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Michelle Malkin's Culture of Corruption: Truth Be Told
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Riveting, edifying, and judicious are just a few of the words I’d employ to describe Michelle Malkin’s latest, Culture of Corruption. In one of the most well investigated pieces I’ve examined to date, Malkin adeptly juxtaposes Barack Obama’s hope and change rhetoric to his repeated pampering of lobbyists, tax cheats, unscrupulous corporate lawyers, and fraudulent union big shots. She paints an impressive portrait of the nefarious Chicago political machine with which our almighty protector of the common folk and his First Lady were thoroughly intertwined. Malkin’s acute wit and exquisite attention to detail permeate each chapter of this fiercely intellectual, periodically sarcastic, eye-opening publication. She takes selective swipes at our painfully partisan mainstream media and exposes a staggering interconnectedness of corruption, political favors, and disingenuity that characterize our President and some of the most prominent figures of his imperial cabinet.
Malkin begins with a plea for readers to “Judge him not by the company that preceded him. Judge him by the company he keeps” (13), contrasting our President’s campaign vow of an Obama White House devoid of lobbyists with the revelation that seventeen of Washington’s finest peddlers currently rest snugly in his administration. She follows her assertion that, “By the end of his first 100 days, Obama had set a turnover record for an incoming cabinet with four major withdrawals…” (17), with thoroughly researched, stone-cold facts about the early departures of such patriots of our republic as Bill Richardson, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, and Jon Cannon. Malkin unapologetically divulges the truth behind Michelle Obama’s victimized portrayal of her former economically-challenged existence with such sharp assessments as, “After graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, the bitterly oppressed Michelle Obama headed back to her native Chicago to join the high-powered law firm of Sidley Austin-the fifth-largest in the world” (48). She illuminates the First Lady’s cozy ties to trusted friend and advisor Valerie Jarrett, who-if authentic, truth bearing journalism was alive and well-would be known by the public for her inept, callous management of low-income housing. Mrs. Obama’s shady right hand in tossing out low-income, non-emergency patients from the University of Chicago Medical Center during her stint as Executive Director of Community Affairs is carefully delineated. Malkin’s wit is the perfect vehicle through which to both entertain and galvanize readers to such distasteful obamanations.
Perhaps my favorite chapter of Culture of Corruption details the sometimes hilarious, often repugnant affirmations and associations of lobbyist companion, earmark-happy, compulsive liar, Joe Biden. An intensive probe into President Obama’s double-dealing cabinet of consorts, all friends to payoffs and profiteering, all strangers to the transparency their “anointed” leader so relentlessly championed during his hypnotizing campaign of promise, precedes a comprehensive survey of profoundly corrupt, executively appointed czars and their toxic dealings. Obama’s rooted ties to convicted felon Tony Rezco, Countrywide, AIG, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, infamous hedge-fund managers, campaign bundlers, and the scandalous Service Employees International Union, are neatly and efficiently unfolded by Malkin with articulate ease. Accountability and integrity perchance take their greatest backseat to deceit and duplicity in the chapters encompassing ACORN and Ms. Hillary Clinton, in which embezzlement, suspect donors, tax evasion, crafty fundraising, and outstanding earmarks abound. Our noble President’s unwavering support for the likes of Chris Dodd, whose moral vacancy and crooked bonds to Countrywide and the Fannie and Freddie bailouts are meticulously outlined, leave the public with a rightful distaste for both Dodd and the Commander-in-chief who so brazenly defends him.
Culture of Corruption is a true testament to the integrity of precise, fastidious research. Malkin’s dynamic, sarcastically comedic myriad of words is not for the super sensitive, not for the oblivious seeking to remain artificially sheltered by the empty words of those whose actions revere the opposite. For seekers of the truth-genuine, hard-working Americans who prioritize authenticity and candor over party allegiance and stealthy rhetoric-this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
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