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Summary: Something of the REAL truth?
Review: To Gomer in Homerville, and others . . . there are a lot of people propping up the president and digging dirt and playing nasty with so-called "liberals" (anyone who doesn't get on their knees to GWBush and his gang of fascists). This author is just another Bush slappy, the book written for you 'Gomers' of the world. Why not "open your eyes" and read what a former Bush conservative insider and hatchetman confesses! Read David Brock's - Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. For starters.
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Summary: Joie de Tel Aviv
Review: George W. Bush is the best American president Israel has ever had. Nixon paid homage to Golda; Carter put up with Begin. But Bush has actually gone to war for the Zionist Cleansing Experiment -- and so it is not surprising that John Podhoretz and his ilk have come to bat for him. (Remember that father Norman is the editor of Commentary -- best known as part of a Woody Allen joke -- and mother Midge Decter has written erotic paeans to Donald Rumsfeld.) Podhoretz is much more articulate than Bush; although he still doesn't seem very bright, he certainly has an IQ in the triple digits -- and thank heavens for small favors. He makes no effort to defend the recent torture in Iraq -- although one does have the sense that if anybody had laid one paw on a young Israeli "Sarah" or "Bathsheba" he'd be out there howling ANTI-SEMITISM! All in all, a smart but necessarily short-sighted examination of the worst American president.
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Summary: A Quick Summary
Review: Literally yet another load of G.W.BU**SH!
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Summary: Lies, lies, and more lies
Review: Yet again, Podhoretz manages to massage facts to try to justify his claims. He cites those who support his views, and he ignores those arguments counter to his views (or vilifies the individuals who made the arguments he opposes). This book has all of the quality analysis of The New York Post and all of the "fair and balanced" journalism of Fox News. If you enjoy those two news sources and believe them to provide accurate facts and intelligent analysis, then you will be delighted by the book. If, however, you find those two news sources to engage in a compromising of journalism worthy of William ("You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war")Randolph Hearst, Silvio Berlusconi, or Vladimir Putin, then you will most likely not enjoy this compendium of skewed claims. Then again, you might find this a fascinating anthropological study, if you don't mind wading through the rhetorical muck shoveled by right-wing dogmatists and if you want to examine the willing self-delusion of the devoted followers of Podhoretz, Limbaugh, Hannity, and others. Chacun a son goût, your mileage may very, etc.
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Summary: Don¿t Misunderestimate George W. Bush!
Review: In his book "Bush Country: How Dubya Became A Great President While Driving Liberals Insane," John Podhoretz lays out his case for why George W. Bush is one of the greatest presidents of our generation. As a columnist for the New York Post and political commentator for Fox News Channel, Podhoretz writes with a straightforward style that leaves no interpretation for the reader in regard to how he feels about the forty-third President of United States. Setting out to debunk the liberal myths that have circulated since the Texas Governor first announced his candidacy, the author peels away the lies one-by-one (such lies he labels "Crazy Liberal Idea #1, #2, #3, etc.") The first absurd notion, "Bush is a moron," is quickly laid to rest as Podhoretz outlines his educational history, testimony from those surrounding the president, his performance, and fallacy of many liberal arguments to the contrary. In addition, Podhoretz destroys other wacko inside-the-beltway liberal convention wisdom in regard to such ideas as "Bush is a puppet," "Bush is a fanatic," "Bush is (...) Only not as talented," "Bush isn't protecting America," "Bush wants to bankrupt the government," "Bush is a cowboy," and "Bush is a liar". Have no doubt about it, this is a book you will absolutely hate if you are a committed liberal or Bush-hater. It has nary a negative word to say about the president. Likewise, conservatives and supporters of the president will love this book as it reinforces their belief in the judgment and leadership skills of the president. You will put this book down absolutely convinced that George W. Bush rivals Ronald Reagan as the greatest conservative leader of our generation. Here's hoping for four more years... Britt Gillette
Author of "The Dittohead Guide To Adult Beverages"
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Summary: he became a ... what?
Review: a great what? er, last time I checked he was still an imbecile... I must have missed something that the five star reviewers did not :)
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Summary: Bush Country
Review: John Podhoretz has a book worth reading for a change, since the in thing to do these days is bash the Bush. Since the Democrates haven't got anything good to run on they must do the Bush Bashing to cover what they don't have and that is a leader that can lead this country like our president is doing. Mr. Podhoretz by hat goes off to your and your book is a must read. Larry Hobson-Author- The Day Of The Rose
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Summary: more bagels!
Review: The Podhoretz family is known for its delicious recipes for bagels and cream cheese. Now John -- a founding member of the Log Cabin Republicans -- has come out with a decidedly partisan, but oft-delicious serving of lox and lies to go with the family business. Terrific.
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Summary: Bush Country : How Dubya Became a Great President While Driv
Review: In this response and attack against liberal hack Bush bashers, New York Post columnist Podhoretz takes two tacks: ridiculing the denigrators of Dubya and extolling him as a great president. Naturally, the author's red-meat sections will entertain aggrieved Bush supporters, as Podhoretz runs with journalists' or politicians' quotations to the effect that Bush is stupid, illiterate, a ventriloquist's dummy for the oil industry, too religious, out to destroy the welfare state, and a lying liar who tells lies, to paraphrase a certain apoplectic comedian. These and other accusations Podhoretz slams under chapter headings as crazy liberal ideas and, for good measure, questions Bush critics' logic or even mental condition. Interest in political pugilism lasts only so long, however, as every library that has weeded last month's it-book knows. Yet the spotlight on Podhoretz may linger because, when drawing breath between punches, he dwells on reasons Bush, from the technical viewpoint, has prevailed on most matters in which he has invested presidential prestige. That accent on the mechanics of Bush's strategy slightly widens Podhoretz's immediately obvious readership.
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Summary: Podhoretz sucks up to the Emperor of Iraq.
Review: Yeah, Dubya is a "great president." On the economy, he has the worst record of any president since Herbert Hoover at the depths of the Great Depression. He has shifted the tax burden from the rich to the middle and lower classes and cost America over 3 million jobs. On social policy, he has endorsed abstinence to battle teen pregnancy, a pitifully stupid ideological "idea." The crime rate is higher now than it was under President Clinton. Science is being attacked by a "fundamentalist" Christian who doesn't even read the Bible (then again, how many evangelicals do?). The VA budget is slashed while the rich chickenhawks enjoy their tax cuts. On national security, he is the most unmitigated disaster in the history of the US presidency. While Dubya was daydreaming about Star Wars and reading stories to schoolchildren, Al-Qaeda carried out the worst terrorist attack in world history on American soil. Rather than strike back, Dubya blew it in Afghanistan before lying to the American public and attacking Iraq at the behest of his puppet masters, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz. Today, Al-Qaeda flourishes while American soldiers are picked off on a daily basis by terrorists. Thanks, Dubya. So John Podhoretz, an elite establishment figure whose parents are famous society Republicans upon whose coat tails he has ridden his entire life, writes this book. Why? To make a quick buck and maybe get a cabinet appointment from Emperor Dubya of Iraq. Good luck, John.
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