The same publisher that helped torpedo John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign with a companion book to the Swift Boat attack ads will release a critical biography of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama this summer.
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The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso, is being billed by Regnery Publishing Inc. as the counterpoint to the media’s “whitewash” of the Illinois senator. The 31-year-old author, who endorsed Republican Ron Paul during the primaries, is on leave from his job at National Review Online to finish the book.
Freddoso is the son of a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, who cut his teeth as a reporter working for columnist Robert Novak at the Evans-Novak Political Report, and for Human Events, the conservative weekly said to have been a favorite of the late Ronald Reagan - both published by Regnery’s parent company, Eagle Publishing.
Regnery President Marjory Ross told Politico’s Jonathan Martin that the full-scale political biography will be “a comprehensive, factual look at Obama.” But as Martin notes, the book’s subtitle trumpets its perspective: “The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate.”
“I think it’s critically important that the country gets a clear and honest view of who is running and what they stand for — warts and all,” Ross said. “With Unfit for Command, like The Case against Barack Obama, we believe the media has whitewashed the candidate.”
While Ross declined to dish dirt ahead of publication, she said that Freddoso would look closely at Obama’s relationships with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and onetime radical William Ayers, among others.
Amazon lists the book’s release date as August - exactly when Regnery released Unfit for Command, the attack on Kerry’s Vietnam War record that contributed to his defeat despite that senator’s insistence its assertions were false.
The book’s publicity will be handled by Creative Response Concepts, the well-connected conservative public relations firm which orchestrated the publicity for both Unfit for Command and the Swift Boat TV ads. CRC is headed by Greg Mueller, a former top aide to former GOP presidential aspirants Patrick Buchanan and Steve Forbes,
In fact, Regnery’s corporate officers, not to mention its stable of writers, are a Who’s Who of the conservative wing of the Republican party.
Founded in 1947 by the late Henry Regnery, the company is now owned by Eagle Publishing, Inc. Leading writers include Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, David Limbaugh and Dinesh D’Souza.
Henry’s son, Alfred S. Regnery, a former Justice Department official under Ronald Reagan, recently stepped down as president to become publisher of The American Spectator magazine, a conservative monthly which has received donations from conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, among others.
Regnery’s sister company, Human Events Publishing (which formerly employed Freddoso), is led by Thomas S. Winter, an officer of the American Conservative Union and of the Conservative Victory Fund.
Regnery’s parent company, Eagle Publishing, is headed by Tom Phillips, who made his first fortune publishing newsletters and who founded Eagle Publishing in 1993 to foster “conservative and pro-American ideals,” as he put it.
Phillips, a member of the regents program of the Republican National Committee, also serves on the advisory Board of the Claremont Institute, which promotes conservative values, including “a limited and accountable government that respects private property, promotes stable family life, and maintains a strong defense,” and as a director of Young America’s Foundation, which describes itself as “the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement.”
Other Eagle directors include Thomas A. Fuentes, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County and a former communications director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County; William Lee Hanley Jr., a treasurer of the J.M. Foundation which encourages free enterprise and strong families; and Pat Sajak, longtime host of TV show, Wheel of Fortune, and a trustee of Hillsdale College;
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2 Comments
#1. Mitz 06.24.2008
Let’s call a spade a spade. These people are not conservatives, they are neo-conservatives (neo-cons). They can believe whatever they want, but they shouldn’t hide in the dark and lie about who they are, like a bunch of silly old closet queens throwing barbs at the pretty boys who dare to go out in the light.
#2. JSky 06.24.2008
It’s about time someone put a screw on this shape shifter. MSM has shield him and brainwashed the public. It’s a disgrace and a betrayal to the country.
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