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Obama’s Literary Agent Made Huge Mistake, States President Was ‘Born In Kenya’

Posted: May 17, 2012

Obama’s literary agent made a big boo-boo in 1991 when she wrote that the current President was “born in Kenya.”

According to Breitbart News, the website was able to obtain a booklet, published in 1991 by Acton & Dystel, Obama’s former literary agent. In the booklet, they claim that the President was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

The Telegraph reports that the pamphlet states:

“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 booklet, created by Obama’s literary agent, was distributed to the company’s “business colleagues” in the publishing industry. It includes biographies of 89 other authors represented by the publishing company, as well as Barack Obama’s.

The booklet, which is 36 pages long, also promoted Obama’s anticipated book at the time, called Journeys in Black and White, which the current president later abandoned. Later on, he published Dreams from My Father.

Yahoo News reports that Miriam Goderich edited the bio’s text. she is now a partner with the Dystel & Goderich agency, which also lists the President as a client.

She stated to Yahoo News that:

“This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me–an agency assistant at the time. 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.”

Breitbart News, founded by the late conservative Andrew Breitbart, began the article by saying that the late columnist/activist believed, like the majority of Americans, that Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii. Thanks to Obama’s literary agent, more Americans may wonder if their president was actually born in the United States.

[Images courtesy of Breitbart News]



Comments


16 Archived Responses to “ Obama’s Literary Agent Made Huge Mistake, States President Was ‘Born In Kenya’ ”

  1. Dan Warner
    May 18, 2012

    amazing to me how much bullshit is out there. another case of creative editing.

  2. Anonymous
    May 18, 2012

    A mistake for 16 years? Color me skeptical.

  3. Don Mills
    May 18, 2012

    For 16 years and at least 4 updates we are expected to believe that Obama the narcissist didn't read his own bio?

  4. Anonymous
    May 18, 2012

    yeah, it's all a mistake, yeah, That's the ticket.

  5. Anonymous
    May 18, 2012

    I was born in Chicago but my literary agent mistakenly listed my birthplace as Kenya. lmfao.

    Now that is a good one. lmfao. sure. Chicago and Kenya sound so much alike.

  6. Anonymous
    May 18, 2012

    Hard to cover ALL your tracks.

  7. Joe Montgomery
    May 18, 2012

    So did Obama lie then about where he was born or is he lying now? Kenya say President Romney?

  8. Joe Montgomery
    May 18, 2012

    Don, Obama was the former President of the Harvard Law Review. It's not like he was an editor who was expected to factcheck anything … oh, wait.

  9. Don Mills
    May 18, 2012

    Here is another article from the Sunday Standard on June 27th 2004, that says Obama was born in Kenya. "Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate"

    "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations."

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    May 18, 2012

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  11. Joe Montgomery
    May 18, 2012

    There's a whole slew of holes and inconsistent facts in the stories that have been written by and about Obama. It's kind of crazy. The guy evidently is a pathological liar who has a lot of trouble keeping his facts straight. Plus, his own family doesn't seem to know the right story. His wife say Kenya is his home country. His half-sister from Kenya can't decide if she's older or younger than Barack. His Indonesian half-sister didn't know which hospital in Honolulu he was supposed to have been born in. His Kenyan grandmother says he's a "son of the soil" of Kenya. It's crazy.

  12. Lorie Davidson
    May 19, 2012

    Thanks for sharing ,

  13. Walter Wheeler
    May 22, 2012

    The Sunday Standard was not the only paper to carry that. The Associated Press came out with the same article.

  14. Leigh Phantomhart
    Aug 25, 2012

    Oh please…. His father was born and raised in Kenya, so its not like he's not proud of his heritage. But he was born in Hawaii.


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