NY Times Protects Obama's Phony Memoir, But Mocks Sasse for His 'Phony Adversity'
By Tim Graham | May 22, 2017 | 5:18 PM EDT
Sunday's New York Times Book Review displayed the newspaper's liberal tilt in two book reviews, side by side. On the left, Times editorialist Brent Staples lined up for another review lashing into David Garrow's Rising Star and defending Barack Obama and his highly fictional memoir Dreams from My Father. "Barack Obama vexed his biographers by beating them to his origin story," he began. "Critics have often pointed to misstatements, errors of fact and composite characterizations in the book without impeaching its central narrative."
This betrays a disdain for the importance of facts -- like stating that critics have pointed to Dan Rather's phony documents about George W. Bush, but they haven't "impeached his central narrative" that Bush was an entitled politician's son who didn't have the decency to go to Vietnam like John Kerry. The triumph of the liberal narrative is all that matters, and new facts are dismissed.
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