AP: "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama

[Windpower]

Here's an Associated Press article from 2004

Does this mean AP is a birther ?   

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

"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."

Here's the front page

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627044226/http://eastandard.net/

Here it is again

http://archive.wn.com/2004/06/28/1400/kenya

[Squirl]

The abbreviation AP is at the end of the article, where the author's name usually is.  There is no other author listed. AP for Associated Press is usually at the beginning and the author's name is included.  The last link lists the news source as East African Standard. 

[glenn kangiser]

Wow... great find, Windpower.  They must have forgot to delete that.  I made copies of all pages as they may disappear also.

Seems since it is an archived copy from 2004 it must be legit no matter what the source.

[Sassy]

I sent the links to several people I know   

[Pox Eclipse]

And the truth comes out:

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"

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."

[MountainDon]

  PoxE.  I never thought to have a gander at snopes.   

[glenn kangiser]

My understanding is that the AP article was quoted and credit was given to AP as per the AP at the end of the article by the African paper.

The Kenyans added the additional information of his Kenyan Birth because they were so proud that one of their own native sons made it to the office of president of the US.

Per an Israeli article and a good video explaining the issues.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/3074