pundita: A new book deconstructs America's Manchurian President

apr 23rd, 2010
from the intrepid pundita, news about obummer the manchurian.
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:52:58 EDT
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Greetings and best regards to all. I'm hoping "Manchurian President" will
be the breakthrough book - a muckraking account that is too well researched
for the lamestream media to ignore. Call me an eternal optimist.
Pundita
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posted by Pundita : 4/23/2010 12:33:00 PM

_RBO's Brenda J. Elliott, the American political blogosphere's best
investigative researcher, takes on "The Manchurian President"_
(http://pundita.blogspot.com/2010/04/rbos-brenda-j-elliott-political.html)

In the time it takes most writers to think up a theme for an essay,
historian and investigative political researcher Brenda J. Elliott can gather
enough material for an encyclopedia entry and weave it into a muckraking
report that does double duty as a _mini-history course_
(http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/reading-list/) on a topic.
Since early 2008 her blog
Rezko Watch and its present incarnation _RBO_
(http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/) (the "Real Barack Obama")
have been a go-to place for political
junkies and journalists looking for background material on Barack Obama and
his associates.
Now Brenda has teamed with investigative reporter and best-selling author
_Aaron Klein_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Klein) to write an
exhaustively documented examination of Barack Obama's ties to
leftists. The _450
page work_
(http://www.amazon.com/Manchurian-President-Communists-Socialists-Anti-American/dp/1935071874/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271951569&sr=8-
1) , titled The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists,
Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists and due in bookstores May 3,
is the book the American journalism profession should have produced at least
as early as 2007, when it became evident that Obama was being groomed to
step into the White House. Instead, the profession cranked out one puff
piece after another and didn't examine Obama's network of leftist alliances.
When conservative partisans began to learn about the alliances they rushed
into publication in a desperate attempt to alert the voting public during
the presidential campaign; in the process they too often sacrificed
thorough research and documentation, which made it easy for Obama's
supporters to
discredit their books.
The upshot was that until Glenn Beck came to Fox News Cable in 2009 and
began plowing through histories of American Progressivism and highlighting
research from ex-Communist _David Horowitz's_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center) massive
_Discover the Networks_
(http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/) project, few Americans who
didn't closely follow
the political blogosphere knew about Barack Obama's extensive ties with
Communists and hard-left socialists. That the ignorance extended to most
Democratic voters, that they had seen him simply as a 'Liberal,' helps explain
how a small minority of Americans with Communist leanings gained the White
House.
Yet it was only when Beck released secretly taped footage of Obama's White
House Communications Director at the time, _Anita Dunn_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn) , standing before a pulpit
in the Washington
National Cathedral and passionately proclaiming to American
schoolchildren that
modern history's most ruthless oppressor of religion, China's Communist mass
murderer Mao Zedong, was one of her favorite political philosophers that
the American majority finally started to wake up.
If Dunn had looked the part of the popular imagination of a Maoist, the
awakening might not have been so rude. But her standard-issue conservative
Washington power dress and haircut, her clean-cut looks, had the jarring
effect of invoking the bored tone of Nazi officers describing their
part in the
Holocaust when she casually dismissed her remark as an attempt at irony.
Suddenly, many statements that Barack Obama and his advisors had made over
the course of the presidential campaign and during his first year in
office, statements that supportive media outlets had insisted were not an
indication of Communist sympathies, jelled into a revealing portrait
of America's
44th President.
With just a few words Anita Dunn, one of Obama's closest political
advisors, had managed to convey what all his right-wing political
opponents had
been unable to get across: the foxes had somehow taken over the chicken coop.
It is the "somehow" that makes The Manchurian President as much an
important read for students of American political history as for the general
public because it supplies pages that have been missing from the history.

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