Published on Dec 8, 2013
A page from a promotional booklet
produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton &
Dystel discovered by Breitbart.com re-surfaced in 2012 stating that he
was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." Snopes explained
away the discovery as a "mistake" claimed by the author of the
pamphlet. However that doesn't change the words printed in it. Even if
the woman who authored it apologized for making a editorial mistake. The
question still stands, where then did she get the idea to even write
that he was "born in Kenya?" And further, how could a "Literary Agency"
in charge of publishing and promoting books, make such a drastic
"mistake?" Wouldn't they have fact-checked their own work before
publishing a promotional pamphlet?Link to exerpt from Acton & Dystel promotional pamphlet:
http://nnn.is/Page_from_the_1991_Harv...
Link to Snopes explanation:
http://nnn.is/Snopes_Dismisses_Litera...
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