Is Duckworth suggesting a sloppy search on "the Internets" in 1990? Presuming that a reporter working for Vanity Fair had access to an Internet forerunner searchable information network (Lexis?), how many hits would have come back with Singapore as the location of dude's rearing (I did not see the article mention place of birth), considering he was then a fairly obscure, if upcoming personage?
I want to see the original interview notes. ;)
No, I probably wasn’t clear. The Duckworth story was written by a Honolulu reporter in 2006. He blamed the birth in Indonesia claim on an Internet search and not on Tammy Duckworth making the claim. What isn’t clear is how a famous “native son” like Obama wasn’t known to this reporter or why he would have to search the Internet to see where he was born. Further, what site would have said Obama was born in Indonesia in 2006?? He had already made a famous speech at the Democrat National Convention in 2004.
My main point was that the Honolulu reporter took the blame for this born in Indonesia “mistake” the same way the literary agent recently took the blame for the born in Kenya claim from 1990.