It seems Orly Taitz is at it again, this time she’s asking a Federal Judge to take “judicial notice” of a fact which is quite obviously untrue. Specifically, the claim that a June 2004 article from a newspaper in Kenya that referred the then Illinois State Senator as “Kenyan born:”
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.
Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.
Based on that article, which I wrote about several weeks ago, Orly filed this motion:
As I noted when I first looked at this issue a search of the Associated Press archives for an articles containing the words “Kenyan” and “Obama” from any date prior to June 28, 2004 (the date after the article was published) reveals no articles at all.
And, as the guys at Snopes note:
However, the Associated Press made no such reference; the identification of Barack Obama as “Kenyan-born” was added to the Sunday Standard’s version of the AP story by someone else (who misspelled the politician’s given name as “Barrack” in the process) and is apparently unique to that publication. The full text of the “Jack Ryan Abandons Senate Bid” article as originally issued by the Associated Press is retrievable from the LexisNexis archive of global news sources, and it contains no reference (in the lead-in or elsewhere) to Barack Obama’s being “Kenyan-born”:
Associated Press Online
June 25, 2004 Friday
Illinois’ Jack Ryan Abandons Senate Bid
BYLINE: MAURA KELLY LANNAN; Associated Press Writer
SECTION: NATIONAL POLITICAL NEWS
LENGTH: 768 words
DATELINE: CHICAGOIllinois Senate candidate Jack Ryan dropped out of the race Friday amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days.
“It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race,” Ryan, 44, said in a statement. “What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play.”
Likewise, archived versions of U.S. newspapers that published the same AP wire story (such as the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Seattle Times) do not include lead-ins identifying Barack Obama as “Kenyan-born.”
You can also find archived versions of the article, none of which identify Obama as “Kenyan-born” from Washington Post and the New York Times and LA Times
Had Orly done any of that searching, she would’ve realize she’s lying to the Court, again, and setting herself up for yet another sanctions hit.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
What can anyone say? She’s clearly on a ride so far off the reservation that even some of her crazy followers can’t see which way she went…LOL!