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Summary: Every American Must Read this Book
Review: Is it fair that Brock should get rich by spinning malicious lies, then get richer by recanting them? Maybe not, but anyone who's read this book will understand that politics are not fair. This is a terrific read, astounding even to those who are inclined to believe everything in it. But everyone should read it, and with open minds: Brock's arguments apply to any ends-justify-the-means ideology, and his searing revelations about the anatomy of Beltway politics do much to offset the hypocrisy of politicians on all sides of the divide.
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Summary: Left, Right, What's the Difference?
Review: This book is an accurate depiction of the power elites' attempt to thwart the Constitution and undermine democracy in the name of power. However, if Brock had written a book entitled "Blinded by the Left" about the Left's attempts to undermine democracy it would be equally as true. In fact, one merely has to replace the word "Right" throughout the book with "Left" and "Conservative" with "Liberal," etc. and the premise still holds true. The true message Americans should come away with after reading this book: question authority--all authority, even if you happen to agree with it.
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Summary: Lucky guy, this Brock
Review: The most shocking thing about this book is what a weak writer Brock is. I've never read any of his previous diatribes, and thought I'd at least get an entertaining look into the Right with this offering. But long, ponderous paragraphs of stiff prose serve to prove only one thing: Had Brock not gone the "way of the right," he would never have had a writing career.
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Summary: Totally believable.
Review: I don't think, after reading it, that there is ANY doubt that he's now telling the truth; and that back then he, and his cohorts, were blatantly and unashamedly lying.
The only difference is that he stopped.
The only thing I find odd is how little self-examination went into his decision to embrace that side to begin with. He writes about being closeted and about shrugging off anti-gay attitudes in the 'movement' as not 'personal'. But I will never understand how he, as a gay man, was EVER able to throw his lot in with that bunch, as HE describes them.
It's a bit like reading the confessions of a Jewish Nazi propaganda minister.
But still in all, those attacking his credibility now are clearly only doing so because they are uncomfortable with his betrayal.
This still has the ring of truth.
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Summary: Liar
Review: When was David Brock lying? In his first book or in this book?
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Summary: Dont listen to the conservative reviewers.
Review: Dont listen to the right-wingers who bash this book. They are bitter that David Brock wrote this book and betrayed his former party. Some of the reviews are the standard republican claptrap; He's a communist because he doesnt like the republican party!,Lying little weasel, the liberals are wrong, always wrong, blah blah blah... The names named and the facts uncoverted are important need to be brought out to the public. This is an important book that will re-write history. Liberal, Conservative, independent, whatever, BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Conscious beats morals
Review: I am in the same boat as David Brock was when he wrote this book. I have just recently turned my loyalty to the left due to my conscious. I honestly believe every American should be required to read this book...due to the nature of it's content. It is very revealing in how the right operated and [pulled] me in in the late '80's and early '90's. Definately a must read book.
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Summary: GOP = Gated Only Please
Review: David Brock's "Blinded by the Right" gives an insider's view of what's being done "behind the curtain" by a veritable phalanx of "neo-conservative" societies, foundations, think tanks, newspapers, publishers, et al. Well written, the book is quite entertaining in a chilling "Star Chamber" sort of way. One must wonder how the underlying attitudes of misogyny, racism, and elitist classism would play if presented openly as the one and only "patriotic" American Way. Trouble is, the underlying philosophies (and the policies they promote) negate and/or corrupt nearly everything my twenty years in the American lit classroom spoke of and to. As for rational, meaningful debate in any election cycle, post Bork, -- forget about it. Politics from here to Armageddon in this media-drenched culture will be a loud and insulting Limbaugh-Springer carnival, relying mainly on smears and character assassination. It will be this way because the hugely wealthy echelon that funds it will accept no less than their entitlement to the lion's share. Curiously, McVeigh could be the overarching poster boy for this version of a home rule, anti-DC, WASP-only vision of a grand "Gated Community of America." Such is the toxicity poisoning the executive branch. Compassionate conservatism...sure thing.
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Summary: No Matter How You Slice It, This Liar Is Telling The Truth!
Review: "If Brock says he was a liar when he wrote on behalf of the radical right, how do we know he's not lying now?" This is the question raised by the right wing's media windbags and their mindless minions who, by posing it, think that it will cast enough doubt upon the truth of Brock's confessions to blind us from the disgusting facts that he has exposed - namely, the UN-AMERICAN tactics used by them to further their UN-AMERICAN agenda. It reminds me of the strategy used by the Bush Mafia in their (ultimately failed) attempt to have "Fortunate Son" by J.W. Hatfield banned from America's bookstores because of its (never explicitly denied by Bush) revelation that G.W. snorted coke and partied hearty, among other things. Discredit the messenger and make him the issue - yeah, that's the ticket! In Hatfield's case, this was accomplished by saying that he was a convicted felon (true, but that doesn't make the fact of W's coke habit false!). However, the seemingly troubling question of the veracity of Brock's revelations in the present case actually reveals that what is written absolutely MUST be the truth. There are a total of 4 (logically, really only 2) possibilities here: Possibility 1 - Brock DID lie before and IS NOT lying now = book is true! This is what Brock says. Possibility 2 - Brock DID NOT lie before and IS lying now = book is true! If he is not now telling the truth, then it means that he is a liar and therefore we can be certain that he WAS indeed lying for the radical right! Possibility 3 - Brock DID lie before and IS lying now = book is true! If Brock lied before, then he indeed did what he says he did, which was lie on behalf of the radical right - in which case he could not now be lying. Lying now about lying before makes absolutely no sense at all. But if it is indeed true that he is not now telling the truth, then it again means that he is a liar and therefore we can be certain that he WAS lying for the radical right! Possibility 4 - Brock DID NOT lie before and IS NOT lying now = book is true! If he did not lie for the radical right, then he could not now be telling the truth. If he is now telling the truth, then he did indeed lie on behalf of the radical right. But if he is not now telling the truth, then it means that he is a liar and therefore we can once again be certain that he WAS lying for the radical right! So much for the tactic of trying to impugn Brock's truthfulness as a means to discredit the book!
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Summary: The Truth Will Always Set Us Free!
Review: Thank you David Brock for finally confirming what so many of us already believed was true.
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