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[EarlG]

They just can't get over it - Obama birthplace mistake: Yahoo! News declines comment

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[gateley]

1. Is this a fucking JOKE?

Who is Rachel Rose Hartman? They LET this be printed?

I can't breathe.

[pink-o]

18. Betcha 20 she's no relation to THOM Hartman! n/t

[gateley]

32. Ha! Or maybe one of those right-wing crazy relatives we all seem to have. :-)

[yesphan]

37. Names are

spelled different. Hartman/Hartmann.

[silvershadow]

2. And on it goes. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

3. WTF?

[LuckyLib]

4. This tells you everything you need to know about Yahoo. Everything.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. It is the Fox of the internet...

[mimi85]

51. So true, just reading the comments

is beyond depressing. I rarely do it anymore since it's hard to believe there are that many low info people in the US.

I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but sometimes the reality hits home.

[siligut]

5. Yahoo news doesn't prize accuracy

During the election it was a snake-pit of conservatives.

[jimlup]

6. This is actually a good thing

Doing such things exposes this source as blatantly biased or ignorant. No need for further critic.

[Renew Deal]

17. I agree

[Lugal Zaggesi]

8. It's sometimes funny

to find out what people who don't think,
are thinking. Thanks, Rachel.

http://news.yahoo.com/author/rachel-rose-hartman/
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the president's birthplace.

[graywarrior]

9. Wasn't Yahoo a derogatory remark back in the 60s?

As in, "they're a buncha yahoos."

[AllyCat]

22. Are you saying I'm behind the times?

Because I still use this term. In fact, when I read this aloud, Mr. AC and I both sang the old Yahoo teevee commercial.

[graywarrior]

29. No, I mean you are hipper than hip

[thesquanderer]

38. 60s? It dates back a whole lot further than that...

Here's where it comes from...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver's_Travels)

[graywarrior]

39. legendary beings who are filthy and with unpleasant habits

lol

[tblue37]

54. The word comes from the satirical book

Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2013, 12:17 PM - Edit history (1)

Gulliver's Travels. The Yahoos were humans in the land of the noble, rational, decent Houyhnhnms. (I am misspelling that, but I can'tgoogle it on my Nook w/o losing this message.)

The humans (the Yahoos) were despised by the Huoynims, who were intelligent horses, because the humans were filthy, vicious, uncivilize, and disgusting animals that exhibited no sign of intelligence. That is why calling someone a Yahoo is an insult.

Edited to fix typo in subject line and to correct spelling of Houyhnhnms.

[graywarrior]

55. Well, there you have it!

Yahoo is just a bunch of yahoos!

[Enrique]

10. that's why they call it Yahoo news

news for yahoos

[47of74]

11. Yahoo

[srican69]

12. is yahoo still around?? .. I havent gone there since 2001

[Iliyah]

13. This was no mistake

it only continues the "birther" bullshit and hopefully influence the 2014 elections like 2010.

[MADem]

14. Yahoo news declines comment, eh?

Mmmm hmmmm.

They're a bunch of Yahoos, they wouldn't know news if it bit them on their asses, and really, what could they possibly say that wouldn't make someone think "You racist so-and-sos."

[tavalon]

15. That's not real, right.

Earl, I'm begging you. This has to be a joke. It's a joke right. Please Earl, with all the crap flying right now, we just don't have time to go back to birther stuff.

[Daemonaquila]

47. *Pain*

Like you, I can only wish it's a joke... but I don't think it is. It's just like that kook in the TX legislature who believes that a rape kit at the ER is for preventing pregnancy.

[Renew Deal]

16. That's funny

Who is Rachel Rose Hartman?

[red dog 1]

44. A Google search lists her as "Politics Reporter" for Yahoo News

One right-wing site calls her a "Far Left Obama Supporter"

I don't see how she can be that dumb and still be called a real "reporter"...even for Yahoo News.

[ReRe]

19. Yahoo "News" leans to the right...

... like those people in that laxative commercial on TV.

[Iliyah]

24. My understanding is that she initially wrote "the country of his birth"

and later changed it to "ancestral homeland".

[Marksman_91]

21. She could've just said "country of heritage" instead and no one would be offended, but nope...

...she just had to make a fool of herself. Such a poor excuse for journalism.

