From the Washington Post on September 17, 2011:Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White HouseDenials, CYA scrambling, etc., are now in full swing, just prior to the release of the book.
Obama administration officials scrambled Friday to hunt down copies of a new book scheduled to be released next week that paints an unflattering portrait of a dysfunctional and acrimonious White House...
The book, “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President,” by journalist Ron Suskind, comes at an inconvenient time for an administration that increasingly finds itself on the defensive over questions of effectiveness....
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[A]s copies of the book began circulating around town Friday, Obama’s aides and allies were forced to defend his management style against the portrayal conveyed by Suskind, who secured White House cooperation for much of his work. Suskind interviewed many top officials and was granted a White House interview with Obama.
White House officials were still reviewing the book late Friday. Communications director Dan Pfeiffer said that such books “tend to take the normal day-to-day activities of governing and infuse them with drama, palace intrigue and salacious details.”...
One commenter at the WaPo noted the following:
FreedomFan:The book is due to be released on Tuesday, September 20.
Obama has the paranoia of Nixon and the cluelessness of Carter.
Today 9/17/2011 12:31:26 PM EDT
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The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a rudderless White House. Bitter disputes—between men and women, policy and politics—ruled the day. The result was an administration that found itself overtaken by events as, year to year, Obama struggled to grow into the world’s toughest job and, in desperation, take control of his own administration.
Aaaaahhhh Someone call WallMart !Attackdog and DHS.
Will,
I tweeted this post at #attackwatch. LOL!
I always ask myself, when I see certain identifiable behaviors in the white house, what the reaction would be if W had demanded unflattering books to be removed from the shelves via cash.... WHOSE CASH?
Well, that's money that can't go toward campaigns for wacko liberals.
We now have the beginnings of a modern day Spanish Inquisition Chicago-style. Are the stakes going to be in the Black House veggie patch?
Silverlady
In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on 10 May 1933, the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. On the night of 10 May, in most university towns, nationalist students marched in torchlight parades "against the un-German spirit." The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators.
Hmmm......Follow the script?
Always On Watch,
Doesn't the Obama administration understand that by buying these books in mass they will only be increasing the writer's and the publisher's bank account? Its not like they will stop printing them if there's a spike in demand early on. People will still be able to read it.
Damien,
Clearly, the Obama administration doesn't understand that fact.
This administration is clueless about so many things!
Always On Watch,
Or come to think of it, maybe they're not that dumb. Maybe they're buying up copies of the book to see if they defend Obama against any of the authors claims about him. That would make sense as well. In fact it would make much more sense than trying to buy every single copy of the book before it hit store shelves.
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