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Summary: Nice Try, Tubby.
Review: Poor, poor John Podhoretz. Wrote his little pamphlet hoping to make a quick buck, just like Mommy wrote her little quickie about Rumsfeld -- only to have the books collide with America's sudden realization that the right wing dream team has become a nightmare. Today, ABC news reports that rather than the work of a few bad apples at Abu Ghraib, Rumsfeld's army has engaged in a massive cover up of the atrocities there. Two NBC reporters have broken through with their stories that they were tortured by the US army. Sy Hersh has broken through with another bombshell revelation, based on sources inside the intelligence community that Rumsfeld and his deputy Charbone commissioned the policies of detainee torture and abuse. Colin Powell is on record that he alerted the Bush White House that torture of prisoners was routine in Iraq. As Sy Hersh quotes a CIA official, as far as Bush pretending he knew nothing of the torture chambers in Iraq, "Some people think you can bull**** anybody."The same is true of poor John Podhoretz, spoon fed his reductive idelogy at his father's corrupt knee. Who does this guy and his right wing cadre think they're kidding? Anybody who would endorse this pathetic apologia for the most wicked, incompetent and anti-democratic Presidency of this or any other era deserves what's coming to him. Speaking of Podhoretz's emablers in this forum, PT Barnum put it best: There's a sucker born every minute.
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Summary: Sometimes Cowboys Save the Day
Review: What I have noticed about the recent spate of books either praising or damning George Bush is that their collective writing styles are mirror images of the divergent political philosophies of the Republican and Democratic parties. Democratic candidates (John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle) tend to be smarmy, shrill, and contemptuous of those whose backgrounds are not part of the New York Ivory Urban elite. Republican candidates are more blue collar more folksy in their worldview. In BUSH COUNTRY, John Podhoretz has written the literary equivalent of a call to arms in defense of an American President whom the Democratic Attack Machine mercilessly hammers as a fumbling, bumbling cowboy. Podhoretz divides his book into defenses of allegations that George Bush is a moron, a puppet, a fanatic, a Hitler clone, a financial and military inept, a cowboy, and a liar. As I read BUSH COUNTRY, I compared Podhoretz's thesis with similar charges by the left made in anti-Bush screeds like WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA by Eric Alterman, who tries to deconstruct Bush with the same tired falsehoods that even now John Kerry is slinging. Just as Alterman's book is an incomprehensible mishmash of disagreeable verbal sludge, BUSH COUNTRY, by contrast, pictures George Bush as exactly the sort of man vilified by the New York Urban Elite--one who has core values firmly rooted in the historical Judaeo-Christian ethic of a world view that prizes family, honor, hard work, and security. Not only does Podhoretz do a masterful job of deflecting the left's scurrilous charges of moral ineptitude but he also succeeds in defining the left as a lumpy mess of moral relativists who, like John Kerry, can tell the hard hatted auto workers of Michigan how he prizes his gas guzzling SUV, and then just a few weeks later can tell the Green Peace crowd how he would never own such a mechanical dinosaur. What emerges from BUSH COUNTRY is the portrait of a leader who has his philosophical roots in the Jimmy Stewart MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON film. The very qualities that the left vilifies in Bush Podhoretz succeeds in uplifting a man whose core values are all that stands between this country's security and a Kerry who would run to the United Nations alter of Kofi Anon while screaming multiculturalism when yet another planeload of Islamic murderers punctuates the claim that radical terrorists hate America not because we are Republican unilateralists but rather hate us for the very qualities the Republicans revere and the Democrats sneer.
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Summary: Something of the REAL truth?
Review: To Gomer in Homerville, and others . . . there are a lot of people propping up the president and digging dirt and playing nasty with so-called "liberals" (anyone who doesn't get on their knees to GWBush and his gang of fascists). This author is just another Bush slappy, the book written for you 'Gomers' of the world. Why not "open your eyes" and read what a former Bush conservative insider and hatchetman confesses! Read David Brock's - Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. For starters.
