As far as Michelle was concerned, Oprah’s billions and her elite lifestyle disqualified her as an adviser to Barack, who had no truck with wealthy people, except as a source of campaign contributions, and was a redistributionist at heart. – Excerpt of “The Amateur,” by Edward Klein
SPEAKING OF AMATEURS, a word about Edward Swiftboat Writer Masquearading as Truth Klein.
Just one of the quotes in his fireplace fodder against Hillary Clinton, “The Truth About Hillary,” was anonymously dropping that “she’s been botoxed to the hilts,” allegedly from some “New York physician who had knowledge of such matters” (page 220). “Those matters” being botox, not Clinton.
So, no one should be surprised that Klein treats his readers to a cat fight Democratic style, this time starring Michelle Obama and Oprah, with Valerie Jarrett having a supporting role. The man’s a pig, no offense to the pink cuties.
The line emphasized in bold at the top is a perfect example of a Kleinism. Obama “had no truck with wealthy people”? Epic phrase that rendered me into fits of laughter.
Klein’s stuff about Rev. Wright in the New York Post about being “bribed” with $150,000 is priceless. If Wright had actually been offered the money by “one of Barack’s closest friends,” the woman or man who offered it would have been a hero if Wright had taken it. Wright was a perpetually exploding rhetorical grenade, so any person on team Obama would have been committing professional malpractice not to have offered cash to Wright to be quiet.
The rest of the Regnery drivel is likely just as bad, though I really hope Klein has finally learned to write chapters over four or five pages in length. Guess the publisher feels for the reader and believes keeping the chapters short, the reader’s gag reflex won’t lock due to overuse.
So did the First lady, with the help of 4 friends, hold Oprah down and cut off her hair with scissors?
Are not both of these first two posts by SEC essentially off topic?
No, no…she strapped Oprah to the roof of air force one and flew around the country with Oprah up there!!!!
How about Oprah being unqualified to be an adviser to the President because she’s an egomaniac (even her magazine has to feature her on the cover every month) who has made herself a billionaire by exploiting the pain of others in the guise of therapy (another thing she’s not qualified at?)
What advice could Winfrey offer Obama that would be worth listening to? “Suck up to me some more, I put you where you are?”
Obama is a “redistributionist at heart” the way he is for gay marriage at heart. His heart is as big as the whole outdoors, too bad that it never results in actual, progressive, civil-rights supporting legislation.
Obama must belong to the Church of Good Intentions, where the only canon is “It’s The Thought That Counts.”
THe facts speak for themselves. This story has far more credibility and meets up to journalistic standards. Ask the people involved. Ask Reverend Wright or ask Orpah Winfrey. I have not heard a single denial from either. I really do not care about this story. Pay offs and back stabbing is all part of the game. The real story would be if there was not any of this stuff going on. Save the “spin-cycle” for Attorney General Eric Holder.
I am really puzzled by the animosity of conservatives towards Eric Holder. What has the guy done to attract your attention? He is just so bland and unremarkable…Was he profiled by Glen Beck or Drudge?
Well Isis he is sortta….BLACK. And he was appointed by a…BLACK, DEMOCRATIC President. And he did accept the bush Justice Departments investigation of the bogus New Black Panther voter intimidation male bovine fecal matter issue….and they are sortta…BLACK. See any patern here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder#Controversies
In May 2009, Holder’s Department of Justice ended a civil suit originally brought by the
Bush administration against the New Black Panther Party, its chairman, and two of its
members for voter intimidation due to their conduct during the 2008 election. Two members
of the party had stood outside a polling station during the election in paramilitary
uniforms, one of them carrying a billy club. Although none of the defendants appeared in
court to contest the charges, the department of justice voluntarily dropped the charges
against the party, its chairman, and one of the two members who had stood outside the
polling station, and obtained a narrow injunction against the other.
