THE VETTING - EXCLUSIVE - OBAMA'S LITERARY AGENT IN 1991 BOOKLET: 'BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII'
Note from Senior Management:
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.
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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.
The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976.
Front cover (outside) - note Barack Obama listed in alphabetical order
Front cover (inside)
Jay Acton no longer represents Obama. However, Jane Dystel stilllists Obama as a client on her agency's website.
According to the booklet itself, the text was edited by Miriam Goderich, who has since become Dystel's partner at Dystel & Goderich, an agency founded in 1994. Breitbart News attempted to reach Goderich by telephone several times over several days. Her calls are screened by an automated service that requires callers to state their name and company, which we did. She never answered.
The design of the booklet was undertaken by Richard Bellsey, who has since closed his business. Bellsey, reached by telephone, could not recall the exact details of the booklet, but told Breitbart News that it "sounds like one of our jobs, like I did for [Acton & Dystel] twenty years ago or more."
The parade of authors alongside Obama in the booklet includes politicians, such as former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill; sports legends, such as Joe Montana and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and numerous Hollywood celebrities.
The reverse side of the page that features Barack Obama includes former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and early-1990s "boy band" pop sensation New Kids On the Block.
Acton, who spoke to Breitbart News by telephone, confirmed precise details of the booklet and said that it cost the agency tens of thousands of dollars to produce.
He indicated that while "almost nobody" wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom "the agents deal[t] with on a daily basis," were "probably" approached to approve the text as presented.
Dystel did not respond to numerous requests for comment, via email and telephone. Her assistant told Breitbart News that Dystel "does not answer questions about Obama."
The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.
The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.
David Maraniss's forthcoming biography of Obama has reportedly confirmed, for example, that a girlfriend Obama described in Dreams from My Father was, in fact, an amalgam of several separate individuals.
In addition, Obama and his handlers have a history of redefining his identity when expedient. In March 2008, for example, he famouslydeclared: "I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."
Several weeks later, Obama left Wright's church--and, according to Edward Klein's new biography, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, allegedly attempted to persuade Wright not to "do any more public speaking until after the November [2008] election" (51).
Obama has been known frequently to fictionalize aspects of his own life. During his 2008 campaign, for instance, Obama claimed that his dying mother had fought with insurance companies over coverage for her cancer treatments.
That turned out to be untrue, but Obama has repeated the story--which even the Washington Post called "misleading"--in a campaign video for the 2012 election.
The Acton & Dystel biography could also reflect how Obama was seen by his associates, or transitions in his own identity. He is said, for instance, to have cultivated an "international" identity until well into his adulthood, according to Maraniss.
Regardless of the reason for Obama's odd biography, the Acton & Dystel booklet raises new questions as part of ongoing efforts to understand Barack Obama--who, despite four years in office remains a mystery to many Americans, thanks to the mainstream media.
Larry O'Connor contributed to this report.
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11 comments:
Biggest, cruelest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. All aided and abbeted by Pelosi and other powerful Dems with no loyalty or conscience.
For those waiting on CONgress to impeach Obama, it ain't gonna' happen. Obama is the CEO of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC., not the President of the united States of America. There IS a difference.
Tell us somethi ng we don't know the only new revaltion wouyld be we found someboday who will actually do something about it. Congress, Supreme Court yeah right I put my money on this Drake guy before I believe that Congress will get off it's dead ass and do it's job.
I read that Andrew Brietbart's autoposy showed something other than natural causes. He dropped dead outside a restaurant just like Christopher Story - remember him? Makes you wonder...........
What further evidence do we need???????? It is time to remove this cancerous growth, this fraud, this impostor, this disgrace to the awakened populace, this threat to dignity and freedom, this character assassin, this lawless tyrant--if necessary, with deadly force--and to restore individual and collective sovereignty, to embrace personal responsibility, and to enjoy the blessings of abundant life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all present and future generations!!!! THIS MEANS THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GOVERNED BY WE THE PEOPLE, THROUGH DIVINE GUIDANCE AND WITH DIVINE ASSISTANCE, AS THE FOUNDING FATHERS ENVISIONED AND ORDAINED IN THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND! WE DO NOT NEED ANYTHING BUT THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, PEOPLE! WE DEMAND THAT IT BE ENFORCED BY LEADERS WHO ABIDE BY THE CONSENT OF THOSE THEY GOVERN, OTHERWISE, THERE WILL BE CONSTANT REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW WHATEVER POWERS THAT ABUSE OR THAT VIOLATE THIS SUPREME LAW! IT IS NOW GAME OVER, CHECKMATE, THE CLOCK HAS RUN OUT, THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH TERRORISM ARE ENDED, WE RETURN TO EMBRACING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT MADE THIS NATION GREAT, AND WE DEMAND THE REMOVAL OF ALL WHO FAIL TO SUBMIT TO THE DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY OF OUR CREATOR, THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY SOURCE OF ALL THAT IS, THE I AM THAT I AM!
We need to stop focusing on how "bad" Obama is and move forward. There is such a thing as natural law justice. If he is that bad...he will obviously pay for his crimes. Articles like this could be informational, but it serves no purpose for if he is a light worker in the end. A lot of people are going to be upset and feel really bad. It's best to be neutral about everything, until it is proven absolutely beyond a doubt.
You make me sick with your lightworker bullshit, you libtard. How can the kenyan be a lightworker when he promotes and insists on late term abortion?...when he destroys the economy and puts this country into 16 trillion in debt, when it takes 59 days for him to say ONE WORD about the gulf oil spill, who takes countless vacations on the taxpayer's dime, who sold out the country to Russia by giving them the serial numbers to the trident missiles that we sold to our allies in the UK???!? He didn't just sell out the USA, he sold out the UK as well for the Start Treaty and now we can't defend ourselves. What about most of the country unemployed and hurting? I know that doesn't matter to you, you selfish little pos bastard. The kenyan is responsible for the firestorm in the middle east; the muslim brotherhood has been to the white house many times. They are trying to force sharia law on us, but you're too stupid to see that. What about the chemtrails poisoning our citizens? Don't you know that what happens to your neighbor happens to you? Oh, that's right..I forgot; you could give a sh*t. I could slap your face off right into next year, you stupid clueless commie moron who doesn't deserve to live in this country and be free. You're a traitor and a coward and you should be deported right along with the entire 112th treason congress to gitmo with the rest of the terrorists, because that's what they are! You make me sick to my stomach. You're the enemy and I spit in your face...and I doubt this will be posted.
Are you brain dead? Lightworker my ass! This is clear evidence along with the video of Michelle Obama calling Kenya his home country. This and the video of Alex Jones needs to go viral. Demand that your local radio and TV stations report on this info. Do the same with the National MSM. Write to your State and Federal Congressmen and Senators with this info and demand they take action or they won't be reelected. Better yet go to their local offices and demand action. This must be done to get Obama impeached and thrown out of office. His executive orders, Obamacare, NDAA and all the other crap will be null and void. This guy needs to be jailed for treason and fraud now.
Very well said, Anon. 5:59. Let's get the show on the road! Where are the Paul Reveres, Molly Pitchers, Thomas Paynes, Nathan Hales and other patriots?
Forget impeachment! He should be charged with TREASON, FRAUD, FORGERY, ESPIONAGE and AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY (Muslim terrorists).
Real Lightworkers are humble people may also struggle financially whereas Obama too busy opening bank accounts in different countries while many American families suffer. Listening to Drake's recordings it sounds like the day of reckoning is near for the military to clean house.
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