Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

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Summary: Not Myopic Anymore
Review: The book is good, not great. It confirms my suspicions of the conservative slander machine. The book details the Right-Wing as the hypocritical lunatics they are. A must read for any centrist on the right or left. Moderate republicians will gain the most out of the book by hopefully regainging power in the party they lost to the Right-Wing radicals.

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Summary: A Respone To The Concience Of An Ex-Conservitave
Review: I his latest publication, longtime right-wing journalist and wirter declares his defection from the Republican Party. In his book, Brock reveals for all to see the alleged hypocracy and resistance to social change that ultimately drove him to abandon conservitave polotics.
What your political leanings are will probably detirmine whether or not you belive what Brock has to say.
A Democrat might absorb what is written and belive it. The Left-winger might declare it an expose of a conspiracy against the Democrats and liberal values spanning more that twenty years.
A Republican might maintain that David Brock is a muck wirter on the scale of Upton Sinclair. The Right-winger might say Brock is merely underminig the dominat political force in Washington. If Democrats were in power, he would still be attacking them.
Whether or not you belive Brock's claims or not, he did write an excellent and well-organized narritave. Definitely a book worthe reading. Whatever your politics.

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Summary: HILLARY WAS RIGHT!
Review: I wanted to get to the meat of the subject immediately, so I found it a bit verbose. But, it did do a fine job of covering the Right Wing [practices].
I knew the right wing would do anything to "get" Clinton, but it was enlightening to actually read about the history and the details of the "war" against Clinton.
Republicans should read it to see if they really agree with the ... tactics of the right wing. Democrats should read it to see the kind of deviousness they're up against. And, Independents should read it to get an insight into the effects of a systematic assault on a good man and a great President, Bill Clinton.

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Summary: Bonjour Tristesse
Review: Most readers are likely to either applaud or disparage David Brock's book, Blinded by the Right, according to their own preconceptions. But it impressed me in no greater way than as a note of tristesse (sadness). Any joy gotten from reading about the bashing of the Clinton-bashers is less to the point than that their bashing turned the American mainstream media from responsibility into a state of tabloid mentality.
Brock has at least made the rare move of admitting he was wrong. His whole adult life appears to have been a lie, and he undoubtedly has much company among other budding and corrupted journalists. His story is an object lesson illustrating the word "mumpsimus", defined by the Oxford English Dictionary; it is essentially a belief or believer in a notion or concept proven to be incorrect or unreasonable, or an ignorant or bigoted opponent of reform. The book may or may not be a revenue source, but it is certainly a mea culpa of the first magnitude.

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Summary: There really is a right-wing conspiracy.
Review: For thirty years I was a Republican. But events of the past fifteen years or so have convinced me (as they did "Mr. Conservative," Barry Goldwater, before his death) that the far-right wing of the Grand Old Party is no longer loyal to genuine conservative principles but, rather, is committed instead to the enrichment of wealthy individuals and corporations. David Brock was a writer who, by his own admission, unscrupulously wrote whatever would advance the interests of this far-right oligarchy -- without regard for who was hurt or whether or not what he wrote was true. Eventually though, he could take no more and this book is his revelation of what he did and saw others do. Fortunately, there are still honorable Republicans such as John McCain, Bob Dole, and Jack Kemp. But, regrettably, they have little influence on the party in its current stance -- and no influence on it's far-right wing. Read this book and decide for yourself.

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Summary: Extraordinarily interesting read
Review: What a remarkable expose. Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, I think one has to read this book to help make up your own mind about the political history of the 1990s. It's a fascinating read, full of named names and detailed accounts of a not-so-righteous right-wing machinery. It's a shame to read the ad homininum attacks on the author (some reviews in this space) as simplistic rebuttals. Brock skewers himself as much as anyone with this book; judge for yourself his crediblity. And if even a third of the picture that this book paints is true...I am worried.

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Summary: Blinded by the Right
Review: If you love politics and you love a good scandal then this book is for you. Brock tells the American public all of the un-American tactics that he participated in as a member of the right-wing party during the 90's. Brock reveals that there truly was a right-wing conspiracy to destroy President Clinton and to cast a dark shadow over the entire Democratic Party. The book is written in a flat tone of voice, which comes across rather eerie when Brock describes the dirty tactics used by the right-wing conspirators.
Recently this book has come under fire by many people from the right. They say that what Brock is depicting in the book is a lie, my question is, if it is a lie, and the events never truly happened, then why is the right making such a fuss. It seems that Brock certainly stirred up something by writing this tell all political novel.

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Summary: Blinded by the light...weight
Review: This guy is a mental lightweight who clearly has no idea where his conscious lies. With this book, he has clearly severed all ties with journalistic credibility. In my opinion, he is trying to revive a career with a controversial political "switch". If you haven't purchased the book, I would suggest that you keep your money-this book is a left wing letdown. See you back on the right, Mr. Brock.

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Summary: Duh!
Review: So, when Brock was writing exposes for American Spectator--on Bill Clinton and his use of Arkansas troopers as procurers for him and when he was writing about Anita Hill, he was lying. The books and articles had references and named names--and, at least some of the troopers verified what Brock wrote.
He was also not making a lot of money, was the target of the Left, who outed him, could not get a gig on a talk show--period. He was villified as a liar by the Left.
Now, he recants and does a suck-up book on Hillary Clinton followed by an expose of the Right---all without references and verification. But, suddenly, he is making the rounds of the liberal talk shows, his books get serious/favorable reviews rather than attacks and screeds, he is a lion of the Left, and is now telling the truth.
Excuse me?
Does anyone else out there see this for what it is?

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Summary: Finally!
Review: The right wing has run amuk in this country in the last two decades, branding everyone who doesn't agree with their particular brand of cruel conservatism a traitor to America. It always sounded kind of scary. Now we see why. The right wing has finally been exposed for being the loopy, wacky--and dangerous--nuts anyone with a conscience always suspected. I used to be a middle-to-right kind of guy, but these days not being a liberal means not fighting these guys. Everyone should read this book, and learn, and weep, and then fight!