[MADem]

23. Land of his father's birth is accurate. Land of his birth is CBS--Crazy Birther Shit. NT.

[Wolf Frankula]

25. Well He's not going to Hawaii

That's where he was born.

I use Yahoo for e-mail, and that's about it.

Wolf

[timdog44]

33. That is correct.

He will be starting in the country of his birth. She must be a Fox throw away.

[Scurrilous]

26. K & R

[riverwalker]

27. she's on Twitter

@rachelrhartman

[riverwalker]

28. looks like she had to correct it

White House doesn’t have ‘figure on costs’ of Africa trip

Rachel Rose Hartman
South Africa

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the president's birthplace.

President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won't be stopping in his ancestral homeland.

Obama's weeklong trip—June 26-July 3—which he's taking with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia, as well as with members of his economic and trade team, is to signal America's interest in trade, democracy and economic development in Africa. He will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.

"We see Africa as one of the most important emerging regions in the world," deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes told reporters on a conference call Friday. He added that the administration sees "growing economic opportunities [in the continent] for increased trade and investment" by U.S. businesses.

The trip will also focus on "democracy and democratic institution-building," Rhodes said.

Read More
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-administration-defers-security-africa-trip-costs-skips-211646601.html

[Lucinda]

30. I wonder what the backstory is on this. She did an article about racism being a factor

in the birther claims back in 2011. Did she write that...or did someone attach it?


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/birth-certificate-won-t-end-race-related-attacks-213432124.html

[Solly Mack]

31. K&R

[Initech]

34. Will this birther bullshit nonsense ever die??

[Jamaal510]

40. Probably at least not until January 2017,

but I'm thinking it will still go on well past then as Obama goes into the history books. Some children will probably have their RW grandparents telling them that he was America's first "illegal" president.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

35. fuuuuck I hate Yahoo.

I hate ALL this teabag brained "news"fotainment media we've got. Fucking Enquirer Nation.

[npk]

36. Sounds like she's just an idiot

Looks like the story has been corrected. She is probably should really dumb, not that it excuses what she wrote in the first place.

[SoapBox]

41. STOOPID fucking idiot author!

...such the stupid fuck.

[FailureToCommunicate]

42. The only, and I mean ONLY, good thing about "Yahoo!" was

this ad:

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" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[toby jo]

49. Dolphin needs to be doin their news.

[Hissyspit]

43. No, it's not, but Hawaii is!

[Coyotl]

45. Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! ....

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[DFW]

46. Yahoo assumes that people who watch Fox (and read Yahoo news) don't know where Africa is

They might not be wrong, either..........

[Mr.Bill]

48. I used to rely on Yahoo News for a headline service, but not content so much.

Lately it seems every other headline I click on there is an advertisement disguised as a news headline.

[Rain Mcloud]

50. What else would you expect from a corporate media group?

Honesty?
Integrity?
Informative?
Un-biased?
30 years ago this was mostly true before the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
Now the media is state run Pravda by one of five corporations who also happen to run the government.
That Obama guy is just a scapegoat in the grand scheme of fascist totalitarianism,this is fairly easily accepted.
What is not so easily embraced is the joy that he seems to take in kowtowing to the mighty Templars while wiping clean the muck from the fetlocks of their might chargers as they rain spittle from on high.

Since he doesn't fight back how can anyone else be blamed for this?
A lie remains the accepted truth until it is banished to the ages of ridiculosity.
'Till someone actually does something,square up that peasant cap and tuck in that socialist union shirt,Tovarich,get back to digging Potatoes for victory over those Kapitalist Pig-Dogs!

[merrily]

53. Democrats were pro-fairness doctrine until Obama took office.

Then, they seemed to turn on a dime, even though people had polled in favor of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

In fairness (no pun intended), Obama had said he opposed it while running for President in 2008.

In related news, Obama's first nominee for FCC chair had been responsible for creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and it was conservative radio broadcasters who seemed most opposed to the doctrine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski

So, it all seems consistent.

[Amimnoch]

52. When his second term is up, wouldn't it be great if President Obama

makes an "oopsie" and refers to Kenya as his home of birth.. It would be hilarious to watch all the conservative talking heads explode.

maybe followed with something like "As my Imam always said..."