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Obama birthplace mistake: Yahoo! News declines comment

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By Erik Wemple, Published: June 22, 2013

Washingtonpost.com

In April 2011, Barack Obama, president of the United States, took the extraordinary step of releasing the long-form version of his birth certificate. As the New York Times wrote at the time, the idea behind the move was “to finally end a long-simmering conspiracy theory among some conservatives who have asserted that he was not born in the United States and was not a legitimate president.” The certificate proved that Obama was born in Hawaii.

Rachel Rose Hartman, a White House reporter for Yahoo! News, couldn’t possibly have missed the “birther” story. It was unavoidable, after all, for an unhealthy chunk of the president’s first term. Yet: In her story yesterday on Obama’s Africa trip, Hartman managed to say that “he won’t be stopping in the country of his birth.” From the context of the story, it’s clear she was referring to Kenya. The captured original text of the error:

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Yahoo! made a boo boo about Bobo!

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Monday, June 24, 2013 4:12 PM

JONGSSTRAW

Now there are unconfirmed reports that this reporter who mentioned an African birthplace for the President has gone missing. Yahoo's tapping into their NSA trunk line to track her down.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:55 AM

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