On my desk: Culture of Corruption
posted at 2:41 pm on July 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Ever feel like you can’t keep track of all the shady characters in the Barack Obama without a scorecard? Consider that problem resolved, courtesy of the boss. Michelle Malkin gives readers a great read — and a handy reference guide — in Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. As David Freddoso’s The Case Against Barack Obama outlined Obama’s shady political connections and provided a history for American voters that the media mostly refused to cover, Michelle’s book gives readers the run-down on the team Obama has assembled to bring Hope and Change to the US — but whose track records indicate that we can expect Chicago-sur-le-Potomac instead.
Culture of Corruption will go on sale on July 27th, but you can place your orders now through Amazon and have it on the first day of release.
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Check out the latest addition to the Obamao administration of corruption. Look at his history. Do you see a pattern?
onlineanalyst on July 19, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Thanks. I’ll watch for it.
jeanie on July 19, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Another jewel from Michelle thanks much.
thmcbb on July 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM
I apologize for the quadruple posts, but for some reason they just vanished when I pressed the “submit comment” button.
Is it my computer, or Hot Air?
Joe Pyne on July 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Same thing.
Johan Klaus on July 19, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Very eager to read it!
Daggett on July 19, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Just ordered 100 copies for my employees, about 20 of which will be once again offended by my “plantation” style of management. Which will, of course, provide me the opportunity to explain that quite often a “wise” Filipina woman will write a better book than most white men (like me) could do.
Can’t wait for Michelle to join Levin and Beck on the NYT Best Seller list… and the cold shudder it will send down the spines of the Liberatti.
TXUS on July 19, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Rational Thought on July 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM
the very least you can do is when in a Barnes and Noble, etc. is take books like these and put them in front of all the positive books on obama. that’s what i do every now and then.
Ghoul aid on July 19, 2009 at 6:16 PM
I added Culture of Corruption to my Blog I am a Big Malkin Fan.
Dr Evil on July 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Yes… but… HALLIBURTON!!!!
mankai on July 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Has someone sent a copy to the WH or would I be the first?
bloviator on July 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM
I love how Cons always try to trash the NY Times, but slobbers all over themselves putting “NY Times Bestseller” on their cover. Mann Coulter does this too. Hmm…guess the NY Times isn’t as insignificant as they would want us to believe. Ha.
dcwvu on July 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Obama and corruption? huh?
/zombie voter
SouthernGent on July 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM
It really is sad that the Times has relegated themselves to becoming number one in the category of book counters and bird cage liners.
Rovin on July 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Isn’t the irony delicious? Yum!
onlineanalyst on July 19, 2009 at 6:44 PM
It’s called “Rubbing it in!” What better revenge than to have a liberal, communist-supporting rag like the NYT have to report that a conservative best-seller is at the top of their own list!
rmgraha on July 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM
I’ll read this while waiting for the Michelle Obama expose’. You just know that crooked woman has some enormous skeletons in her closet (probably hiding behind her giant clown shoes). I’m getting sick of the MSM myth about how she was a “brilliant” lawyer who gave up a lucrative career to take a “public service” job. The woman is a total fraud who, after not cutting it as a lawyer, was given a cushy political patronage job because of her Senator husband. Michelle Obama is almost as big a phony as her husband, and it’s time the public knew the truth.
AZCoyote on July 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM
dcwvu on July 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM
back under the bridge, troll…..before the sunlight blinds you…..
SHARPTOOTH on July 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Going to order Michelle’s new book now.
BTW, to the above commenter about “Cons always try to trash the NY Times,” it PTTHO at the Times that the sales numbers forces them to list any conservative’s book or any book supporting taking the fight to the enemy as a best seller. Want to be angry? Read their review of Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor. Here’s the text of my review of that review:
While I don’t know the man and it me costs $23 a month, I care enough not to endanger my garbageman with Times’ toxins.
Sergeant Tim on July 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM
No one suggests that the NY Times is insignificant. To the contrary, it can still set the agenda, to some degree, for the network newscasts on the “old” big 3 networks.
What has been proven (proven, in the sense of demonstrated with supporting facts; not proven like your side claims that certain things are proven) is that the news and reviews in the NY times are permeated with bias, and an editorial slant.
As for this:
Was this a typing mistake, or are you one of these reprehensible scum that puts forth the idea that Ann is not a woman?
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Yeah, kinda like the MSM’s sports polls, especially for football.
Perhaps we Conservatives are quite happy with the AP when our team is in the top 10? Or is it like people who see the big fireworks display in Washington every July 4…maybe they can’t stand the government but they do love the sparkly things going BOOM!!!
Soon we’ll be drinking beer and cheering on people we don’t even know on the ol’ gridiron and all will be well with the world.
