# Where is this Obama video from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932 "2010-07-08T04:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/1 "2010-07-08T04:10:50Z")
I have a Facebook friend whom I like very much, but who has been bitten by a Birther bug and keeps posting the link to this video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player\_embedded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded) It starts out with Obama “admitting” that he is not an American citizen, but was born in Kenya. It is, of course, as fake as an eleventy dollar bill. I have mentioned this, but my friend is adamant that “He said it himself!” Does anybody know what the venue is, and what he was actually saying, and if the original video is online anywhere, so I can present some concrete evidence of the tampering? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/2 "2010-07-08T04:22:32Z")
Well, the video was posted by [obamasnippets.com](http://obamasnippets.com): > [@](#): > > This is not “political.” > This is just for fun. > This is not an “Anti-Obama” site. > This is not a “Pro-Obama” site. > This is an “Obama Humor” site. > No need to discuss politics here. > There are plenty of other sites for that. > Thanks for your interest in ObamaSnippetsDotCom Creative editing to serve a political agenda. No matter [how many verifiable facts you present](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories), your friend will not believe them. Just pat them on the head and say, “there, there.” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/3 "2010-07-08T04:46:29Z")
Don’t forget that “you cannot reason someone out of a belief that was not arrived at by reason”. People believe what they want to believe. Your “friend” will resist any “truths” you offer. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/4 "2010-07-08T04:50:33Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > No matter [how many verifiable facts you present](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories), your friend will not believe them. Just pat them on the head and say, “there, there.” Seconded. If he can’t tell that sloppily, chopped up editing is fake I say don’t waste your time. That video is laughable. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/5 "2010-07-08T05:12:02Z")
I kinda like that there are people who can believe that Obama’s family engaged in a long lasting, intricate conspiracy to make it appear that he was born in the US so that he could fifty odd years later manage to finagle his way in the Presidency and then accidentally mention several times in a speech that he wasn’t actually born in the US. But in anycase, the OP didn’t ask what he should do about his friend, he asked for the source of the video, which appears to be [here](http://www.whitehouse.gov/video/The-President-Talks-with-Students-in-Turkey) I suspect your friend will theorize that the WH has edited the audio to cover up the offending quotes. But it might be kinda fun to show him anyways so that you can bask in the cognitive dissonance. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/6 "2010-07-08T05:21:11Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I kinda like that there are people who can believe that Obama’s family engaged in a long lasting, intricate conspiracy to make it appear that he was born in the US so that he could fifty odd years later manage to finagle his way in the Presidency and then accidentally mention several times in a speech that he wasn’t actually born in the US. And the press would then _completely ignore the admission_ even after devoting extensive time to the conspiracy theories regarding Obama’s birth. (He’s actually about to turn 49, by the way.) We’re dealing in trivialities at this point but the caption on the YouTube video even says “The video starts out with some content from [obamasnippets.com](http://obamasnippets.com), which, of course is contrived.” So the person who posted the video obviously believes Obama is not a natural born citizen, but still admits the video is not real. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/7 "2010-07-08T05:24:34Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > (He’s actually about to turn 49, by the way.) That’s what they want you to think, but I don’t think we can believe that without seeing his birth certificate 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/8 "2010-07-08T06:44:19Z")
Thanks for the link, **Simplicio**. I daresay, as others have pointed out, it will make little difference. But I want to at least try. If it doesn’t do any good in the convincing department, it will at least be interesting watching her head asploszh. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/9 "2010-07-08T15:22:33Z")
> [@SparrowHawk](#): > > Thanks for the link, **Simplicio**. I daresay, as others have pointed out, it will make little difference. But I want to at least try. If it doesn’t do any good in the convincing department, it will at least be interesting watching her head asploszh. Let us know what she says. I have kind of a weird fascination with the mental contortions people can make themselves go through to avoid changing their opinions. ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-obama-video-from/545932/10 "2010-07-09T00:06:18Z")
My reply to her with the link to the White House video has been deleted from her Wall. From her I get: "I won’t talk anymore…Sorry, but there is info on both sides about fraud and speculation and my posts have been removed by FB that do bare [sic] witness. So…I have no more to say. I refuse to discuss an individual who is falsely in office and “Any man ( or woman) convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” Good luck. Keep smiling. :-)" Somehow I don’t feel much like smiling.☹