Obama’s Manger: What if Kenya’s a Little Town in Hawaii?
Doug Giles
Kenya? Now, what kind of crap publishing company gets the nation of origin wrong for a rising star and does not correct it until 16 years later when he begins his bid for the Oval Office? Huh? I’ll tell you what kind of company: a sloppy company … a sloppy, sloppy company. Or … or … a racist company. Someone get Sharpton on this now that the Trayvon case is unraveling, as this could be fresh investigative fodder for the revered sleuth named Al.
I’ll tell you who else could have made such a ghastly mistake: a company run by women. Yep, that’s it. I bet a woman made that error because we all know how women can’t spell very good. Or is it goodly? Goodish? Hold on, let me check and see if it was a chick who made the mistake. Yep, one Miriam Goderich was the one who bungled BHO’s bio. Oh, I’m sure she “mistakenly thought,” as my buddy Neal said, “that Obama was from Kentucky, misspelled it, and it got auto-corrected to ‘Kenya,’ and no one caught the error before it went to press.” I bet she got fired and has never, ever done any work that relates to Obama since … or am I wrong about that?
Now, for detractors who are saying, “Well, Barack should have spotted the typo [the only glaring typo, by the way, on the entire brochure] and demanded his agency correct it.” All I’ve got to say is that you cannot expect a Harvard Law student to be busied with checking this type of minutiae as he was hard at it with macro issues, such as studying critical race theory, black liberation theology and Rules for Radicals.
It’s only low-level authors like me who’ve got the time to check for blunders, and thank God I did because on my most recent book my publicist—another woman—said I was originally from Tanzania instead of Texas. Women. #barefootandpregnantplease.
The fail-safe is that we have the mainstream media who will clear up this issue of Obama’s birthplace and get us back to the big issues of gay marriage, free rubbers for female law students and cars that run on algae.
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