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White House Attacks, Publisher Counters
Human Events ^ | September 24, 2010 | Human Events

Posted on 09/25/2010 9:20:27 AM PDT by opentalk

"What are they so afraid of?”

Buffeted by a series of attacks by White House spokesmen and left-leaning media, conservative publisher Regnery (sister company to HE.com) has decided to come out swinging. Long slated for an October release, Regnery moved up the release date for bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, to this coming Monday, September 27. The new date will be just in time to respond to the front-page hit piece rumored to be coming in (where else?) the New York Times this weekend.

The White House has been “generous” with its attention – vilifying not only D’Souza, but also Forbes (which ran a preview of the book as the cover story in their September 27 issue) and former speaker Newt Gingrich (who praised the Forbes article), all for having the temerity to suggest that President Obama’s motivation might not be what he claims. After lambasting both the magazine and the Speaker on national TV, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs then called Forbes's Washington bureau chief Brian Wingfield into the White House to read him the riot act.

The reason the White House is so upset about my argument,” says D’Souza, “is because it finally offers an explanation of what President Obama is doing that makes sense of both his foreign and his domestic policy. Unlike those who describe Obama’s worldview as pro-socialist or racially-motivated, much less those who claim Obama is a secret Muslim or born outside the U.S., my thesis is far more straightforward and much more frightening.”

“Anyone who says this thesis is not backed up by research simply hasn’t bothered to read my book,” continues D’Souza. “My thesis is completely substantiated, often drawing from Obama’s own words and writings, and those of his virulently anti-colonialist father.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; anticolonialist; dineshdsouza; dsouza; enemywithin; forbes; foreignpolicy; kenya; obama; obamasrage; oilpolicy; regnery; spreadthewealth; taxdollars
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To: dsrtsage
In my lifetime I have never seen an administration attack individual americans, and individual companies to this magnitude. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Depends on how old you are... IMO, the FDR administration was the last time this level of attack was seen.

21 posted on 09/25/2010 11:04:01 AM PDT by zzeeman (Existence exists.)
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To: opentalk

BUMP


22 posted on 09/25/2010 11:08:06 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: dsrtsage

It’s Congress. Congress could put a stop to this nonsense in a second. They allow what is happening like they want it this way. Obuma is just misdirection used as a whipping boy.


23 posted on 09/25/2010 12:25:41 PM PDT by Razzz42
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To: opentalk

How did Mr. D’Souza ever get such a deal for all that publicity?


24 posted on 09/25/2010 12:47:29 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: dsrtsage

Administrations, especially Democrat but also some Republican, have often made personal attacks, just not so publicly. Normally they sic IRS on to offending individuals and companies and put them into Perpetual Audit mode and sue them for all sorts of invented reasons.


25 posted on 09/25/2010 12:51:06 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: opentalk

Robert Gibbs then called Forbes’s Washington bureau chief Brian Wingfield into the White House to read him the riot act.

What is protocol? When one is called into the White House, can one simply ignore that call?


26 posted on 09/25/2010 3:46:56 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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