Obama Biographer David J Garrow :' I find this really quite astonishing and humorous that given all of the inaccurate speculation about Barack’s life over the years, it dawned on no journalist that there’d be student directories from the 80s that you could go look at. It seemed like an obvious thing to do but nobody had done it.'

The Guardian reports that the liberal mainstream media in America seemed quite uninterested in the background of Black Jesus:

The author said his researcher got the scoop on Jager in 2009 because, knowing what address Obama had lived at, it was simply a case of going to the University of Chicago library and pulling the student directories for 1986, 1987 and 1988 to see who else was living at the address.

Speaking from Pittsburgh on Friday, he said: “I find this really quite astonishing and humorous that given all of the inaccurate speculation about Barack’s life over the years, it dawned on no journalist that there’d be student directories from the 80s that you could go look at. It seemed like an obvious thing to do but nobody had done it.

“I was living in Britain at that time in 2009, and so I emailed her out of the blue and that began a very extensive email conversation.”

Garrow, who spent eight “very intense” hours with Obama last year and showed him the manuscript, said he had been taken aback by the intense media interest in this aspect of the book. “I’m sort of bemused because to me it’s not surprising that someone, anyone would have prior girlfriends. I don’t think that’s the most interesting thing about Barack.

Anyone claiming author David J. Garrow is a right-wing attacker on Obama: guess again .... he's a self-described "Bernie Sanders socialist".