Current Events And Commentaries
Oops! Network Reports Obama ‘From Kenya’
Takes 10 Minutes To Retract White House Correspondent’s Statement
Lead Story by WND MEDIA — With the growing threat from the Ebola outbreak in Africa, it was expected the epidemic would be front-and-center at this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit held in Washington, but now an NBC reporter is giving the meeting of heads of state a birther twist.
During MSNBC’s Tuesday coverage of the event, host Joy Reid introduced NBC White House correspondent Chris Jansing, saying, “The White House clearly, I assume, is hoping that this will be part of president’s legacy given his background.”
“Yeah, the fact that he’s from Kenya,” Jansing agreed. “And that fact that when he was elected there were expectations from the African continent that he would do great things for them. This is a concerted effort by this administration to get American companies to invest.”
Has Barack Obama been truthful about his personal history? Sound off in the WND Poll.
Reid noted the president’s father was from Kenya but did not attempt to correct Jansing.
Only after about 10 minutes did Jansing correct her earlier statement, Raw Story reported.
“I misspoke at the top before,” she said. “It is obviously the president’s father who is from Kenya.”
“We, of course, know what you meant,” Reid replied.
MSNBC is not the first media outlet, seen to be in Obama’s corner, that has advanced the notion Obama was born in the African nation.
As WND reported in 2010, at that time archives for tax-supported National Public Radio revealed a 2008 report that described then-Sen. Barack Obama as “Kenyan-born” and a “son of Africa.”
NPR’s promotion for the story included a brief description of West African correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, who “describes the stories that have been exciting, including the U.S. presidential race of Kenyan-born Sen. Barack Obama.”
NPR removed the reference to Obama’s Kenyan birth from its archives following WND’s report.
That same week in 2010, WND reported a Kenyan lawmaker telling his nation’s parliament Obama was born in Africa and was therefore “not even a native American.”
During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country’s minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America’s election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:
“If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation,” Orengo posited, “how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?”
In May 2012, WND reported on the just-discovered billing of Obama as “born in Kenya” by his literary agent in 1991, revealing more much-later published references – some dated as recently as 2007 – used to promote his highly touted book “Dreams from My Father.”
As WND reported, Breitbart News originally found a brochure from more than two decades ago in which literary agency Acton & Dystel promoted Obama as the author of the never-produced “Journeys in Black and White” by declaring Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” Twelve years later, however, the Dystel of Acton & Dystel was busy promoting Obama’s new book, “Dreams from My Father,” and still touting the author as “born in Kenya.”
While allies of the president have been quick to blame his political enemies for continuing to plant doubt about Obama’s constitutional eligibility to occupy the White House, not all the questions are being raised by claims made by “birthers.”
Last month, WND reported shockingly high numbers of Americans still unsure of Obama’s U.S. citizenship.
Six years after the first lawsuits were filed alleging Barack Obama is not constitutionally eligible to be president, a new poll indicated nearly one-quarter of American adults don’t even believe he’s a U.S. citizen, let alone a “natural-born citizen,” and another 17 percent are unsure.
Rasmussen Reports found 41 percent of Republicans believe Obama is not an American citizen, a belief shared by 21 percent of those who are unaffiliated and 11 percent of Democrats.
“Just over 20 percent of Republicans and unaffiliated adults also are not sure, but only 7 percent of those in the president’s party share that doubt,” the polling organization said in a report titled “Have We Got A Conspiracy for You – 9/11? JFK? Obama’s Citizenship?”
Overall, 23 percent said the theory that Obama is not an American citizen is true, and another 17 percent said they weren’t sure. Sixty percent reject the theory as false.
The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural-born citizen” but does not define the term. Scholarly works cited by the founders defined it as a citizen at birth by virtue of being born in the country to two citizens of the country, or merely the offspring of two citizens of the country. The birth certificate Obama displayed on the White House website, which declares he was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father, has been found to be fraudulent by an investigation authorized by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted July 16-17 with a sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points and a 95 percent level of confidence.
