Celebrity Journalist admits he lied about Obama birth certificate story.

[sufrommich]

Sorry about the Fox link. Just yesterday they were breathlessly reporting this "true" story:

A celebrity journalist now claims he misspoke when he said last week that Hawaii’s governor told him he was unable to find President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate after a search of state and hospital archives.

Mike Evans told FoxNews.com on Wednesday he was remorseful and embarrassed that he appeared to have given the impression that he had discussed the search for Obama’s birth certificate with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie.

Evans, who says he has been a close friend of Abercrombie since the 1980s, appeared on Minnesota’s KQRS radio last week and said he’d been told by the governor himself that Obama’s birth certificate was nowhere to be found. Evans told KQRS on Jan. 20:

"Yesterday, talking to Neil's office, Neil says that he searched everywhere using his powers as governor ..... there is no Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii. Absolutely no proof at all that he was born in Hawaii."

But that’s no longer Evans’ story.

“Only this I can you tell you is 100 percent fact: that Neil never told me there was no birth certificate,” Evans told Fox News. “I never talked to him.”

Last week’s radio interview was part of Evans’ syndicated five-minute feature, “On the Road with Mike Evans,” which is broadcast on 34 stations across the country each morning.

On the morning of Jan. 20, Evans says he accidentally told one of those radio stations -- KQRS -- that he’d spoken directly with Gov. Abercrombie about the Obama birth certificate.

“I was on 34 radio stations that morning. That was the only station where I said, instead of saying ‘the hospital said there’s no birth certificate’ I misspoke and said Neil said that,” Evans said. “I misspoke and I apologize for that. I apologize to Neil.”

Abercrombie’s spokeswoman did not respond to Fox News e-mail and phone requests for comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/26/celebrity-journalist-says-he-never-talked-hawaii-governor-obama-birth/#

[K8-EEE]

1. K&R have some wingnuts I must let down gently....

AGAIN....!! LOL...they are all so nuts.

[Sonoman]

2. I'll go turn on my teevee and wait for the retraction.

Or until Hell freezes over, whichever comes first.

Sonoman

[sufrommich]

3. I'm betting on hell freezing over. nt

[xxqqqzme]

4. He misspoke?

That's what lying through your teeth is called now?

[Marr]

6. Yeah... I was under the impression that "misspeaking" meant doing something like

using "who" when "whom" was appropriate. In recent years it's come to encapsulate simple lying, too.

[Kceres]

14. It's only lying if democrats do it. Repubs. just misspeak.

[hlthe2b]

5. 'better bookmark this article... I know there will be someone,

sometime arguing without stop that "the Governor of Hawaii had admitted that the birth certificate did not exist."

[myrna minx]

7. So he "accidentally" made something up out of whole cloth and lied? Oopsie.

Ah - the good 'ol "misspeak' canard and on KQ no less. :eyes:

[sufrommich]

8. I know, I love that "accidentally" quote. Further in the article

he claims he tried to call his "best friend" the Governor of Hawaii and still hasn't got a call back.

[Old and In the Way]

9. What a jerk.

Another person looking for some cheap national exposure. Given the Governor's earlier statements about the issue, I thought this was a bogus story from the beginning.

What this idiot has done is to provide the morons with a non-story...and now that's he's recanted, this will be their "proof" that "Obama's folks have gotten to him". I know this doesn't even register with Obama, but this clown has not done the country any favors by providing yet another boost to the birther nonsense.

[crim son]

10. Why has he made the retraction?

I don't like it. FReeper types will just claim that the Liberal Gestapo threatened him with having to read a big book or something unless he took it back.

[Zywiec]

11. Well if Arizona passes this bill...

Game-changer! Arizona to pass 2012 eligibility law
Obama will have to produce birth certificate to run again

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255489

Will we see the end of this non-sense?

[kestrel91316]

12. Unconstitutional on its face. Good luck with this RW meme.

[dkf]

13. From snopes

"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen."

Fukino says that no state official, including Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama's certificate be handled differently from any other.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp