Wow. Maraniss is more idiotic than I thought.
Bol! You don’t mince words.
Maraniss knew, when he failed to locate a single actual witness to SA’s presence in HI for ~a 10 mo period, that he would be in trouble with his target audience—liberals. He did a lot of idiotic shucking and jiving and bobbing and weaving in an effort to minimize the damage.
It wasn’t enough. His book suffered anemic sales anyway. Conservatives were not satisfied with the tidbits of truth he included, and Leftists were angry over the same smattering of facts. Maraniss exposed one too many of Obama’s Dreams’ lies, and Leftists took it out on Maraniss’ bottom line.