While the Department of Justice has contended that the charges were dropped due to lack
of evidence, several of its current and former members have stated that Holder’s Department
of Justice is unwilling to prosecute minorities for civil rights violations.[62]
This accusation has been made most notably by J. Christian Adams, who in May 2010
resigned his post at the Department of Justice out of protest,[63] and by his former
supervisor Christopher Coates.[64]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious
Government’s answer to “Fast and Furious” records requests: Blank pages
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57423389-10391695/governments-answ?tag=contentMain;contentBody
For more than a year, CBS News has been investigating the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms’ “Fast and Furious” operation and related cases that also employed the controversial tactic of “gunwalking.” With Justice Department officials refusing all interview requests to date, CBS News requested numerous public documents through the Freedom of Information Act.
So far, all of the requests that have been answered have been denied in part or in full.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007070020
here ya go, a little reality check for you. Wikipedia is hardly a reliable source as shown by this and other rightwing gin jobs. ANYONE can post ANYTHING and it stays till it gets ferreted out.
So let me get this straight, you think “media matters” is a credible and unbias source? I do not see anything on the linked page that says anything to prove me wrong. It is just an attack on some people. Try again.
“J. Christian Adams’ accusations that President Obama’s Justice Department engaged in racially charged “corruption” in the New Black Panther Party case do not stand up to the evidence. Adams is a right-wing activist tied to the Bush-era politicization of the Justice Department who has admitted he lacks first-hand knowledge of the events he is discussing, and his claims fall apart given the fact that the Obama DOJ obtained judgment against one defendant, while the Bush DOJ declined to pursue similar allegations in 2006.”
Just in case you’re to lazy or not literate enough to read it here’s the money shot.
I don’t care about J. Christian Adams. Look at the neo-black panthers in front of the polling place yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4MTQVMatW0
Bounty on Zimmerman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMgLvbZ0g8
Take a good look at who Eric Holder calls “His People” talking to Anderson Cooper – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsffh_b-xc&feature=related
secularhumanizinevoluter – You are a bully, or at least you try to be.
1.”THe facts speak for themselves. ”
BWAHAHAHA! What facts are those? That there are in FACT personbs named Oprah and Michele?
2.”This story has far more credibility and meets up to journalistic standards.”
BWAHAHAHAHA! What for Faux Not News? The Weekly sunStandard?
3.” Ask the people involved. Ask Reverend Wright or ask Orpah Winfrey. I have not heard a single denial from either.”
Like they asked Mittens about his bullying/Gay bashing? Gosh, he just couldn’t remember although the other folks who were actually involved with him doing it do and were asked and did nail ol Mittens.
4.” I really do not care about this story.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Are you smiling when you type this bilge?
5.” Pay offs and back stabbing is all part of the game. The real story would be if there was not any of this stuff going on.”
WOW! You actually got close to something close to reality there!!!
” Save the “spin-cycle” for Attorney General Eric Holder.”
Save the spin cycle for what passes as your brain, it has clearly gone through the wash cycle already.
I guess I was wrong… Perhaps I do not adore you as much as I thought. Sec… you are such a bully on this board and you continue to get away with it always…
Secular is only a bully if you take the time to shovel through his inane, juvenile blather. I’ve become very good at skipping over his posts, quite confident that I will miss absolutely nothing of value and that I WILL miss several versions of “republikant/teabagger,” which apparently someone told him was clever once and which he now simply cannot let go of.
The facts speak for themselves? Hahahahahahahahahahaha! What facts? He doesn’t have any facts, all he has is a bunch of hearsay and made up BS. Also, why would Rev Wright or Orpah even waste their time commenting on what this worm has to say?
It is obvious that Winfrey and the Obamas had a falling out. It is also clear that Rev. Wright had is a “loose cannon” that had to be silenced. Yes, the facts speak for themselves. This story helps to re-elect President Obama, because it takes attention away from the economy and the misery of working families.
What you claim as fact is nothing more then pure conjecture. As far as I know Rev Wright has not been silenced whats so ever, and you can’t point to one credible fact that Winfrey and the Obamas have had some big falling out. Its nothing but red meat BS.
1.”It is obvious that Winfrey and the Obamas had a falling out.”
BASED ON WHAT?!!!! BWAHAHAHAHA! Woman/Man/WHATEVER please step maway from the crack pipe!!!
2.” It is also clear that Rev. Wright had is a “loose cannon” that had to be silenced. ”
That sentence makes no sense whatsoever! Kinda like the rest of your postings on this and so many other issues.
