Note from Senior Management [of Breitbart News]:
Andrew Breitbart was never a
"Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the
narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do,
that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Yet Andrew also believed that the
complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological
past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for
him.
It is for that reason that we
launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the
ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential
candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have
consequences.
It is also in that spirit that we
discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a
marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown
former president of the Harvard Law Review.
It is evidence--not of the
President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps
been presented differently at different times.
* * *
Breitbart News has obtained a
promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency,
Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in
Indonesia and Hawaii."
The booklet, which was distributed
to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief
biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors
represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's
anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned,
later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is
as follows (image and text below):
Barack Obama, the first
African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and
raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and
a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a
financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation.
He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest
Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities
Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues
will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.
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