Deconstructing Obama and Journalism

George Rebane

The 2apr11 post – ‘Simon & Schuster’s Revenge’ - on American Thinker by Douglas Hackleman is a review of the recently published book Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President by Jack Cashill.   The review is a worthy read and will serve for many of us as a compelling preamble to the book itself.

Besides the many items about Barack (Barry) Obama that Cashill excavates and assembles for us, the author’s product is another massive indictment of the state of American journalism, a profession populated and defended primarily by the left.  Hackleman’s conclusion contains this –

“Most unfortunately, the deconstruction of congenial myths is often received with the same enthusiasm as a stool specimen in the baptistery. While Jesus of the gospels said that the truth will set you free, one of his most poetically ardent defenders recognized that "nations grown corrupt" would rather take "bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." This fact is made obvious by the struthious apologetics that day by day through the popular media continue to anchor the myths of Dreams and Audacity.”

Would that in 2008 more of us had known only a fraction of this.  (H/T to RR reader.)

Comments

[Russ Steele]

I wonder if Donald Trump has read this book, or at least the book review?

[John Galt]

I heard Cashill on the radio giving highlights of his book--and I believe Trump must be aware of at least portions of the book. Been hearing a lot of Trump on the radio and like it. I look forward to having Trump tell Obama: You're fired!

Who in the right mind would devote so much effort and money to hide their birth certificate, rather than produce it.

[Russ Steele]

Have you read Trump's rely to the New York Times Op_Ed on this interest in where Obama was born at Todd's blog here. Most interesting.

[Dixon Cruickshank]

He thinks he did, as some quotes are very close - I did see that responce that Todd had up, The Donald is hitting some points nobody else will touch and its working.