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Summary: Stupid book by an author who doesn't know much
Review: What a book of lies. How can a person write a whole book based on opinion rather than fact. What a waste of time.
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Summary: Conservative or Liberal...this book is a must read.
Review: Like THE POWER GAME, THE AMBITION AND THE POWER and THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT before it...this book is essential to understanding politics today.Whether you are conservative, liberal or moderate...you need to understand the forces that make the headlines happen. Brock brings you behind the curtain and explains the reasons why major scandals of the 1990's occured and who was behind them.
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Summary: Blinded By The Right
Review: Blinded By The Right by David Brock is a book about a radical conservative during college who becomes disenchanted by right wing conservatism after he starts working at a newspaper in Washington D.C. and see's how mean and nasty these powerful coservatives can be. The book is good because it gives the inside story of the political climate in the United States during the 1990's. Reading the book gives an excellent understanding for who the government worked for during this time.
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Summary: At last, the vast right-wing conspiracy exposed!
Review: Brock exposes the vast amount of money that fuels the right-wing media. Ever since the downfall of Nixon, well-healed conservatives have funneled money into conservative think tanks and funded the careers of conservative pundits. Even many of the so-called "conservative" publications are losing enterprises that are propped up for the sole purpose of spewing right-wing propaganda for consumption by the "unwashed masses." One thing worth noting is Brock's initial attraction to conservatism. This did not happen in a vacuum, and every liberal should take notice of this as an object lesson in hypocrisy. One cannot promote freedom of speech but attempt to suppress the ideas of those with whom they disagree. Obviously, a fair amount of Brock's early involvement with conservatism was reactionary in nature. I cannot help but wonder about the path that Mr. Brock would have taken if he had not experienced rank hypocrisy among liberals early on. Every liberal should be conscious of the need to promote their ideas through open debate, not by attempting to suppress dissent!
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Summary: hypocrisy
Review: I gave this book 5 stars not because I liked it. I despised every word written in it. I gave it 5 stars because it validated my paranoia. This book shows that the American political system and American journalism are degraded to the point of no return. Their isn't a person on death row that can hold a candle to amorality of the people in this book, the very people who claim to be the world's 'moral majority'. What makes these people so despicable is their inability to see their own immorality, and the 'left' isn't any better. I shutter to think how far these political power-mongers will go to secure their positions. Is there anything they wouldn't do?
As for the author, he is a calculating, self-serving, insecure, mysogynistic monster hiding behind his gayness! After destroying the integrity of Anita Hill and others, he then writes a profitable apology. If he is sincerely 'sorry' maybe he should donate the proceeds of this pathetic book to his victims.
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Summary: The ugly underbelly of conservatives in America
Review: This book exposes the real "vast right wing" network in the United States and the very dangerous threat that Bush, Cheney and their minions pose to real democracy.
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Summary: Too Little Too Late
Review: I was very intrigued to read Mr. Brock's account of the misdeeds of the right wing during the 1990s. "Blinded by the Right" finally vindicated Hillary Clinton -- yes, Virginia, there really *was* a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy -- and it also reinforced just why I can't stand that lying, hypocritical sack of moose kaka named Ann Coulter. On the other hand, this is only half of the story. Brock needs to finish it by apologizing -- not in so many words during the course of his memoir, nor in an editorial, but face-to-face -- to those whose names he tarnished whether by omission, distortion, or outright lies: specifically Anita Hill and Bill Clinton. Brock directly contributed to the utter breakdown of political discourse in our country over the past decade, but rather than help put things back on track through this book, he's simply dished dirt on his ex-comrades-in-arms. The dirt certainly needed to be dished; when hacks like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter publish books slamming the left wing, Americans eat that stuff up with a spoon, but any time a liberal attempts to expose the conservative movement, they're denounced as unpatriotic, liars, etc. In the end, though, you have to ask whether "Blinded" really does anything to re-establish a genuine national discourse? I don't think so.
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Summary: The jig is up.
Review: This is an intelligent and revealing book and critically important. It describes clearly, from behind the scenes by a former operative, the beliefs and actions of certain individuals and publications and think tanks of the far right, which is, alas, the section of the party in control of the Republicans at the moment (Lincoln Chafee please clone yourself). Most usefully it reveals the source of some of the funding backing the far right. Follow the money, said the wise man. The book is sorely in need of an index, however, since "Blinded By the Right" should be next to the TV as a background resource when watching the news shows and their parade of talking heads.
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Summary: Was he lying now or then?
Review: The author started out as a liberal then became conservative, then a liberal again. How can we believe anything he says? Most of the quotes from sources, supposedly speaking of others in this book have been denied. Many factual inaccuracies have been found. Unlike Bernard Goldberg's book Bias, who was a liberal and still is, he came foward because he felt the right was getting short shirft, which hurts both the media and democracy. If DB had written that he still believed in conservative principals but, these people went too far in pursuit of those ideals, I'd be more likely to think he was telling the truth.
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Summary: A conservative rejects Scaife's millions and finds his soul
Review: This book is must reading for anyone who wants to understand just how and why so many of America's major institutions -- the government and the media most particularly -- are under the heavy, anti-freedom, anti-democratic thumb of the "conservative" movement, the Republican Party, and the racist "religious" right wing. David Brock got millions for writing hit pieces on the Clintons. He was given $2 million to write a book trashing Hillary Clinton -- BEFORE he'd written it. But then he decided it was time to reject the millions and regain his soul. He's an awful lot poorer now, and he's encountered things in the real journalistic world (such as actual fact-checking, as he notes in his book) that simply don't exist in the "sheltered workshops" of the conservative propaganda houses. The book's greatest worth comes when David Brock, ashamed of his role in promoting the worthless Paula Jones nuisance lawsuit, exposes its rotten basis for all to see -- and shows that it was, in fact, baseless. You'll note that the typical right-wing attacks on this book do NOT touch on its accuracy. That's because the wingnuts know full well that this book is accurate in every detail. A true treasure.
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