In Maraniss Bio Deepens Obama Birth Mystery as noted at 936 Cashill demonstrates Maraniss glibly proves nothing vis-a-vis Zero's miraculous birth, the SAD/BHO marriage myth, failing even to find anyone who saw the "couple" together.The "witness" to the birth parrots an alleged hearsay anecdote--and Maraniss styles himself "historian" while doubters are "preposterous."
There's nothing and nobody who can put SAD/BHO in the legend with anything beyond compressed gas.
Maraniss flops like a fish on the deck.
He needs Ayers' CPR, a nice balloon-head photo having failed.
Oh, the humanity.
Note that Maraniss does not deny that his biography “proves that Barack Obama’s defining memoir is phony and that his entire life is a fraud.” He only disputes the insinuation that he did this “unwittingly”!
He then says (painting with a very broad brush) “doubters and haters” of Obama are much worse than Obama because they are themselves are “frauds and fabricators” and “birthers” to boot and then goes on to try to debunk “birther” claims. Curiously Maraniss, a WaPo editor, fails to provide a rebuttal to or even take note of Sheriff Arpio’s extensive forensic evidence that Obama’s pdf birth certificate “released” on April 27, 2011 was forged, which would be the ultimate fabrication, if true, IMO.
Maraniss’s straw man is what he calls Obama’s “most virulent detractors.” Yes, some of Obama’s detractors are suffering from ODS, (Obama derangement syndrome) but there are many honest, sincere researchers who are vetting Obama using the most scrupulous forensic analysis available. Maraniss gives them and their research no mention and no credit, but his own biography of Obama extensively supports their findings. This is why Maraniss had to write this piece, IMO, to get back into the good graces of his friends in the left-leaning media after writing a biography that was so damaging to Obama’s credibility at all levels.
Ultimately, in this issue (as in all areas of life, actually) it boils down to two choices.
1. The desire to know the truth, NO MATTER WHERE IT LEADS.
2. The desire to see ONLY that which supports currently held beliefs.
It’s really quite, quite simple.