I was concerned when I saw an online advertisement for Barack Obama Exposed! while surfing the ’Net recently. After all, if a scurrilous, anonymous email that couldn’t even distinguish between the Illinois senator and a lawmaker from Minnesota could cause problems for the campaign, how much damage could be inflicted by a recognizable repository of conservative thought?
Not to worry. This compilation of 16 essays penned by contributors to Human Events contains no revelations about sexual predilections or a double life. In fact, some of the articles mention Obama only in passing. Barack Obama Exposed! has all the earmarks of having been patched together after a hasty Google search, the result relying upon Human Events’ 64-year history to lend it some gravitas. (Imagine: Human Events, a profoundly conservative publication, was founded in 1944, in the middle of wartime, during the term of a popular liberal president. Despite this, none of Human Events’ founders were branded as unpatriotic or treasonous. The mind boggles.)
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