‘He’s Vetting Obama and Doesn’t Realize It!’: Limbaugh Puzzled by Obama Book Writer…and Cites The Blaze’s Will Cain
- Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:18pm by
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Rush Limbaugh had a few choice words for historian David Maraniss — who Limbaugh gleefully described as “vetting Obama and doesn’t realizing it” — on his show today. Apparently, Maraniss isn‘t happy with the fact that his supposedly positive biographical sketch of President Obama has instead ended up being fodder for everyone who long suspected the President’s two self-penned memoirs of being utter fiction. Which, it turns out, they are.
Inexplicably, Maraniss had complained about being cited for pointing this out in a segment with Soledad O’Brien on CNN, even though the role of a historian is to debunk falsehoods in the historical record. Must be something to do with political tunnel vision. Thankfully, as Limbaugh pointed out, The Blaze‘s Will Cain was there to raise the point on everyone’s mind. Watch the segment below:
As you can see, Will Cain was having none of Maraniss’ hedging. “I think it raises some serious questions about what the role of a memoir is. Is it truth telling, or is it, as you said, some kind of ability to massage and make composite characters?”
This was the question Limbaugh pounced on and hammered home, in his segment quoted below, courtesy of the Daily Rushbo:
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formerlyIL
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:59pm@barber2 I had forgotten about the Oprah thing with the Little Pieces author. Good analogy! Perfect. Where is her outrage in his dishonest recounting of his ancestory? She is probably too busy trying to find money (through a bail out) for her Cable TV Channel to be interested or research.
Report Post »FearlessInfedel62
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:55pmThe Emporer has no clothes [Pants keep catching fire] and a past that cannot withstand the light of day. What a tattered web we weave, when we practice to deceive.
Report Post »DenisWTexas
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:47pmObama Lies.
This author is a moron.
And my house cat could do a better job than both of them.
Report Post »Paulmtmorris
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:11pmObama has found himself. He found himself to be a liar.
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 8:30pmStep aside Kim Jong IL, (yes I know he’s dead), with your stories of hole in one golf games and other various lies. We give you BHO and his memoirs. Liar extraordinaire with his pants on FIRE and dictator wanna be.
Report Post »bo1921
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 6:27pmHistorians ARE fact checkers. If the historian doesn’t relate the facts as they happened, then that individual is NOT a historian – he’s just another storyteller.
Report Post »Azathoth
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:53pmThose who can say they have never embellished their pasts, only they are worthy? None among you is.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:58pmPlease look up the word autobiography and non-fiction . Oh, and the word “lie” while you’re at it.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 6:01pmHuh?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 6:20pmAZA: Today is your first day here.
Report Post »crazedbanshee
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 6:25pmLOL….Wow you are so wise. How ever did you come up with such great judgment skills? See when Jesus spoke about casting stones, it actually made sense. The people that were going to cast stones could have cared less about the woman, they were trying to trap Jesus. And here you use it as some free pass for evil. What a mockery.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:45pmMaybe they should have named the book, “Pipe Dreams ….
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:22pm“Up in Smoke” may be appropriate for November
Report Post »dugbru
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:35pmYou merant BONG dreams didn’t you????
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:41pmWhat’s the pattern? The pattern is that Obama is a Class A huckster, a flim flam artist, a grifter, a liar through and through, possibly a pathological liar who actually doesn’t even know the difference between truth and lies.
Congratulations, Liberals, progressives, whatever you call yourselves. You have elected the Liberal version of Nixon and he is destroying the country. Happy now?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:56pmBarry Soetoro / Barack Obama is a gifted…………actor ! Ta. Da. He dressed well , stays trim, walks with style and ease, and reads a teleprompter like a champ. No wonder Hollywood loves him so much . Am sure he’ll soon be residing there while he works on his next book which will probably be transparently categorized as a novel – which is safely non-fiction !
