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Summary: Funny, but ...
Review: ... after a while, Hightower's 'wackiness' starts to wear on one. However, I still gave it 5 stars because it seemed to me some of the other low reviews were done out of spite for the subject, rather than the book's content. I laughed at some, nodded in agreement at other parts. All in all, this is a book I do not regret buying and reading.
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Summary: Oh no, another Bush hater !!!
Review: God, please, another Bush hating book ?
Not that we don't have enough of them around, but please could anyone tell these people to stop being so hateful. They sound so stupid and self centered
Don't they have anything else to do in life than to blame all their insecurities on the President of the United States.
Do I smell envy here !!! Oh, yes and can we please get beyond the stupid generalities ?
Amazing, don't you think ?
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Summary: Hightower in rare form!!
Review: Hightower pulls no punches in this witty and insightful look at GW and his policies. The cartoons are hilarious. If you're already a fan of Hightower's weekly coloums then this will be right up your alley. If you're not a fan then this book will easily make you one.
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Summary: Saying What Needs to be Said
Review: Hightower's back again, delivering more much-needed progressive truth to America. Some who are happy to live in a bubble of ignorance may take offense at his claims of political corruption and corporate control of the government (just look at all the donations corporations make to major candidates).
I take quite a bit of what Hightower says with a grain of salt, largely due to his unimpressive documentation of sources. He should take a cue from Noam Chomsky, who cites sources like the renowned scholar he is.
Conservative apologists are sure to immediately dismiss this book as just another liberal attack on Bush (perhaps, as in the case of Fahrenheit 9/11, without even looking at it). If, however, one is truly capable of independent thought, they will absorb the message in this book and perhaps question their stand on the issues. It must be difficult to comprehend the message when one has made up their mind before even cracking the spine.
Bottom line: Hightower's message is noble, but his lack of source documentation weakens his delivery. For a truly thought-provoking, exhaustive, and well-documented book, I recommend Noam Chomsky.
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Summary: A Liberal masquerades as a Populist to reveal hate for Bush
Review: I suppose to rate a book one should reaad the whole thing. I put this book down about half-way through. I wish I hadn't even wasted my time with the first half. Basically, Jim Hightower reveals that he is just as nuts as the people he accuses. He is blind with anger about hating Bush, which was clearly revealed the other night on Hannity and Colmes when Hannity got Hightower to admit that statements made by John Kerry (which Hannity presented as being made by Bush) were dispicable lies. Caught in his own stupidity, he sputtered out, revealing just how deep-seated the Liberals in the country rely on hate and vitriol. Hightower's revealed bias makes anything he says in this book suspect.
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Summary: ye gods! a 13-year-old reading political books!
Review: If you're a conservative, and you want to know exactly what it is that's ticking off us liberals, this book is a concise summary. Actually, even if you're a real conservative -- as opposed to just a Republican who blindly follows Bush because he calls himself a Republican -- you should be ticked off, too. Freedom, our natural resources, our ability to control our own destiny -- all of these things are being stolen from underneath us. The book isn't really drop dead funny, but it is written in a breezy style that quickly summarizes issue after issue involving this theft. Most of these issues didn't start with Bush, and many of them involve Democrats as well, as Hightower sometimes points out. But it should become clear from this book that Bush's tenure in office has put the selling out of our country into high gear.
Many activists have been familiar for years, even decades, with those issues that predate Bush. You should at least seize this opportunity to get the overview and be entertained at the same time. This book will open your eyes far more quickly and easily than any of the other, duller Bush-bashing books. I recommend it alongside seeing Fahrenheit 911 as an introduction to the way our country works today. Read and watch with both an open mind and healthy skepticism. Then go out and watch for other clues. To properly love our country, we may sometimes have to defend it from our own government. Peacefully, of course -- once you're convinced, I recommend Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King as your next subjects of study. Stay away from breaking windows and other such activities. Peace out.
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Summary: Jim who?
Review: Jim Hightower needs to learn how to answer questions on TV before writing a book.
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Summary: Good Mix of Facts and Humor
Review: This book lays out the truth and makes you laugh at the same time. You would only cut this book down if you were a narrow-minded right-wing extremist who gets upset when anyone pokes fun at their conservative fantasy world.
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Summary: Absolutely Ridiculous
Review: This is the same old liberal tripe repackaged into another paranoid "I Hate George W. Bush" tome. Can't the left come up with anything better than this garbage?
Here's a summary of every one of these absurd books, including Hightower's: George W. Bush is evil; George W. Bush is unintelligent; George W. Bush lied; George W. Bush stole the 2000 election; George W. Bush started the Iraq War to benefit Haliburton; George W. Bush lets corporations run the country...blah blah blah. It's the same tired crap with a different cover.
Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Standard Humor, Average Research
Review: Unless you just -hate- anybody who supports Bush in any way, shape, or form, this book can be a little upsetting. Reminds me why partisan politics is a bad thing...He did do some research, though, clearly highlighting many domestic blunders the Bush administration has made, but the cheap potshots taken every other sentence contribute to a much lower quality book, that is, unless you have nothing but malice in your heart for the presidency. If that's the case, read on! There are others out there like you!
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