The Swift Boating Begins in August [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
Saying "we believe the media whitewashed the candidate," the president of Regnery Publishing [3] announced an August release for a book titled "The Case Against Barack Obama [4]: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate." The PR firm Creative Response Concepts [5] (CRC) is promoting the book. In August 2004, CRC publicized "Unfit for Command [6]," an attack on then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry [7]'s Vietnam War record. CRC also worked for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth [8]; other clients include federal Republican Party [9] committees, Concerned Women for America [10] and the National Abstinence Education Association. David Freddoso, who authored the Obama book, is a former Ron Paul [11] supporter who works at National Review Online [12]. Regnery's president said the book will "look closely at Obama's relationships with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley [13], his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright [14], and onetime radical William Ayers, among other things."