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IF YOU WANT A LITERARY AGENCY THAT WILL LIE FOR YOU OUTRAGEOUSLY TRY DYSTEL AND GOEDERICH
A limp statement was squirted out yesterday after the Breitbart item appeared that a woman who worked at the time as a low level assistant at Acton and Dystel, then Obama’s agent (and is now the Goederich who is Dystel’s partner) was now taking full responsibility for making an “error.”
As someone who has run a number of top bestseller publishers, I think this is an amazing MIRACLE.
It is the ONLY case I have ever heard of in which an editorial assistant INVENTED a biographical detail. I have heard of typos, wrong dates, misspellings of names. But to pick a really weird country of origin like Kenya for an author?
NEVER.
After all where do the bios come from? We don’t make them up. And neither did Dystel & Goederich. They come from the authors, like Obama. No one has ever invented a detail like that, and the authors usually review them and scream like hell if we get them wrong.
Can Dystel and Goedrich show us the correction appeal letter they got from Obama about the Kenya birth in over 10 years of using this bio? Or any other incident from any other publisher or agent that is similar to this “error?”
I really don’t care where Obama was born. The continued degeneration of the press in passing on hilarious nonsense as fact is a lot more serious problem. Give Dystel & Goederich the Rose Mary Woods Memorial Award for the Most Absurd Lie to Protect a President of the Year.
Thomas Lipscomb
Senior Fellow
Annenberg Center for the Digital Future (USC)
IF YOU WANT A LITERARY AGENCY THAT WILL LIE FOR YOU OUTRAGEOUSLY TRY DYSTEL AND GOEDERICH
A limp statement was squirted out yesterday after the Breitbart item appeared that a woman who worked at the time as a low level assistant at Acton and Dystel, then Obama’s agent (and is now the Goederich who is Dystel’s partner) was now taking full responsibility for making an “error.”
As someone who has run a number of top bestseller publishers, I think this is an amazing MIRACLE.
It is the ONLY case I have ever heard of in which an editorial assistant INVENTED a biographical detail. I have heard of typos, wrong dates, misspellings of names. But to pick a really weird country of origin like Kenya for an author?
NEVER.
After all where do the bios come from? We don’t make them up. And neither did Dystel & Goederich. They come from the authors, like Obama. No one has ever invented a detail like that, and the authors usually review them and scream like hell if we get them wrong.
Can Dystel and Goedrich show us the correction appeal letter they got from Obama about the Kenya birth in over 10 years of using this bio? Or any other incident from any other publisher or agent that is similar to this “error?”
I really don’t care where Obama was born. The continued degeneration of the press in passing on hilarious nonsense as fact is a lot more serious problem. Give Dystel & Goederich the Rose Mary Woods Memorial Award for the Most Absurd Lie to Protect a President of the Year.
Thomas Lipscomb
Senior Fellow
Annenberg Center for the Digital Future (USC)
where did you get it was approved by obama before going to print?
to date we still have no indication wether he did or didn't know about it.
Its hard to believe that he wouldn't look at a published item about himself that he contracted to have written. He went through the trouble to retain this literary agency and he didn't look at the product? Possible, but not likely.
What if it can be proven that he knew about the pamphlet and did nothing to correct it?
That doesn't matter. Even if that happenned - one would still have to prove that he was born in Kenya, and knew that once he became of an age where he was responsible for providing truthful information for various things - such as running for president.
You don't believe O'bama when he say's he was born in Kenya, before he was born in Hawaii?
The ultimate liar in chief, flip floppin decepticon.
Show me some evidence that demonstrates that he said any such thing - and please don't post a video of that Press Club Evening or whatever it was - if you can't understand things in their context then I can't help you.
get a grip, all you have to do is read these posts of hatred for obama and his wife a good deal of them are not about his policies at all.
as far as the birther crap, yeah everyone is in on the conspiracy to fool america. the reason is all us democrats are really "mooslum" socialist that want to run the country into the ground and turn everyone gay while were at it
he is an american born black democrat end of story.
Get a grip?
There is a fraud running the free world.
He lies more than tells the truth.
You get grip.
Oh.. and wake the hell up, and start thinking for yourself.
If it smells like a turd, most likely it's a turd.
NO one in history has had so many mistakes regarding their identity.
Again... WAKE UP> It's time to think.
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