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Posted on 04/26/2012 3:00:35 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
From the Sherlock Holmes story, Silver Blaze:
Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”[
My mention yesterday of Obama’s former literary agent, Jane Dystel, got me thinking about the fishy circumstances under which Dreams From My Father came to see publication, and Ms. Dystel’s strange silence on the subject — even though she apparently was euchred out of a significant payday by her client.
You may recall that, having failed to finish his book on time and having blown through a remarkable six-figure advance and had his contract canceled by Simon and Schuster, Obama was faced with the prospect of paying back the money. So Dystel saved his bacon by negotiating a smaller $40,000 advance — for a first-time proven failure at fulfilling an author’s basic responsibility to his publisher! — with Times Books, which he then spent in part on a trip to Bali, thus prefiguring BHO II’s passion for exotic vacations at other people’s expense. Somehow, he finished the book — which bears little or no stylistic resemblance to anything he’s written before or since — and it finally was published in 1995 to middling response.
Let’s let publisher Peter Osnos pick up the story in this piece from 2006, “Barack Obama and the Book Business”:
When Obama was selected to be the keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention in Boston, Dystel, who had stayed in touch with Obama, had the idea of reclaiming rights to the book and reselling it. But an alert editor at ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Woof
Should I read this?
no
Why not?
If you want to know a little more about where Obama came from and how his biography got written an dpublished, you should read it. It’s short. It has very little to do with dogs. That is a literary reference.
There is no serious attempt in the article to connect the Aesop dog-in-the-manger analogy to the main theme of the piece, the “dog that didn’t bark.” There is a purely gratuitous reference to that parable. If you don’t care about the misleading headline, then go ahead, click and read. But it’s not particularly novel.
I’ll go be quiet now.
That means that the truth is a malleable thing...it is whatever they say it is.
The old idea of truth...that was the White man's creation...eventually leading to the Old Testament and--you got it--the Jew and his God.
Obama knows that to speak the truth about the old "truth" is to pay homage to the White man...and, ultimately...to the Jew.
Post modernism is friendly to guys like Obama. He is a liar, he hates Whitey...and he hates Jews. And in the end...he hates the Truth!
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