‘When a paperback comes out, you know, nobody’s expecting to go back to it again and neither myself nor HarperCollins put out a press release saying, ‘hey, look at this, this is new,'” says author Garrow, about the 2018 paperback version of his 2017 Obama bio
David Garrow, author of “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” told Just the News that a 1982 letter former President Obama wrote to an ex-girlfriend that contained Obama’s homosexual musings was published in the 2018 paperback version of his 2017 book but the media didn’t pick it up until now.
Garrow blamed the lack of coverage on HarperCollins, his publisher, for not putting out a press release to promote the paperback version. The book was a New York Times bestseller, but according to Garrow, the media did not revisit the book’s second publication because no press release alerted them. He had mentioned the letter in a recent interview with The Tablet and some mainstream media outlets subsequently reported on it. A search of The New York Times archive shows no coverage about the newly-disclosed letter in the 2018 book.
“When the hardback of ‘Rising Star’ came out, I mean, it got reviewed and made the New York Times bestseller list. You know, the Washington Post named it one of the 10 best books of 2017,” he said on Monday.
“But when a paperback comes out, you know, nobody’s expecting to go back to it again and neither myself nor HarperCollins put out a press release saying, ‘hey, look at this, this is new,’ because, I mean, while it’s notable in a certain way, I don’t think it’s tremendously scandalous because as I understand humanity the vast majority of people have fantasy lives,” he added, referring to Obama’s musings about his own sexuality in letters written by Obama.
Alex McNair, who had dated Obama between 1979 and 1982, showed Garrow letters that Obama sent her in the 1980s while he was working on “Rising Star.” He said McNail redacted an entire paragraph from one letter, saying “she didn’t want me to read it while Barack was president because it’s about homosexuality.” It wasn’t until the letters were sold to Emory University when he was able to figure out what that section actually said.
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I think it was Michael Malice who said that we must regard news organizations with the same contempt as we do tobacco executives, and for the same reasons. They KNEW it was bad and caused cancer and still had “9 of 10 doctors agree Chesterfields are more soothing for the nose and throat” (Remember THOSE ads?)
Same thing- the MSM is nothing more than a Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (look it up)- the good news is that they are dying.