John Wright is an award-winning journalist with more than thirty-five years of experience. He has worked for the Associated Press in Latin America and Knight-Ridder (Bridge News), and served as the bureau chief for Dow Jones newswires in Brazil. He lives in the Seattle area.
“The Obama Haters is a compelling look at the profit-driven
political opposition ‘industry’ that threatens civil discourse and
rational solutions through lies, half-truths, and exploitation.
It’s a must read for anyone who cares about what’s ailing our
democracy and worries about the divisiveness and partisanship
that’s tearing it apart.”—Edward G. Rendell, former governor of
Pennsylvania
“The value of this volume is in its calling out hate mongers before
they encourage more political violence such as the January 2011
tragedy in Tucson. In effectively countering vicious lies about
President Obama, John Wright makes a strong case for recognizing
and marginalizing potentially dangerous hate speech thinly veiled
as free speech. The words we choose to use color our world and
perceptions and influence our behavior. Even when there is an
absence of incitement to violence, there are those whose inner
psyches are stimulated to ethnoviolence by such rhetoric.”—Anthony
Cortese, professor of sociology, Southern Methodist University, and
author of Opposing Hate Speech
“John Wright exposes how Obama's detractors have created a
caricature of the president as a turban-wearing, Mecca-praying,
Kenyan-born communist who learned his politics from bearded little
men clutching hissing bombs. As Wright points out, what makes
Obama’s self-appointed enemies different from haters of past
presidents is that they will invent any tall tale to promote the
lie that Obama is not a real American.”—Edward McClelland, author
of Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President
“Many Americans, myself included, wonder what happened to our
public discourse in the last few years. This book tells that story
more vividly than any other I’ve read. If you want to know how the
conservative media went off the rails and why elected
representatives started calling Obama a traitor and a tyrant, John
Wright is the perfect guide.”—U. S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva,
Arizona’s Seventh District
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