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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN13: 9780307408662
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SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING:
Falling for the Marlboro Man marketing and sleazy takedown tactics of the Republican Party can be hazardous to the health of this nation!
Ever since the cowboy image of Ronald Reagan was sold to Americans, the Republican Party has used the same John Wayne imagery to support its candidates and take elections. We all know how they govern, but the right-wing propaganda machine is very adept at hijacking debate and marketing their candidates as effectively as the Marlboro Man.
For example:
Myth: The Republican nominee is an upstanding, regular guy who shares the values of the common man.
Reality: He divorced his first wife in order to marry a young multimillionaire heiress whose family then funded his political career.
Myth: Republicans are strong on defense and will keep us safe.
Reality: They prey on fears, and their endless wars make America far less secure.
Myth: Republicans are the party of fiscal restraint and small, limited government.
Reality: Soaring deficits, unchecked presidential power, and an increasingly invasive surveillance state are par for their course.
“Intelligent, insightful.” —Daily Kos
“Glenn Greenwald has done it again.” —Alan Colmes
“Glenn Greenwald is a treasure.” —BuzzFlash
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| Far Right |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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On the right you have wing-nuts Hannity, Coulter, Beck & Limbaugh.
Combine them into one, shift them to the left and you have Greenwald.
If you want liberal, red-meat, anti-Republican polemics he is your man.
I enjoyed the first half of the book, but after a while "Great American Hypocrites" beigns to sound like the wing-nuts he is attacking.
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| Great American hypocrites |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The writer "exposes" the American hype of heroism by well-known individuals,dead or alive. Having known two "hypocrites" personally, I cannot agree more. All conservative Americans should read this book.
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| Great Read |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is one of those books that is hard to put down. Greenwald uses good points and statistics. He really hits hard and some of the major conservative talking points. He also shows the evolution of their beliefs and how hypocritical they are. Overall, GREAT BOOK.
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| Great concept... but overall pretty bad. |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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With a title like "Great American Hypocrites", you would expect a book debunking the lies of the Right such as taxes, foriegn policiy, enviroment, and so on.
Instead... we get a book that takes about freaking John Wayne for half the book.
The preface and first chapter is all about Wayne... and is just repeats the same thing over and over. I don't think anyone really cares about Wayne, and anything that really needed to be said about him could have been done in a page, not 35 pages.
The second chapter is about the media, but does a really bad job showing the hypocricy. It turns out to be boring, repetative, and useless. Anything good that you read in this chapter could be found better in any other book debunking the Right. Overall though, probably the best chapter in the book.
The third chapter is about chicken-hawks, and the forth is about how the Right is not "family style" regardless of what they say. Yeah, it is all true, but unnecessary. Who cares is Reagan got divorced? Talk about more substance stuff rather than 110 pages of their character. Sure, it's important, but could have been dealth with in 20 pages or so. AND... these chapters and the John Wayne chapters go hand in hand. So it is more unnecessary repetitive nonsence.
Five, "Small Government Tyrants" sounds good, but in reality, is a bust. It is mainly about FISA, which is important, but the author repeats himself over and over again. There are a couple good parts of the chapter, but are better documented in almost any other book debunking the Right.
The sixth chapter about McCain is, IMO, worthless.
So there ya go:
- John Wayne
- John Wayne
- The Media
- The Right is not tough
- The Right is not wholesome
- FISA
- McCain
Not a good read. Boring, poorly written, repetitive, unnecessary.
There are some good parts, but you could get this stuff pretty much anywhere else.
Two other books, IMO, that do a better job:
1) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
2) Trainwreck by Bill Press
If you hate the Right and got money to burn, go for it. If you only want one or two books about the Right, look elsewhere.
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| The Macho Republicans |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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It is amazing how we americans can be so easily be deceived by popular notions. The author exposes the myth of many of our so called "heroes". The book is an eye opener for how our political machines fabricate heroes out of opportunists and cowards. Great book.
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