In 2008, the media gave Obama a journalistic colonoscopy. Every few days on the campaign, I would get an e-mail from someone in Obama’s distant past saying some reporter had called them raising questions about some aspect of Obama’s story. My favorite of this genre was the New York Times digging deep into Obama’s drug use in high school, something he fully admitted in his memoir. After weeks of interviewing everyone they could find in his native Hawaii, the Times ran a story saying that they couldn’t find definitive evidence that Obama had used cocaine as much as he claimed in his own memoir.
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