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 How The Times followed a trail to find Barack Obama’s aunt
How The Times followed a trail to find Barack Obama’s aunt
The trail that led to Aunt Zeituni , the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by The Times last week, started with Mr Obama s memoir, one of the most widely read political autobiographies of all time. The Democrat campaign has implied that the story might have come from Republican sources ...
AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally (AP)
news.yahoo.com — AP - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. (more) AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally (AP)
The Associated Press: AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
ap.google.com — 10 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated ... (more) The Associated Press: AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living ...
Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Violated Privacy Policy
washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Violated Privacy ...
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  • Robyn74 Robyn74
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    Is it just me or is this article completely confusing? Leave it to The Times to make a headline out of something and then follow up with a terrbily weak story.
    Posted 11/3/2008 respond (flag)
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Who really found Obama's aunt?
USS NeverdockThe UK media. The left wing media in the US would not dare research anything on "The One".

Times Online Smacks Dem “Timing” Experts With Obama’s Book
Pirate's Cove — ... The Times Of London has a message for all the (typical) calls from Democrats/Liberals/Surrender Monkeys who question the timing of their story on Barack H. Obama’s (remember, using the “H” is racist) Aunti Zeituni ...

Times Online Smacks Dem “Timing” Experts With Obama’s Book
Stop The ACLU — The Times Of London has a message for all the (typical) calls from Democrats/Liberals/Surrender Monkeys who question the timing of their story on Barack H. Obama’s (remember, using the “H” is racist) Aunti Zeituni The trail that led to “Aunt Zeituni”, the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by The Times last week, started with Mr Obama’s memoir, one of the most widely read political autobiographies of all time. ( ...

Obama Played a Dirty Trick On Himself
JammieWearingFool — ... , Team Obama and the left reflexively denounced this discovery as some sort of dirty trick to undermine the promise of hope and change. Well, as it turns out, it was Obama's own autobiography that provided the trail of crumbs for the Times of London . Curious how not a single U.S. media outlet ever bothered to do some investigating themselves. The trail that led to “Aunt Zeituni”, the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by The Times last week, started with Mr Obama’s memoir, one of the most widely read political autobiographies of all time. The Democrat campaign has ...

Ad Slams Selfish Obama For Breaking His Promise to His Poor Brother In a Slum Hut & Dear Auntie in the Projects
Gateway Pundit — ... A new internet ad highlights Obama's treatment of his poor brother in the slums and his Dear (illegal) Auntie Onyango in the Boston projects: ...

Don’t Forget to Breathe
The Mahablog — The final pre-election polls show Obama in the lead. I would have said “comfortably” in the lead, but you know us lefties. We always expect a cartoon anvil to drop out of the sky and flatten us. The Right is still running a signature right-wing campaign. They’ve got the illegal immigrant aunt, more 1960s terrorist ties, claims that Obama will destroy entire industries/ban Christianity/start another holocaust. A vote for Obama is a choice to go to hell. Good thing the election is tomorrow, or in ...

Rightwing Conspiracy’s Secret Source
Jules Crittenden — ... Who leaked? Obama. Times of London : The trail that led to “Aunt Zeituni”, the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by The Times last week, started with Mr Obama’s memoir, one of the most widely read political autobiographies of all time. The Democrat campaign has implied that the story might have come from Republican sources – “the American people are … pretty suspicious of things that are dumped in the marketplace 72 hours before a campaign,” said Mr Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod yesterday. In fact, the story came from a book that has been read by millions, ...

The aunt and the smear: The right-wing effort to make an issue of an Obama relative
The Reaction — ... outlets -- began breathlessly hyping the story." But The Times only reported that Ms. Onyango is living in a Boston public-housing project. It was the AP that broke the news of her illegal immigration status. And how did the AP come to acquire that information? As TPM notes, "it looks like someone in the Bush administration leaked the information, with the goal of throwing a last-minute wrench into Obama's campaign. And someone else confirmed it, with similar motives." (Josh Marshall has more ...

Brit Newspaper Performed Legwork US Media Neglected by Tracking Down 'Aunt Zeituni'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Once again it is the British newspapers that are performing the legwork that the American media oten neglects to do. In this case, it was the UK Times that tracked down Barack Obama's "Auntie Zeituni," not the "evil" Republicans as many Democrats are alleging. This is the story,  by Ben MacIntyre  and James Bone, of how they found Obama's aunt (emphasis mine): ...

Eye Sea
The Democratic Daily — ... but now a Rupert Murdoch owned vehicle for his agenda. Having broken the “story” that Obama’s aunt (his father’s half-sister) is in the country as an … GASP! … illegal alien, and wanting to resolve any questions as to the incredible timing of the story (i.e. it LOOKS like a creepy smear, but, of course, isn’t a creepy smear, with any racist undertones — like most of this campaign) the venerable old whore posted an article about how they found auntie (can’t have anyone questioning the ...

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