George_Chabot's Full Review: Michelle Malkin - Culture of Corruption: Obama and...
Culture of Corruption (2009)
I first read Michelle Malkin as a syndicated columnist in a local newspaper around a decade ago. I always liked her viewpoints about politics and noted she came at things from a conservative viewpoint, but with well supported arguments rather than knee jerk reactions like other pundits often do. Culture of Corruption, with the long subtitle Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies was just released last month (July 2009) and has already climbed the sales charts to be at or near number 1.
I bought the book from Amazon and noted the ratings were split between 5 stars and 1 star pretty evenly. Hmmm - lots of partisan votes trying to tilt the rating in their direction, I thought.
The Obama resume is a fairy tale creation of the media and Malkin's book injects rude facts that conflict with the hope and change theme endlessly churned out by the mainstream media drummers whose members have proven that they are more than willing to perjure themselves in support of their chosen American idol. In fact, as we go into the second half of Obama's first year in office we can see the era of hope and change is dead and it only took six months in office to kill it, as Malkin asserts.
The book details the qualifications (cough, cough) of most of the prominent members of Obama's team and reveals their history that the media has been more than willing to look the other way on. Like tax evasion that would get the rest of us citizens in serious trouble if not serving time in prison, but not Obama's political appointees, like Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer and dozens of others were outed when Obama tried to appoint them to high positions. Geithner did brazen it out and became Treasury Secretary, but several others bowed out. The fact that the media has not crucified these democrats certainly reveals their bias especially when you recall they were straining so hard just a few months ago to find anything to defame the Bush administration. Culture of Corruption in fact is a very apt play on the democrats own description of Bush's presidency.
The people Obama picked to enact his agenda are the point of this book and Malkin should get acclaim just for documenting the inconvenient facts that will someday cause this administration to come crashing to a halt. Many of the appointees decry business, banking, and industry yet when examined, as their records are here, it is determined that they are a creature of big business, unions, and banking cronies biting the hand that feeds them. Two of the big offenders on this score are Joe Biden and Michelle Obama, as well as Barack himself all products of nepotism and favorable treatment. The fact that the appointees were becoming an embarrassment resulted in Obama's appointment of innumerable Czars - ambassadors for various purposes appointed by Executive Order rather than with advise and consent of the Senate, like regular political appointees. These Czars can serve Obama's purposes but are not accountable to the Congress or the People, which should give many of us food for thought.
Malkin's short book points out enough discrepancies in what Obama says and does to give a concerned reader pause. If it is quality health care that concerns you, learn that Michelle Obama, as administrator of University of Chicago Medical Center, executed a patient dumping scheme she designed for patients who couldn't pay. It's in the book and well documented so you can believe universal government provided health care will go up in smoke as soon as it is enacted. These are other dirty details are probably why the book is so reviled by those who are benefiting from the current administration.
Malkin's book has much more detail on lots of things that are newsworthy but probably haven't appeared on your six o'clock news. Tax evasion, ACORN, Rod Blagojevich, Unions, various white collar crimes and much more make this a very distressing read, especially when it is backed up by such meticulous sourcing. There are 75 pages of notes giving chapter and verse of where Michelle found it. Despite the depressing subject matter covered by Culture of Corruption, I think Michelle Malkin has proven herself to be a real investigative journalist, unlike a lot of them that claim to be.
The book is hardcover, with about 280 pages of text and 75 additional pages of source documentation. Well worth reading!
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