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VIDEO: Lilley and Shapiro tell you the Obama stories the other media won’t tell you about
So Obama once claimed he was born in Kenya
It was all just a mistake ABC News, one of the few mainstream American outlets to run the story, was quick to say. In fact they ran with a headline saying, “Obama’s Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991.” They quote Miriam Goderich as saying “This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me–an agency assistant at the time.”
Ah, but as they say on late night TV, wait, there’s more.
Turns out Ms. Goderich made that mistake over and over again for 16 years even after Obama was a best-selling author, a US Senator and had announced his run for president. Sun News contributor Ben Shapiro added that story to the mix including this link to the archived website as it appeared on April 3, 2007.
Then comes Steve Boman, another Chicagoan who once used the Dystel literary agency at the same time as Obama did back in the 90s. He says there was only one place the agent got biographical information from – the authors.
So far the mainstream American media are ignoring this and the Canadian media, the folks that would print a story about Sarah Palin’s third cousin twice removed if it would embarrass her, are silent as well. Some have moved to dismiss it as a mistake but it is one that survived several re-writes of Obama’s bio including the update that he was a senator.
Does this prove that Obama was born in Kenya?
No, but combined with the oddities of his birth certificate and statements by people like his wife Michelle who called Kenya her husband’s home country, it doesn’t help the Obama campaign put this story to rest. In fact it gives it more credibility.
The best the president can come out of this with is admitting that he is a liar or willing to let lies be told about his to make him seem more interesting. There is zero chance that this was a mistake that lasted for 16 years with an agency that he employed to represent him.
So if he wasn’t born in Kenya but just claimed to be then why was that? Was it to make himself more marketable in the publishing world? Was it to make himself more attractive to the ladies?
This should be front page news everywhere but it isn’t. That will only feed those that are birthers and convinced that the media is trying to cover up for Obama.
Radio host Glenn Beck, not a birther at all, dismissed the idea that Obama was born anywhere but Hawaii when he talked about this on his radio program Friday and in the past has called the birth certificate issue a diversion used by the Obama campaign when they are in trouble. Lately they have been in trouble with polls showing Mitt Romney gaining support overall and now leading among women.
Meanwhile sites that do believe the birther theory like Infowars and World Net Daily say that this is just another piece of evidence. WND founder Joseph Farrah says he doesn’t understand media outlets, including Breitbart, distancing themselves from the birther story.
I do understand that, there is a large section of the public that dismisses anything to do with birtherism and its not just the MSM. Not being American I haven’t invested much time or thought into this and I would agree that as for defeating Obama the better issue is his horrible economic record.
That doesn’t excuse the MSM for a dereliction of duty in properly vetting the president. Now that this information is out there it is time for them to get on the job. As I said, the best case scenario for the president is that he is just a liar trying to impress people.
Obama’s ties to Wall Street financiers and the lack of justice
He portrays himself as looking out for the little guy and on the side of the “99 percent.” Yes, President Barack Obama backs the Occupy movement to the hilt. If you’ve seen Ben Shapiro on Byline then you’ve probably heard Ben describe Occupy as a movement built to reelect Obama.
But a report from Newsweek looks at why the Obama administration, despite all the rhetoric, has yet to bring those “Wall Street crooks” to justice.
With the Occupy protesters resuming battle stations, and Mitt Romney in place as the presumptive Republican nominee, President Obama has begun to fashion his campaign as a crusade for the 99 percent–a fight against, as one Obama ad puts it, “a guy who had a Swiss bank account.” Casting Romney as a plutocrat will be easy enough. But the president’s claim as avenging populist may prove trickier, given his own deeply complicated, even conflicted, relationship with Big Finance.
Part of that complicated financial relationship is Eric Holder. Obama’s top lawyer – the one who brought you Fast and Furious as a way for American officials to funnel guns to Mexican drug cartels and who refuses to prosecute the New Black Panthers on voter suppression – has ties to the top law firm that represents most of the Wall Street big wigs.
As they say on TV though…..wait, there’s more…
VIDEO: Obama ate dog meat? TV host cracks up
The American MSM has been having a field day at the expense of the Romney family and a story, from more than 25 years ago, about having their dog ride on the top of their car, in a dog carrier, while on vacation. Encouraged by the White House and the Obama campaign the story just keeps going.
Now the tables may be turning thanks to new media.
Jim Treacher over at The Daily Caller found his own story about Obama and a dog.
Hey, if we’re going to talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago, let’s talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago.
Treacher then points to this post from Obama’s book Dreams from My Father.
“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.” [Emphasis added]
Obama is talking about part of his childhood spent in Indonesia with his stepfather Lolo.
Here’s the audio of Obama reading the passage himself.
On Democrat friendly MSNBC, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough couldn’t keep it together as he heard the story of Obama eating the dog.
VIDEO: Hidden camera shows young white man getting offered Eric Holder’s ballot in DC primary
We have this same debate over voter ID in Canada. People like New Democrat MP Libby Davies do not want any voter ID requirements. Unlike the US we have some requirements in most Canadian elections although some of them are not enforced the way they should be.
In the US states that have been passing voter ID laws are facing challenges from Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder says there is no need and no voter fraud.
Wonder what he thinks now.
Painting of Obama burning US constitution – A step too far?
The Blaze is asking whether this is “free speech, offensive or both?”
As someone who covered President Bush several times, especially in Canada, I’d say this painting is fair game.
Since Obama came to office I’ve heard denunciation after denunciation for anyone who used art to criticize the current occupant of the White House. When the “Hope” poster was changed to read “Socialism” those behind were denounced in the mainstream media in the US and Canada.
I don’t ever recall a major media outlet devoting time to the constant comparisons between George W. Bush and Adolph Hitler.
