23 Jun
Posted by Cory Perry as Barack Obama, Election 2008, GOP, Media, Print Media
From the same publisher that brought you the fantastic “Unfit for Command” book in 2004, which chronicled the Vietnam service of John Kerry and helped cost him a presidential election, we will be getting another wonderful treat from them soon, joyfully titled “The Case Against Barack Obama”.
“The Case Against Barack Obama” will offer “a comprehensive, factual look at Obama,” according to Regnery Publishing president and publisher Marjory Ross.
While the “factual” part of that statement I can almost guarantee you will be in question, one thing that won’t be in question is the clear intent of the book. Just as in 2004 with the Swift Boaters, this book is aimed at showing just who Barack Obama really is, ya know, since the American people are clearly too stupid to do any research on their own?!?
But wait, this story gets even better. You didn’t even get to read what the subtitle of the book is yet:
“The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate.”
For those of you not familiar with right-wing talking points and rhetoric, that subtitle basically means “Since you guys won’t examine this man, we will just make it all up and tell you what you should think about him right before the election, that way you will see how superior John McCain is, and will therefore throw a vote his way. Republican dominance once again achieved.”
What I really find odd is that for months we have been hearing about how “we really don’t know Barack Obama” or “Who is Barack Obama really?”, yet they found enough to write a “comprehensive, factual book” about him? No, of course I don’t see the irony there.
Now, I can only take this to mean that the right-wing agenda in this country take the American people as being far too illiterate, and far too docile, to ever figure out a web browser and Google, in order to do some basic research on a particular candidate. With that being said, Conservative journalist David Freddoso has been kind enough to write what I am sure will be an engaging piece of literary truth.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly can’t wait to hear all about Rev. Wright, William Ayers, and other “radical Chicago figures” all over again.
I have said before and I will say it again, when you can’t debate a candidate on the real substantive issues, you simply paint them as something that is so harsh, unpatriotic, and vile that no one would ever want to vote for them…..
The Republicans have doing it for years.
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