Posted on 09/17/2010 3:22:03 PM PDT by La Lydia
Back in July, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen wrote:
What has come to be called the Obama Paradox is not a paradox at all. Voters lack faith in him making the right economic decisions because, as far as they’re concerned, he hasn’t. He went for health-care reform, not jobs. He supported the public option, then he didn’t. He’s been cold to Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu and then all over him like a cheap suit. Americans know Obama is smart. But we still don’t know him. Before Americans can give him credit for what he’s done, they have to know who he is. We’re waiting.
Having taken the Post’s advice and attempted to provide readers with an answer to that, Dinesh D’Souza and Forbes magazine find themselves in hot water, with the same President the Post relentlessly supported, despite, as Cohen wrote, knowing little about. As spotted by Big Journalism’s Frank Ross, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post describes Robert Gibbs swinging into action to protect his boss from D’Souza’s hard-hitting article in the new edition of Forbes:
Dinesh D’Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting “the cause of anti-colonialism” from his Kenyan father.
But while most detractors focus on the author–and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique–the White House is aiming its ammunition at the business magazine.
“It’s a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist’s office, so lacking in truth and fact,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. “I think it represents a new low.” [Did this new low occur unexpectedly...? -- Ed]
Gibbs is meeting with Thursday afternoon with Forbes’s Washington bureau chief, Brian Wingfield, to discuss his objections.
Nice magazine you’ve got there Mr. Forbes. Be a shame if something were to happen to it…
the Vercotti brothers, Dino and Luigi.
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