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Obama's Swift Boating Going to Press

Mon Jun 23, 2008 at 07:13:12 AM PDT

Regnery Publishing gave us the most unfounded, baseless ball of lies the country every bought lock stock and barrel.  It was the "Swift Boating" of John Kerry.  Now they're back.  It's Swift Boat:  The Obama Version coming to a bookstore and website near you.

Ironically it was John Kerry's complete refusal to stand up to a single word that the "Swift Boat Liars" said that many think was his undoing ... and that led to Barack Obama's use of a website to track and dispute every single lie that comes out of the corporation-sucking right.

Will this be enough?  And even more importantly, have Americans become any less head-smackingly stupid?

It will be interesting to see.  My money's on the contender.

Conservative journalist David Freddoso’s "The Case Against Barack Obama" will offer "a comprehensive, factual look at Obama," according to Regnery Publishing President and Publisher Marjory Ross.

But the book’s subtitle makes clear its perspective: "The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate."

Ross contends that the mainstream media has offered insufficient scrutiny of Obama and likens the goal of Freddoso’s book to that of "Unfit for Command," the scathing assessment of Kerry’s war record that rocketed to number one on the New York Times best-seller list.

By highlighting negative aspects of Obama’s record and background, Ross says, Freddoso may compel others to offer more critical coverage of the Democratic nominee.

"I think it’s critically important that the country gets a clear and honest view of who is running and what they stand for—warts and all," Ross says. "With ‘Unfit for Command,’ like ‘The Case against Barack Obama,’ we believe the media has whitewashed the candidate."

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