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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is David Maraniss. He was on Piers Morgan Tonight, which nobody saw \u2019cause it was on CNN, which is why I want to play this sound bite for you. David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post, and he is the author of Barack Obama: The Story. And it\u2019s amazing. You know, nobody in the media bothered to vet Obama in 2007 and 2008. And amazingly what we\u2019re learning now is that nobody in the media bothered to fact-check Obama\u2019s biography.<\/p>\n
They just accepted it.<\/p>\n
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Now a friendly biographer, Maraniss, admits that Obama\u2019s autobiography is full of… Well, it just doesn\u2019t all add up. Piers Morgan says (impression), “It\u2019s a fascinating book to read, next to the Dreams book because there at least someone counted 38 significant parts of the Barack Obama\u2019s version of events that you take issue with, 38,” my gentle, sir. “The Republicans have jumped all over this, as you\u2019d expect saying, you know, this is evidence that Obama\u2019s a fantasist, a liar, made up half of his story. What is the reality about your findings in totality,” sir, “in terms of the veracity, the honesty of Barack Obama\u2019s story?”<\/p>\n
MARANISS: The mythologies range from early on when, for instance, in high school in his memoir he says that he wasn\u2019t a starter on his basketball team because he “played black” and the coach “coached white.” Of course I discovered that, in fact, Barack Obama was about the eighth or ninth best player on that team, that he was one of the few players who couldn\u2019t dunk the ball. So it had nothing to do with race. Everything in his book is seen through the lens of race, and that sometimes distorts things. Like the girlfriend that he writes about in his memoir in New York City, he sort of defines her through the lens of race as a white woman who didn\u2019t understand the anger of black people. The real girlfriend, who was Genevieve Cook, had a completely different perspective on race.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Maraniss says he\u2019s lying in his autobiography. This is what Maraniss is saying. And this basketball stuff, that\u2019s been out there for a while. Obama is saying that he had trouble on a team \u2019cause he played black basketball and the coach coached white basketball. Now, I don\u2019t know the difference. I, your humble host, I don\u2019t know the difference between black basketball and white basketball. But Obama did say that he played black and the coach coached white. The official program observer, Mr. Bo Snerdley, with a question. What\u2019s the question? That\u2019s what Maraniss said, that Barack Obama couldn\u2019t dunk the ball. You have to jump, that\u2019s correct. <\/p>\n
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You have to jump to be able to dunk and he couldn\u2019t dunk so one could conclude he couldn\u2019t jump. So if you can\u2019t jump and dunk you have to play white basketball, I guess. And Obama said he played black ball. The coach coached white ball. And that\u2019s why Obama didn\u2019t play much. But Maraniss says, no, was the eighth or ninth best player on the team. He\u2019s not one of the best, top five. He\u2019s not a starter because he can\u2019t play. This is a friendly biographer telling us that Obama lied about something as insignificant as basketball in high school. Then he makes up this composite girlfriend and talks about how he had trouble with her because she doesn\u2019t understand the anger of black people, and the girl in question had no such problems with race. Made it up. <\/p>\n