Ben Shapiro was blunt on Twitter. He had discovered “the most sycophantic book review ever written.” The book was the second come from multimillionaire author and advice guru Michelle Obama. The review appeared in The New York Times, from the paper’s “Help Desk” columnist Judith Newman. She’s “the help,” all right.
Ed Morrissey tweeted back to Shapiro: “The secret to success in life: Find someone who loves you as unconditionally and fiercely as the mainstream media loves the Obamas.”
Except they’re not “mainstream” at all. These “objective newspapers” are blatantly leftist partisan rags, as they demonstrate daily.
Shapiro quoted this saccharine passage about the Blessed Michelle: “She is on a journey. Through her stories, experiences, and thoughts, we’re finding the light with her. Lucky us.” Obama’s publishers tweeted out this quote, and then Newman retweeted the publisher like they’re all in the business of selling Michelle Obama.
So the people buying (and paying) Obama are lucky, and so are her pals. Newman added, “The fact that she loves ‘lowbrow TV’ and counts the hilarious but racy Ali Wong among her favorite comedians says the world about who Obama is when she gets together with those friends. Lucky them.”
The first line of Newman’s glittery bootlicking review is, “It’s not easy being Michelle Obama. Fabulous, yes. Easy, no.”
Later, she decries the “explosion of divisiveness” under former President Donald Trump, typically ignoring any introspection about the left-wing media endlessly and divisively smearing conservatives.
Newman complained: “You think it was painful for you to see a reckless crew in the White House? Try being the Obamas, knowing as you toss them the keys that so much of what you had worked for was about to be shredded like a cheap dog toy.”
Just see Newman’s tweets for her partisan background. She’s sharing feminist Hillary Clinton tweeting, “It turns out women enjoy having human rights, and we vote,” and retweeting praise for Pennsylvania Sen.-elect John Fetterman’s social media producer Annie Wu, “the genius who has been embarrassing Dr. Oz online this year. She is incredible and deserves our praise.”
When Barack Obama’s memoir, “A Promised Land,” came out right after the 2020 election, their New York Times book review also was destined to become a sales pitch. The publisher happily and repeatedly regurgitated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come … (A Promised Land) is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid.”
Now consider that just three months ago, Times book reviewer Dwight Garner shredded Jared Kushner’s White House memoir, “Breaking History.” It was “earnest and soulless — Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one.” Garner sneered in print: “Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.”
When Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, assembled a motivational book, “Women Who Work,” the Times assigned the review to Jessa Crispin. Crispin wrote: “It reads more like the scrambled Tumblr feed of a demented 12-year-old who just checked out a copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations from the library.”
Crispin tweeted: “The New York Times forced me to read the Ivanka book. Which cleanse is best for toxins in the brain?”
Quoting these reviews does not mean that these books are good. It means that you can’t trust The New York Times to judge for you because their reviews of the Trump books sound more like they’re performing stand-up comedy for a rabidly left-wing readership. You can’t trust their Obama book reviews because they read like a gelatinous trail of happy tears and sputum.
Tim Graham is the director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
Michellle Obama ,was the first post modern First Lady who still views the US via the prism of the far left. This book will make a good door stop
But it’s not the book that is important. Many may buy it but few will read it. What is important is the narrative being created by such reviews in the “news media” and spread through social media. It is all just a propagandistic image creation to prepare the battlefield for her Presidential nomination. After all, this effort has already been largely successful. A few years ago she was rated the world’s most admired woman despite having no particular individual achievements.
Yawn……another book by Obama Inc., Barack and Michael, Aided and abetted by the bootlicking New York Times.
The reason it won’t run, is it knows if it does run, it must run as the man Michael. Everyone knows she’s a he and both their kids are fake. As such, she should, and would have to come out for a run for the Presidency. And guess what, it’s not going to do that. No way would Obama allow his public image to change to a homosexual he couldn’t deny. Imagine a known homosexual being expected to deal with Middle East countries who would kill them on sight for it.
There are so many pictures that show who he really is! It’s the ultimate deception….my God…. and people fell for it.
I do not read reviews about Books or Movies as I have no idea who the person writing the article is, nor do I care, as they are getting well paid to write whatever they write, I may, and only may, read what they write after I have read the Book or seen the Movie merely out of curiosity but even then whether they agree or disagree with my opinion is totally irrelevant to me.
Im old enough to decide for myself what to read and what to watch.
I havent read any of the Books the Obama gang have put out as they are irrelevant to me .
Looks like Michel got some new teeth.
Michael can go to Hell and he can take Barack with him.
Michael can go to Hell and take Barry with him.
DANIEL 11:37. The Antichrist will show no regard “for the desire of women.” most. likely a homosexual. He will be an ego maniac who abhors God and exploits people for his own purpose. He is deceptive and ruthless., a man devoid of integrity. Because he will be demonized, he will be a man who cannot be trusted. PSALM 52: 2… A worker of deceit. His speech will be “smoother than butter”. but his heart is filled with war..
Be prepared for things to wax worse and worse as Jesus said,