The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception

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Summary: Half Lies/Half truths
Review: What this book does not point out are the lies that really matter. Like Bush not only knowing 9/11 was going to happen but wanting and help make it happen. I'm tired of people making out W to be 'JUST' a bad president, when it is clear he has had connections with bin Laden. A good book to check out about the real truth is "9/11 the Road to Tyranny" which if you can't find here you can find at www.infowars.com

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Summary: HMMMMM
Review: This book is an example of how proof-texting works; pick a subject or person you wish to assinate and proof text until you find the "evidence."

I think it becomes increasingly clear with each passing day that the anti-Bush folks are the liars in this little drama. Seems this book is yet another in the boringly long line of character assasination/smear/innuendo genre attempting to be foisted upon us by "documentary filmakers" and "investigative reporters." Yawn.

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Summary: This needs to be an educational series, not an attack
Review: Author David Corn doesn't like George W. Bush. He doesn't like him as a man, as a politician, or as President of the United States. This passion is clear and unabashed throughout the book.

There is more to this book than editorializing and Bush-bashing, but at times it seems that a serious book about media manipulation, spin, Orwellian doublespeak, and sycophantic journalism, is wrestling to be heard over the author's personal disgust for the incumbent President. Maybe the disgust is justified, but the book's potential languishes.

The treatment and analysis of the Bush government's lies, how he marketed himself as a candidate and how he has warmed the public to some outrageous policies, is important work. One of the few hopes our Republic has is for the majority of eligible voters to listen to our politicians with intelligence, to insist that our news media serve as intelligence-gatherers for the voters, and hold our politicians accountable.

Most of us expect that lying is the commerce of all politicians, but how many of us really question why we feel we have to accept that in a country such as this. Every administration has its own litany of lies, and its own style. Thus, I feel Corn has an excellent franchise on his hands: a Presidential series of lies, omissions, doublespeak and obfuscation. Let Clinton be next.