Nothing like going over the same ground five years later...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/are_obamas_1961_newspaper_birth_announcements_fake.html
At about the same time as Starfelt’s July 2008 posting, a blogger named “Infidel Granny” posted the same birth announcement image on an AtlasShrugs blog. Infidel Granny claimed to have received her copy in an e-mail from the same nameless research librarian who helped Starfelt from the Hawaii State Library. Infidel Granny briefly resurfaced in 2009 in an AtlasShrugs blog, where she opined, “I sure hope you don’t think I had anything to do with a forgery.”
The origin of the second birth announcement is even more murky. The best evidence (hat tip: Butterdezillion) is that sometime around August 13, 2008, a Honolulu resident named “Koa” posted the August 14, 1961 Honolulu Star-Bulletin birth announcement on TexasDarlin apparently after she found it herself in the Hawaii State Library. The first twenty-five births in the August 14 Honolulu Star-Bulletin announcements match exactly in the same order as the twenty-five births from the August 13 Advertiser.
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So we are back to a Swedish student creating a full page graphic in 2008, on which the we find the birth announcements...with the possible deception being that Virginia’s name was removed and replaced.
PS. And no one would have been any the wiser, IF they hadn’t slipped up and not taken into account that the girl was born at Wahiawah Hospital and not at Kapiolani, and neither could they have taken into account that the child whose death was announced August 8, was shown under the name of her father, and the parents would ultimately want that changed for her funeral.
Life’s full of traps like that. It’s part of that web you weave, when you first practice to deceive. The deception lasts forever, it keeps floating to the surface...
repeat - forgot to ping you:
PS. And no one would have been any the wiser, IF they hadn’t slipped up and not taken into account that the girl was born at Wahiawah Hospital and not at Kapiolani, and neither could they have taken into account that the child whose death was announced August 8, was shown under the name of her father, and the parents would ultimately want that changed for her funeral.
Life’s full of traps like that. It’s part of that web you weave, when you first practice to deceive. The deception lasts forever, it keeps floating to the surface...