Obama Book Media Hype: 'The Most Literary President' Since Lincoln
It doesn't take much to rouse the Obama-worshiping press, and it happened on Thursday when Barack Obama announced his new memoir A Promised Land will be available for sale on November 17. AP gushed it's "the most anticipated presidential memoir in memory, as much or more because of the quality of the writing than for any possible revelations. He has been called the most literary president…
AP Smears Miller As in League With 'Far-Right' 'White Supremacists'
Stephen Miller's trouncing of CNN reporter Jim Acosta over immigration policy at Wednesday's White House press briefing apparently angered the Associated Press's Hillel Italie beyond measure. Thursday, while barely covering any of the substance of the confrontation, the AP reporter irresponsibly launched into a smearing, sneering tirade equating Miller's viewpoints with "members of the far-right…
AP: 'Writers Welcome a Literary President-elect
Taking a dig at outgoing President George W. Bush while lauding President-elect Obama as a man of letters, Associated Press writer Hillel Italie suggested that well-respected writers are welcoming the arrival of a "literary president-elect." Italie suggested that it was admiration of Obama's writing style and intelligence, not his liberal ideology, that pushed authors Toni Morrison, Ayelet…
