CNN: Making It Up As They Go Along?

CNN: Making It Up As They Go Along?

From July 27, 2009 USA Today:

Last week, CNN's Lou Dobbs demanded Obama's original birth certificate. CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers of Lou Dobbs Tonight that the issue is a "dead" story, Kline told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Sunday.

In an e-mail, the Times reported, Klein wrote that CNN researchers determined that Obama's 1961 birth certificate no longer exists because Hawaiian officials had discarded paper documents in 2001 — a claim denied Monday by Hawaiian health officials.

In 2001, Hawaii's paper documents were reproduced in electronic format, but "any paper data prior to that still exists," Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.

Okubo would not say where Obama's original birth certificate is but said, "We have backups for all of our backups."

Now, the article quotes Okubo as reiterating that she has seen the original long-form birth certificate, and that Obama was born in Hawaii. So why would CNN's President make the claim that the original no longer exists? It inclines me to think that Obama really was born in Hawaii--but that there is something really, really severely embarrassing about what is on that birth certificate--so problematic that it is worth spending a million dollars in legal fees, as well as telling Obama's lackeys (like the President of CNN) to tell outrageous falsehoods.