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Summary: There's no story here, author Brock trying to sell books...
Review: David Brock was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the comedy channel yesterday. He comes off as whiny, insincere and not entirely sure of what he is talking about. What is clear however is that he is trying to drum up business for his book by playing on the fears and fantasies of liberals. His big revelation that there are conservatives who were trying to take down Bill Clinton is old news and not news. Both parties attack the other side with gusto. The more popular the president, like Reagan and Clinton, the more earnest the attacks. Don't think for a second that there isn't a team of liberals out there trying to dig up something new on George W. Bush. The rhetoric we hear from people like James Carville and Alec Baldwin illustrates how unhappy the liberal democrats are with the Bush administration. If they had the means to cause trouble for Bush, they would.
Mr. Brock has written a book that panders to suffering democrats and gives them something to fuel their anger and he did it to sell books and make money (nothing wrong with that).
There's another turncoat expose that blasts the liberal media that is much more revealing because the author was a CBS news insider.
"Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News -- by Bernard Goldberg" is a good read for both Dems and Reps. I think members of both parties will find their suspicions confirmed about the media's laughable claims of being objective.
Buy "Bias" and leave "Blinded by the right" for the bitter whiners who are still crying over Al Gore losing the election.
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Summary: Tales From The Dark Side (An Independent's Review)
Review: Once again Brock shows that it is always popular (and profitable) to sling mud at whichever party happens to hold office at the time. Like other books Brock has written, "Blinded by the Right" is long on accusations and short on facts. Brock admits he lied for the Right. No doubt that the next time a democrat holds the presidential office, he'll write another book admitting how he lied for the left. While well written, "Blinded by the Right" would be better suited in the check out isle next to the tabloids, or on a shelf in the "fiction" section.
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Summary: Sad Little Story
Review: I'm amused once again by this attempt at justifying the misbehaviors of the democratic party.I purchased this book to,hopefully,gain insight into the mind-set that the ends justify the means!What a waste of time! The democratic party(Let's just openly say the words!)sells snake oil and promises! If the last presidency had been able to,I am positive it would have used communism as it's scapegoat! This story is laughable.....
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Summary: Foolish
Review: Well, I have to say that the essence of liberalism is captured in this diatribe of hate and self-loathing. Preying upon the emotions of the weak and destitute and those that feel like outsiders in an attempt to ignite American class warfare by oversimplfying fundamentally complex issues is very dangerous to our society. Read this book if you want better understanding of the caustic machines called leftism and socialism. For enlightenment, I would suggest you look elsewhere.
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Summary: Another Bust for Brock.
Review: David Brock churns out another pile of trash in his newest book "Blinded By the Right". He continues to prove that he is nothing more than a glorified tabloid writer. The author of "The Seduction of Hilary Clinton" tries to convince everyone he is only out to clear his conscience and uncover the conspiracy being run by the conservatives. This quite apparently never would have happened if he couldn't make money out of it. He didn't have a conscience when he blatently concealed information in the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment fiasco, and certainly hasn't gained one now. Seizing the oppurtunity, Brock further proves that he should be writing for the National Enquirer, exposing FAKE scandals, since he has so aptly proven his ablility so far.
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Summary: For the Money
Review: Another "expose" with all the cliches and anti-American code words from a person who is just trying to make a buck. The media will love this, and it will get reviewed by the NY Times Book section, simply because it confirms all their pre-concieved notions about people. Conservatives are always extremist, but liberals are only for the "working families". This would be just laughable if it weren't for the fact that a lot of ill-informed people will actually believe it. It's too bad we can't get people in Washington that will actually do something for people, rather than for their party, or their personal power trip. This is truly a bottom-feeder book.
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Summary: Hypocracy at it's Best
Review: I wonder how all the people criticizing this book feel about the author's other works "The Real Anita Hill" and "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham". I remember ads in the early 90s(shownduring the Ruch Limbaugh show) on how great the Anita Hill book and it's author was. All of a sudden this man lacks integrity? All of a sudden Brock's ideas have absolutely no basis whatsoever!?! The scariest thing is how he admits to shirking his duty as a reporter and not disclosing his knowledge of Clarence Thomas's pornographic video. A relvelation which no doubt would have forced the republican party to vote against his supreme court nomination. Of course, it's too late now, there is no recount...
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Summary: An Unconvincing Journey
Review: This book has exactly the same problem as David Horowitz's "Radical Son," which describes the opposite journey (left to right). Just as Horowitz never really comes to grips with why he was a leftist in the first place (or why he came to believe that liberals were the enemy), Brock never convinces me that he's made any kind of an ideological journey -- he denies having really believed in conservatism, but he doesn't really seem to have been ideologically convinced of liberalism either. This is a book by someone who doesn't seem to believe in anything, except his journalistic career; this gives a certain credence to conservative charges that Brock has simply "sold out" for the sake of writing a big-selling book. Whether all Brock's stories are true or not is almost irrelevant. I'm not inclined to like the people he writes about, so I certainly enjoy thinking they might be true. From the little I do know about the events he describes, I think it's clear that he exaggerates the power of Scaife, and conveniently forgets that the supposedly monolithic, thought-policed right wing was rocked by all sorts of ideological conflicts and schisms while he was part of it (right-wingers may hate liberals, but they hate each other almost as much). But this book does succeed as enjoyable dish and wish-fulfillment for many readers. It fails as a book about David Brock's "conscience." I'm still not convinced he has one.
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Summary: This guy lies & he admits it!
Review: OK, this guy is an admitted liar! He says that he WAS lying back when he wrote for the Right. But hey, does an admitted liar have any credibility at all?? Hmmm? Who's to say he isn't lying NOW? Or maybe he's lying both times? Don't waste your time or money on a book written by a pathological liar!
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Summary: Lies entertainingly presented
Review: ... However this book is entertaining in that it shows how one person can deceive themself while attempting to deceive others. Avoid this book and instead try reading a good John Grisham novel like his latest one.
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