As you would expect this revelation of The One’s origins is true grist for Steyn’s mill .
” So the lunatic theory that Barack Obama doesn’t meet the minimum eligibility requirements to be
president of the United States was first advanced by Barack Obama’s official representative. Where did she get that wacky idea from?
“This was nothing more than a fact- checking error by me,” says Obama’s literary agent Miriam Goderich, a “fact” that went so
un-“checked” that it stayed up on her agency’s website in the official biography of her by-then-famous client up until 2007: “He was born in Kenya to an American. anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister.”
And then in April 2007, someone belatedly decided to “check” the 16-year-old “fact” and revised the biography, a few weeks into the now non-Kenyan’s campaign for the presidency. Fancy that! “
