Author David Maraniss Distraught Conservatives Using Book to Debunk Obama

Newsbusters ^ | 6/21/12 | Randy Hall |

[Nachum]

Liberal historian and Barack Obama biographer David Maraniss is almost beside himself that people everywhere are talking about his new book Barack Obama: The Story.

While most authors would be overjoyed at the amount of free publicity that Maraniss is receiving, the veteran author is almost distraught that conservatives are talking about the book in a way he didn't intend--to debunk many of the lies and half-truths that President Obama told about his young adulthood in his autobiography, Dreams From My Father.

As conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh noted during his radio program on Wednesday, Maraniss is “in crisis” because “the right wing” is using his book to point out “all the things in Obama's autobiography which are not true.”

Limbaugh stated that Maraniss is “vetting Obama and doesn't realize it” by “documenting lies and falsehoods, and as far he's concerned, all he's doing is getting the record straight” by “poking holes” in information from the president's book, "Dreams From My Father."

[Tallguy]

Fat-Dave must be getting a lot of grief from his Lefty fans on the political cocktail circuit. Not much of a historian if he can’t take a little heat defending his work.

[Bender2]

Here at the South Podunk Institute of Technology, Wick and I are shocked... to hear that President Obama has not told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and the evil GOP is using it against him!

[wideawake]

He doesn’t really care. He has to act as if the enormous popularity of his research upsets him so he can maintain his access to polite liberal society, but he is not actually bothered.

[uncbob]

Referring to "Dreams From My Father," Maraniss indicated that “a memoir is far different from rigorous factual biography. It's not as though I'm trying to say, "Ah-ha, I got you," on each point. It's just I'm trying to present the way I really found it, which is in many cases different from what he presented. But the author noted that he almost didn't write the book because he feared that the “right wing” would dismiss the book while “cherry-picking every single negative thing in it to use against Obama.

What a convoluted way of reasoning

Sounds like Clinton at his best

[Fresh Wind]

When someone lies about inconsequential things, you can be damn sure they also lie about things that really matter.

[Maceman]

A woman writer claims to have met Ayers in a Chicago Airport Starbucks, where he told her that he was the real author of Dreams.

Bill Ayers says he wrote "Dreams of My Father."

The relevant part starts at 0:30.