Dr. ZhivBlago on July 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM
The NYT “Best Sellers List”, dear troll, is the last vestige of truth in the corrupt enterprise to which you no doubt worship. Soon, and I expect to your great yearning, even this will disappear from its hallowed pages, except of course for the “approved” tomes.
TXUS on July 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Nice!
CP on July 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM
This excerpt was sent to me today:
Logic 101
An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week,
which I quote: “If you consider that there has been an average of
160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22
months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of
60 per 100,000 soldiers.
The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the
same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be
shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest
gun control laws in the US , than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington.
eaglesdontflock on July 19, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Ambling for a raise, are ye Ed?
I jest.
BKennedy on July 19, 2009 at 8:07 PM
In response to this post, I asked you a question.
You didn’t answer.
So, you are;
A. A coward
B. A hit-and-run troll
C. The answer to my question was “yes;” you are reprehensible scum.
D. All of the above.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Me? I’m ordering the special looseleaf binder edition with the weekly updates!!
Sweet_Thang on July 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 8:16 PM
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Tanker on July 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Looks like a good read indeed. The lack of scrutiny of Obummer is simply amazing, or rather, to have been expected.
Bush? Cheney? What did we NOT know about these people? Minor school records to minor surgical procedures.
Look, is this thing about no birth certificate for Obummer real or fringe?
I got called fringe for even bringing up the topic that Obummer has supplied no birth certificate.
Has he or hasn`t he?
If someone in here knows, please let ME know . . . .
Sherman1864 on July 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I wonder what the chapters are?
Chap 1: Timmy Geithner gets a seat with the big boys.
Chap 2: We can all
hopepray for “G D Amerikkka.”Chap 3: Look at the moobs, not Bernadine.
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 8:33 PM
There are some who actually think this….
We live in strange times.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Well, in my opinion, they “think” this because they have forced themselves to think this. In order to be able to say, that their shall we say not the prettiest friends are “gorgeous,” they (these people we speak of), convince themselves that Michelle Obama is gorgeous, Joy Behar is classic beauty, and Carrie Bradshaw is just fabulous.
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Chap 4: Investigate fraud; “you’re fired.”
Chap 5: Stimulus don’t stimulate.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Democrats catching up…
Barbarians at the Window (The Saching of the U.S. Economy)
Dr Evil on July 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM
The punks thugs are coming out of the woodwork.
Texyank on July 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM
How did all these marginal intellects get in here?
eaglesdontflock on July 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM
I’ll definitely be picking this one up. But much as I enjoy watching the B&N and Borders liberals twist their faces in agony when they set eyes on my reading material, I still prefer to give my hard earned money to the Conservative Book Club. Even the additional shipping charge is worth it.
The only time I usually purchase from the retail book stores anymore is to check out the Bargain shelves.
OlympicLeprechaun on July 19, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Chap 6: Buh-bye Alice Palmer
Chap 7: Supah Delegates!
Chap 8. The Ayers Doctrine
Chap 9: Abolish the IRS (for my payple!!!)
Chap 10: Why Obama hates Chipmunks and Squirrels
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I would say that Michelle could try to make her book into a movie, but I suppose one could say that CNN’s constant coverage of Obama’s Dog is essentially a movie that would debunk Michelle’s book… /sarc
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rove, Halliburton, The Carlyle Group, Blackwater, Haditha, Abu Gharib, Miers
They did it first.
daesleeper on July 19, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Elaborate.
fogw on July 19, 2009 at 8:59 PM
So far as I know, there’s no discretion in the list. And that’s all it is–a list based on book sales. No other media outlet publishes such a list, so the NYT is really the only game in town for compiling these sales figures.
WTF? Referring the NYT Best Sellers’ List is akin to buying into its editorial positions? Get serious.
BuckeyeSam on July 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM
If the filthy liar in the White House has such traction, why is it that Levin, Beck, et al are writing the books that sell? Where is the best selling book from Tom Dashchle spelling out the case for the rat bastard traitor’s healthcare plot?
highhopes on July 19, 2009 at 9:05 PM
So, you have a software that randomly spits out pre-programmed troll buzzwords.
You pushed the button 12 times.
If you are a hamster, you’ve just earned 12 hamster treats.
If you are a human, you should be able to do better than this.
I guess you must be one hungry hamster!
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I don’t think daesleeper is a troll…
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 9:08 PM
The Washington Post, for one, also publishes a best seller list. Glen Beck’s book was #1 on the non-fiction/general list. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was #3 with a Michael Jackson tribute book #4. Take that as you will.
highhopes on July 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Nor did I call him one – I just want better than a list of random words.
And, I’m tired of the “both sides do it” argument.
The focus should be on just this; the corruption and abuse of power of the current administration.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM
My M-I-L works at B&N and she says they can’t keep the conservative books in. Were sold out of Levin’s book 5 times already and that Obama’s books are just sitting collecting dust!
