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Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Historian: Obama's Letters to a Former Girlfriend Confessed Fantasies of Having Sex With MenI'm so shocked my hair is standing on end and I'm ready to audition for that upcoming Yahoo Serious biopic! (Though they'll probably give the role to a disabled nonbinary woman of color.) There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow's comprehensive biography of Barack Obama's early years, in which the historian examines Obama's account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. In Dreams, Obama describes a passionate disagreement following a play by African American playwright August Wilson, in which the young protagonist defends his incipient embrace of Black racial consciousness against his girlfriend's white-identified liberal universalism. The argument was used by Obama in Dreams from My Father to excuse himself for having dated a white woman, claiming that he didn't like her white-centric worldview. This caused him, in his telling, to reconnect with his black Roots and then date Michele. But Obama's account was false. What really sparked the argument was their viewing of a museum exhibit about infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann. A (black) mayoral aide in Chicago was at that time quoting Louis Farrakhan and making the usual litany of antisemitic smears against Jews. What sparked the breakup was Obama's refusal to condemn antisemitism or black racism more generally. Yet what Garrow documented, after tracking down and interviewing Sheila Miyoshi Jager, was an explosive fight over a very different subject. In Jager's telling, the quarrel that ended the couple's relationship was not about Obama's self-identification as a Black man.... And Obama wrote about it with his gloss precisely so that if this woman ever came forward with the true story, he would say that he has proof she was lying: His own book says so, and how can you doubt the word of Barack Obama? ... I think you just solved your own mystery about "why did no reporter bother to interview this woman and find out if the Boy Emperor was lying about his background." The idea that the celebrated journalists who wrote popular biographies of Obama and became enthusiastic members of his personal claque couldn't locate Jager--or never knew who she was--defies belief. It seems more likely that the character Obama fashioned in Dreams had been defined--by Obama--as being beyond the reach of normal reportorial scrutiny. Indeed, Garrow's biography of Obama's early years is filled with such corrections of a historical record that Obama more or less invented himself. Based on years of careful record-searching and patient interviewing, Rising Star highlights a remarkable lack of curiosity on the part of mainstream reporters and institutions about a man who almost instantaneously was treated less like a politician and more like the idol of an inter-elite cult. Here's the stuff about Obama being a closeted gay man. Well, supposedly, his homosexual longings only went as far as fantasy. Color me skeptical. Yet when it came out six years ago, Rising Star was mostly ignored; as a result, its most scandalous and perhaps revelatory passages, such as Obama's long letter to another girlfriend about his fantasies of having sex with men, read today, to people who are more familiar with the Obama myth than the historical record, like partisan bigotry. But David Garrow is hardly a hack whose work can or should be dismissed on partisan grounds. He is among the country's most credible and celebrated civil rights historians--the author of The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bearing the Cross (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) and one of the three historian-consultants who animated the monumental PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize, as well as the author of a landmark history of abortion rights, Liberty and Sexuality. The writer of the article, David Samuels, speculates why this biography by a Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer was completely ignored. I never even heard of it. He notes that it came out in 2017, after Trump dominated the news, always. And of course hackish liberal reporters aren't going to rat out Obama's secret gay sex life, least of all after they all became "Resistance Journalists." But he also points out that Obama's post-presidential life was dedicated to preserving the Mythos of Obama that he (and Bill Ayers) had created: By then, it was clear to any informed observer that the Obamas' continuing presence in the nation's capital was not purely a personal matter. To an extent that has never been meaningfully reported on, the Obamas served as both the symbolic and practical heads of the Democratic Party shadow government that "resisted" Trump--another phenomenon that defied prior norms. The fact that these were not normal times could be adduced by even a passing glance at the front pages of the country's daily newspapers, which were filled with claims that the 2016 election had been "stolen" by Russia and that Trump was a Russian agent. He points out that the DC GOP turned to interrogating the FBI over the scandalous election-rigging hoax called "Russiagate." But wasn't there someone leading the FBI, a "president" if you will, who was instrumental in perpetrating a massive propaganda psyop on the country? But while the attention of Republicans in Washington turned to questioning the FBI, more careful observers could not fail to notice that the FBI had hardly acted alone. After all, Russiagate had not originated with the Bureau, but with the Clinton campaign, which having failed to get even sympathetic mainstream media outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post to bite on its fantastical allegations, was reduced to handing off the story to campaign press apparatchiks like Slate's Franklin Foer and Mother Jones' David Corn. Read the whole thing! But I bet you already clicked over to Tablet to do just that. Related? About Obama's chef who "accidentally drowned." An anonymous caller tipped police about the drowning. The story became one of palace intrigue due to the anonymous 911 call, the location of the Obamas at the time of the incident, and the former president's injuries at a golf course not long after the event. He was sporting bandaged hands and a black eye. It might be a coincidence, but the drowning has sparked many conspiracy theories and accompanying fact-checks, which don't mean anything. The liberal media destroyed the 'fact check' beat when weaponizing these pieces against the Trump presidency. | Recent Comments
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