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Summary: Joie de Tel Aviv
Review: George W. Bush is the best American president Israel has ever had. Nixon paid homage to Golda; Carter put up with Begin. But Bush has actually gone to war for the Zionist Cleansing Experiment -- and so it is not surprising that John Podhoretz and his ilk have come to bat for him. (Remember that father Norman is the editor of Commentary -- best known as part of a Woody Allen joke -- and mother Midge Decter has written erotic paeans to Donald Rumsfeld.) Podhoretz is much more articulate than Bush; although he still doesn't seem very bright, he certainly has an IQ in the triple digits -- and thank heavens for small favors. He makes no effort to defend the recent torture in Iraq -- although one does have the sense that if anybody had laid one paw on a young Israeli "Sarah" or "Bathsheba" he'd be out there howling ANTI-SEMITISM! All in all, a smart but necessarily short-sighted examination of the worst American president.
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Summary: A Quick Summary
Review: Literally yet another load of G.W.BU**SH!
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Summary: Lies, lies, and more lies
Review: Yet again, Podhoretz manages to massage facts to try to justify his claims. He cites those who support his views, and he ignores those arguments counter to his views (or vilifies the individuals who made the arguments he opposes). This book has all of the quality analysis of The New York Post and all of the "fair and balanced" journalism of Fox News. If you enjoy those two news sources and believe them to provide accurate facts and intelligent analysis, then you will be delighted by the book. If, however, you find those two news sources to engage in a compromising of journalism worthy of William ("You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war")Randolph Hearst, Silvio Berlusconi, or Vladimir Putin, then you will most likely not enjoy this compendium of skewed claims. Then again, you might find this a fascinating anthropological study, if you don't mind wading through the rhetorical muck shoveled by right-wing dogmatists and if you want to examine the willing self-delusion of the devoted followers of Podhoretz, Limbaugh, Hannity, and others. Chacun a son goût, your mileage may very, etc.
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Summary: Don¿t Misunderestimate George W. Bush!
Review: In his book "Bush Country: How Dubya Became A Great President While Driving Liberals Insane," John Podhoretz lays out his case for why George W. Bush is one of the greatest presidents of our generation. As a columnist for the New York Post and political commentator for Fox News Channel, Podhoretz writes with a straightforward style that leaves no interpretation for the reader in regard to how he feels about the forty-third President of United States. Setting out to debunk the liberal myths that have circulated since the Texas Governor first announced his candidacy, the author peels away the lies one-by-one (such lies he labels "Crazy Liberal Idea #1, #2, #3, etc.") The first absurd notion, "Bush is a moron," is quickly laid to rest as Podhoretz outlines his educational history, testimony from those surrounding the president, his performance, and fallacy of many liberal arguments to the contrary. In addition, Podhoretz destroys other wacko inside-the-beltway liberal convention wisdom in regard to such ideas as "Bush is a puppet," "Bush is a fanatic," "Bush is (...) Only not as talented," "Bush isn't protecting America," "Bush wants to bankrupt the government," "Bush is a cowboy," and "Bush is a liar". Have no doubt about it, this is a book you will absolutely hate if you are a committed liberal or Bush-hater. It has nary a negative word to say about the president. Likewise, conservatives and supporters of the president will love this book as it reinforces their belief in the judgment and leadership skills of the president. You will put this book down absolutely convinced that George W. Bush rivals Ronald Reagan as the greatest conservative leader of our generation. Here's hoping for four more years... Britt Gillette
Author of "The Dittohead Guide To Adult Beverages"
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Summary: he became a ... what?
Review: a great what? er, last time I checked he was still an imbecile... I must have missed something that the five star reviewers did not :)
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Summary: Bush Country
Review: John Podhoretz has a book worth reading for a change, since the in thing to do these days is bash the Bush. Since the Democrates haven't got anything good to run on they must do the Bush Bashing to cover what they don't have and that is a leader that can lead this country like our president is doing. Mr. Podhoretz by hat goes off to your and your book is a must read. Larry Hobson-Author- The Day Of The Rose
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Summary: more bagels!
Review: The Podhoretz family is known for its delicious recipes for bagels and cream cheese. Now John -- a founding member of the Log Cabin Republicans -- has come out with a decidedly partisan, but oft-delicious serving of lox and lies to go with the family business. Terrific.
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