Veteran journalist Klein tells Newsmax that the success of his book “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House” proves that “you don’t need the mainstream media anymore” to reach the American public.
Ed Klein’s blockbuster new book about President Obama is No. 1 on the New York Times’ list of best-sellers for the second straight week, despite being ignored by virtually the entire “mainstream media.”
And veteran journalist Klein tells Newsmax that the success of his book “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House” proves that “you don’t need the mainstream media anymore” to reach the American public.
Klein’s book is buttressed by nearly 200 interviews with people close to Obama, and features explosive disclosures about one of the most secretive White Houses.
Klein is the former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He sat down in New York with former Congressman and Newsmax columnist John LeBoutillier for an exclusive interview about Klein’s expose.
Discussing the mainstream media’s disregard for his book, which contains a lengthy interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Klein told LeBoutillier: “The Washington Post spent 5,000 words about Mitt Romney cutting off somebody’s hair 46 years ago, and doesn’t write a single word about my on-the-record interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was the president’s pastor three years ago.”
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