The agency took Obama on as a client and prominently advertised him as ‘born in Kenya’, but they never asked him if this was true. They never told him they were advertising him this way. They never discussed the book with him that was hooked with the ‘born in Kenya’ opening line, and for which Obama accepted not one but two advances to write. They never even fact checked the ‘fact’ of his being born in Kenya. They just assumed that if his father was born there, the son must have been born there too...or something equally stupid.
It’s totally incoherent. It’s the kind of weirdness only the people on Fogbow would believe.
A short bio which is one of 90 such bios in a pamphlet sent only fo some publishing companies is hardly "prominently marketed." But then to you, the words "born in Kenya" are like blazing, flashing lights obscuring any other context or consideration.
but they never asked him if this was true.
It seems not, as we all can reasonably figure Obama would have told fhe agency the same thing he told the Times, Post and Tribune -- that he was born in Hawaii.
They never told him they were advertising him this way.
Perhaps focusing on getting the book written and published took precedence. And perhaps this little bio blurb didn't have the monimental significance you're desperately trying to give it.
They never discussed the book with him that was hooked with the ‘born in Kenya’ opening line,
The book as a whole no doubt got discussed, and the absence of any "born in Kenya" statement in the book as actually written suggests that any "born in Kenya" approach which was pitched was tossed out.
Newsflash to Fantasywriter!! The year before the agency drafted this bio blurb, Obama was the subject of national media reports which reported he was born in Hawaii!! I'll bet you didn't know this. (Maybe it's less about crow here and more like ostritch.)