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Summary: A book that¿s hard to put down!
Review: Although I'll admit I generally find books of this type rather boring, this one was impossible to put down. Not only is it a great review of political scandals during last few decades, it provides an important perspective from a person who was a major force behind much of the dirt that was generated. I found the personal perspective intriguing. "Blinded by the Right" is a particularly apt (not to mention catchy) title. Possibly Brock should add that he was just as much blinded by his own anger and ego. Brock was an angry man who does a good job explaining why fell in with a crowd that was also driven by irrational fear and anger. The difference is that Brock was able to realize and fess up to his dark motivations, rather than (as most in this cadre continue to do) deny and "justify" them. Nowhere is this more evident than in these polarized reviews where the phrase, "I've got my mind made up, and I don't want to be confused by the facts" seems particularly apt. If you don't have your mind made up (and totally closed), Read This Book!
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Summary: Explores the psychology of hatred
Review: This is an articulate, although artless, confessional memoir in which a wistful David Brock reflects with regret on the harm he has done and the people he has hurt. As an apolitical beast, I read this book from a psychological perspective with a view to understanding the enormous, mindless hatred emanating from the far right during the nineties. Brock portrays this as part projected self-loathing, part jealousy and part weakness and lack of principle. About the Clintons, Brock would apparently agree with Lord Byron, who said, "Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
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Summary: Convincing and very very important
Review: David Brock doesn't have to be forgiven for what he's done for this book to be seen as highly credible. The book speaks for itself, confirming many facts that have already been in print He fills in in missing and totally believeable details. His story makes complete sense, and only reading the book can attest to its veracity and credibility. Conservatives are afraid of this book. They are trying a variety of ways to squash it -- from ignoring it completely, to writing nasty screeds about it and attacking Brock a liar (and if he is a liar, then aren't they admitting that he lied initially as well, back when they championed him). Don't believe them, and don't allow yourself to be swayed by ... people without looking into it yourself. The book speaks for itself and is very important and useful in my opinion. The right has vividly been exposed here. Read it.
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Summary: More illogical garbage from liberals
Review: If there is one constant in American life today, it is that the liberal "thought process" is so verily based in lies, half-truths, and spin, all for the goal of advancing a political agenda that pays only lip service to the idea of freedom, while working to advance a more sinister agenda of government control over those who actually make this country work. Liberals believe, directly or indirectly, in the tyranny of the inept. I suggest anyone who reads this garbage from by David Brock, read a more balanced view from Ayn Rand, such as Atlas Shrugged.
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Summary: Hillary was right!! (abount the "right-wing" conspiracy)
Review: While i do find faults with this book, it is a must to those who are opened minded enought to want to know the truth about our latest long national nightmare. Conservatives were so bitter about losing to Clinton in 92 that they spent miilions of theirs and our money to try to bring down a President. When they couldn't do that, they decided to steal one and appoint GW Bush as Commander in Chief. I always had a sense that Brock was a decent person even when he was destroying lives w/ his pen. Now I see what was really up. Read it please!
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Summary: Usual formula to spice up politics as usual
Review: Brock was working for a millionaire who paid about two million dollars to investigate Bill Clinton, Anita Hill, and others in order to find information that would help Republicans and hurt Democrats. As a result, Brock was apparently a very popular figure in Republican circles. In this book Brock claims to have intentionally deceived us in all of his previous books. He claims that every bad thing he said about Bill Clinton, Anita Hill, and others were lies, although he does sort of admit that the "vast right wing conspiracy" wasn't "vast". For any well informed person, the actions of those he targets (including himself) are politics as usual, and thus his book would be quite boring except that Brock explains more than their actions. He also claims to know their SECRET thoughts, values, and motives.
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Summary: no surprise
Review: It is no wonder why the United States is fast becoming politically moribund. The ignorance and political self indulgence that Brock so clearly expresses in his book makes a joke out of responsible
democracy and/or freedom. Liberal or conservative - the difference is only in the spelling. Is it a wonder that Americans live in fear now? Reading this book makes clear the intellectual and emotional bankruptcy that is now so pronounced. Read it and weep.
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Summary: DUMBfounded
Review: I don't know what to think...Help me, Rush...tell me what is true, Ollie...pleasepleaseplease Our Ronnie Who Art In Heaven, make nasty facts go away so I can believe again.
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Summary: At least I read the book...
Review: ... Having seen Mr. Brock on the various pundit shows, isn't quite the same as having read the actual book. I actually read the book and, having also read Conason & Lyon's The Hunting of the President, I didn't find any real revelations here, so much as confirmation as to what was already known. Part of what makes Blinded such an interesting read is it's insiders account of how small-minded, petty, and sexually stunted, former President Clinton's detractors were (and still are). For many of us, it was always hard to figure out the intense hatred these people felt for the last elected President. Now we can see that, for many, it was money funneled into the many 'think tanks' and foundations dedicated to making the rich even richer. In many ways we can see that when people connect the Clinton administration with sex and money, they should have been looking at the right-wing that was obsessed with it....
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Summary: Brock's Scathing Self-Exam a Wake up to Decent Conservatives
Review: I am amazed and moved that David Brock had the courage to examine his actions in the far-right conservative movement and honestly report on what motivated himself and others. I found it very healing to read; I had suspected some of what he describes and felt we in America were being "gaslighted" by the conservative media who pretended to be perplexed by our outrage and disbelief. I often tried to understand what motivates once middle-class people who would sell out their fellow working Americans in the interests of racists, bad-citizen corporations and the extreme rich. Brock explains what motivated him, and it includes greed, self-loathing, and confusion. I applaud him for having the courage to write this book, and to those who say "if he admits lying then how do we know he is not lying now"---I say, you must read the book because it rings true, and all the lying stories he describes from the conservative press the past 20 years never rang true--at the time they were concocted and spread, or now as he recounts them. Thank you David Brock, for making an attempt to heal some of the pain caused by the scathing, cruel, vicious personal attacks directed at anyone (including moderate Republicans or decent consdervatives) guilty of simply being effective at countering the self-serving goals of the far right. David Brock now is getting hit by both sides. David, history will thank you and I do too, for your courage and honesty.
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