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My beef is not content, but rather presentation. Although generally informative, this book is heavy reading, maybe because it is somewhat incoherent. The use of GREY areas to enhance items of interest is distracting and makes them hard to read because of the loss of contrast.
You can give all of the misinformation you want and the book still ends up being piled high in Costco with many people buying it and believing it. Everyone has a side they want you to join. Not all, but most quality news is pretty evenly split or unbiased. Unfortunately this book is part of that group. I want, as the expression says, just the facts. OK, so I didn't expect perfection and did expect a one sided effort, but I did at least hope for mostly honest facts and a real straight forward effort.
The largest newspaper in my state is anything but liberal and we are usually considered a Democrat state. Books, have become one of the biggest fronts for this since no "equal time" has to be offered and they are very difficult to respond to. I didn't get anything like that. That is very hard to get. It is not there alone and I am not picking on this one, but it is just another piece of sensationalism designed to push a point with made up "facts" and make money for the author. Look, it has been proven time and again that there is no such thing as "The Liberal Media" when actual facts and stories are counted up.
Even in NY, you have the liberal leaning NY Times and the very Conservative Wall Street Journal.
Thru these books we get a good view. I am interested in this side of the political and everyday thoughts as to where we are going as a country.
Or even, actually, a whole chapter. We know that Morris and McGann run a consulting business. The media they create--books and columns and radio and television appearances have more to do with keeping their business healthy than with any ideology. The issue for a reader is coming to grips with the what qualifies as a book and what is just the advertising for the author's brand.
Today's media pundit is simply running a business with all the demands on time and intellect and professional services firm has to deal with. It's easy to see how these books and columns get written--at the Admirals Club on layovers, in hotel rooms late at night or dictated back to someone at the office during some down time. It's isn't really Morris' fault. of the Democratic party.
As such, it is more ad copy-like than real books. dominance (). And Mr Morris is a paid commentator and columnist. So, what the reader gets here is an extremely superficial view of the effects of the recent rise to power ().
Unfortunately, what works for a 350 word column doesn't really do it for a whole book. So, this book, as all his books, is written to be a branding tool for the Morris business. It's put together with a clear brief to be provocative and punchy.
Unfortunately, the authors attempted to pen too much under a single title that the time sequence and subject matter appear to float uneasily and with loose ends. ISBN 978-0-06-154777-5, PB 308/290. An informative read, it is timely and well penned by the authors (husband and wife) of seven bestselling books including "Catastrophe". They give us a cold look at the liberal media downplaying terrorism, of liberals' secret plan to muzzle talk radio (gets scary here), the expensive do-nothing lackadaisical Congress, U.S.
"Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media.Liberals.Lobbyists. Dick Morris is capable of much better writing than this one, "Fleeced". Dick Morris was Bill Clinton's political consultant for 20 year. are scamming us." by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann.
companies funding Iran, well-paid turn-coat lobbyists (former Congressmen), and sections on credit card plastic fleecing, why education is failing, origin of the housing scandal, scams in re-building second homes in flood areas, the sub prime loan crisis, poisoning via tainted children's toys, and much more.The bottom-line for these politically savvy scam artists is greed, tax evasion and power grabbing, most often via the unwritten pay-to-play rules usually aided by inattention and ineptness of oversight committees, and their rank and affiliations in/to government. Nonetheless, it had to be said, one way or the other. Harper, NY, 2009. Notes 30 pgs., 8" x 5 1/4".A bold, albeit somewhat formless compilation of huge, expensive scams at the expense of taxpayers perpetrated by the White House, President Obama and his cronies as they raise our taxes, redistribute our income and expand government health care, promise immigration reform, and erode protection given by the Patriot Act.
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