Anti-Kerry book publisher plans book attacking Obama

[villager]

Source: Politco

First Obama attack book in the works

Jonathan Martin

The same publisher that distributed the 2004 best-seller that took aim at John Kerry’s Vietnam service is planning a summer release of what’s scheduled to be the first critical book on Barack Obama.

Conservative journalist David Freddoso’s “The Case Against Barack Obama” will offer “a comprehensive, factual look at Obama,” according to Regnery Publishing president and publisher Marjory Ross.

But the book’s subtitle makes clear its perspective: “The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate.”

Ross contends that the mainstream media has offered insufficient scrutiny of Obama and likens the goal of Freddoso’s book to that of “Unfit for Command,” the scathing assessment of Kerry’s war record that rocketed to No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list.

By highlighting negative aspects of Obama’s record and background, Ross says, Freddoso may compel others to offer more critical coverage of the Democratic nominee.

“I think it’s critically important that the country gets a clear and honest view of who is running and what they stand for — warts and all,” Ross says. “With ‘Unfit for Command,’ like ‘The Case against Barack Obama,’ we believe the media has whitewashed the candidate.”

But unlike the Kerry book, which was co-authored by a fellow Swift Boat veteran and focused exclusively on the Massachusetts senator’s actions in Vietnam and immediately after, “The Case Against Barack Obama” aspires to be a full-length political biography.

Freddoso has taken a leave from his job with National Review Online — where he has written posts with titles such as “Obama’s Problem with the Truth” — to write the book, which is scheduled to be published on Aug. 4. A former writer for Human Events, Freddoso learned shoe-leather reporting at the knee of syndicated conservative columnist Robert D. Novak, for whom he worked as a political reporter on the “Evans-Novak Political Report.”

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[sharp_stick]

1. Putting the terms Freddoso and "shoe leather reporting"

in the same sentence pretty much tells you how fucking pathetic journalism in this country has become. Anywhere a dyed in the wool piece of shit like Freddoso gets called a journalist is aborhent.

Fuck Freddoso and fuck anyone that would buy or help him publish a single fucking word.

[madrchsod]

2. exculsive ...the real title and cover art.........

[Mz Pip]

3. "...Media's Favorite Candidate."

Isn't that Mccain?

Here we go. This is going to get nastier and nastier. :puke:

[ryanmuegge]

4. We need a book that details McCain's less than honorable military service, the Keating scandal, his

close ties (to the point of exchanging body fluids) with lobbyists, and his adultery.

[LongTomH]

5. Just hope the paper it's printed on is absorbent and flushable!

Oh, and a little row of perforations along the edge would help, so I can tear off a page at a time to wipe my ass.:grr:

[cobalt1999]

6. There is one quote of his I agree with...

“I think it’s critically important that the country gets a clear and honest view of who is running and what they stand for — warts and all,” Ross says.

However, I doubt his book will be neither Clear or Honest.

[MessiahRp]

7. These books should count as campaign advertising

And McCain should have to account for publishing costs. If the GOP and their pet media want to decry 527s then this shit should count as well.

Rp