"Obama Nation" getting slammed by critics

by julianw | August 14, 2008 at 04:11 pm
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Critics say Obama Nation, Jerome Corsi's new book attacking the candidacy of Barack Obama, is full of factual errors to the point of being "unfit for publication." Media Matters has put together a list of the alleged falsehoods. Read em and weep. Here's one sample lie.
"Obama did not dedicate Dreams From My Father to his mother, or to his father, Barack Senior, or to his Indonesian stepfather. Missing from the dedication are the grandparents who raised him in Hawaii." Actually, on page XVII of the book, Obama wrote: "It is to my family, though—my mother, my grandparents, my siblings, stretched across oceans and continents—that I owe the deepest gratitude and to whom I dedicated this book."
Hendrik Hertzberg attacks Simon & Schuster for publishing the book.

Why is Simon & Schuster, a respectable publishing house (they even published me, long ago), now pumping out raw sewage? And why is S&S employing an “Editor-in-Chief” who describes her latest floater as “a piece of scholarship, and a good one at that”?

A piece of something, yes, but scholarship? Hardly.

Bernard Chapin of RedState counters by arguing that the criticisms of the book are "ideological in spirit."
If you ever want to witness the difference between the political left and the political right please examine the reviews for Jerome Corsi's new book The Obama Nation. It has been subjected to a bizarre campaign of 1 Star reviews over the course of the last two days. All of these reviews appear to be ideological in spirit and produced by radicals who have not read the book--a fact that they do not hide by refusing to mention anything about its particulars.

 

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A second Obama book will take an opposite position.


Fortunately, the morsel of ordure alluded to in my last post isn’t the only new Obama book on the publishing horizon.

“Obama’s Challenge,” by Robert Kuttner, is the fruit of Bob Kuttner’s lifetime of engagé reporting, analysis, and advocacy, but it was written in a white-hot fever of urgent inspiration over mere months. I’ve been carrying around a draft manuscript for most of the week, reading it in every spare moment—on the subway, on the street, during stretches of Olympic longueur. It’s not just more diverting than that fifteenth game of beach volleyball. All on its own, it’s riveting, brilliant, and persuasive.

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