“But the only public comment made by the Honolulu Medical Examiner, who acts as coroner in Honolulu, Hawaii was, “We didn’t work that case.”
This “grandmother” angle tarnished the credibility of an article otherwise crafted very potently. Coroners typically don’t get involved in deaths unless they are under suspicious circumstances or involve out-of-state residents etc. If grandma’s doctor signed her death certificate, there would be no reason for a coroner to get involved. So perhaps Pravda is just naive on this point or deliberately deceitful. The same goes with the “kept on ice” comment. There WAS a memorial service held for grandma—announced in advance!—as even a most cursory Google search shows:
“A memorial service for President-elect Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, will be held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu Friday.
The service, which is open to the public, will begin at 5:00 p.m. but the Obama family will not be in attendance.
Obama’s campaign says the president-elect will visit Hawaii in December to honor his grandmother, who helped raise him in Honolulu and died two nights before the election.”
http://www.khnl.com/global/story.asp?s=9338752&ClientType=Printable
In short, this particular piece of the story smacked of the sort of “disinformation” typically of Soviet propaganda; this permits Obamaphiles to just dismiss the story as a distorted attack.
Thanks. It’s hard to know what to believe when the media don’t report on any of this.
Sure, it’s mostly of interest to people in Honolulu, but since it’s Barack’s grandmother, you’d expect the MSM to mention it. They don’t, since it might reflect badly on him that he isn’t bothering to attend the funeral.