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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Janus In The White House: A Review Of Martin Parlett's Book 'Demonizing A President'

During his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama described himself as a blank screen on which people project their inner realities. For Martin Parlett, the British public relations expert who has written Demonizing a President: The Foreignization Of Barack Obama, this explains both Obama's electoral success and the obsessive conspiracy-mongering we most often attribute to the political…
 
Ed. Note: There have been many books that sought to undertake the unprecedented right-wing reaction to Obama's presidency, but this is the first I've read which does so with an eye to what they did as well as how he set the stage for them to do it. It isn't easy reading, but definitely worthwhile. If we don't learn history's lessons, we're doomed to repeat them.  FROM THE SITE

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