speaking it. People may still try to use it, but it can be beaten back now.
-PJ
If he was calling himself African-American and also born in Kenya, then by implication it meant he was claiming he had been naturalized in the USA. Of course we know of no such naturalization event.
Ditto!
Even if the hypothesis that Barack was Hawaiian born is accepted, and the looser modern reading of natural born citizen is also accepted, then we have to paint Barack Obama as having been a big fat fraud. This brochure was way too open. Why why why, John McCain didn’t you call Barack Obama out for being a fraud? It would have had zilch to do with his skin color and there are plenty of frauds of all colors.
I doubt there was any government conspiracy involved in Breitbart’s mysterious death as if by poison, but it’s something an Alinskite private faction could well have engineered. At any rate, they did not succeed in hushing up the Breitbart company itself and it’s still going gang busters.
I agree and your entire post is an excellent one.
To tell you the truth though, I've been participating in these threads since 2008, explored all of the angles, learned so much from some exceptional researchers here, and I still could not give you a definitive definition of the term "birther"
To me it is nothing but an ALinsky type attack on anyone who would dare question the history of the chosen "won"
The Bolsheviks and other communist revolutionaries had have no qualms at murder, why this one would be exempt?
Breitbart talked to Sheriff Joe the next he died. Was talking about the eligibility stuff. Had recently said he had bombshell videoS and specified that at least one was 0mugabe talking with Ayers about revolution.
Where are those videos? Now the Breitbart org says they don’t have anything like that.
IMO they did hush up Breitbart. On some things.
I guess if Breitbart had squirreled away videos that wasn’t too smart. He ought to have at least told his agency about a safe deposit box or something where copies could be found should the worst happen. Wasn’t he also found to have bad cardiovascular trouble, meaning he wasn’t exactly in the peak of good health.
I don’t understand why you are being dense, as you are not stupid.
Sigh.
There is no evidence other than some friends’ after the fact statements that he had heart trouble. No doc visits for a year or more, no meds, his Father in law had no idea of any heart trouble, etc.
Second, it’s obvious that if Breitbart had the videos he said he had, and now his org says they don’t have them, it’s not because Breitbart had them hidden so well no one knew about them.
Didn’t you read any of the contemporaneous threads? If not, you should, it was all laid out in detail.
Even if he was in the good health of a Mr. Universe, even barring a murder plot he could have walked in front of a beer truck the next day. So would have been wise to plan likewise. Anyhow the issue having being yacked over from end to end I now leave it alone. Too bad nobody else got copies. It would have greatly helped.
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As have I. We're the new Fellow Travelers. :-)
-PJ
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