By Michelle Goldberg
A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the presidents late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters. A look at the film and Dinesh DSouzas book, Obamas America.
So this is what its come to.
After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer, and a tyrant, its shrillest voices have been reduced to the most primal insult of all. They are calling Obamas mother a whore.
For a while now, pictures purporting to show Obamas mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, modeling in 1950s bondage and fetish porn have been floating around the darker corners of the Internet. Now, though, theyve made their way into a pseudo-documentary, Joel Gilberts Dreams From My Real Father, which is being mailed to voters in swing states, promoted by several Tea Party groups and by at least one high-level Republican. At the same time, Dinesh DSouzas latest book, Obamas Americathe first of all his works to hit the top spot on The New York Times bestseller listhas a chapter essentially calling Dunham a fat slut. If Obama is reelected, its hard to imagine where the right goes from here.
A writer once considered a legitimate conservative intellectual has been reduced to sputtering yo mama at our president.
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