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Summary: Author's obvious hatred toward Bush is evident in hit piece.
Review: After reading "The Bush Dyslexicon", I was truly sorry I enriched the author in any way. It's one thing to have political disagreements, but this outlandish, immature attack on President Bush goes well being respectability. We've all been aware of the President's grammatical foibles. So what? He has a difficult time speaking in public occasionally. Unfortunately, Miller illustrates his blind rage and hatred toward President Bush by making fun of Bush's speaking troubles (if in fact Bush is dyslexic, then Miller has attacked a person with a speech handicap, which is even more inexcusable). During the balance of the attack piece, he attempts to persuade the reader that Bush got elected due to a right-wing media, which must include CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and other cable channels. Overall, this book is nothing more than a combination of all the hit pieces we've seen on the internet ever since Bush won the 2000 election. My question to the author - did his Parents' publishing company publish this book?
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Summary: A book every citizen should read
Review: Unfortunately the people who really need to know the facts exposed in this book, are probably the least likely to read it. Those people are the die-hard Republicans and Bush supporters who refuse to allow any factual fresh air into their mind sets which might alter their iron-clad misconceptions about the G.W.Bush or his father, both of whom they supported. As a long time internet investigator (together with many others on the Net)into GW's past, this book doesn't present any revelations to me. Those of us out here who looked into GW and studied his history and the mainstream media's velvet glove treatment of him, have known the facts presented in this book for a long time. What's encouraging to us is that the dark side of GW is finally getting some mainstream exposure. I consider this book a MUST read for any still troubled by the unusualness of the Surpreme Court's intervention in this election and GW's course since his selection. And as far as the US Supreme Court's decision to over-ride the Florida Supreme Court (in contradiction to every one of this US Supreme Court's rulings in the last years--always ruling in favor of STATES rights), I would highly recommend Vincent Bugliosi's book THE BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY. I only wish we had this kind of analysis from our brain-dead national mainstream media when the theft of our Presidency was taking place last year!
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Summary: Lost But Not Forgotten
Review: "The Bush Dyslexicon" took me by surprise for several reasons. First, the author dissects the biased interplay between televised journalists, (providing excerpts from actual transcripts), and the politically influenced media that awakens or reminds us that journalists, no matter how educated or "credible", are all too often swayed by those who dole out the paychecks. Second, much light is shed on Bush's record - which the media shockingly evaded throughout the campaign - and points out the discrepancies between the "likeable" persona Bush attempts to portray with the wholly callous and elitist nature of his actions. Miller demonstrates how Bush's most awkward and often-humorous gaffes occur when he's striving to appear "compassionate", and provides numerous examples. I couldn't help laughing aloud, but as Miller points out, "it's not really funny." I personally thought Bush's time in office would provide for constant amusement after watching him on the all-mighty TV just once, but a closer look at his record cut that short. Finally, what surprised me the most was Miller's objectivity. This is certainly not a word that a die-hard conservative would have used, but overall objectivity is irrefutable. The author is a professor of media studies, not a "lefty" necessarily or blind to his own party's flaws. His own political affiliation is not the heart of the issue here...rather, it is Bush's political record, glaring ignorance and ill-equipped faculties to be president - and the media's astonishing readiness to assist him in this feat - that merits close attention. Mark Crispin Miller is an exceptional writer - witty, smart and insightful - who I highly, highly recommend to anyone willing to brave the truth.
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Summary: A Must-Read for Concerned Americans
Review: Brilliantly written and meticulously researched and documented, Miller's The Bush Dylexicon is a scathing indictment of our current president and the means by which he assumed office. Miller addresses head-on the issue of Bush's intelligence, taking care to distinguish ignorance and disinterest (states of being the author attributes to Bush) from stupidity (no one as mean as Bush, he argues, should be thought stupid). Throughout, the author, an expert in media studies, analyzes the crucial role that TV played in the election process, in so doing exploding the myth of the liberal media. Because The Bush Dyslexicon so effectively highlights the glaring hypocricies of the Republican Party, it will inevitably draw the ire of conservatives, who will seek to discredit the author and his highly (re)commendable work.
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Summary: Conservative? Liberal? Somewhere in between? Read this book!
Review: Reviewers who represent this book as any sort of defense of Bill Clinton, as a simple screed against Dubya's verbal gaffes, or--most outrageously--as boring, have clearly not read the book. Miller's highly entertaining and provocative dissection of--among other things--the media's increasingly disturbing role in contemporary politics should be required reading for *anybody* interested in the fate of democracy, no matter what your political persuasion.
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Summary: The Bush Dyslexicon
Review: Alternately terrifying and hysterically funny, this book summarizes the reasons why Bush should never have become president and underscores the importance that people not forget the travesty to which our nation's electoral system was subject last fall. While the author takes makes no effort to hide his personal views of this century's first non-elected president, the greatest condemnation of George W comes from a simple reading and re-reading of the president's own words. You truly won't believe your eyes.
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Summary: You don't have to be a "leftie" to love this book!
Review: This book rules. A nice tribute to a failure that has $bought$ his way through life, from his education to the presidency. Anyone with half a brain- left, right or otherwise- can see that "W" is an idiot, and the fact that he is president is a scary reflection on the state of this country. If this book didn't make you laugh through tears of extreme fear then you are just as frightening as George W Bush. Now they should do one on his drunken bum daughters.
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Summary: A Must-Read for Concerned Americans
Review: Brilliantly written and meticulously researched, Miller's The Bush Dylexicon is scathing indictment of our current president and the means by which he assumed office. Miller addresses head-on the question of Bush's intelligence, taking care to distinguish ignorance and disinterest (states of being that Miller attributes to Bush) from stupidity (no one as mean as Bush, he claims, could be stupid). Throughout, the author reveals the very unfunny significance of Bush's famous gaffes. Concurrently, Miller, a expert in the field of media studies, analyses the role of TV in the election process, in so doing exploding the myth of the liberal media. Because it highlights the glaring hypocricies of the Republican Party, the book will inevitably draw the ire of conservatives, who will no doubt challenge the validity of Miller's (re)commendable and important work.
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Summary: The Bush Dyslexicon
Review: This is the best book written so far on the Bush presidential campaign and the Bush mind-set. The author informs us that he voted for Ralph Nadar in the last election, and it is clear that Miller is interested not only in Bush's way of thinking and presenting himself, but in how reporters and television programs have portrayed him. Miller offers a subtle and frank discussion of the way television influences politics in the United States. Anyone who describes this book as a "liberal attack" on GBW clearly hasn't read the book, and is unfamiliar with Miller's previous work, such as his insightful book of essays, BOXED IN: THE CULTURE OF TV.
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Summary: Superb - Perceptive, Accurate, and Badly Needed
Review: Despite some of negative comments by other reviewers about this book, most of which seem to reflect the fact that they didn't bother reading the book before criticizing it, I think the DYSLEXICON does a wonderful job of outlining the ways mainstream media covered and interpreted the Bush campaign. All partisan rhetoric aside, this book is a lucid analysis of the state of media and electoral politics today. That George Bush, Jr. provides such a wealth of...evidence to support the disorder Mr. Miller contends we are suffering from only attests to the generally degraded state of mainstream media today. This is not a compendium of...shots assembled to disparage our current President, and I hope even those who supported Bush's run for office would at least consider opening their minds enough to engage the arguments Mr. Miller presents. They're worth it.
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