Jaymes Song of the Associated Press decided to re-write history in the July 27 article "Hawaii again declares Obama birth certificate real" (link). The same title is used on a few other reports at different sites, so that's the original AP title. And, as will be shown, the title and the content contain a major lie. Song writes:

State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.

The statement Song is referring to is the July 27 statement from Chiyome Fukino, Director of Hawaii's Department of Health. It would be difficult for her to have "once again... confirmed" that Obama was born in Hawaii, since she didn't confirm he was born there in her only previous statement on this issue. And, no other Hawaiian officials have confirmed he was born there. In other words, Song is lying: he's pretending that Fukino had earlier confirmed Obama was born in Hawaii when that's false.

The two statements in question are:

* The July 27, 2009 statement in which Fukino said Obama was born in Hawaii and in which she - overstepping her authority - proclaimed him to be a "natural born citizen".

* The October 31, 2008 statement from Fukino in which she only said that Obama has a valid certificate on file without revealing anything about what was on that certificate and without verifying that what they have on file matches what's shown on his site.

The full text - and links to the original source documents - is at the link. If you trust Song's reporting in any way, please go read them.

Please also note that, while the certification pictured on Obama's site doe not enter into Song's report, neither statement linked above verifies or even mentions that picture.

Write feedback *at* ap.org and ask them to post a correction to James Song's highly misleading report.