The first response to publicist Maria Sliwa's e-mail queries to news organizations about whether they would like to receive a review copy of ``The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists'' came back from a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor. The answer was ``no.'' But it wasn't just ``no.'' The reporter called the book by journalist-author-WABC radio host Aaron Klein and researcher Brenda J. Elliott - at the time embargoed and thus unread - a name for toilet paper I'd rather not print. Reflexively, Sliwa hit the delete button (thus losing the reporter's name...
