Today’s Humor

Our resident birthers (the literary agents who advertised Obama as born in in Kenya from 1991 until he announced his candidacy for president in April 2007) – told as today that they write and publish bios for their clients, without bothering to get the clients’ approval of the text.

Besides being unbelievable and unethical, this would be incredibly bad business practice.

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30 Responses to Today’s Humor

  1. philjourdan says:

    Obama made them an offer they could not refuse to lie for him.

  2. hunter says:

    Other clients of that same agency claimed that their instructions were to write their own bios in third person and submit them for printing. The editing process involved only spell and grammar checks, no fact checks.

    • That is what everybody does.

      • Gail Combs says:

        yes, that is what is expected.
        It is unbelievable to think Obummer did not at least write a rough draft of his bio. After all who else would be expected to have the information to hand?
        What is also unbelievable are the glib answers from the Obummer apologists when I posted this earlier:

        From Huff ‘n Puff on writing Author Bios:

        …Several years ago when I taught writing workshops through Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville, VA, the first exercise I had students do was write their author bio. The cringing, seat shifting, pen-tapping task gets them every time, and every single one of them groaned in unison. And yet, by the end of that first class, they proudly took home a well-crafted bio to stick on their refrigerator. To my surprise, each one returned the next week to see what hoops I’d make them jump through next.

        That teaching experience taught me that authors really, truly despise writing their own bios. To help the medicine go down a little easier, I came up with my top 10 tips for writing a quality author bio….

        http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-hummel/10-tips-on-how-to-write-a-bio_b_4908716.html

        And another look into the subject of Author Bios

        Writing An Author Bio That Will Knock The Editor’s Socks Off!

        Never been published? Here are some suggestions on how to write that author’s bio that is sure to achieve success!

        You have just finished your masterpiece and are about to send it off to that magical world, The Land Of The Publishing Industry. You have done your homework and have edited it with a fine-tooth comb. Now what?

        You must prepare an author bio to knock the editor’s socks off. Your manuscript cannot stand alone. Along with an impressive cover letter and query, your manuscript must include an author bio. As an already established author, you have probably saved your bio in a file, updating it as you go. As an unpublished author, it is hard to know the exact way to go about doing this. I will show you the tricks of the trade to send off an impressive bio, even if you have never been published before….

        http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/bio.htm

        Wantabe writers are a dime a dozen. There is no way in He!! an editor is going to waste time Interviewing and handholding a new writer through something as simple as a bio. The person is a WRITER isn’t he? So let HIM do the writing. Just be glad they are giving you a chance to get published.
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        Seems Obama was ‘TOO IMPORTANT’ to write his own bio because he was the first black president of a college rag. A job he got through political pull and not through actual merit.

        Or in the terms of the Obummer apollogist: “Obama was instead pursued and solicited to write his book after becoming the first black President of the Harvard Law Review.”

        He was still only a college student whose only claim to fame was his skin color. His pull may have gotten him a foot in the door in a publishing house but I rather doubt it got him V.I.P. treatment especially when well known published authors were all routinely expected to write their own Bios as is shown by the above two articles.

        • The dumbth gets deeper.

          It is unbelievable to think Obummer did not at least write a rough draft of his bio.

          You mean… sorta like the proposal for the book he was going to write? Or like the dozen or so news paper articles about his selection to become President of the Harvard Law Review?

          What is also unbelievable are the glib answers from the Obummer apologists.

          Simple answers often sound glib. Even when they are true.

          Wantabe writers are a dime a dozen.

          First black Presidents of the Harvard Law Review are not.

          Seems Obama was ‘TOO IMPORTANT’ to write his own bio because he was the first black president of a college rag. A job he got through political pull and not through actual merit.

          Ignoring that graduating magna cum laude pretty much eviscerates your puerile claim that he did not get the job via merit, essentially none of the authors whose “bios” were published in the Acton & Dystel brochure wrote their own. After all… none of them were for book jackets, or author promotion, or book marketing. It was a marketing piece for A&D, not the authors. When Breitbart asked Jay Acton on that point, he said that “almost nobody” wrote his or her own biography.

          He was still only a college student whose only claim to fame was his skin color.

          Oh? You missed that whole “President of the Harvard Law Review” thing? Did you?

          That said, given the current hindsight we possess and the fact that he subsequently rose to the position of most powerful man on the planet, whatever A&D sae in him truns out to have been a bit of an underestimation.

          I rather doubt it got him V.I.P. treatment especially when well known published authors were all routinely expected to write their own Bios as is shown by the above two articles.

          I thought you said the “above tw articles” were written for “wantabe writers (who were) a dime a dozen.” Now you’re saying they were written for “well known published authors”?

          It seems there are a few holes in your theory. But Obama Derangement Syndrome does that to people.

        • philjourdan says:

          The dumbth gets deeper.

          Yea, yours.

  3. Brian H says:

    No documented case of Obama writing anything other than a few semi-incoherent magazine articles in the ’80s as a student have ever come to light.

  4. Another birther pinhead who never heard of biography vs. autobiography.

    • Gail Combs says:

      You just got through saying, and I quote:

      Brian H says:
      August 28, 2014 at 10:46 am

      No documented case of Obama writing anything other than a few semi-incoherent magazine articles in the ’80s as a student have ever come to light.
      Reply
      HistorianDude says:
      August 28, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      Except of course for his two books.

      Typical dis-info. agent tripping over his own lies. (BTW is the pay good?)

    • philjourdan says:

      Another OFA(l) idiot that still thinks Obama is a blooming idiot

  5. Shazaam says:

    Looks like the apparatchiks are now tracking this humor in their “truthy” database. http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/

    Of course they claim to be tracking “hate speech” / criticism of government…..

    Kinda explains the massive over-reactions to the subject too. Truth trumps “truthiness” unless you are a government apparatchik.

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