Advertised right here on Daily Kos, and promoted heavily all over the right-wing media world, Dinesh D'Souza's book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage," slanders President Obama with numerous lies and selected quotations.
You can peek at this book without giving Dinesh any money through the Google Books preview, which only shows the first 53 pages, more than enough to see what the book is about.
Media Matters has a handy guide to the lies, which start right away.
We will soon start hearing these lies from right-wing friends, family and co-workers, and the Media Matters piece provides a handy guide with which to bat them down.
An example:
D'Souza:
Finally, addressing the TV cameras on May 14, 2010, Obama managed to work up some enthusiasm. Time and again he condemned "British Petroleum" -- an interesting term since the company long ago changed its name to BP. Given our anti-colonial theory, it's no surprise that Obama wanted to remind Americans of what BP used to stand for. He was equally outspoken in whacking the other oil companies for their "ridiculous spectacle" of "pointing fingers of blame."
Media Matters:
Here's the transcript of Obama's May 14 remarks. Guess how many times Obama says "British Petroleum."
Zero. Not once.
Listen guys: we lost the last election because the vast right-wing conspiracy, funded by the Koch family and others, filled voters' heads with their interpretation of events and issues. We have some great resources on our side, like Media Matters and Daily Kos, but we don't have, for example, the tens of millions of dollars the oil industry has spent denying global warming. We do have ourselves, and I believe it's our duty to fight for the world we want to live in by pushing back.
One more thing: Mr. Obama writes about seeing a magazine article around 1969 or 1970 that showed a black man in the south who had bleached his skin, with bad results, in an effort to pass as white. D'Souza attempts to prove a negative by saying that no such article exists. Obama originally wrote that this was in Life Magazine, but concedes that his 9-year-old self may have miss-remembered the name of the magazine. I remember this article, and it struck me, but I don't remember where it was. Magazines I saw regularly at the time were Newsweek, Life and Look, but it could have been in another, perhaps at a doctor's office. Could you Kossacks rack your brains and perhaps your local libraries for such an article? Thanks.