{"id":14971,"date":"2012-07-05T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2012-07-05T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:27:13","slug":"obama-defender-%e2%80%9cit-doesn%e2%80%99t-matter-if-he-made-stuff-up%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14971\/obama-defender-%e2%80%9cit-doesn%e2%80%99t-matter-if-he-made-stuff-up%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Defender: \u201cIt Doesn\u2019t Matter If He Made Stuff Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Maraniss\u2019 new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barack-Obama-Story-David-Maraniss\/dp\/1439160406\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Barack Obama: The Story<\/em><\/a> documents nearly three dozen instances where the President misstated facts about his life in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dreams-My-Father-Story-Inheritance\/dp\/1400082773\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dreams From My Father<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among other defenses of Obama\u2019s deliberate misstatements reported by Fox News\u2019 James Rosen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/04\/obama-american-story-faces-fresh-scrutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one takes the cake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gerald Early, a noted professor of English literature and African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, agreed. &#8220;It really doesn&#8217;t matter if he made up stuff,&#8221; Early told Fox News. &#8220;I mean, after all, it&#8217;s like you going to a psychiatrist and you make up stuff, and the psychiatrist can still psychoanalyze you because they&#8217;re your lies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My only regret is that Professor Early didn\u2019t tighten up his argument so it can fit on a bumper sticker because it perfectly captures so much of what\u2019s wrong with modern liberalism\u2019s catechism.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe \u201cIt really doesn\u2019t matter if Obama made up stuff\u2026\u201d could be understood to mean:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026since he already got elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026because he can count on the Supreme Court to bail him out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026because comprehensive health care reform is a BFD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026since voters don\u2019t care about integrity, just a President who can slow jam the news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Maraniss\u2019 new book, Barack Obama: The Story documents nearly three dozen instances where the President misstated facts about his life in Dreams From My Father. Among other defenses of Obama\u2019s deliberate misstatements reported by Fox News\u2019 James Rosen, this one takes the cake: Gerald Early, a noted professor of English literature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3679,12,2331,35,1753],"class_list":["post-14971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-dreams-from-my-father","tag-health-care","tag-integrity","tag-obamacare","tag-statesmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}