3.”Yes, the facts speak for themselves.”
Since there aren’t any “facts” I suppose that would explain the crickets on this then huh?
4.” This story helps to re-elect President Obama”
?!!!!!!!! WOW! Just took another hit from the pipe there huh.
5.”, because it takes attention away from the economy”
Which is getting better inspite of the entire repugnantklan/teabagger house and senate membership doing everything they can, TREASON if you will, to prevent it.
6.” and the misery of working families.”
Which is increased by repugnantklan/teabagger attempts to fluff the 1% at the expense of everyone else.d
WHen I see Reveren Jeremiah Wright making speeches and taking interviews, Oprah Winfrey endorsing and campaigning for Presidnet Obama and appearing publicly with the FIrst Lady, and when I see Atty Gen Holder cooperating with the Operation Fast and Furious investigation, I will believe you. The facts are Eric Holder most likely to be held in contempt. Eric Holder did nothing when the Neo-Black Panthers intimidated voters in 2008 and again when they put a $10,000 biunty on George Zimmerman. He wanted to have the trial of KSM in Manahttan, what an idiot. I remember when so many people on the left were, for some reason unkown to me, completly outraged at Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez over the fact that some Federal Judges that were not fired that were to be re-hired anyways. Like I said, the facts speak for themselves.
Hi mjsmith… I do not always agree with you, but I respect your right to express yourself here. You make so many points that many posters on this board will attack you for, but I admire your persistance and that you do not back down to the many bullying tactics used by others.
Whitepaw, it’s like this – If wo people are having a conversation and they both agree with each other, one of the people does not really need to be there. I don’t understand how people act like it is the first time they heard any of the things I mention.
I’m so sick of hearing about Reverend Wright 4 years later. Whenever I hear his name, my question is:
And???
I bet that many politicians have knew loudmouth crazies that they had to “keep shut”. In fact, I used to be one of those loudmouth crazies (recovering hardcore black nationalist). People associated with me because I was very generous and cooked a mean BBQ, but they sure shut the door in my face when I got to barking or potentially making them look bad since the knew me. Nowadays, I’m just a big ol’ teddy bear. LOL!
So I’m done with the Wright Scandal. It means nothing. It would ONLY mean something if President Obama acted on Wright’s BS talk. But he would have been impeached already.
@T-S,
Rev Wright is not just any loudmouthed crazy.
They were very close.
Like family.
There is a lot of history there.
and then there are the recent tapes… I’m just saying where there is smoke…
Why does anyon even care if the Obamas have or have not had a falling out with Winfrey anyway?
That’s not the point. The point is that what is being said is being put out there as fact, when there isn’t one ioda of fact about any of it, it’s all just conjecture and BS.
WHO CARES! This happens to all politicians…
And their wives….. Welcome to the real world.
Rhut Rho… the Reverend Wright went on the record and sat down with Klein.
On tape.
He does know where the bodies are buried…
I believe the Bill and Hillary stuff.
It just rings true with me.
As far as Oprah, I heard a while back from my VERY good Chitown connects that Ms. O took her seat under the bus long ago. They did her so dirty, her seat is in the very back of the bus. There is so much more to that story, a lot is just gossip. Very revealing gossip.
Sec, sit your ole mean ass down.
You don’t scare nobody.
Oh, oh, oh! I almost forgot.
Eric is an ass and always has been.
“Rhut Rho… the Reverend Wright went on the record and sat down with Klein.
On tape.”
Yeah, we’re gonna hear those tapes right after the ones of Michelle talking about ‘Whitey” right? What…they never existed? But I’m SURE the ones of Rev Wright talking about being offered a bribe do…..don’t they?……waiting for the tapes…….crickets, crickets, crickets.
Yesterday Klein was on the Sean Hannity radio show and said that he was able to tape his interviews with Rev Wright for the book The Amateur. Sean asked for the tapes and Klein said he would give him copies.
We already know that Sean is vetting Obama since the main stream media refused to, so I think we will hear the tapes.
“Sec, sit your ole mean ass down.
”
You don’t scare nobody.
It’s scary when someone points out male bovine fecal matter? If I am scary, there must be some TRULY candy assed folks on the right that get scared.
Bully.