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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was a great book. The guy tells it like it is. He isn't afraid to name names. We knew all along, however, this just proves how far the rabid right wing will go to destroy democracy.
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Summary: Actually, rather silly
Review: David Brock is an overly sensitive child who is out of his element in the harsh world of politics. He just can't stomach the idea that a party loyalist would actually use potentially embarrassing information against a political opponent. Every few years, when the controversy gets too intense for his poor little sensibilities, Brock throws a Jim Jeffords sized temper tantrum and jumps political parties, but unfortunately for lil' Davey this is only a temporary, unsatisfying solution. So you Democratic party clowns shouldn't get too excited, after he has becomes nauseous from a ride on the Clinton-Carville-Begala spin machine Brock will come crawling back over the fence with even more whiney vitriol.
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Summary: This man can't be trusted
Review: I guess this book can be summed up with a few thoughts. Brock freely admits that he has lied throughout his career. From whence does he now have credibility? Obviously, the man has none.Brock is also completely off base when talking about the single-mindedness of the conservative movement. Anyone who has been reading the columns of conservatives in the Wall Street Journal or National Review as of late must have noted the trashing that Dubya has received on account of his recent shift in policy with regards to the Arab Israeli conflict and for the decision to impose steel tariffs. In sum, anything in this book that isn't verifiable can't be trusted since Brock is an admitted liar. Meanwhile, generalizations and conclusions that he draws about the conservative movement that can be examined are proven to be wildly exaggerated. Don't reward the writings of a confessed fabricator - spend your money on a real "nonfiction" book written by an author with at least a modicum of integrity.
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Summary: The Book the Washington Post tried to sabotage
Review: Reveals the truth about the "vast right wing conspiracy" that's poisoning our democracy. "Witness" for the real America.
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Summary: From One Extreme to Another
Review: Mr. Brock's work shows the fickleness of modern politics...The only thing that matters to extremists on the right and left is finding material, irrespective of truth, that supports their claims...If you are an extremist on the left, you will feel vidicated. If you are an extremist on the right, you will feel betrayed. If you are an independent, you will laugh at both of them. Overall it's a fun book that shouldn't be taken too seriously.
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Summary: AS CLINTON MIGHT SAY: GOOD, BUT NO CIGAR
Review: David Brock springs from the closet in rare form with this diatribe against mean old Republicans and vicious Christians. As a former member of the "right" (right meaning correct and just) it's hard to understand why he's gone over to the dark side. Perhaps it's because previous books pilloried Hillary (and her sleazy husband) and other liberal icons like Anita Hill; Brock must now mine the other side for a few more bucks. Also interesting: his sudden conversion to left wing extremism coincides nicely with his recent proclamation/revelation of homosexuality. This effort has little credibility considering the author's past work. But I do award it two stars for the few kernels of truth I encountered - however far and few between they are.
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Summary: Conservatives' worst nightmare--the truth about them!
Review: David Brock has done what few have had the guts to do: admit he had unjustly destroyed innocent lives in the name of a political movement by lying about and smearing them. He freely admitted his motivation was kind of childish by reacting to the extreme liberalism of the 1960's by adopting the equally childish, yet far more dangerous, extreme conservatism of the 1980's.
He also has the decency not only to admit he had lied about Democrats (or whomever stood in the way of conservative hegemony) for financial and political gain, he admitted to have sold his soul to the conservative movement.
Some people might question the credibility of a confessed liar and right-wing hatchet man (the once a liar, always a liar fallacy), but dismissing his confessions indeed dismiss a man who vowed to make restitution for the damage done to the careers of innocent people. The right apparently remain in denial of the character assassination of which they indulge, abiding by the unwritten 11th commandment: Thou Shalt Not Repent.
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Summary: Rush Limbaugh will not like this one!
Review: A first class expose of the Washington establishment cesspool of right wing politics. Brock's mea culpa forces any open-minded person to admit that the Republican and religious hypocrites practice some of the meanest and most hate-spirited approaches to getting what they want. Since the author was one of them, he speaks with authority and knowledge. God save our country from the clutches of the right.
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Summary: Book title should have been "Say Anything"
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Just saw Brock on TV getting his booked picked apart with facts, dates, witnesses etc...
His responses of stammering, stuttering and silence spoke volumes.
It all comes down to this: Either Paula Jones, Juannita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey etc... are all lying, or Bill Clinton is.
Since we all know that Clinton and Brock are both admitted liars, it's not too hard to figure out who's fibbing, even for the most synchophantic, myopic Clinton apologists.
The knee-pad faction of the Democratic Party will swallow (no pun intended) this tripe hook, line and sinker but that's about it.
Only the intellectually lazy still believe Clinton was Impeached only for his shenanigens with Lewinsky.
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Summary: The New Right: Lenin's Real Heirs
Review: Brock brings to life one's understanding of how the right has been taken over, not by the heirs of Barry Goldwater, but those of V. I. Lenin. The corporate state takes the place of the communist state in their ideology, but the displacement of all values and morals by a will to power is identical. Grover Norquist has even mounted the icon of the right, Lenin's picture, on his wall.
We now know, not only from Brock but from others as well, that Clarence Thomas perjured himself to get his job. Brock has also exposed serious misdeeds by high officials (now of the George aWol regime) Ted Olson and Terry Wooten. Brock explains, step-by-step, how otherwise decent people can come to deceive themselves. The penalties for telling the truth in the New Rome are as large as the rewards for serving as a sycophant to the powerful. And so it gets all too easy to overlook facts or stretch the truth. Once one starts down the road of lying, there is nothing for it but more and more lies-- or repentance. I count myself as knowledgeable on the structure and operation of the right, but reading Brock brought it all to life. We know about the extraordinary hypocrisy on the right-- the philanders like Newt Gingrich, John Fund and Asa Hutchinson who were boffing their bimbos in between calling for Clinton's impeachment, for example-- but Brock presents a far more nuanced picture. He mentions people, including Tod Lindbergh, Bob Bennett and James Pinkerton, who seem to have retained some humanity in what otherwise resembles a cesspool of liars, hypocrites and power-mad tyrants. A common joke nowadays is that if one wants to know what the Republicans are doing, just listen to what they are accusing the Democrats of. This book is excellent, a piece of history that one wants to own. Fifty years ago, prominent members of the left renounced any ties to Leninism. Now David Brock continues that tradition as one of the first prominent conservatives to renounce his ties to Leninism. May many more converts follow, and may all of them have the class Brock has shown. Buy it.
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