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this in a new book on Barack "The Amateur"..... and oh yah, it's crap.
By EDWARD KLEIN
In his new book, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, journalist Edward Klein reveals how even former friends and political allies of the president have become frustrated with his remoteness and bungling of crises. Klein, former editor of The New York Times Magazine and frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, interviewed numerous members of Obamas inner circle. In this excerpt, he explains how even celebrity backer Oprah Winfrey was shoved aside.
Shortly after the 2008 presidential election, Oprah Winfrey traveled to Washington, DC, to nail down an interview for O, The Oprah Magazine with Michelle Obama. Oprah expected the president-elect and his wife to give her a reception fit for visiting royalty, and for the occasion, she took along Gayle King, the magazines editor-at-large and her constant companion.
More than a year and a half had passed since Oprah announced that she was throwing her support behind Barack Obama in his primary race against Hillary Clinton. The endorsement had represented a calculated risk for the queen of daytime television. It was one thing for her to recommend a book or launch the career of Dr. Phil, but it was quite another for her to back a political candidate.
As it turned out, a sizable chunk of her audience took offense and stopped watching her show. No sooner had Oprah hit the campaign trail, appearing beside Obama at one primary rally after another, than her personal favorability ratings began to slide, falling from 74 to 66 percent. Her unfavorable ratings suffered an even worse fate; they jumped from 17 to 26 percent.
Was the sacrifice worth it? As an entertainer and businesswoman, Oprah had suffered a setback. But she felt proud that she had been instrumental in electing the first black president of the United States, and she believed that she had earned a place in the president-elects brain trust. Two economists at the University of Maryland, College Park, estimated that Oprahs endorsement netted Obama 1,015,559 votes and decided the primary election.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/jealous_michelle_vs_oprah_wDXXjFfq75tZRro1jy1AtK/0
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)and you are guaranteed nothing but a bunch of really poorly written made up shit.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Klein speaks so highly of them both ", I honestly can't tell who he trying to put the dirt on.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)type crap.
razorman
(1,644 posts)finds a way to make a quick buck from the hatred of a pol's critics. Money is still green, regardless of which party it comes from. I believe that some of these writers do not actually even care about their subject, one way or another.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)I'm not saying there aren't problems with the Obama Administration's interface with some of his key supporters and his base but...that's neither here nor there, really. The excerpts/article just read like silly second hand shit that one would assume literally floats around DC like plastic six pack rings in the Pacific Gyre.
A much more interesting story, IMO, would be detailing the backstory behind the Obama Administration's terrible relations with the Democratic Party & Democratic Leadership. Many of the sources there would be senators and house reps- and many of them have gone on the record with their experiences and anecdotes.
Even with, ahem, real sources like that, I've little doubt that whats-his-butt who wrote the book would somehow still manage to reduce it all to a slap-fight narrative.
PB
dennis4868
(9,774 posts)They got so much shit done together the first 2 years ot was historical by just about every objective presidential historian.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)Yeah, he's on the same bus as James O'Keefe, just in a different seat.
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spanone
(135,870 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)No self-respecting writer would want to see their work published in that rag. But I said 'writer' so, no surprise to see this kind of tabloid garbage in the NY Post. Next will be Drudge, FR, Fox and the usual round of propagandists from the Right.
The NY Post is a tabloid publication, even worse in many ways than The Globe. Nothing they publish should ever be believed, even when it appears to be on 'our side'. They have zero journalistic standards, just sensationalism.
dennis4868
(9,774 posts)This is no different than post something on DU from a white supremacist website trashing Obama...no different.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)about Michele, and you would know that jealousy and animosity between the two would be IMPOSSIBLE.
Michele was recently on Oprah's show, before Oprah ended the show of course.
Ridiculous nonsense.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)He has a timeline with a handful of facts and he fills in the gaps with undocumented garbage and speculation pulled directly from his ass.........
I'm sure that it will make interesting reading, though.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)she has two sources for everything in her books. Numerous subjects of her books have threatened to sue her and been unsuccessful. Truth is an absolute defense to slander. Furthermore, if the subject is a public figure, then the plaintiff must prove that the defendant published the slander with "actual malice".
Michael Moore is lawsuit proof too. Everything he says is true. He said the libel lawyers at the New Yorker go over every word he says, every image he films with a fine toothed comb.
Dude, did you get your law degree at Costco???
I got mine at Target.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Posted in GD by Scuba:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002681546
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)of this. No specific names are given as witnesses. The whole thing is a bunch of el toro poo poo.
cali
(114,904 posts)The MSM sucks but let's at least be factual.
cali
(114,904 posts)right wing fuckwad and printed in a Murdoch tabloid, dearie?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Oh yeah...that 'term' is agoinga get used a LOT by me!
zbdent
(35,392 posts)it took the article 13 words to lie. "journalist".
And I'm the tooth fairy ...
rurallib
(62,447 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Title of the article: Even Fox Guests Say Ed Klein Isn't Credible -- So Why Can't The Network Stop Talking About His Book?