Meanest story nominee: The Secret Life of Barack Obama.

Publication: National Examiner

Date: 21 Nov. 2011

The low rent Examiner publishes details from Mondo Frazier's new book The Secret Life of Barack Obama. His blurb on Amazon.com says he works for Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism and for RadarOnline, which is owned by AMI, the publishers of five of the gossip rags.  It is telling that this story is not on the cover of the flagship Enquirer, but instead relegated to the low rent Examiner.  Here are the headlines.

• New blockbuster book by Mondo Frazier
• Shocking Russian "arrest"
• His strange CIA cover-up
• Sinister Pakistan ties 30 years ago!

Just in case you had some doubts about this story, the quotation marks around the word "arrest" should give you an idea of how serious the charges are.

This is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.