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Summary: YIKES
Review: THIS GUY IS CRAZY........................... HE DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE!! READ AL FRANKEN INSTEAD
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Summary: hahahaha
Review: This book is out of print? Why am I not at all surprised? And you can own a copy for the price of 1 cent? Hahahahaha, That's bad. I made the mistake of reading this book years ago, and I felt a little less intelligent for doing so. It is nothing but the same marshmellow fluff Rush has been preaching for years.
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Summary: Rush is a big fat pill-popping liar...
Review: IF Rush had his way, we'd all be addicted to pill-popping to survive the pain of telling the fascist lies he shamelessly sells. A prime example of "dont't believe everything you read." Rush should practice a little clean living himself before becoming the throwing the first stones against others. Clinton's lies about his cheap affair never cost any American soldier a life as did the many flagrant lies of Dubya to protect his Saudi patrons. 15 of the 19 World Trade Center terrorists were Saudi. I would be the first to sign up to serve if this great country proposed an invasion and freedom operation in Saudi Arabia and so would many other peace-loving liberals.
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Summary: Second above persons comment
Review: Whoever wrote the second above comment needs to pull their head out of where ever they have it and come in to the real world. If you had any clue of what's going on you would understand. You're probably a fan of the likes of Courtney Love and all the other Hollywood drug maggot infested plastic banana good time rock and rollers! Get a haircut!
Actually read the book and you might understand it!
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Summary: It is, indeed, insightful
Review: I rate this book with five stars because I think it is important for people to read it, particularly those who might term themselves, 'liberal', like myself.
As many reviewers have reported, the book is insightful, but in a way that many of them would disagree with (vehemently). It is an expose of the sloppy thinking and 'twisting-of-the-facts-to-support-my-worldview' that have come to dominate an ever-increasing segment of the media. There's Ann Coulter, and Fox News and all of their commentators and whordes of others in publishing, both book and periodical, TV, and, famously, talk radio.
I read the book, let's see here, in about 1997. A relative gave it to me as a joke and I read it. I read and read and cringed and, presently, found myself laughing at all of its absuridity. Then I was scared, moved, and troubled.
It's been a while since I read the book, but I remember reading it in bed one morning on a day off and I had one of those breakthrough realizations: I started replacing the word 'liberal' wherever it appeared and I mentally inserted the word 'Jew', et voila! Mein Kampf! I'm not saying Rush is a Nazi, now, so don't get too excited, but he definitely uses the same sort of propaganda techniques.
I believe that a Master's degree in Rhetoric is waiting to be awarded (if, indeed, it hasn't already) to some thoughtful grad student who analyzes each and every logical fallacy employed in this monograph. There are multiple examples on nearly every page. The ad hominem, the Straw Man, the False Dilemma, the Slippery Slope, prejudicial language, the False Analogy. This book's got 'em all! Page after page after page of them.
This book IS important. It was revolutionary, I think, in that it was the first mega-seller to employ these techniques in the modern conservative movement. Certainly, the basic premises, even the seed, of the Republican Revolution and all of what has come from that can be, to a fair degree, found in this book.
An earlier liberal reviewer wrote that Al Franken doesn't match up to Rush. Well, in his recent book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them", Mr. Franken has done something much more important than stooping to become "The Rush Limbaugh of the Left." He has written a thoughtful book that eschews the kind of 'thinking' that has gone into books like Mr. Limbaugh's. He has uncovered the preposterous arguments that are much of the basis of the work of such conservative 'thinkers' as Mr. Limbaugh, Ms. Coulter, Mssrs. O'Reilley and Hannity. He counters their unfounded assertions and outright lies with, if you can believe it, FACTS. As he says at the end of the book, Liberals do not need an operation like the right-wing has. We need to focus on countering their distortions and supporting our views with cold, hard truth.
An important book, but important only as a case study of conservative propaganda. Serious conservatives (among whom I most certainly do NOT include George Will) must find this book and others of the genre it inspired incredibly embarassing.
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Summary: A conservative masterpiece.
Review: Rush Limbaugh's "The Way Things Ought To Be" is one of the great landmark books of the conservative movement. Today, I am a conservative Republican in a family full of Democrats. After listening to Limbaugh's radio show a couple of times, and watching his television show a few times, I began to read this book, and it was the beginning of my conversion to conservatism. TWTOTB, and its follow-up, "See, I Told You So," set the tone for the Gingrich revolution of the 1994 election when the Republicans regained control of the House and the Senate. In TWTOTB, Limbaugh confronts a number of issues including abortion, feminism, AIDS, the environment, animal rights, socialist-utopianism and "entitlemania" (entitlement programs, and this b.s. mentality of "my country owes me something"). Rush also defends the 1980's and sets the record straight on Ronald Reagan after years of lies and disinformation by the left. After twelve years, "The Way Things Ought To Be" remains a great source for the study of conservative thought. I recommend it not only for conservatives, but also for any liberals or moderates who seriously wish to conduct an honest study of conservatism and what we really believe.
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Summary: Thank heavens he had that boil!
Review: Rush would make a great used car salesman, but don't look to him for be leader of ideas for this country. He's too cynical and
partisan to be ever be taken seriously. Sorry, Rush, you're ideas are not inclusive, they are divisive. Too bad Paul Wellstone is not still around. It would have been great to see a debate between the two of you.
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