# Is this a video of Obama's birth? No. Will people believe it is? Some of them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034 "2012-10-27T10:22:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/1 "2012-10-27T10:22:38Z")
[Vice.com has the video.](http://www.vice.com/read/is-this-obamas-kenyan-birth-video?utm_source=vicetumblrus) Now, you might note some slight inconsistencies, like how this purports to be Super 8 film from 1961, when, in Liberal-land, Super 8 didn’t exist until 1965. Also, the flag in the background is the post-colonial Kenyan flag, which didn’t officially come into use until 1963. Or why the hospital bed would even have a flag sticker on it. Or why the camera would focus on it so clearly instead of the action. Also, you will likely be unable to wrap your minds around the concept of an infant that’s fully as large as a year-old baby being delivered by a woman who is apparently neither anesthetized nor attempting to kill everyone within grabbing range. That has a perfectly reasonable answer: > [@](#): > > **Well, that baby is massive. It looks like it’s at least a year old.** > Babies are born heavy all the time; I see no issue with that. And I assure you, most of the general public has \*no \*idea how big infants are in Kenya. > **What?** > You might think the US is a fat society, but in Kenya they are born big and then they become light. Which is evidenced by the fact that today, Obama is really light and fit. That’s just the way it is. In addition, Kenyan umbilical cords are never attached to infants; they merely _associate_ with infants, so they may distance themselves from any infant who later turns out to be a Secret Muslim Socialist who gay-married a Pakistani and is also a Fascist Medicare Supporter. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/2 "2012-10-27T12:14:24Z")
Haha, that’s so obviously a modern recording (poorly) made to look old. My guess: Someone thought they could make some quick money by making and selling this to Trump or another nutter with too much money and not enough sense. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/3 "2012-10-27T12:26:05Z")
It can’t be - I didn’t see Obama’s birth certificate once in that video! ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/4 "2012-10-27T12:54:34Z")
OMG. I have a miserable day in front of me and that gave me a good belly laugh and put me in a better mood… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/5 "2012-10-27T15:21:19Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Haha, that’s so obviously a modern recording (poorly) made to look old. No doubt, but what details in particular makes you feel that it is? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/6 "2012-10-27T16:45:42Z")
Hilarious. Good for Vice. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/7 "2012-10-27T17:26:25Z")
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc) video of Obama’s birth is much more convincing. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/8 "2012-10-27T20:35:02Z")
Nice of the staff to write Stanley Ann’s name in thick Sharpie on her chart, and also of Obama Senior to film it multiple times while his wife was giving birth. Boy, Barack Junior sure popped out quick for such a big baby, didn’t he? One second Ann was pushing, and the next, SPLAT, there he is lying somewhere down around her knees. So alert too, looking around at everything, like he’s thinking WTF? And I LOVED the zooming in on the Kenyan flag pin on the doctor’s pocket at ~43 seconds. It’s details like that that make this video so convincing. And just for kicks, they had a Kenyan flag sticker on the hospital bed at the end. It’s so true, what hospital DOESN’T stick flag stickers in easily-filmed spots in all their maternity wards? You never know when you might have to prove an ersatz American president was actually born in your country 50 years down the road. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/9 "2012-10-27T20:39:09Z")
Don’t you guys see the Real Truth about this? The Real Obama Birth Video is about to be released, so the Obamacrats quickly ginned up this fake one to confuse people. Now when the Real Video comes out, people will think it’s a fake, too. It’s just like how NASA did all those fake Moon landing videos in case the Real Videos of the Real Landings ever leak out which prove that the Moon is inhabited by Elvis impersonators who killed Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/10 "2012-10-27T21:01:25Z")
HAHAHA! My favorite part was the umbilical cord. Hahahaha! ::wipes tears:: ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/11 "2012-10-27T21:10:38Z")
I personally like the Kenyan flag on the end of the bed, just like the big freaking maple leaf at the foot of the bed in Canuck hospitals, and the Great Seal of the United States in the US. The nurse holds the umbilical cord on with one hand, then removes it without a tool, like she’s doing a magic trick. Also, holy cow that’s a big grown up, open eyed non-squished looking baby. Do people in Kenyan have a 20 month gestation period, like an elephant? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/12 "2012-10-27T21:22:17Z")
…will those who believe it thus be switching their vote from Obama to Romney? Virtually none of them. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/13 "2012-10-27T21:34:17Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > …will those who believe it thus be switching their vote from Obama to Romney? Virtually none of them. I did. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/14 "2012-10-27T22:24:42Z")
I’ll give them credit, they found an actress who actually looks like Stanley Ann Dunham. Not perfect, but close. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/15 "2012-10-28T01:08:45Z")
I would be curious to know why the cameraman felt the need to repeatedly wave his rather caucasian-looking fingers in front of the lens. Is this just the way it was done in 1961? Was it to recreate some old film effect that I somehow never noticed before? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/16 "2012-10-28T01:25:22Z")
I am terribly impressed that the maternity hospitals of Kenya were so progressive in 1961. I mean, here in the US more than 10 years later, my parents had to fight with the hospital staff for them to let my dad in the labor and delivery room with his wife. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/17 "2012-10-28T01:33:09Z")
I like how the baby is delivered so modestly. No vag shot for Ms. Dunham. And that baby is not only ginormous, but his complexion is completely wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/18 "2012-10-28T01:38:05Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’ll give them credit, they found an actress who actually looks like Stanley Ann Dunham. Not perfect, but close. It’s her sister, Sue. (Possibly not her real name.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/19 "2012-10-28T01:39:28Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Nice of the staff to write Stanley Ann’s name in thick Sharpie on her chart Her **maiden** name, no less. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034/20 "2012-10-28T13:14:52Z")
It would have been better had the baby come out waving a Kenyan flag. Or have a window in the background with the Kenyan military performing drills in front of a huge “Welcome to Kenya” sign. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-video-of-obamas-birth-no-will-people-believe-it-is-some-of-them/639034.md?page=2)