Yahoo News on Obama’s Africa Trip: “He Won’t Be Stopping in the Country of His Birth”

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Oh great. Now Yahoo News is going Birther on us. White House Doesn’t Have ‘Figure on Costs’ of Africa Trip | the Ticket.

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

(h/t: Bulworth.)

UPDATE at 6/21/13 4:02:58 pm

And… it’s now been updated: White House Doesn’t Have ‘Figure on Costs’ of Africa Trip | the Ticket

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.

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51 comments
1 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:30:32pm

Thanks, Charles

2 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:30:54pm

Article has been up over an hour. No, I won’t read the comments.

3 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:31:50pm

OH FOR FUCKING FUCKS SAKE!

4 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:32:50pm

re: #3 Kragar

OH FOR FUCKING FUCKS SAKE!

Pretty much sums it up, I think.

/thread

5 blueraven  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:33:09pm

re: #2 Bulworth

Article has been up over an hour. No, I won’t read the comments.

They are bad. But what can you expect with this crap of an article. Someone needs to be fired.

6 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:33:11pm

“President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won’t be stopping in the country of his birth.

That’s true, until he touches down at Andrews. Idiots.

7 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:33:42pm

Great, JUST what the wingnuts DON’T need!

8 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:34:40pm

The author can be tweeted at.

9 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:35:06pm

This could be an experiment to see if anyone’s actually still reading Yahoo News.

10 Randall Gross  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:36:04pm

So I wonder if Rachel has twitter, and what her stream looks like about now…

11 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:36:25pm

Meanwhile: U.S. Charges Snowden With Espionage

Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.

Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property, the officials said.

12 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:36:59pm

It’s been up for an HOUR and no correction???

13 jamesfirecat  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:38:31pm

Some people really want to see President Joe Biden seek his second term in 2016 I guess…

14 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:38:50pm

It’s rather sad that I’m not even vaguely shocked at this.

Ignorant idiocy is the new black.

15 Randall Gross  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:40:07pm
16 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:40:59pm

Alex Ruthrauff at Wonkette wrote about Rachel Hartman today in regard to an article from yesterday.

17 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:41:04pm

re: #8 wrenchwench

Thanks, I’ve done so. Let’s see if a response is forthcoming.

18 engineer cat  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:41:35pm

they actually meant to say “the country of his bris”

19 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:41:40pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s been up for an HOUR and no correction???

Correction? Why, what’s wrong in the article? DERP!!!

20 b.d.  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:42:11pm

Good thing Yahoo makes people show up at the office now, now she can be fired in person.

21 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:42:52pm

re: #14 Romantic Heretic

It’s rather sad that I’m not even vaguely shocked at this.

Ignorant idiocy is the new black.

I’m shocked - SHOCKED! - to discover there’s gambling derp going on here on Yahoo News!

22 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:43:10pm

Rachel seems to have written about THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE but I can’t access the article, and have to get back to the dirty bikes.

23 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:43:24pm
24 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:43:48pm
25 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:44:08pm

WTF?

26 engineer cat  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:44:53pm

difficult question:

is world war z technically a science friction movie or only a horror flick?

27 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:45:02pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

There it is.

28 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:45:19pm

Doesn’t look like she’s actually a Birther. But I’m at a total loss to explain that sentence any other way. “Brain fart” doesn’t come close.

29 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:46:01pm

She must have meant ‘country of his father’s birth.’

30 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:46:08pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Doesn’t look like she’s actually a Birther. But I’m at a total loss to explain that sentence any other way. “Brain fart” doesn’t come close.

President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won’t be stopping in the country of his birth ancestors.

FTFH

31 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:46:49pm

re: #26 engineer cat

difficult question:

is world war z technically a science friction movie or only a horror flick?

How about “A really bad movie not even worth the cost of downloading it from Pirate Bay?”

32 EPR-radar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:47:01pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Doesn’t look like she’s actually a Birther. But I’m at a total loss to explain that sentence any other way. “Brain fart” doesn’t come close.

Surreal. A post-modern obliteration of the differences between fact, fiction, snark, commentary, etc.?

33 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:48:00pm

re: #26 engineer cat

difficult question:

is world war z technically a science friction movie or only a horror flick?

Doesn’t that depend on whether there’s some lame-ass attempt to explain the sudden zombification of most of mankind in pseudoscientific terms?

34 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:48:43pm

It’s the first sentence. The opening. The lede. The most important part of the article.

35 CriticalDragon1177  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:49:38pm

Charles Johnson,

Are they joking? Or does Yahoo News have such low standards that they have an actual birther writer for them who just blurted out that Obama wasn’t born in the US?

36 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:55:33pm
37 Interesting Times  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:55:54pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Doesn’t look like she’s actually a Birther. But I’m at a total loss to explain that sentence any other way. “Brain fart” doesn’t come close.

Maybe they saw your earlier comments about deliberately lying as click bait, and said, “challenge accepted”? o_O

38 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:57:49pm

The Snowden story will now enter the next phase of all out rat fuckery and hysteria.

39 Randall Gross  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:00:06pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Doesn’t look like she’s actually a Birther. But I’m at a total loss to explain that sentence any other way. “Brain fart” doesn’t come close.

She probably meant it to say birthplace of his father, or something? Mongo not know, the right wing blogs accuse her of being a leftist, so she’s probably not a terrible person or something…

40 Bulworth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:00:23pm

Finally, at the 1:42 mark we get a correction:

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.

41 Randall Gross  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:01:00pm

re: #40 Bulworth

Finally, at the 1:42 mark we get a correction:

Yeah, that’s probably what she was thinking.

42 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:01:15pm
43 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:04:24pm
44 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:05:08pm

re: #40 Bulworth

Finally, at the 1:42 mark we get a correction:

I don’t actually remember any stories about GW Bush’s “ancestral homeland.”

45 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:05:34pm

re: #40 Bulworth

Finally, at the 1:42 mark we get a correction:

I don’t like ‘ancestral homeland’ either. His mother is from Kansas. That has to count for something.

46 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:06:29pm

re: #45 wrenchwench

I don’t like ‘ancestral homeland’ either. His mother is from Kansas. That has to count for something.

He just left his ancestral homeland—Ireland.

47 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:06:42pm

re: #45 wrenchwench

I don’t like ‘ancestral homeland’ either. His mother is from Kansas. That has to count for something.

Kansas is also a foreign country…in the Land of Oz…

48 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:07:14pm

My ancestral homeland is Earth.

49 CriticalDragon1177  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:22:28pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Well, I’m glad they fixed the mistake, and she wasn’t actually a birther.

50 Jayleia  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:19:07pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

There’s a yahoo! news?

When did they start that?!

51 wheat-dogghazi  Sat, Jun 22, 2013 8:21:42am

My ancestral homeland is southern New Jersey, or Devon, England, or three provinces in Sweden … or if you get right down to it, Africa.


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