Hillary's Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists

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Summary: Must read
Review: Richard Poe's book is a must read for every American. To think it can't happen in America (totalitarianism) is to turn a blind eye to reality. It can happen and it was. It was the courage of Freepers from Florida and seven Supreme Court justices as well as the alternative media of which Poe is a part that saved the nation. But as Poe points out the battle is not over. Read this book, pass on your copy or buy several for your friends.

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Summary: Must read
Review: Richard Poe's book is a must read for every American. To think it can't happen in America (totalitarianism) is to turn a blind eye to reality. It can happen and it was. It was the courage of Freepers from Florida and seven Supreme Court justices as well as the alternative media of which Poe is a part that saved the nation. But as Poe points out the battle is not over. Read this book, pass on your copy or buy several for your friends.

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Summary: ?????
Review: Should have written about Hillary's Secret Stash - Would have been more interesting AND truthfull

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Summary: In their attempts to destroy the republic . . .
Review: This book provides solid info for anyone interested in media and journalism. It's particularly eye-opening in regards to the "media elites" (the New York Times, CNN, etc.) and their attempts to coddle the Clintons, and do everything in their power to underreport the disasters that occurred under their administration.

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Summary: Spin masters meet the internet dissenters
Review: This is a great book. Don't waste your time with my review. Get the book and read it.

Perhaps the subtitle should have been 'History of the Blogosphere.' Hillary provides a common focus for the dissenters, but the heart of the book is personal biographies of key dissenters: Matt Drudge, Chris Ruddy, David Horowitz, Carl Limbacher, Barbara Olson, Bernard Weinraub, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Andrew Sullivan, Hugh Hewitt, James Robinson, LJ Davis, Joe Farah, Gary Aldrich and a host of others. Some came from leftist politics (Farah, Horowitz and Sullivan); some were Internet news junkies (Drudge, Robinson, and Limbacher). Some came from newsrooms (Ruddy, Evans-Pritchard). The common thread is that all these individuals risked or sacrificed home and career to warn people about the Clinton Whitehouse extortion (Arkansas mafia), bribery (ChinaGate), blackmail (FileGate) and murders (Foster, Parks and Brown).

This is in stark contrast to the way the Clinton Whitehouse spun the Internet phenomena to ABC, NBC and CBS. This perspective was outlined in an internal Clinton Whitehouse memo: "The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce". Let me quote from the opening lines of the report: "'The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce' refers to the mode of communication employed by the right wing to convey their fringe stories into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media. This is how the stream works. First, well-funded right-wing think tanks and individuals underwrite conservative newsletters and newspapers such as the Western Journalism Center, the American Spectator and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Next the stories are reprinted on the Internet where they are bounced all over the world. From the Internet, the stories are bounced into the mainstream media ... After the mainstream right-of-center American media covers the story, congressional committees will look into the story. After Congress looks into the story, the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by the remainder of the American mainstream press as a 'real' story."

Obviously, anyone with a critical intellect can investigate the validity of the two story lines. Here is a recap of the book so you have some keywords:
Introduction: A definition of the term 'conspiracy'
Chapter 1: An example of Hillary Spin: Viacom erases boos, replaces it with cheers and rebroadcasts to millions.
Chapter 2: Hillary's desire to censor Internet, Hillary's enforcers, use of FBI files to blackmail opponents.
Chapter 3: Andrew Sullivan fired from print magazine for 'Ice Queen/Drag Queen' Hillary story, sets up shop on Internet.
Chapter 4: A tale of two leftists, Hillary and David Horowitz. One came to his senses, but it cost him his cushy lifestyle.
Chapter 5: How the news junkies started to collaborate via Usenet groups.
Chapter 6: Chris Ruddy, former schoolteacher, scoops NYT on Vince Foster and loses newspaper job, joins Internet.
Chapter 7: Hillary goes on the attack with the "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce", but Hillary hit man, Weiss wakes up and leaks document.
Chapter 8: The rise of Matt Drudge.
Chapter 9: The Internet's fact checking role comes of age with ChinaGate and Ron Brown's murder.
Chapter 10: Why conservatives have all the fun.
Chapter 11: Climax: the Clinton Whitehouse's attempt to shut down Drudge with $145 million lawsuit.
Chapter 12: Jim Robinson, the rise of FreeRepublic and how Freepers kept Gore from stealing the 2000 election.

If you have the ability to step back and try to gain an objective view of the battle between Internet dissenters and the Clintons, consider the issues in terms of the mass-marketing industry that powers broadcast networks like Viacom (CBS), Disney (ABC) and GE (NBC).

What do mass-marketers need? They need large compliant and conforming market populations. They like standard brands and a limited set of celebrities who all lead model lives. They don't want confusion, debate and critical thinking.

Research on conformity began in 1951, when Solomon Asch studied groups of seven to nine people who were told they were participating in a study on visual perception. These subjects were asked to match the length of a standard line to three comparison lines. One would think that this would be a relatively easy exercise, but Asch's groups only contained one real subject. The rest of the group was made up of confederates who were instructed to unanimously give incorrect responses in some trials. The results of this experiment found that the control group made errors only five percent of the time. Those exposed to the incorrect responses conformed to these answers 33% of the time, with 75% of these subjects conforming at least once. This shows how easily it is to make a person conform in a group situation.

The challenge for mass marketers is isolating an individual, surrounding the subject with 5 or 6 confederates who will repeat only the 'marketing line' and illicit effective conformity and compliance. It turns out repeated television advertisements effectively perform this duty and the subjects will enjoy the experience.

The fly in the ointment for mass marketers is a lone dissenter, a devil's advocate. The dissenter allows others who may have questions to voice their objections. The dissenter gives other potential dissenters an ally. Asch showed in his studies that just one other person who disagrees with the group decreased conformity substantially. Milgram also found this to be true. If the subject hears only one dissenting voice, the probability they will abandon their own opinion drops. In terms of the emperor's new clothes, the scales fall from the eyes and the guy is just naked.

I've been following Ruddy, Drudge, and FreeRepublic for years. This was the first opportunity to see past the byline and get to know a bit about the individuals. Despite the turgid subject matter, the book offers great hope. The Internet dissenters could make up a new volume of 'Profiles in Courage'.

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Summary: To the Ramparts!!!
Review: This is an extremely well written and researched book that will make you want to DO SOMETHING about the systemic squashing of debate instigated by Hillary Clinton and continued on by her minions seeded into Big Media, the government's bureaucracy and academia. You will want to do something because this book will not only convince of the need, but of the possibililty of victory over the autocratic tendencies of the "anointed".

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Summary: Be informed....read this book....
Review: This is one of the most frightening books I have ever read. Others have reviewed the content very well, so my only message is...If Hillary is on the ballot, please do not go to the polls until you have read this book and understand who she really is. Then make your decision.

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Summary: Great deal of interesting information.
Review: Wow! Reads like the history of S.M.E.R.S.H.

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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: Wow! This is a page turner. You'll have a new understanding of recent events after reading this well done investigative study. Well worth your time.