News sites swap Obama’s birthplace like magic
UPI, Snopes change location within hours of WND report
If you happened to read online news sites such as United Press International or the popular hoax-busting Snopes.com anytime up until Tuesday night, you would have seen definitive statements that President Obama was born at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
But checking back now, both sites are suddenly providing an entirely different location, the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children, also in the capital of the Aloha State.
Within hours of a WND report revealing Obama’s birth being reported at two different Hawaiian hospitals, both sites changed their information to suddenly fall in line with the president’s claim that he was born at Kapi’olani.
Here is the screen shot from Snopes on July 7, before WND’s report was posted:
 In this July 7, 2009, screenshot of Snopes.com highlighted by WND, the myth-busting website asserts President Obama was born at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, not the Kapi’olani Medical Center in which Obama claims to have been born. |
Within just 90 minutes of the WND report, Snopes swapped the location of the president’s birth from Queen’s to Kapi’olani, as evinced by this screen shot from the exact same Web address:
| Screenshot of same Snopes.com address on July 8. 2009, reveals Snopes swapped the location of President Obama’s birth from Queen’s Medical Center to the Kapi’olani Medical Center. |
In response to a query from WND, Snopes sent WND a statement reading, “A number of readers have written to us to point out that Wikipedia previously updated their Obama-related entries to resolve the same discrepancy, so we included a similar clarification in our latest round of updates.”
The same phenomenon happened with UPI, as these before and after screenshots from the same online address demonstrate…
Continued at WND
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