Barack Obama’s carefully cultivated public image is falling apart.
Americans learned that in private Obama is a different person.
Barack Obama unleashed a profane outburst that left Democrats shaking their heads.
In liberal reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere’s new book “Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump,” Dovere reports on private conversations Barack Obama engaged in during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Obama worked hard to make sure the media always portrayed him as “no drama Obama” and the cold, emotionless “Spock”-like figure.
Given how wildly the media worshipped Obama, that task was not hard to accomplish.
But sometimes reporters felt disappointed by their hero and criticized him as being “aloof.”
That set off Obama who Dovere wrote swore about reporters using that word to describe him in a conversation with an unnamed 2020 Democrat presidential candidate.
“Motherf——, I’m aloof with you because I don’t want to talk to you,” Dovere wrote Obama saying.
The adulation and praise that members of the corporate media showered on Barack Obama does not appear to be appreciated or returned by the former president.
Obama devotes a significant chunk of his memoir entitled “A Promised Land” to criticizing the media.
The former president attacked liberal pundits that knocked Obama for trying to negotiate with Republicans by claiming without citing any evidence that conservative media figures gave their side more room to operate.
“This is what separates even the most liberal writers from their conservative counterparts,” Obama wrote, was the “the willingness to flay politicians on their own side.”
And no president used the Espionage Act to prosecute more leakers than Obama.
Obama’s administration also spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen and named him a co-conspirator in a case over a leak concerning North Korea’s nuclear program.
That’s not surprising because Obama spent eight years bashing Fox News.
Obama believed every administration failure occurred because Fox News brainwashed conservatives into opposing the Obama agenda.
It’s obvious as to why Obama would hold Fox News in low regard.
But it surprised many Americans to learn that Obama didn’t hold his own cheering section in the media in high regard either.
That’s especially surprising considering Obama’s rise is owed in large part to press.
After Obama burst onto the political scene with a 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote speech that electrified liberals, the media set about protecting the myth of Barack Obama.
It was only in recent years that Americans learned that a photographer suppressed a photo of Obama and racist Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan from 2005.
The Los Angeles Times also suppressed a video tape of Obama boasting of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi, who spoke for the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1970s.
Obama’s campaign as a post-partisan, post-racial political figure existed in the minds of millions of Americans because the media suppressed the truth about Obama’s past associations and true beliefs.
And even though the media acted as the Praetorian Guard for the mythology of Barack Obama, Obama still spoke derisively about the press behind closed doors.
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