JAM on July 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Eh… perhaps.
Eh, anyway. Out for a while.
I’d wish Michelle luck with her book, but somehow it feels as though I’m cheering for more O-fraud… *choking on my own vomit*
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Eh, maybe those that don’t worship at the doors of public education can actually read…
Upstater85 on July 19, 2009 at 9:15 PM
M-I-L ?
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:15 PM
It’s going to be such a long four years for Obama.
Kralizec on July 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Forget it – I just got it.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
She Who Must Be Obeyed
Kralizec on July 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Do liberals even know how to read?
highhopes on July 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Three years, six months, one day. I’m hoping each and every day will be a living hell for the filthy liar in the White House and the rat bastard traitors of his party.
highhopes on July 19, 2009 at 9:25 PM
But, how do you really feel?
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM
ROFL! I left off the sarc tag. But did I miss anyone? :P
daesleeper on July 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Sorry daesleeper; I have a rare condition that makes me dense to sarcasm, at times.
I missed it.
Since it was sarcasm, and since it set me off, you surely know it was effective.
Again, apologies if I offended…
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
And, I was apologizing to you, not hamsters.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM
No offence taken. Your response was awesome though! I’m still giggling.
I used to do behaviour research with rats. They got something much cooler than hamster treats when they pushed the lever.
daesleeper on July 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Can you say what they got, on a “family friendly” blog?
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Heroin, Morphine, cocaine, or methamphetamine. We were looking for candidate treatments to attenuate drug seeking behaviour.
daesleeper on July 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Please let me know when you get to the human testing phase.
massrighty on July 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Sorry, but with that moniker all I could picture was some kid in his pajamas living in his parent’s basement who plays WOW all night long.
fogw on July 19, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Yeah, it was my old gaming moniker…I was a twitcher though. Never had an interest in RPG’s or wearing pajamas for that matter. So how would one recognize a gaming moniker without being a gamer? hmm?
daesleeper on July 19, 2009 at 9:41 PM
My youngest, who just graduated from college in May, could best be described as a computer geek who was hooked on the game. For the record, when at home he did have his own bedroom and was not banished to the basement.
:-)
fogw on July 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM
How many 1 star Amazon reviews will this receive before it even comes out?
You’re a brave woman Michelle and I appreciate the fight you fight everyday for the cause of liberty and justice for all.
Mr_Magoo on July 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Too true. When the SWIFT boat vets boat about John Kerry came out, I went to the local bookstore, only to be told by a snarky salesperson that the book was full of errors and had been recalled by the publisher. It was, of course, all a lie though to this day there are those on the left who claim that the book was a smear job.
I admire those who take a public stand on this stuff be it in books or on the airwaves. Somebody has to get the truth out and the MSM are nothing but propagandists for the filthy liar’s administration.
highhopes on July 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Indeed. Michelle is a tremendous inspiration to me and many others who believe in individual liberty and the freedoms this country’s founders intended to advance.
I can’t thank MM enough for all she continues to do. And I can’t wait to read this book!
Gilda on July 19, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Does any of your work explain the election of Duh Won?
platypus on July 19, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Way too many books have come out this year that I need to read…hopefully I can get to this one at some point
d-mitch on July 19, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Just Bought it!
Travis1 on July 19, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Ah way to cool!!!!! AM going to the bookstore tomorrow and pick up a few copies~
Many Thanks to you Michelle Malkin. We Love you and Wishes greatness upon your family!
God Bless. : )
hawkman on July 19, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I am still finishing Catastrophy and may put it down. The superiorty of this book lies in its nonfictional aspect. Dick Morris has a great deal of talent but anyone’s attempt at prognostication rides off with a high likelihood of error, an aspect of risk for the reader who trusts the author, and a real temptation for bombast and hyperbole. The real problem is that my hedge funds for shorting the market, the dollar and T bills are in the doldrums. Luckily, I didn’t even think about cash in the matress or gold. If nothing he is predicting ever breaks, (Like the Condi/Hillary contest he apparently predicted) I shall be tempted to think of Mr. Morris as a huckster. You have to watch your predictions..
Sherman1864 on July 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM I am not particulary a rube and I have “birther” questions. If I had a birth certificate in Hawaii, I wouldn’t spend a second trying to thwart pubilc demands for its production, have my staff belittle people asking for it and spend a fortune fighting my citizens who are asking for its production, sometimes in court. Nor would I post a simple “Certificate of Live Birth” on the web, which is not the same as a birth certificate. Something strange here but I have a tinfoil hat at the ready wherever I go..just kidding.
IlikedAUH2O on July 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Bought it plus also Jim Demint’s Saving Freedom. Don’t usually buy books by politicians yet for him, I’ll make an exception.
