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Anti-Obama Books Are Best-Sellers

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Going negative against Democrat Barack Obama isn't just a campaign strategy for Republican John McCain. It's also a good formula for selling books.

Three anti-Obama releases were in the top 20 of Amazon.com's best-seller list on Tuesday, despite little critical attention or mainstream media coverage.

"There's a pent-up demand from people on the right side of the aisle who feel that the mainstream media is effusively covering Barack Obama and not critically covering him," says Marji Ross, president and publisher of the conservative Regnery Publishing, Inc., which just released David Fredosso's "The Case Against Barack Obama."

Until recently, the most widely read narrative of Obama's life was written by Obama, in the million-selling "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope." The new releases, like McCain's campaign ads, attempt a counter-narrative.

The subtitles are the giveaway: Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," Fredosso's "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" and Dick Morris' "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It."

The authors allege that Obama is not a benign spokesman for hope and unity, but an ideologue with close ties to 1960s radicals and the Chicago political machine. Corsi is already known as a co-author of "Unfit for Command," the influential attack against the war record of Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' presidential candidate in 2004. Fredosso is a reporter for National Review Online, while Morris is a former aide to President Clinton who has since made a career of bashing Democrats.

"With book like these, the minute some people know they're out there, they must have them," says Cal Morgan, a vice president and executive editor at HarperCollins who worked on Morris' book and, at the other end of the spectrum, Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men."

Steve Ross, president and publisher of the Collins division of HarperCollins, released Obama's books when Ross was head of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House Inc. He thinks that the audience for anti-Obama books will grow through the fall, but doubts that sales will reach the levels of the senator's own books.

"The anti-Obama readership is largely one that has already made up its mind and is looking for validation, while the Obama readership comprises both those who have already made up their minds and those who are curious about him," Ross says.

Fredosso's book, which officially came out Tuesday, has nearly 300,000 copies in print. The Corsi book, released late last week, is already in its third printing, with a total of 375,000 copies in print so far. "Fleeced," released in June and now in its eighth printing, has 210,000 copies. Books taking on the Bush administration, including Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side," are selling well, but no anti-McCain works are currently attracting attention.

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  • Birdmanbob4
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  

    • As Bill Clinton will always be remembered for the Blow Job Obama will always be remembered for his Lies not only did he not Write his own Book ....But he had a Murdering Terrorist write it for him Bill Ayres! Cashill Family History || About Jack || Professional || Personal || International || National
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      Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More

      "Dreams From My Father"
      and "Audacity of Hope"
      Authorship Articles

      American Thinker weighs in on breaking "Dreams" authorship story:

      Unmasking Obama
      By Thomas Lifson

      It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks -- eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which image will not suffice. For instance, hiding behind the eloquent orator mask is a guy who says "uhh" a lot when he is winging it, and who makes lots of factual and grammatical mistakes.

      Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed. Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father, the book which established Obama's pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers' work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen's new book,that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers. That is the classic description of a ghost writer's assignment. And it completely fits the theories Cashill had inferentially reasoned from the data of his literary studies.

      The revelation that Chris Andersen had two separate sources means that this fact meets the journalistic standard of reliability, provided by a respected, established bestselling author. Obama's dismissal of Ayers as "just a guy in the neighborhood" has been shown to be an outright lie.

      That will certainly be the verdict of history, regardless of whether or not the issue of Obama's ghost written book ever breaks through into the national discussion. My bet is that the media will not be able to suppress discussion. The image of Obama packing boxes full of tapes and notebooks and hauling them over to Ayers' house a couple of blocks away, is simple and compelling evidence of a ghost writer being put to work. Jack's literary detective work made the case, and Andersen's two neighborhood sources confirm it.

      Anyone who refuses to deal with this issue is willfully avoiding topics that make Obama look bad. The facts are in the public domain.
      The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the paper doesn't embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones and ACORN stories. Unlike every other editor, the Times is keeping the name of this editor secret.

      [Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news,] and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person "a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere."
      So, whoever you are at the New York Times, you're probably reading American Thinker as an unpleasant duty. If I knew who you were, I'd bombard you with a polite note laying out the trail for you to follow on this important story. The President of The United States lied when he claimed that "I actually wrote them [his books] myself."

      I think that's news that's fit to be printed, even if uncongenial to the

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  

    • I don't like the picture....

      Anyways Obama is getting a soft end of the brutal bashing that the News could give. But if he's elected he'll feel the heat then.

      Allow him to feel the soft touch now, so what. McCain shouldn't be moaning like Hillary about Obama getting a cushy chair to sit in while she was being roasted. It doesn't make Obama look bad, it makes the person complaining look bad.

    • 3 years ago
  • Sons_Of_Liberty
  • JohnA
  • Sons_Of_Liberty
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      Sons_Of_Liberty  

    • Obama sure isn't in any better position, because he isn't the answer either. Stalemate, just like the Brett Favre ordeal. Maybe they both (nominee's) should just go away?

    • 3 years ago
  • rube
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      rube  

    • Fascism, racism and big time ignorance is alive and well in the good ol USA! Heck I didn't know that conservatives actually could read? Then read this...

      9/11 happened under GOP watch...
      The Iraq War was contrived through subversion and duplicity- GOP caused...
      Afghanistan War, the real war is worse off today then it was five years ago- GOP watch...
      the U.S. economy is a free fall- GOP watch...
      the energy bill for the last eight years, well there was no bill- GOP caused!
      Katrina, lack of oversight for the mortgage meltdown, record bankruptcies, war profiteering
      record federal deficit, no improved health care, voted not to extend benefits to veterans…
      All this under the GOP…
      This is what conservatives can’t abscond from!
      Johnny McCain has voted with this corrupt GOP ideology 95% of the time, with bush over 90% of the time. These are hard facts!

      John McCain is not the solution he is the PROBLEM!
      McCain is the ranking GOP senior member official of this current mess!
      26 years of his "Washington insider" experience- we dont need!

    • 3 years ago
  • Egnatius212
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      Egnatius212  

    • A testament to the joke our society is becoming. Please, do people have no free thoughts? It's as if thay were told every morning from some news station exactly what to read and hear and think and feel. Oh, that's right, Fox. Never mind.

    • 3 years ago
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