By Dylan Stableford
May 18, 2012A possible source of the so-called “birther” issue–or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama–has been identified.
Obama’s former literary agency misidentified his birthplace as Kenya while trying to promote the then-Harvard Law grad as an author in 1991.
Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.
“This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me–an agency assistant at the time,” Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo 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.”
Complete BS. Sixteen years later, Goderich still listed him as born in Kenya. It isn’t credible that the error was made in the first place, and it certainly isn’t credible that it wasn’t corrected for 16 years.
“Fact checking error” What does that mean? She was supposed to check if Obama was lying about being born in Kenya? Where else could that piece of information have come from, other than Obama himself?
http://web.archive.org/web/20070403190001/http://www.dystel.com/clientlist.html
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Scoamf was identified by the AP as Kenyan born in 2004.
Now wait til the Wayback machine gets breitbarted.
IF Obama’s daughter grows up to be an editor, she will look (and act) just like Miriam Goderich.
“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.”
“That’s why I just made it up like I always do. I’m a biography writer; most of what I write is invented. I would be a great climate scientist.”
Obama’s administration is looking towards the possibility of prosecutions after November and plans for the future. LOL
Justice: Prisons to step up anti-rape efforts – Boston.com
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration ordered federal, state and local officials Thursday to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape as it issued mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations designed to reduce the number of inmates who suffer sexual victimization at the hands of other prisoners and prison staff.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2012/05/17/justice_prisons_to_step_up_anti_rape_efforts/
“mandatory screening” – what does that mean? Regular visits at the prison proctologist?
As I said fact-checking not their forte, with that “finance minister” claim for Obama Sr.
“..it certainly isn’t credible that it wasn’t corrected for 16 years”
..and yet some climate scientists refuse to correct (or acknowledge) mistakes made even longer ago?
I’m still waiting for someone to come forward with the same registration number as Obama’s certificate.
Hansen constantly corrects errors people made 70 years ago.
If it were a mistake, it had a strange way of continually happening. There are stories of the Kenyan Parliment throwing a party when he was elected because they were so elated, and couldn’t figure out how he was eligible.
Now the issue is: Some of the most sensitive possible information regarding this nation’s security have been exposed to someone who is likely an enemy of the state, and working for …?
And not that I need to point out, but documents relating to his vetting by the Democrats were altered, and read differently about the “Natural Born Citizen” statement than those of Either Bush, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry. Signed by none other than the Treasonous witch Nancy Pelosi.
…Darth Soros!
At the risk of being considered to be the guy who ruined the parade, may I just point out that it does not matter where he was born. Why does it not matter? Because the US Constitution is a dead letter. Neither the Repubs, nor the Demos, nor the courts, nor our glorious military, have obeyed it for a long, long time. As Doc McCoy would say, “He’s dead, Jim!”
You can argue about whether one president or another, or one court or another, have disobeyed it more flagrantly or less flagrantly, but the US has not been a Constitutional Republic at any point in the lifetime of anyone alive today. Our “representatives” laugh about the Constitution — literally laugh out loud.
Born in Kenya? It does not matter.
He either lied about his birthplace until 2007, or he is lying now. There can be little doubt that he has committed serious crimes including student loan fraud, possible forgery, election fraud, etc. ……….
exactly…
Obviously Harvard thought he was from Kenya…
If he did that to qualify for some foreign exchange, student loan, affirmative action, quota….
…he broke the law
Yes, I agree, no argument. I would also remind everyone that Clinton without a doubt, lied under oath while testifying in a civil rights trial, and should have been convicted of a felony after being removed from office — but did that happen? Certainly, if we were in fact a nation ruled by law, it would have happened, but instead, the majority Republican Senate let him skip.
We are ruled by sociopaths in both parties, by people who do NOT seriously consider their oath to uphold the Constitution. I wish it were not so, but the observable facts say otherwise.
So, did they just guess Kenya? Are they that ‘lucky’? Hmmmm…
VERY good point.
I don’t speak for America OR the world, and I don’t want to. I have no right. But that doesn’t stop the racist right. Somewhere in their delusional hypocritical minds, someone made them speakers of the world and this country. No one did. No one ever win. But like I said, it doesn’t stop them from spreading the wide-spread lie of hate. That EVERY SINGLE BEING in the United States of America and the Whole World of existence hates Barack Obama.
No that is not true. It’s obvious they don’t pay attention to how the world thinks. just how faux news and hate radio tells them how the world thinks, But the cold-hard fact is not EVERY single being in the world is an uneducated, racist, bigoted right-winger who hates that a black couple represents the United States. Week by Week, I keep saying how the racist right have lost their sense of reality (If they ever had one!)
Ever heard that retarded saying “SCOAMF” Can’t tell you what it means, look it up. I said people if they are tired of hearing this crap. Turns out they aren’t, because they never heard. One a certain group of people never head the disrespectful trope. Classy, Respectful, Intelligent People. Ob’s such a Miserable Failure he grad Harvard Law and passed his bars and practiced law and beat the “war hero,” John McCain & Simple Sarah. Got Bin Laden. The white supremacists of the GOP Base reek of envy and desperation.
Why does he need to release his school records? President Johnson didn’t even learn how to read until he was an adult, and he was taught how by his wife, not a school. There have been 7 presidents who never went to college at all, 2 that attended but never graduated, and one who in his entire life had a total of 1 year formal learning and everything else was self-taught. And please look up the definitions of Socialist, Communist, and Capitalist. I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean, and Socialist and Communist are not interchangeable.
Why go through all this crap? Because of Mitt Romney. He is the only respectful man in the cesspool of racism known as the GOP. He takes the high road so much, they should just re-name it “The Romney Road” But his followers CAN’T create reasons other than he’s not black for the majority to vote for him in November.
They don’t like him because he;s not the spitting image of their god, Ray-gun. As we more toward the November election Romney will increasing get more and more ludicrous in his attempts to find talking points to use, as the economic conditions slowly and surely get better. This in spite of all the efforts of the republicans in Congress to flush this country down the toilet just to make Obama a single term president. Mitt is the most out of touch politically and socially tone-deaf individual, in my lifetime, to run for President, and that goes back to the 1952 election.
So lies and slander is ALL the racist right have left. Not to mention character Assassination. Think about this. Obama said he’s a Christian, He’s a liar. But If he said he snorted cocaine, he’s telling the truth Obama said he respects religions, he’s a liar, But if he said that he used to bully people all the time, he’s telling the truth. These hateful slime balls believes ANYTHING bad about Obama, even if he said it. He even said he was a Christian, but he’s lying. Bet you if he, out of nowhere, said he used to kill for fun. The a-holes who believe it.
This is gonna be the most possibly racist election in history. As told by this man:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-divorce-story-8950341
Nice rant. His agent listed him as being from Kenya for 16 years in several different revisions. Obviously he knew about it.
So what country or non world do you speak for?