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LITERARY AGENT RESPONDS TO ‘BORN IN KENYA’ OBAMA BIO: ‘NOTHING MORE THAN A FACT CHECKING ERROR’
The Blaze ^ | 05/17/12 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 05/17/2012 2:59:13 PM PDT by barmag25

The text editor of the 1991 literary agency booklet that described Barack Obama as “born in Kenya” said Thursday the line in question was “nothing more than a fact checking error.”

Miriam Goderich issued a statement to the Political Wire saying the future president never suggested “in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii”:

“You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. 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.”

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To: barmag25
Nothing to see here. Kenya, Hawaii, whatever.
61 posted on 05/17/2012 3:29:16 PM PDT by tumblindice (Our new, happy lives.)
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To: barmag25
OK, I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I'm trying to put myself in Obama's place back in 1991. I'm a young man with a promising future in politics and I'm having somebody ghostwriting my first book. A glowing "autobiography" of me!

So my literary agent puts out a promotional booklet on me describing me as being born in some foreign African country when I was actually born in the USA. But I don't even bother to correct it. Why worry about some trivial detail! I just want to sell my books and run for president someday...

See how ridiculous that sounds? That Obama never apparently corrected this "mistake" back in 1991 speaks volumes.

62 posted on 05/17/2012 3:29:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: barmag25

A simple answer: Ms Miriam was racist then, but is not now!


63 posted on 05/17/2012 3:29:28 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: JoeA

Absolute and utter BS. Every literary agency checks and rechecks basic facts about its authors. If they made a mistake on the first run, it gets corrected on the second. It doesn’t lay around for 17 years without being checked or revised.

the facts came right from the horses mouth


64 posted on 05/17/2012 3:31:42 PM PDT by molson209
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To: smoothsailing
LOL! She just pulled Kenya out of a hat full of country names

The first card they pulled out of the hat was Kyrgyzstan, but since no one knew if it was spelled correctly, they went with Kenya.

65 posted on 05/17/2012 3:32:28 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: barmag25

Goderich:..”he looks Kenyan”...”smiles”


66 posted on 05/17/2012 3:32:42 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: roses of sharon

Hmmm.


67 posted on 05/17/2012 3:33:55 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Eva
"The article on Drudge says that the bio was used by Obama until 2007. If it was an error, wouldn’t he have corrected before 2007?"

I guess it only took him 16 years to realize the mistake.

68 posted on 05/17/2012 3:35:08 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: barmag25

BS they didnt change it until 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Obama-pamphlet-in-use-2007


69 posted on 05/17/2012 3:36:03 PM PDT by boxerblues
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To: barmag25

Well, Well. How about that Selective Service document now? While your at it, put that fake BC back into one piece.

Obama, Your Chickens are in Kenya Roosting!


70 posted on 05/17/2012 3:36:05 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: molson209

If I did business with such a careless agency, I’d pull my business from them ASAP.


71 posted on 05/17/2012 3:37:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: barmag25

A reader from the UK on the ‘Mail Online’ made this interesting comment:

“Well,this means that according to the British Nationality Act of 1948,he was a subject of the Crown at the time...and probably still is for that matter....isn’t there somebody in the Crown Prosecution Service who is sharp enough to find some way to extradite him to London to stand trial in Queen’s Bench for conspiracy to defraud the entire bloody world or something?”

Maybe Winston Churchill will get ultimate revenge after all.


72 posted on 05/17/2012 3:37:19 PM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: ConservativeDude

“and undoubtedly checks it many times over before it is final!!!”

I self promote some books, and you are correct. I have to go over the bio information quite closely.


73 posted on 05/17/2012 3:37:49 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: SamAdams76

Maybe it’s time for HaaaVaaad to come clean and explain that funding.


74 posted on 05/17/2012 3:37:56 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: A'elian' nation

And sweet revenge for the Queen too for having to listen to all those Obama speeches on the ipod He gave her.


75 posted on 05/17/2012 3:39:01 PM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: barmag25

They have to reign this one in fast. Hehehe. Too damaging.

But if it was a simple fact chech error...why did they use it until after 2006 or so?

Hmm...seems like a huge CYA by this agent instead, covering Obama.

Too late. Cat’s out of the bag.

Arizona to Hawaii: Show verification of Obama’s Birth
http://www.jeffhead.com/verifybirth.htm

“If Hawaii cannot or will not show verification, I will not place Barack Obama’s name on the ballot.” - Arizona secretary of State.


76 posted on 05/17/2012 3:39:09 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: barmag25

OK, NOW I really Believe it!

(I sortof always did)

Her prose reminds me of Elizabeth Warren.


77 posted on 05/17/2012 3:41:35 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: barmag25

Listening to Hannity and the two guys from Breitbart saying “Hey WE’RE not BIRTHERS - BIRTHERS are toothless Willie Nelson- like Hill Billies” while introducing evidence that a brither would introduce. BUT REMEMBER “We’re not birthers!” What a pile of crap! Hannity is a worm. All he has to do is say I’m still looking at the evidence” or something like that - don’t P%% on our leg and say it’s raining!


78 posted on 05/17/2012 3:42:08 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Terry Mross
According to Robert Klein's schtick back when all this was happening, he recreated a little of the hearings.

Rosemary Woods: "I was typing the transcript from the tape when I got a phone call and, ummm, my FOOT went over HERE, my LEFT HAND went over HERE, and my RIGHT HAND must have gone over HERE and hit the record button."

"What's that, Senator? Oh, well, this is not widely known, but I do come from a circus family."

79 posted on 05/17/2012 3:42:20 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: barmag25

16 years is a long time to let a lie like that go on. So in 1991, it was considered a good marketing scheme to claim to be from Kenya in order to sell an autobiography of a young black man?


80 posted on 05/17/2012 3:42:29 PM PDT by petitfour
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