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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Obama’s
Literary Agent Says He was ‘Born in Kenya’… How Did the Mainstream Media
Miss
This?<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/obamas-literary-agent-says-he-was-born-in-kenya-how-did-the-mainstream-media-miss-this/>by
Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>
They missed it because they hid the truth and refused to vet Obaam in order
to trick dimwitted Americans to vote for an inexperienced community
agitator and documented liar.
>From the
>Telegraph<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100158834/obama-used-to-be-a-kenyan/>
:
Whatever you think of Breitbart.com’s punishing vetting process, it has
exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating
candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbart’s revelations have
been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google
would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that he’d had his own
cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be
surprised.
The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy.
Breitbart.com has
discovered<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii>
that
in 1991 Barack Obama’s literary agent (who also represented New Kids on the
Block) published a booklet that included a biography of the future
President. The audience was “business colleagues” in the publishing
industry and it was designed to promote Obama’s anticipated first book
(later abandoned) called Journeys in Black and White. Here’s how it
describes the author’s origins.
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law
Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an
American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia
University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business
International Corporation.
The key phrase here is “was born in Kenya" – and this bio line was
apparently being used as late as
2007<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Obama-pamphlet-in-use-2007>
.
Today, the President has satisfied all right-minded folk that he was in
fact born in
Hawaii<http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/25/birthers.obama.hawaii/>.
Breitbart.com itself has always rejected the absurd cult of birtherism. In
fact, this story is really the opposite of birtherism – Breitbart infers
that in the past Obama *encouraged* people to think that he was born abroad
in order to establish an identity as an authentic, exotic voice in the
debate on racial politics.
Obama’s old literary agent has issued a terse
statement<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/17/literary_agent_says_1991_booklet_was_a_mistake.html>
to
the effect that the wording was all her fault and she never consulted her
client. If that’s true, she’s a bad agent. A different agent, quoted by
Breitbart.com, disagrees. He told the website “that while ‘almost nobody’
wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom ‘the
agents deal[t] with on a daily basis,’ were ‘probably’ approached to
approve the text as presented.”
If we accept that Obama didn’t provide the biography, it would seem highly
unlikely that he didn’t get a chance to vet it. Accepting that he didn’t do
that either, it’s incredibly strange that the literary agent approached by
Breitbart.com does not remember Obama calling the agency to register a
complaint and make a correction. My mother spent a lot of her childhood in
Grenada. If my literary agent told people I was born in the Caribbean, I’d
at least pick up the phone to set the record straight.
Continue
reading>>><http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100158834/obama-used-to-be-a-kenyan/>
*Scotty Starnes
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