Michelle Obama Admits Barack Hussein
Obama’s Home Country Is Kenya
Obama’s Home Country Is Kenya
» A Grim Warming About The Dangers Of Sharia From A Man Who Sees It Coming To America
By Geert Wilders, Western Journalism —
Dear friends, I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself; it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States is the last bastion...» Obama: I’ll ‘Seize’ Opportunity To Use Executive Powers
By Melanie Batley, Newsmax —
President Barack Obama has defended his use of executive action despite intense criticism, and said he intends to seize every opportunity to use it going forward on a range of issues he believes congressional Republicans are obstructing. During a wide-ranging press conference Wednesday, the president signaled he would take more action on issues such as tax reform...» Humanists Threaten Legal Action Against Military Base For Display Of Gideons Bibles
By Garrett Haley, Christian News Network —
A prominent humanist organization sent a letter earlier this week to the Missouri National Guard, demanding that ‘immediate action’ be taken to remove a display of Bibles from a military base. The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a group committed to promoting the so-called “humanist worldview.” According to the organization’s website, AHA “strive[s] to...» Obama’s War Against Russia Backfires
By Eric Zuesse, Alex Jones’ Infowars —
Infowars" U.S. President Barack Obama’s war against Russia isn’t only causing Russia to cooperate more strongly with the other BRIC countries to break the U.S. dollar’s reign as the global reserve currency, but it’s also causing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s job-approval rating in Russia to soar, and the confidence that the Russian people have in their own Government to...» The People Of Missouri Have Spoken About The Right To Keep And Bear Arms: Amendment 5 Passes
By Lorri Anderson, Freedom Outpost —
On August 5, 2014 the citizens of Missouri spoke loud and clear in support of their unalienable right to bear arms. Amendment 5 was/is an extremely important amendment that will change the "Inalienable" rights of Missouri citizens to "Unalienable" rights. The "Unofficial" vote has shown that the people of Missouri voted overwhelmingly in favor of this amendment by...» What You Need To Do To Survive Ebola BEFORE The Panic Starts
By Mac Slavo, SHTFplan.com —
The Ebola virus is spreading and no one in any position of authority is releasing information to the public about how serious of a contagion this is. It was just a few weeks ago that the CDC and mainstream media claimed it wouldn’t make it to U.S. shores, but as of this morning, reports are flowing in from all over the country from hospitals that have admitted patients who recently traveled to...» US Considers Air Strikes And Air Drops To Help Iraqis Trapped On Mountain By Isis
By Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian —
The Obama administration is considering US air strikes and humanitarian air drops to help besieged religious minorities chased up a mountain by militants in Iraq. The move comes as Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city, was all but abandoned as the jihadist group Islamic State (Isis) advanced through minority communities in the country's north-west and towards the Kurdish...» Rep. Frank Wolf Shames Obama For Ignoring Genocide: ‘Your Conscience Will Haunt You’
By Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller —
Veteran Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf lashed out at the president Thursday for his inaction regarding the genocide in Iraq, warning “your conscience will haunt you long after you leave office.” Wolf, who has been a vocal human rights advocate in Congress since President Barack Obama was an undergraduate, has taken to the House floor nearly every day for the past two weeks trying to...» ANTI-SEMITE: British Politician Declares His City In England An Israel-Free Zone
By The Right Scoop —
British politician, George Galloway, has declared the city of Bradford an Israel-free zone, condemning Israel as ‘barbarous’, ‘savage’, and ‘illegal’. Galloway said that Bradford doesn’t want any goods or services from Israel, but also doesn’t want any Israeli citizens or academics coming to Bradford either. Why doesn’t he say ‘no Jews allowed’?...» Rare Recess Hearing To Deal With Ebola Threat
By Caroline May, Breitbart —
With Ebola claiming more than 900 lives and a handful people in America receiving tests for the deadly virus, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa is convening a hearing Thursday to examine the threat. “Around the country there is a heightened sense of concern. Hopefully we don’t go beyond the concern and containment is the key here,”...—Daily Cartoon—
» Cartoonist: Bob Gorrell born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, Bob Gorrell attended the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1977. Gorrell moved to the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 1992, and served there as editorial cartoonist until resigning in January 1998 to concentrate on syndicated editorial and comics page features. From October 2001 through January 2004, Gorrell was Editorial Cartoonist for AOL News. That platform gives Gorrell one of the nation’s largest daily audiences from among AOL’s 33 million subscribers.