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Summary: not conservative or liberal
Review: I am an aithiest and no big fan of the Republican party or the Democratic party. I am a libertarian. (Do some research if you don't know what that is.) However what was written in this book is nothing but half truths and lies. Looking at conservatives they seem to be on a crusade to push their own set of morals on us. Liberals want to force their views and what they want on us through use of federal government and are very tolerant of others until your viewpoint differs with theirs at which point you become a racist a hatemonger or some other hateful name.
Most people who have rated this book positively use hateful names to right wingers but refer to this country as a democracy which it is not. A democracy means majority rule. We are a country that has majority rule so long as it does not interfere with the rights of the individuale. This makes us a constitutional republic. If it was a majority the civil rights movement would never have happened. Educate yourselves before voicing an emotional instead of factial opinion and call this book great.
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Summary: A book by any other name... :o(
Review: Republicans who read books that "reveal" the underbelly of the Democrat's world - and Democrats who read "never before revealed" shady dealings of the Republicans negate one another. It's a tie that cannot be broken. Neither side is to be believed.. yet both sides have ENORMOUS amounts of dirt on one another that, for all intents and pursposes, is probably true.While this book tempts one to sway in the belief that the democrats/Clintons were the victims of some right wing conspiracy.. the fact remains (and is not mentioned in this book) that the only thing voters can believe is those things they witness themselves (i.e. Monica Lewinsky, sadly). Clinton has no one else to blame for his troubles but himself. He was caught with his pants down. And to any Republican who puts himself in the same foul situation will have to suffer through the consequences of his behavior just as the Clintons must do. The fact remains the voters are the ones to blame for putting slimballs into office. Anyone can write a book about how awful and deplorable the other side is (this book being the ultimate example) - but only those who are looking for an angle of legitimacy (i.e. a valid "excuse") for their political affiliations will believe all that is written and published. Those of us who have ANY shred of morals and values that we hold dear, demanding no less from those we put in office, will make our political choices based on "the person" .. not what the media feeds us. Shame on those who are so gullable as to believe that this book is somehow "proof" of anything other than what it is: evidence of the author's personal political motivations.
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Summary: A whiner/hater/hypocrite comes clean
Review: A book about the ... right wing conspiracy than hounded the Clintons and still threatens our democracy. Written by one of their own who finally listens to his understandable self-loathing and decides to get out. Simply, elegantly written.
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Summary: A former whiner/hater/hypocrite gets honest
Review: An excellent book about the whiners, haters, hypocrites, liars, sociopaths, and psychopaths that made up (and still make up) the right wing conspiracy that hounded the Clintons and are attempting to turn back the 60s, from someone who was right in the middle of making up the lies and spreading the hate. And simply, elegantly told.
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Summary: Verifies my "take" on conservative spin
Review: This book confirmed my suspicions and filled in the dots. As a political neophtye 5 years ago who never followed politics, I woke up when I saw what the right-wingers were doing to Clinton. I also believed the common wisdom that the press "was liberal." It didn't take me long to figure out that the liberal (or reasonable, rational viewpoint) was nowhere to be seen on our tabloid TV news shows. The media is far from liberal. It is corporate--and run by big business who benefit from Republican tax and de-regulation policies.
The more I watched, the more alarmed I became. I voted Republican in the past but now I am a confimred Democrat, thanks to the actions of the right-wingers. I applaud David Brock's courage for writing this. My only wish is that the moderate Republicans I know would open their minds and see how dangerous to our democracy this crowd is. Also recommend "The Republican War Against Women" As Brock pointed out, this was not politics as usual. THese people are well-funded, well-organinzed, hostile, aggressive, and frankly, seem almost mentally ill. All of us would do well to take notice--and take action against them. Go to democrats.com to see how you can help.
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Summary: There really WAS a Right Wing Conspiracy
Review: David Brock has been called every name in the book: a "Right Wing Hit Man", an "Opportunist", a "Turn Coat" and many other things pertaining to anotomy that you wouldn't expect to hear out of the mouths of polite society/"christians".
I am going to call him a "McNamara", for I don't think that his admission of guilt and owning up to it with character is any less well done (albeit less important) than the "fessing up" that Robert McNamara did a few years ago in his book about the (his) mistakes in prosecuting the Vietnam war.
Brock, in what occasionally must be percieved as self serving way, "fesses up" to his misalliance with the right wing and his craving for a place at the table in a way that any 30 something gay male and many others who have looked for their place in the world might understand. He was finally accepted, with his flaws, by these "people" of the right wing as long as he would unquestioningly do their bidding. They even looked the other way on his "lifestyle" as long as he sold their messages to the masses.
His mildly voiced concerns about fact checking prior to his Hillary Clinton book were brushed off by the likes of federal judges, congressmen and other "pundits". When he decided to get the story right in the Clinton book he was suddenly just another homosexual without a friend.
I questioned whether I would want to read this book before I bought it. I am glad I did because what the book did -- beyond help me understand a person's personal oddyssy was to see that Hilary Clinton was right -- there really was a VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY.
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Summary: A MUST READ BEFORE VOTING THIS NOVEMBER!
Review: I feel that this book is an absolute must read before casting a vote in this November's elections. Both true conservatives and moderates of both parties will have their eyes opened to how our political parties have been hijacked and corrupted by those with personal agendas, agendas which have no place in the Congress of the United States and in our individual states' governor's mansions. Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and Abe Lincoln would be appalled at what has happened, and what is still happening!
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Summary: Finally, some truth about the tactics of the RightWing
Review: My only complaint with this book is that Brock, turning against the right wing nutzoids that are in charge of the republican aprty and republican commentaries, uses some of the same tactics he used to use: name calling, and vicious verbage. Other than that, this is an important work because Brock is the first right wing nut to switch sides to the side of sensibility and compassion and justice, and exposes all the miserable and hurtful tactics that the right wing nuts, and the conservative Christians in particular, use to destroy liberals, like the right wing nut 8 year campaign to destroy Clinton and fabricate evidence. Every one should be reading this book to find out just how low and just how illegal the right wing will go to try to destroy someone they don't like. Tactics like made up evidence, made up statistics, even made up claims that the person has to try to defend. They paid off people to give false witness, they found others filled with hate to offer false witness. Just plain bad stuff in the right wing, and Brock, who was a major part of that side for many years, shows it all. Read this, and then sstop voting for the right wings, and leave your right wing church if you're a pat robertson/jerry falwell kind of person. Thank you, David Brock, for your courage to put this thing out.
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Summary: pretty good but
Review: Blinded by the Right is a pretty good autobiographical accound of David Brock who grew distant from the left in the early 1980s at Berkley to right wing righter attacking the likes of Anita Hill and Hilary Clinton to liberal. However, Brock doesn't seem of showing that he had a whole lot of belief of his work as a conservative. He admits that he fully didn't believe what he wrote about Anita Hill and wrote what he did out of pressure from his publishers. At the same time, it doesn't seem as though his opinions on the issue change much. He stands as almost a libertarian that really didn't fit into the whole Reagan-Era religious right of the 1980s which he was apart of, something that was only compounded by his being homosexual. He mainly changes sides because of the problems he saw with the right. Brock does do a good job of showing some problems such as their witch-hunt mentality when the attack Democrats like the Clintons and those who speack out against conservatives such as Anita Hill.
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: Where Ann Coulter's new diatribe is filled with name calling and hate (and light on the facts) Brock's new work is a fascinating look both at the inner workings of of the right wing, but an interesting recounting of Brock's personal journey. The far right is even more loathsome than I had imagined.
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