Shock Doc: Fox News Investigation Shows Obama Registered As Foreign Student At Occidental?!

Researcher Ellen Fields called in to WOBC and discussed some pretty interesting information about a documentary back in 2008 on Fox News Channel that purportedly aired records that show Obama may have been a foreign student.

A supplemental brief that was filed in a lawsuit by attorney Dr. Orly Taitz last year raised this very issue:

Attached affidavit verifies authenticity of a transcript of a TV show by Bill Hemmer, reporter for FOX news corporation, which was posted on You-Tube. During the show Bill Hemmer interviewed Jim Tranquada, Director of Communications of Occidental college, who not only showed the reporter the dorm where Barack Obama resided, but he also showed him Barack Obama’s college application. The reporter posted on the screen a picture of Barack Obama, which was attached to his Occidental College application. 

00:00 Narrator: Obama left behind Hawaii, for college, in Southern California. 

(Photo of envelope stamped “CARDED ON CONDITION THAT THE HOLDER REMAINS IN—–NO LONGER THAN__________ STAY) 

00:05 Narrator: Here is the photo of the eighteen year old, attached to his Occidental college application.             [...] Dr. Taitz.

As of this writing the only online clip I’ve found on the Fox News documentary is highly edited, all others removed;

A DVD copy of Fox News Channel’s documentary in question is on its way and l’ll let you know what I find.

Lefty News Hounds reported in 2008: FOX News Examines Barack Obama’s “Character and Conduct”

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Although time was spent exploring Obama’s community work in Chicago there was very little emphasis on his teaching career at the University of Chicago. Although viewers were informed that after interviewing 400 Columbia University graduates none of them knew Barack Obama when he attended, they didn’t bother to interview even one of his students about their experiences in Obama’s class. Wouldn’t that have provided insight into the candidates character?

The friendship with Sohale Siddiqi who he meant when he left home for the first time at 18 to attend Occidental College was made into a big deal during the documentary. They made a point to note that Obama visited Pakistan at age 20 to visit Siddiqi’s family. Then gravely explored Obama rooming with him in New York when he first got there alone, broke and homeless to go to Columbia. Obama had written about being forced to sleep on the streets for a few nights and waking up in an alley with a chicken pecking at him. FOX News managed to use it to connect Obama to the drug world with a claim from a New York City detective that the alley was located in a rough neighborhood run by Dominican drug lords.It’s doubtful that they were trying to stress that Obama’s poverty had put him in danger. The article about Obama and Saddiqi on the website is far more positive and objective than last night’s coverage.

The smears about being Muslim as a child were debunked and the confusion about his early childhood made a little clearer. However, his time in Indonesia was given a strange spin making his early childhood seem somehow threatening to an unspoken notion of American normalcy. After reporting that his mother sent him away, alone, to live with his grandparents there was no recognition of the obvious emotional pain he experienced. Instead there was an emphasis on the posh private school he attended and the idea that he felt uncomfortable in an all white school.

Although Bill Hemmer offered ample reasons, other than Jeremiah Wright, to explain Obama’s connection to his church in Chicago, the FOX addendum provided four sermons from Wright to make up for it. Tonight’s look at John McCain should provide an interesting comparison.


comment: If FOX viewers are able to resist reacting to FOX’s efforts to paint Barack Obama as shadowy, foreign, and somehow risky, Obama’s amazing strength, courage and determination was evident. For the FOX viewers who already made up their minds about Obama, last night’s “examination” easily confirmed their opinions. [...] News Hounds.

Fox News‘  plug from 2008: Presidential Character & Conduct 2008: Barack Obama

Two candidates and one of them will be the next president of the United States. FOX News examines the character and conduct of Sen. Barack Obama in a new documentary hosted by Bill Hemmer at 8 p.m. ET on Aug. 18.

To learn more about Obama, click on the following links for rarely seen documents and videos:

1. Listen to Barack Obama’s famous 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

2. Read the Associated Press story on Barack Obama’s friends from Occidental College.

3. Read the indictment of former Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko.

4. Read the Chicago Sun Times investigative report about Obama’s ties to Tony Rezko.

5. View a map of Rezko properties in Barack Obama former Illinois state senate district.

6. Listen to Barack Obama give detailed responses to the Rezko affair to Chicago Sun Times.

7. Watch a sermon by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4.

Recommended Reading [...] Continued @ Fox News.