Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 7:20 pm by Darryl
The Human Costs of the Birfer Movement
The Birfer movement may be good entertainment and all, but now it has a cost, a human toll:
MARK COLVIN: An unsuspecting Adelaide public servant has found himself swept up in a conspiracy to oust the 44th President of the United States from office.
[...]In a bid to stake their claim they released what appeared to be a Kenyan birth certificate with Obama’s name on it.
Sceptics soon traced the bogus birth certificate and found it to be a forgery. The document turns out to have been based on the birth certificate of an Adelaide man called David Jeffrey Bomford.
Dina Rosendorff broke the news to him.
DINA ROSENDORFF: David Jeffrey Bomford’s language was a touch too colourful for radio when PM first contacted him with news his birth certificate had been used in a bid to oust Barack Obama.
Now that he’s come to terms with his unwitting involvement in an international conspiracy, he’s slightly more amused.
Oh, the humanity!
