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[Make sure to order Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing on the moon. Allegedly objective journalists lined up in every studio and on every front page to do him homage.
It wasn’t journalism. It was more like idolatry. It was like Bryant Gumbel harshly replying in 1989 to new information about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s adultery. He said, “When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend.”
This line came to mind in reading a recent Tablet magazine interview with liberal historian David Garrow, a King specialist. Garrow’s massive 2017 tome on Obama, “Rising Star,” was blasted by New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani. She argued his epilogue was like a “Republican attack ad.” This is comical, since Garrow’s epilogue recounted quotes from, among others, liberals at the Times and The Washington Post.
David Samuels — who penned an unforgettable piece for The New York Times Magazine revealing that Obama aide Ben Rhodes boasted of creating an “echo chamber” for Obama’s foreign policy in the press — focused Garrow on a woman named Sheila Miyoshi Jager, who Obama asked to marry him twice.
Samuels is amazed at how no one before Garrow really put Jager into focus. That includes David Maraniss, whose 2012 Obama book preceded Garrow in ruling that Obama’s memoir “Dreams From My Father” was largely fictional, especially Obama turning his girlfriends into a composite white character. He didn’t put Jager in the index. (Jager is half-Dutch, half-Japanese.)
This is the obvious Samuels pull quote: “The idea that the celebrated journalists who wrote popular biographies of Obama and became enthusiastic members of his personal claque couldn’t locate Jager — or never knew who she was — defies belief. It seems more likely that the character Obama fashioned in ‘Dreams’ had been defined — by Obama — as being beyond the reach of normal reportorial scrutiny.”
Samuels suggests Garrow’s book was scorned because it highlighted “a remarkable lack of curiosity” about a man who was “treated less like a politician and more like the idol of an inter-elite cult.” It underlined that as Obama decided he wanted to be president one day, he realized having a white wife would be an obstacle.
Obama’s memoir told a story about taking his composite girlfriend to a “very angry play” by a black playwright and she came out “talking about why black people were angry all the time. I said it was a matter of remembering — nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said.”
Maraniss reported this couldn’t have been Obama’s girlfriend Genevieve Cook, and Obama admitted “that was not her … that was an example of compression.” Maraniss didn’t pinpoint Jager, whose grandparents helped hide Jews from the Nazis in the Netherlands.
Jager said in the spring of 1988, she and Obama attended the play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” but she recalls a major fight after they toured an Adolf Eichmann exhibit, and she says what upset her was that Obama wouldn’t condemn vicious antisemitic remarks made by Steve Cokely, then an aide to Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer. Solidarity with the established black pols of Chicago came first.
This might seem like fragments of ancient history, but every negative fragment about Obama has the potential to upset the cemented mythology. The Obama of myth never compromises his ideals (or invents personal history) to get ahead. That’s why book critics accuse authors of writing “Republican attack ads” when they throw a negative shadow. “When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend.”
Bland, Spencer and Young.
I do not recall Fundamental Change being described as an improvement.
I miss Rush Limbaugh. Obama would give speech, and Limbaugh would count the number of times Obama said the word I. Obama was Immaculated not inaugurated, another Limbaughism.
Obama spent 20 years in a church whose preacher was anti American and anti Israel He was and is anti Israel to the core
Well, he’s a Leftist and the Left hates Israel so he hates Israel. Simple as that.
I am not anti Israel but the ethnic occupants are the reason for the Communist party and most mayhem in the world. They would fight each other to death over a penny..
Blood libel dribble.
Obama’s so-called “Pastor” Wright, who is reported to have visited Khadafi with his good friend Louis Farrakhan, is a typical disgraceful character in his lurid past. Even these short editorial sanitize, this man…
AND anti-American!
I am glad that several books like Glazov’s “True Legacy”, numerous articles and talk show hosts, most notably Dan Bongino, are finally telling the truth about this wretched Communist creep.
One of Bongino’s main premises is that Biden knows where all of the bodies are buried from the Obama admin and will pretty much spill the beans if he doesn’t win, or is forced out of running for a second term. Let’s hope Biden still has several marbles left in that empty head of his before he is forced from office because of his health.
