printAs has transpired from the interview Fox News’ Sean Hannity conducted with Ed Klein, the author of “The Amateur: Barack Obama In The White House,” Reverend Jeremiah Wright had “told Klein that Erik Whitaker, a long time friend of Obama, sent an email to him asking him [Wright] not to preach until after the November [2008] elections, and that Whitaker, through another member of the Church, offered $150,000 in hush money. [To whom?] Klein told Sean about other bombshells including how Obama apparently begged Wright to attend a secret meeting with him and the lengths to go to trying to keep it a secret.”
The malfunctioning mass media has been less than diligent in exploring and verifying this story. There are no words to describe this dereliction of journalistic duty.
The appropriate parallel?
Dan Rather was right to expose President George W. Bush, who “thanks to his family’s high-level connections, was given preferable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War and then ditched his duties entirely.”
The media burying the Klein story is akin to Rather failing to give us the goods on Bush, the no-goodnik. Or worse: imagine that Watergate had been covered-up or covered partially? (Once a writer for the far left HuffPo, Edward Klein’s last post there is dated October 12, 2010.)
The New York Times’ JANET MASLIN dismisses The Amateur, saying that “Mr. Klein has no capacity for explaining specifics.”
Certain evidence [or hearsay cited] was witnessed, says Maslin, by “a toy poodle, and Seamus, a chocolate lab and ‘a few old friends.’” This is a “skimpy, bitter book … more interested in combining anti-Obama bumper-sticker phrases with very energetic branding,” she claims.
I haven’t read the The Amateur. I’m put off by a Sean-Hannity approved author, who’s known for “a string of maudlin books” about the Kennedy family. But let’s see a discussion (and refutation, if need be) of the alleged bribe, especially, in mainstream.
Obama proxies attempting, allegedly, to buy the president’s one-time minister’s silence: Is this not worthy of an honest, media investigation?
I would be careful putting too much stock in Rather. While what Dan Rather accused Bush of may have been true, the evidence that he presented to the public to back it up was not written on a typewriter and no amount of crying by Rather will change that. They were exposed as fraudulent in 2004 before Rather was fired.
I’m waiting for our investigative journalist, Woodward, to dig into this. Watergate is clearly small potatoes compared to this, if it is true. The bastards in the mainstream media will never look into this. Could you imagine the ruckus that would be raised if Ron Paul or Mitt Romney were accused of something of this nature. There would be a plane load of journalists trying to find out who did what to whom. The more I hear the more I’ve come to believe that Chicago Politics has just moved to DC.
What happened to all the “journalist” who were scouring Sara Palin’s garbage cans in search of their next big lead? I guess they’re still in Alaska.
“The malfunctioning mass media has been less than diligent in exploring and verifying this story. There are no words to describe this dereliction of journalistic duty.”
That should be on a plaque somewhere. I’ve never seen the media go to such lengths to cover for someone the way they have for BHO.
I am surprised by the anachronistic phrase ‘journalistic duty’. Is the concept still accepted? The partisans and zealots produced by journalism schools are no more likely to be found questioning and challenging power than God is to be found the subject of Yale’s Divinity School.
“an honest, media investigation?”; where in Amerika is that to be found?
ILana’s mock-rage impresses us all. She is, of course, well aware why the MSM gives Obama – and any member of the Democrat Party – a pass: common ethnic ownership.
CF- What ‘mock-rage’ only a little witticism was reflected in the above. You need to meet some of my Republican friends if you want to see real mock-rage.