Barack Obama was born in the United States. It was Obama's own publisher that started the false rumor that he was "born in Kenya." NPR later repeated the false rumor.

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH #BarackObama was born in the United States. It was #Obama's own publisher that started the false rumor that he was "born in Kenya." NPR later repeated the false rumor. https://web.archive.org/web/20120518040015/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566#.WDjC8FxHR_k http://snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20091020224623/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95550177