Basically white lib America was sold a bill of goods about the Kenyan and they voted for him because of their idiotic white guilt
All,
If only the world would “vote” for God; their hatred for him is the real cause of all our calamities.
As a half-white communist sodomite, the Kenyan is at the top of the woke totem. No, Ron DeSantis, that’s not Russian disinformation doing the bidding of Nikita Khrushchev.
The New Yorker magazine had a hand in creating and cementing the Obama legend with decades’ worth of mythologizing profiles on him.
What was said of Clinton by Bob Kerrey is applicable to Obama, in spades,. “There is no there, there.”
Still stands: in his own mind.
THERE ARE NO TRUTHS FOR SOCIOPATHS
The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005
Farrakhan is a minister who leads the Nation of Islam and has made anti-Semitic remarks. During Obama’s presidential campaign, conservatives pushed multiple apparently racially motivated conspiracy theories about Obama’s religion and supposed ties to Islam.
During the 2008 presidential election, conservatives questioned the indirect ties between Farrakhan and Obama, who attended a church that gave Farrakhan an award. At a 2008 presidential debate in Cleveland, Obama said he had “been very clear” in his “denunciation” of Farrakhan’s remarks.
“I did not solicit his support,” Obama said, referring to Farrakhan’s praise for his candidacy. “I can’t say to somebody that he can’t say that he thinks I’m a good guy.”
Odumba’s only qualification was that of being a felon extortionist
Obama has NEVER been an independent thinker.
to assess race baiting grifter obama all you need to do is read daniel pipes articles on obama going back to 2012 . then listen to larry elder who called him out . then listen to v d hanson s summation of obamas tenure . then read the ” campus rape frenzy ” by k c johnson and stuart taylor jr. to find out one of his most egregious policies to infect colleges and universities . you would have to have your head seen to to send any son to the less than esteemed places of learning . suicide would be preferable . obama has taken americans for mugs , and they still believe the obamas are nearing sainthood ??
Lower caps for all. No G-d but G-d.
As much as Samuels made up for his piece on the execrable Rhodes for the NYT mag,
and as surprising and impressive as his gradual realization of the breadth and depth of liberal blundering and blame shifting may indeed be, the poe devil doesn’t yet see that beacon of light towering at the end of Obama’s tunnel, visible only to the crackpot few if any — namely that revisiting the birth of birtherism just to cite Kellyanne Conway’s quote from Trump concluding that Obama’s long form birth certificate was kosher seems dishearteningly anticlimactic, To be sure, Samuels smells a rat, as he comments that the entire birther flap was a ruse, or at least distraction from what he senses to be an obviously more central, vital point. And for that matter, Garrow, too, as noble as he is, has so far hesitated to actually finger the elephant in the room: Frank Marshall Davis. Samuels I suspect would have a field day reviewing Davis’s sexual memoir, the Gash Gourmet, written under the pseudonym Bob Greene. Davis apparently has an FBI file 500 pages long, unless they dumped it. Either way, someone has to step up, be he a chastened Harvard lampoon alum finally come down to earth after meeting Obama at a fundraiser and speaking with him about rap music [!], or god forbid, some crusty old toad living under a rock somewhere, off the grid, under the radar. All you have to do is look at the one photo of Davis in his prime on Wikipedia. And any photo of Barack Obama Senior you want. Which one do you think is the father of the once and future president of this great republic, Barry O.? True, I don’t know the first thing about genetics. Nevertheless, as humble pie put it better than I ever could, “I don’t need no doctor.”
The media was so enamored of Barack Obama’s “uniqueness,” they chose to ignore his radical ties. His friendship with Bill Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Frank Marshall Davis are well-documented. No one, NO ONE, questioned his promise to “fundamentally transform” this country and what he meant by it. I’m still seething over this.
When he said that he would “fundamentally transform” the United States, my blood ran cold. I knew exactly what he meant; did the idiots who voted for him understand?
The M.S. Media worshiped Obama they kissed his rings and oi laid the Red Carpet for him and they bowed to him then tried to get us to do the same
The frightening thing is that his wife could probably be a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination, and could no doubt be elected. She — or is it “she?” of the shallow mind and roiling hatred for all things American would suit the Democrats’ purposes of looting what is left of this country and leaving it in utter chaos.