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Will Hoover explanation: he found an anti-Obama site in January 2006 (magical memory!) - 9/02/2009

A January 2006 article from Honolulu Advertiser writer (and Obama defender) Will Hoover claimed that Barack Obama was born in Indonesia. This page has copies of a couple emails Will Hoover sent them about this issue. As he did for the Politifact article, he seems to have an explanation for everything: The story in question was written on deadline more nearly four years ago. The story was not about...

2006: Tammy Duckworth or Will Hoover said Obama was born in Indonesia - 8/02/2009

... candidate Tammy Duckworth or Honolulu Advertiser writer (and Obama defender) Will Hoover said that Barack Obama was born in Indonesia. That statement appeared in the January 8, 2006 article "Duckworth working to win" by Hoover (the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/08/ln/FP601080334.html). Unfortunately, it doesn't contain a direct quote from Duckworth in which she claims Oba...

Kitty Pilgrim of CNN lies, smears over Obama certificate issue (John Avlon and Errol Louis lie) - 7/21/2009

... different Hawaii newspapers, The Honolulu Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin, printed Obama's birth announcement in 1961... Exactly why Obama's family and/or Hawaii hospitals would take the trouble to place false notices 47 years ago is never explained. Like Pilgrim, he's lying: Lingle never said Obama was born there. The announcements part was dealt with above; note the stock strawm...

Robert Farley of Politifact misleads about Obama certificate issue - 7/15/2009

On July 1, Robert Farley of Politifact offered "White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet" [1] about an ad WorldNetDaily ran regarding a question Les Kinsolving asked at a press conference (described here). See [1] for the details; this post will detail how Farley is misleading and will provide yet ...

Obama's October surprise-ish: State of Hawaii says his birth certificate is genuine (but...) - 10/31/2008

... says" from Dan Nakaso of the Honolulu Advertiser. The article is here, which is reprinted in full below (retrieved 12/05/08). The Hawaii officials do not verify that Obama was born in Hawaii, nor do they verify that the COLB as shown at FactCheck matches the one on file. All they say is that Obama has a valid certificate on file. And, it would be illegal under Hawaiian law for them to ...

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