Media Splatters attempts take to take down Roger L. Simon, from PJ Tattler [1]:
The Palace Guards over at MediaMatters are taking nasty swipes at me this morning — “Right-Wing Media’s Latest Embarrassment: Obama Lied About Birthplace to Get Ahead. [2]” I suppose that’s to be expected when Rush Limbaugh quotes your article (“The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth [3]“) on his show.
What’s amusing is that the MM crew takes at face value the assertion by Obama’s agents that the “born in Kenya” statement at the top of Barack’s biography was just a 1991 mistake that for some reason went unnoticed until 2007, although numerous other entries in the same pamphlet had been updated. (The literary agency, Acton & Dystel, has explained [4] that the “born in Kenya” line “was nothing more than a fact checking error.”)
Hello? Are you kidding? In my informal poll of several authors of numerous books in the last day or two, not a single one of them had ever heard of such a thing or could have imagined it.
From Jack Cashi;, American Thinker [5]:
“This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me – an agency assistant at the time,” Miriam Goderich, now a named partner in the literary agency, Dystel & Goderich, wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News, which was then picked up ABC News. “There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”
This confession rings false to the point of preposterous for any number of reasons.
Do you remember routine events in exacting detail what from sixteen years ago? I don’t. Yet Ms Goderich expects us to believe that she remembered in detail a mistake she made some sixteen years earlier. In 1991, Barack Obama was just one of some ninety clients of Dystel & Goderich. Obama’s fauxography was published in 1991 and not corrected until 2007. In other words, in took sixteen years for Goodrich, or somebody, to discover that she had posted a false biography.
Goderich’s purported biographical description is not only wrong in Obama’s place of birth, but is also wrongly conflates Obama’s job as little more than a clerk to some kind of executive. As Goderich biography is counter-factual, that is full of lies, the source can only be the deluded narcissist himself, one Barack H. Obama.
Moreover, Obama admits that his purported girl friends were fictional, albeit he called them compressed. Compressed or composite, no matter, it still amounts to fiction. So given that Obama has admitted to using fictional characters and calling them biographical, there is no reason not to believe that Obama would limit his fictionalization to non-autobiographical characters. In other words, if Obama was willing to lie about his purported girl friends, there no reason to believe that he would not lie about himself as well. Honesty is simply not Obama’s strong suit.
Addendum: Doug Ross [6] piles on:
The biography provided by Barack Obama [7] to his literary agent specified his birthplace as “Kenya”. And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent’s website [8].
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Old media’s feeble handling of this issue — parroting the laughable assertion that clerical errors caused Obama’s birthplace to be incorrectly listed, when former clients and the agency’s policy itself states that authors provide the biographical briefs — is pathetic.
As I’ve demonstrated here, Obama’s bio was carefully edited over the course of 17 years to reflect his various accomplishments.
Goderich’s one mistake might explain a single mistake circa 1991. A single mistake can not explain seventeen years of erroneous information.