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Related: About this forumIs This Obama’s Kenyan Birth Video?
http://www.vice.com/read/is-this-obamas-kenyan-birth-videoYesterday 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 Obamas 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, Obamas 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 hed 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; thats our official comment on the entire situation so dont ask us anything more about it, please. We just thought you should know about it is all, whether or not its 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.
madaboutharry
(40,234 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)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
lumpy
(13,704 posts)n
crazylikafox
(2,762 posts)At least that's the way I remember it
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)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
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Nicely done.
LuvLoogie
(7,054 posts)Shaq as baby Barack!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Oh. Muh. Gawd. I'm shooting beer through my nose at that video.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)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)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.
gateley
(62,683 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)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.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)we really need to classify these assholes as enemy combatants and send their sorry asses to GitMo
Lakerstan
(679 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)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)Only to be surprised.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)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.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)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)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?
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)and if a video surfaces of her having a two-year old in Pakistan, consider my case rested.
treestar
(82,383 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Not!