Authors Against Obama (conservative, controversial, president, racist)

[GigiBowman]

Authors Against Obama

Mr. Obama’s story first surfaced publicly in February 1990, when he was elected as the first black president of The Harvard Law Review. An initial wire service report described him simply as a 28-year-old, second-year student from Hawaii who had "not ruled out a future in politics"; but in the days that followed, newspaper reporters grew interested and produced long, detailed profiles of Mr. Obama. The coverage prompted a call to him from Jane Dystel, a gravelly-voiced literary agent. . . . Ms. Dystel suggested Mr. Obama write a book proposal. Then she got him a contract with Poseidon Press, a now-defunct imprint of Simon & Schuster. When he missed his deadline, she got him another contract and a $40,000 advance from Times Books.

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The Other McCain: Authors Against Obama


Don't overlook reading the comments --VERY interesting stuff!

[delusianne]

Maybe she's a smart enough editor/agent to recognize that what became Dreams from My Father would sell a lot of copies, ya reckon?

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management :: About Us (http://www.dystel.com/about.html - broken link)

About the blogger, wikipedia has:

A 2002 New York Press column by Michelangelo Signorile drew attention to comments posted by McCain to various conservative websites. The column depicted McCain as a racist. McCain protested that there were errors in Signorile's column [34].

McCain has been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC alleged he is "a member of the white supremacist hate group League of the South" and "has often inserted excerpts of material written by hate groups" into the Times. "In addition, McCain is the only national reporter to cover four conferences put on by American Renaissance. Until 2004, McCain had never mentioned its controversial nature." [35]

Robert Stacy McCain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia