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Summary: Every Conservative Should Read This Book!
Review: All of that extreme hatred of President Clinton coming from the right...Where does it come from? Why do so many Clinton scandal rumors pervade the mainstream media? Is it because President Clinton is so corrupt and immoral, or because the right-wing set out to bring him down by any means possible? You can decide after reading this book. Especially interesting about this book was learning so many origins and sources of the Clinton and Anita Hill so-called "scandals" that exploded during the 90s, and how easy it was to invent such scandal rumors in Washington, sit back and let them spread like wildfire. The moral of Brock's story: Don't believe everything you hear from the media...especially the conservative media. Select your political party based on the issues, not the Washington rumor-mill.
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Summary: Book belongs on fiction list
Review: I read the book and laughed! Brock has been caught in so many lies it's damn funny, first he made up his college years and the incident with Jean Kirkpatrick and now you have many people like Andrew Sullivan also claiming he invented the material in this book. So you have to conclude that David Brock has a chip on his shoulder and the truth be damned. David Brock also claimed that Fox has blackballed him and wouldn't allow him to plug his book. I guess that Brock forgot that he was on Fox plugging his book and the pictures are on Andrew Sullivan. Com. Brock just can't stop lying!! Also Drudge has reported that Brock was in the loony bin when he wrote the book...Figures!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: If you want an honest sincere book, written from the bowels of the Right Wing Conspiracy, this is the one for you. It tells of the techniques the Republicans use, trying to catch the president in a lie about sex, which was generally the plan all along. If you are truly a liberal, unlike some of the other reviewers listed on the "A" list, you will like this book, and you will get many of the details of the conspiracy and the big money spent to catch Clinton, and expose what should have been his private life. One warning, you need to have a dictionary handy. I feel like I have a good vocabulary, but Brock was pulling words out I'd never heard before. Some conservatives have trashed the book, as he isn't their willing lackey anymore, but it rings as not just a true confession of the author, filled with regret, but an accurate accounting of what really transpired. Get it, read it.
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Summary: Reading Your Worst Fears
Review: When Hillary Clinton said that her husband was the victim of a "vast Right Wing conspiracy" many laughed. After you read David Brock's "Blinded By The Right" you'll stop laughing. The conspiracy is spelled out in grinding detail by one of its original authors. Brock pulls back the curtain and unveils most of the major players of the right wing in all of their human frailities from a Supreme Court justice who perjured himself to a Speaker of the House attempting to impeach a President for the same acts he had committed himself. Few, including Brock himself, are spared in a look at Republican politics from the inside out. If you hold a strong politcal viewpoint this book will disturb you in one way or another, but it is worth checking that viewpoint at the door in order to get through this read because many of the people mentioned are still "in play" in the Bush administration and are going to have a part to play in the latest conflict
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Summary: Great dish
Review: I always thought David Brock would write this book someday. He seemed too, well, nice to be hanging around all those creepy, anti-gay bigots on the Right, and that he didn't turn around sooner is the only surprise here. It's a well-researched, at times emotional glimpse into one gay man's experience with hatred from both within and outside his experience. Although it's filled with juicy gossip that only goes to show how hypocritical the Right is when it comes to sexual and moral issues, it never ventures into nasty terrritory. It's a bit heavy on the minutae of Troopergate, and a lot of the names will be completely unfamiliar to anyone outside the Beltway. And I wish he had shared a bit more of his personal life: dating, friendships, social contacts. Still, it's a book written from the heart, and I hope there's more where this came from.
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Summary: Brock - Clears his conscience and exposes the right
Review: Although his excuses for falling for the far right are somewhat lax - He was right on target - you'll see the far right hate machine spring into action now -claiming he was in a mental institution and that he did it for his lover - dont believe it
These are the same tactics used by the Clinton hate machine-
Brock was much like I was in 97 - I could not believe the hate mogering and the Starr Chamber tactics - The Nazis could not have carried off a better scheme
I was sick to my stomach for the United States
How could sane people believe such lies
Read this book not to reinforce your own beliefs but to see what hate can do to a cause - to a generation
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Summary: Read it for a laugh, then learned of the author's insanity
Review: really no joke, read this;
Controversial author David Brock suffered a breakdown last summer and was committed to the psychiatric ward of Sibley Hospital in Northwest Washington, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The breakdown came just months before Brock finalized production of his bestselling book BLINDED BY THE RIGHT -- a book that has been widely challenged on points of accuracy! "He had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him," reveals a source who befriended Brock last July at the hospital. Brock told fellow patients that he did not feel safe -- even inside of the hospital's secure medical setting! "He spent time in the ''The Quiet Room', there was just a mattress on the floor, and he had some books. He was so tired and stressed." Reached by phone in Washington late Tuesday Brock strongly denied the hospitalization and breakdown in any way affected his ability to recall events depicted in BLINDED BY THE RIGHT. Brock strongly denied that any portion of the book was written at the hospital while he was under medical treatments, as is claimed by one source. Publisher CROWN could not be reached late Tuesday. Brock's book of personal observations and first-hand accounts involving various Clinton scandals and scandal players generated divided opinion. Former President Clinton chatted up Brock's effort in Los Angeles last weekend. "Clinton, who seems to have practically committed passages to memory, told his former aides that whenever they feel down, they should read Brock's book to illuminate anew what they were all fighting against for eight years, and as a reminder of what 'unhappy' people their counterparts on the right truly are," the LOS ANGELES TIMES reported. But one source familiar with Brock's breakdown questioned: "With all of this, how can he be considered credible?" Brock said by phone, "I am not going to comment on private medical matters." -combine these facts with the fact that most people involved in his "recollections" flatly deny that the events took place and you have a book written by a paranoid, money grubbing, slanderous, political mercenary. In short no intellectually honest person would believe one thing this man says.
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Summary: Confirms what you've known for years
Review: The knee-jerk mistrust of Brock by many readers and reviewers is entirely understandable, but I have little doubt that the gist of this tale is true. The "vast right-wing conspiracy" isn't exactly shocking, nor is the notion that its defining motivation was a personal dislike of the Clintons rather than political opinion. Conservativism, based as it is on the withholding of political, economic and social power from the greater public, must subvert openness and honesty in political discourse. If conservatives spoke openly of their real motives, they would seldom get more than 10 or 15% of the vote. Therefore, we get a steady stream of character assassination, oxymoronic initiatives like Empower America, and racial, sexual and gender scapegoating. David Brock's past "reportage" isn't even the most egregious example of this. That said, the book itself wasn't easy to read. Many of his anecdotes are entertaining, and his personal affection for former colleagues is admirable, but having seen their performances on television and read their anti-Clinton diatribes in newspapers and magazines, I find his willingness to let many of them off-the-hook ethically to be too generous. My other complaint is that the book is difficult to follow--it skips around chronologically and seems to lack an organizational thread.
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Summary: Confessions of a Political Master....
Review: I'm all for the whistle-blower. However, I usually cheer for the whistler who gets knocked on his/her rear after doing the blowing. However, Brock is a whistler who whistles his way right up the ladder and then off to the bank. He jumps first on the right side of the teeter-totter then on the left and collects from both. Brock asserts that there is a right-wing conspiracy What is a conspiracy? People working for the same end, or perhaps a group trying to promote certain ideologies? Maybe it's 'unfair' tactics used to advance the goals and beliefs of a particular group? However Brock define it, it becomes a two-edged sword with the other edge pointing right at the other side -- in this case it points back to the left. This is because Broak would not only have been part of a conspiracy - for the right, but he would be part of one now - for the left. His book ends up indicting both sides. After publication of Brock's book a number of people have claimed that 'Hillary was right!' This is rather baffling since Hillary called 'foul' when her husband was accused of lying. She said he was the target of a right-wing conspiracy. Then, just a few short weeks later, Mr. Clinton confessed to his affair and his subsequent lying to cover it up. In effect, he said that his wife was mistaken and there was no conspiracy. How can people now claim that Hillary was right when her husband said she was wrong? From the start of Brock's journey a the University of California at Berkeley to his idolizing of Bobby Kennedy to his allegiance to Oliver North, Brock comes across as one who has never been committed to his beliefs. Tim Appelo says that, "if Brock says he was a liar for much of his life, how do we know he's not lying now?" I'm not sure Brock can get around this question. Even Brock admits that he profits by moving to the left and suggests he's made a lot of money in doing so. This probably isn't his motivation for writing this book, but it must factor in. Yes, he makes some good points, and I don't think he's making this stuff up. At least not the majority of it. However, his commentary ends up being somewhat questionable and more of an indictment against politics in general - both left and right.
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Summary: Very Compelling Account of the "Right Wing Conspiracy"
Review: This book is very compelling. The media seems to focus on Brock's credibility, and indeed, that does taint his reputation. But, in the end even Darth Vader was not beyond redemption, and obviously neither is Brock. His story "has the ring of truth," so to speak, and fits with everything we all know about the nineties. He not only tells us what happened but explained why it happened and the motivations of the people behind it. I applaud Mr. Brock's bravery for bringing this story to the account of recent history (and thereby gives us a better understanding of what is happening today). It is not surprising, for example, that Election 2000 was as nasty as it turned out. Many of the figures in Brock's book were prominent in the Florida fiasco. I must chide the media for focusing to much on Brock's reputation, and not discussing the serious issues that his work brings up. Reading this book is essential to being an educated and informed citizen.
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