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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:32 PM Oct 2012

Is This Obama’s Kenyan Birth Video?

http://www.vice.com/read/is-this-obamas-kenyan-birth-video

Yesterday afternoon, an anonymous source known only as “Peter R.” reached out to VICE with claims that he had in his possession a video of President Barack Obama’s birth. Peter said that the footage was shot at a hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, on August 4, 1961, by his father, Barack Obama Sr. He sent us the password to a private video on Vimeo, a short clip that appears to depict a white woman who resembles Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, giving birth to a ginormous black baby. Peter also told us that he has the entire roughly 15-minute video in his possession and has been attempting to reach out to Donald Trump and other prominent birther theorists. We were literally at a loss for words, so we asked Peter if he’d be up for an interview about his “mind-blowing discovery” and, this morning, he said OK and we got on the phone. The whole thing sounds fucking bananas; that’s our official comment on the entire situation so don’t ask us anything more about it, please. We just thought you should know about it is all, whether or not it’s total bullshit.

http://vimeo.com/52049073

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This is almost as good as the Alien Autopsy film from a few years back. Enjoy.
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Is This Obama’s Kenyan Birth Video? (Original Post) TalkingDog Oct 2012 OP
Wow, that lady gave birth to a 30lb baby! madaboutharry Oct 2012 #1
LOL!!! So very fake. Tx4obama Oct 2012 #2
That baby was even born with teeth. Amazing. lumpy Oct 2012 #25
I think home movies in 1961 were in black & white. crazylikafox Oct 2012 #3
See the copy and paste below of a comment from the OP link regarding the super 8 film ... Tx4obama Oct 2012 #6
+1 ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #18
OMG! Did Ed Wood shoot that?! LuvLoogie Oct 2012 #4
ROFL alcibiades_mystery Oct 2012 #11
That baby looked pretty clean Politicalboi Oct 2012 #5
Bwaaaahaaaaa!!! riverwalker Oct 2012 #7
If Trump hasn't snapped it up, you know it's REALLY bad! Paging Jerome Corsi... gateley Oct 2012 #8
That's a huge baby who can hold it's head up already. The Wielding Truth Oct 2012 #9
Damn it, it's Obama Politicalboi Oct 2012 #10
He was a giant baby! LisaL Oct 2012 #12
tightie righties are some of the dumbest peeps on the planet underthematrix Oct 2012 #13
That is bogus. Everyone knows his birth video is right here: Lakerstan Oct 2012 #14
That's not even old footage Merlot Oct 2012 #15
I'm pretty sure it was a joke. However, I've been known to think that about many things. TalkingDog Oct 2012 #22
To much work went into this for it to be a joke, IMO Merlot Oct 2012 #23
Sadly... it's true. n/t TalkingDog Oct 2012 #24
Shooting the name highprincipleswork Oct 2012 #16
I don't understand the confusion. OilemFirchen Oct 2012 #17
Oh, OilemFirchen Oct 2012 #19
lol treestar Oct 2012 #26
What a joke. ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #20
Nah....the ears on that baby aren't quite right....if you get my drift. nt FLyellowdog Oct 2012 #21

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
2. LOL!!! So very fake.
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:38 PM
Oct 2012

Hospitals don't put photos that were taken in a studio on your hospital chart.

The woman does not look like Ann Dunham.

The video looks like one of those videos they used to play on the ''LOST'' tv series.

Someone is just trying to make some money and get their name in the news - LOL


Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
6. See the copy and paste below of a comment from the OP link regarding the super 8 film ...
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:42 PM
Oct 2012


super 8 film wasn't introduced until 1965, before that it was 8mm. the Kenyan flag shown in the video wasn't introduced until 1963... so next time make up a better story and get a better production designer... or at least do better research, this took all of 5 minutes for me to find


Obama was born August 4, 1961

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
5. That baby looked pretty clean
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:42 PM
Oct 2012

And he was a big baby. I've never had a baby, but he didn't look water logged of squished in any way. He kind of looked like a 3month old.

Re-watched it and noticed how the camera scans over the flag pin the doctor was wearing, and the sticker on the cabinet. And isn't there some kind of tie off with the belly button?

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
7. Bwaaaahaaaaa!!!
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:43 PM
Oct 2012

calender on the wall, nice touch.
The baby looks 4 weeks old though, and their heads are not so perfectly round after coming through the birth canal. Teabaggers should know that since they are all experts in wimmins biology, and all.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
10. Damn it, it's Obama
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 10:48 PM
Oct 2012

He can hold his head up, walk on water, and balance the budget all at the same time at the age of 3 months old.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
13. tightie righties are some of the dumbest peeps on the planet
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:09 PM
Oct 2012

we really need to classify these assholes as enemy combatants and send their sorry asses to GitMo

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
15. That's not even old footage
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:43 PM
Oct 2012

It was shot recently and run through a lot of after effects filters to give the effect of being old.

Also, the jerkiness of the camera does not feel spontaneous, it's very pointed.

The rest of the mistakes are to amateurish to even list.

TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
22. I'm pretty sure it was a joke. However, I've been known to think that about many things.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:01 AM
Oct 2012

Only to be surprised.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
23. To much work went into this for it to be a joke, IMO
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 11:10 PM
Oct 2012

I think someone actually thought they would pass this off as real, and somehow profit from the exposure.

It's about as sophisticated as the guy who dressed up like a pimp and edited the footage at acorn...yet people believed that.

 

highprincipleswork

(3,111 posts)
16. Shooting the name
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:55 PM
Oct 2012

I'm sure his father needed to shoot the name of his wife, just to remember who the heck she was and so forth...

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
17. I don't understand the confusion.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 12:16 AM
Oct 2012

She had the baby in Hawaii, just in case he wanted to be President of the U.S.A.

Then she went to Kenya a year later and had him again, just in case he wanted to be President of Kenya.

Why is this so difficult for some of you to grasp?

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