Posted on 07/30/2012 12:08:05 AM PDT by Kukai
David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barack Obama: The Story, is getting testy. And it is not hard to understand why. The Washington Post diva spent the last four years on his career book, released it in the heart of a heated re-election season, got the kind of exposure a Kardashian would envy, and now finds the book heading for the remainder racks weeks after its release. Oy vey!
As of this writing, the book ranks 1,696 on Amazon's bestseller list. By contrast, Edward Klein's unfriendly Obama tome, The Amateur, has outsold just every book this summer not centered on female bondage, spent weeks on top of New York Times top-ten list, and now ranks 55 on Amazon despite being out a month longer than The Story.
Rather than assess why his book tanked -- it is too honest for the left and too dishonest for the right -- Maraniss has turned his wrath on the people he seems to hold responsible for the book's failure -- namely, "obsessed conspiratorialists" like me. His pique has found its outlet in a mean-spirited Washington Post op-ed, a minor classic of journalistic myopia. Allow me to address its concerns.
The notion that the president was not born in the United States remains at the epicenter of the anti-Obama mythology.
The fact that Obama sold America a fictional story of his first few years makes his birth a valid subject of interest. That much said, no one at Joseph Farah's WND, the online publication that has driven the "birther" controversy, has ever claimed that Obama was born in Kenya or any other foreign country. Farah and others, myself included, have simply wanted to see the birth certificate and clear up the mystery that shrouds Obama's birth. The most prominent birther, of course, remains Barack...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What is amazing is that some, even on this site, are willing to give him a pass for four more years!
Whoa - is that a great line or what??
Is that a great line or what?? Ping.
How such an indifferent student got into a law school whose applicants' LSAT scores typically track between the 98th and 99th percentile and whose GPAs range between 3.80 and 4.00 is a subject Maraniss chooses not to explore. Instead of checking his college records, or even asking why they have been sealed, he takes Obama's word on his grade point average. That, my friend, is not journalism.
Washington Post? Why am I NOT surprise...
That, my friend, is not journalism.
That, my friend, is not journalism.
That, my friend, is not journalism.
It is very difficult to keep even one or two lies straight, over time. What to speak of a huge mythical “life story” based on countless lies.
They cannot keep anything straight.
“Unravelling” is a word that comes to mind.
I get around...someone posted a link on the current Long Thread of great info!
(In case you haven’t seen it, gets going in the 300’s IIRC)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2908395/posts?page=1168#1113
I went to Amazon and voted for “Helpful review”. Everyone with an Amazon account should do that!
ping, from this morning
One of the only practical PC back in 83 was an IBM 5150 at a cost of up to $3,000.00 and did not come with word processing software!
Unfortunately in dealing with Mwai Kibaki, now president of Kenya, the author has made this one reference. Page 390.
This was the same Mwai Kibaki who later became president of Kenya and whose tenure was marked by deadly tribal strife when Luo believed he fixed the election and kept them from power.
I went to Dr Jerome Corsi and his book "The Obama Nation". Pages 102-107. There follows the almost incredible Odyssey of the then Senator Obama in 2006 to Kenya. The senator took part most actively in the election which pitted Raila Odinga (Luo) against Mwai Kibaki (Kikuyu). There was both resentment from one side and a euphoria from the other side. Luo claims Barack Obama Jr as theirs.
Kibaki was elected. We learn that a 1000 people were slaughtered and many thousands "displaced," by the cruelty of the Odinga supporters. Kibaki was forced to create a position of Prime Minister for Odinga. The same Odinga who now courts Islam.
Senator Obama had exhorted peaceful negotiations by telephone from Chicago to Kenya.
One has only to read Dr Corsi on this subject. That someone should be allowed to interfere with another countries election and get away scot free, boggles the mind. I stand corrected but so far, I cannot find a reference by Maraniss about this event. Maybe in his next book, which he stated is forthcoming about the now president.
Good catch, put it on Amazon...
And that should be easily found! A wedding license, a wedding invite from the good old days, etc.
Except, they probably faked that too!
Good idea, done...
Did you read this article? Maraniss clearly reveals his extreme bias. He’s useless, he’s an 0bama suckup is all.
I’m trying to find the FR thread on it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2908395/posts?page=895#889
Also it was discussed on this very long and extremely informative thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2908395/posts?page=895#889
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