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:40pmSo Dreams of My Father was just another Lefty Big Lie ! Obama’s autobiography was largely fiction ! Ho. Ho. This man not only has “ changed ” America, he has changed the definitions of words and literature ! Autobiographies used to be based on truthful remembrances and labeled in the non-fiction category. Sort of like “redistribution ” used to be based on the taking of one person’s stuff and called stealing. Sort of like “ marriage” used to be thought of as a union between and man and a woman ! Oh, Obama and our Lefties – just bringing us one “ change ” after another ! Most of which we do NOT want ! I know one change I hope the legal, registered voters of America bring to President Obama : a change of address . Back to Chicago .
Report Post »formerlyIL
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:45pmYes, back to Chi Town without his Secret Service Entourage!
Report Post »suz
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:37pmall this “understanding” about bho’s “lovely” imagination gets such a pass. call me hardcore, but i don’t give anyone a pass in the slightest. i was brought up to be truthful…period. i hold everyone in my life up to those standards and give no quarter.
bho was a grown man when he wrote his “memoirs.” A GROWN MAN!
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:29pmBarrack Hussein Oblamer…the first composite President. Poor old Oblamer is already writing his 4th,5th, and 6th autobiographies for extra cash.
If Hussein doesn’t get his precious 2nd term, then he will only get Jimmy Carter money for his speeches. Hussein is insane and Holder is going to the get him millions of dead votes and illegal votes, but the force is with the USA. The disastrous, most pathetic O can’t steal enough votes to win in November.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:27pmThis administration is truly full of evil betrayers but thank God they are also stupid as they are serving up most all thier lies on a silver platter.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:16pmNews Flash ***** Barry Soterro is NOT the “first black President” he is actually the “first multiracial President” and huge difference….thanks to the MSM for pointing this out when “describing” George Zimmerman’s “race”!!!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:47pmmaybe the media should , after the Zimmerman witch hunt, would have called Obama a ” white African-American “
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:00pmthank you mr maraniss for doing your job and showing what a phoney and corrupt and vile man your president really is…lol even if you didnt mean to do your job..hillarious
Report Post »lambfound
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:52pmI’ll bet Barack Obama is getting upset about what Bill Ayers wrote in his book, Dreams from my Father – sounds like a pack of lies. Perhaps Barack should have read it before going to print.
Report Post »happ77
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:40pmI think I’ll write an autobiography, lets see
Report Post »I could write about the time I grabbed the rear
bumper of a schoolbus loaded with little kids
and stopped it from going over a cliff…. and
then there was the time….
who_is_john_galt_in_RI
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:16pm“and then at band camp”…
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:32pmIf I read a memoir (which I rarely do) it would be someone’s memories about their past, which might or might not be the absolute facts. BUT, when most of a person‘s memories are made up stories of how he’d like to have been or how he wanted to have been it‘s pretty obvious that the person is lying to make himself into something he’s not. Aside from that what is a 30′ish year old “community organizer” writing a memoir for anyway. His life certainly wasn’t anything special up to that point, and hasn’t gotten appreciably more special since then, except for his ability to con those who believe that they’re ever so smart.
Report Post »formerlyIL
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 9:51pmYes and yes again! Perfect!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:30pmThis is how God rocks the lib world. The libs think they‘re doing good for one of their own and it’s actually the complete opposite. I love this kind of stuff. Oh, and our serial lying poser prez is sooo done this November. What a no-class act, Obama. Ladies and gentlemen, the ‘embarrassment of the United States’, Barack Obama.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:52pmHi TRON good to see you and I concur with what you have said … can’t wait until November.
OMG 2012! LIBERTY!
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:29pm“I’m not a fact-checker, I’m just trying to get the record straight”? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:43pmSo Obama’s autobiography belongs in the fiction department ? Ouch. Remember how angry Oprah got at the Little Pieces author on her show ? She tore into him for fictionalizing too ! She took him to the wood pile . Where’s Oprah when you need her ?
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