Dave Weigel of Reason Magazine takes to the webpages of Slate to offer "Change They Can Litigate/The fringe movement to keep Barack Obama from becoming president" (link). It contains at least one lie and several misleading statements (I didn't read the whole thing, so there's probably more).
The lie is his claim concerning the "state of Hawaii's official statement that the certificate was legitimate". There is no such statement; they only said the cert was on file and in fact it would have been illegal for them to verify the certificate shown on Obama's site without his authorization, something he hasn't given.
He also refers to the "birth announcement for Obama from the Aug. 13, 1961, edition of the Honolulu Advertiser". Yet, that announcement only contains his parents names and their address and does not state where he was born.
See the summary of this issue for all the details.
Politics · Thu, 12/04/2008 - 17:41 · Importance: 4
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