Sergeant Tim on July 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Yes… but… at least that was a real job!!!!
manwithblackhat on July 20, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Michelle Malkin rocks. Congrats Michelle. I hope you climb the charts with this latest book. Keep fighting.
I just bought a copy of Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny. It is simple and clear, yet brilliant. Everyone should read it ASAP.
I will get MM’s next. You go Girl.
Geochelone on July 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Its books like these that define a President. If Mrs. Malkin’s book becomes popular Obama could end up being seen as a Mr. Corrupt. Of course all this would matter less had he not specifically campaigned on a ‘cleaning up politics’ ticket.
Question: has he made bad decisions in his picks for the administration, or is he essentially corrupt?
dcpolwarth on July 20, 2009 at 3:51 AM
The Kenyan and his reverend’s get whitey plan. Corruption, that’s the way Colonel Obama does business. State run media, lie down.
tarpon on July 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM
Just ordered 5! It will be great reading on my 14-hour flight back to the Middle East in a couple weeks. I did Levin’s book last time….simply amazing insight!
JetBlast on July 20, 2009 at 6:42 AM
Plan to buy mine at B&N. I love the smell of liberal heads exploding in the morning.
When I am finish reading it, it will go on the coffee table for the benefit of my liberal friends.
You rock Michelle.
BobK on July 20, 2009 at 7:05 AM
The title is an excellent choice
The level of political-industrial-journalistic disgrace has begun to resemble Rome in decline.
People have to be made aware that the ratio of honour to dishonour is shifting. There have always been crooks. It is becoming difficult to locate the honest man in the crowd. For this we are in great trouble
Empires decline when the ratio reverses. The good and the bad are the ends of the spectrum but when the bad outweigh the good, the weak middle caves. Eternal vigilance means we must face our enemy to defeat it
entagor on July 20, 2009 at 7:42 AM
“The truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
themediansib on July 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM
Perhaps I’m getting too cynical — following politics and aging both have a way of doing that to you –, but I believe I’ve already foreseen the Times‘ review:
“Air head writes book. Comes with crayons.”
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on July 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM
I don’t think the middle is weak. In fact, what I think will save this nation from the excesses of the political class and the looting that we’ve seen going on since the filthy liar took office is the middle standing up and telling the crooks in DC to back off. It is my hope that it comes with a “throw the bums out” mentality for the 2010 elections where any incumbent of either party is scrambling to re-establish their credibility with the voters and not simply paying lip service to caring about their constituents.
highhopes on July 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Question: has he made bad decisions in his picks for the administration, or is he essentially corrupt?
dcpolwarth on July 20, 2009
Answer: Yes.
SKYFOX on July 20, 2009 at 8:51 AM
So glad Michelle has written this. She is an actual journalist and cannot be written off by the Left as some paid RNC troll. I plan to visit my local lefty bookstore and ask for it. This is one of my favorite activities.
FYI, my husband was a big Obama supporter but he is nearly apoplectic about all the Chicago hoods and corrupt Clinton retreads that have come in to his Administration. Of all the things he thought Obama would really “change”, the culture of Washington was the biggest and most important to him. It’s been a pretty sad sight watching the scales fall from his eyes.
rockmom on July 20, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Obama himself has picked very few of the people in his Administration, because he hasn’t been around long enough to know most of these people. Valerie Jarrett, Pete Rouse, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod are just about the only ones he knew personally. So it’s Rahm or someone else with a longer track record doing the picking of all these other crooks and commies. Rahm has a vast network from his years in the Clinton White House and the House of Representatives.
This is the reason I often refer to it as the Emanuel Administration. Barack Obama is a Charlie McCarthy figure, a ventriloquist’s dummy. Rahm is the one actually running the country.
rockmom on July 20, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Explaining his election is easy; 1 part media in the tank, 1 part GOP running a backstabbing old fart who ran a joke of a campaign at best, or at worst, threw the election. I maintain he didn’t have to throw it; he sucked so bad there was no way he was ever going to win. But, there’s your President Wet Ear Rookie. Imagine going to the Super Bowl with the Colts, and instead of Peyton Manning, you send out the 5′1 inch towel boy as your quarterback. We gave it away.
austinnelly on July 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Pre-orderd 5 copies this morning from Amazon. I sent copies to various family members residing in Texas, Washington state, Wyoming, etceteras. In order to DO this, I had to complete 5 separate orders (a different order for each address that I was shipping to).
My collie says:
Good to see Michelle writing books again. She always does a great job of researching her topic, and I like her writing style WAY better than Ann Coulter’s.
CyberCipher on July 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I might make a poster out of that cover shot.
ex-Democrat on July 20, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Do our service men get hazardous duty pay for service in D.C.?
Herb on July 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
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