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Washington Post on Selma-gate: Obama tales “untrue or grossly oversimplified”
The Washington Post is the only mainstream media outlet with the integrity to nationally expose the story about the exaggerations, tall tales, and outright lies in a speech Obama gave last year commemorating the watershed Selma marches, flatly calling some of Obama’s assertions “untrue or grossly oversimplified.”
That’s putting it mildly.
Selma-gate Untruth #1: Obama claimed that the Kennedys financed his father’s immigration to America in 1959, saying “So the Kennedy’s decided we’re going to do an air lift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country.”
This is demonstrably false, as the Obama campaign subsequently confirmed. In fact, the Kennedys did not finance the 1959 air lift nor was the program even their brainchild. The truth is that they were approached by the program to help fund the 1960 air lift, for which Richard Nixon also helped secure financing.
Did Obama misremember the dates, or did he deliberately mislead the audience in Selma in order to forge a Kennedy connection that just wasn’t there?
There was no need for Obama to lie, as Harry Belafonte, Jackie Robinson, and Sidney Poiter are among the big names who helped finance his dad’s 1959 immigration. But I guess a tall tale playing up a Kennedy connection was more attractive.
Note, he spread this deception more than once, having also apparently used the false story in an earlier speech at American University.
Selma-gate Untruth #2: Obama exaggerated his Selma connection, falsely implying that his parents married because of events there: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.”
This is an easily debunked falsehood. The violent stirrings that “happened in Selma, Alabama” happened in 1965. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. It is therefore impossible that his parents “got together” “because of what happened in Selma.”
As a Clinton campaign memo notes, when the New York Times called him on this lie, Obama’s tepid response was “I meant the whole Civil Rights movement.”
If that’s the truth about what he meant, why didn’t he just…tell the truth? Or did he, again, deliberately mislead the audience to forge a connection that simply was not there?
Selma-gate Untruth #3: Obama misled about his origins, claiming “You see, my Grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya. Grew up in a small village and all his life, that’s all he was — a cook and a house boy.”
The problem? This isn’t true. As others have pointed out, in Obama’s own bestseller, Dreams of My Father, he had described his grandfather as “a prominent farmer, an elder of the tribe, a medicine man with healing powers.”
So which is it? Did Obama lie in his book or at Selma? Was his grandfather a lowly servant, or a prominent elder? Or if he was somehow both, why did Obama deceive and not tell the whole truth?
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One has to wonder whether the press, so suddenly concerned last week with Hillary Clinton’s memories, will be as eager to castigate Obama for his lies and exaggerations. Since he is getting a free pass for constantly changing his story about Rezko and lying about taking oil company money, you can bet the mainstream media will try to forget Selma-gate. Don’t let them.
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