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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When this is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
~ George Orwell (born: 1903-06-25 died: 1950-01-21 at age: 46), Politics and the English Language
| The Cheating Culture by David Callahan | The Truth With Jokes by Al Franken | Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber |
| Had Enough? by James Carville | Thieves In High Places by Jim Hightower | Is That a Politician in Your Pocket by Micah Sifry and Nancy Watzman |
| Big Lies by Joe Conason | The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman | The Conservative Soul by Andrew Sullivan |
| The Lies of George W. Bush by David Corn | Tempting Faith by David Kuo | |
| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken | Bush’s Brain by James Moore and Wayne Slater |
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recommend book⇒The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong To Get Ahead | |||
| by: | David Callahan | 978-0-15-603005-2 | paperback | |
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| publisher: | Harvest | 978-0-15-101018-9 | hardcover | |
| published: | 2004-12-01 | 978-0-15-603557-6 | ebook | |
| 978-1-4025-7926-4 | audio | |||
| B003KK5DRC | kindle | |||
| Callahan not only documents all manner of cheating that has become mainstream in America, he documents why this has happened. He does not just wring his hands at the decline of honesty. He explains practical steps to encourage honesty. He tackles the problem at all parts of the economic scale, with special focus on the mega-cheaters at the top. Callahan has written a number of interesting-looking books on this theme, but this is the only one I have read. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Had Enough?: A handbook for Fighting Back | |||
| by: | James Carville | 978-1-4516-1358-2 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1944-10-25 age: 67) | 978-0-7432-5575-2 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Simon & Schuster | 978-0-7432-6177-7 | ebook | |
| published: | 2003-11-01 | B002RYXA2M | kindle | |
| Carville is a democratic strategist, the guy who came up with the winning slogan “I’ts the economy stupid”. He explains how to play hardball with Republicans in debate. For example, he explains the parallels between carnival sucker games and Republican “tax breaks”. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Big Lies: The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts The Truth | |||
| by: | Joe Conason | 978-0-312-31561-0 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1954 age: 57) | 978-0-312-31560-3 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Thomas Dunne | |||
| published: | 2003-05-25 | |||
| Challenges the neo-con characterisations of liberals. | ||||
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recommend book⇒The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering The Politics of Deception | |||
| by: | David Corn | 978-1-4000-5067-3 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1959 age: 52) | 978-1-4000-5066-6 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Crown | 978-1-4000-8151-6 | ebook | |
| published: | 2003-09-30 | B000FC1N0E | kindle | |
| Corn in the Washington editor of The Nation. Among his well researched conclusions: Bush deliberately misrepresented the provisions and effects of his tax cuts; lied about his ties to corporate criminals; and presented deceptive claims to sell controversial policies on stem cell research, missile defense, abortion, energy, health care, education and the environment. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right | |||
| by: | Al Franken | 978-0-452-28521-7 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1951-05-21 age: 61) | 978-0-525-94764-6 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Dutton | 978-1-101-21944-7 | ebook | |
| published: | 2003-08-29 | 978-1-56511-797-6 | audio | |
| B000OCXHO0 | kindle | |||
| Recommended by Michael Moore. Franken’s political comedy gets better and better with the years. He started out on Saturday Night Live. Warning for the humour-detection impaired, Franken admits stretching and distorting the truth for comic effect. | ||||
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recommend book⇒The Truth With Jokes | |||
| by: | Al Franken | 978-0-452-28767-9 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1951-05-21 age: 61) | 978-0-525-94906-0 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Dutton | 978-1-101-19176-7 | ebook | |
| published: | 2005-10-25 | 978-1-59600-061-2 | audio | |
| B000OCXIPS | kindle | |||
| This is mostly just about what doofuses and crooks the Republicans are generally talking such topics as Terri Schiavo, the undermining of social security and Tom Delay. Alternace ebaok version 978-1-101-19176-7. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Thieves In High Places: They’ve stolen our country and it’s time to take it back | |||
| by: | Jim Hightower | 978-0-452-28565-1 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1943-01-11 age: 69) | 978-0-670-03141-2 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Viking | 978-1-101-21321-6 | ebook | |
| published: | 2003-08-14 | B000OCXHIG | kindle | |
| Recommended by Michael Moore. | ||||
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recommend book⇒The Great Unraveling: Losing our Way In the New Century | |||
| by: | Paul Krugman | 978-0-393-32605-5 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1953-02-28 age: 59) | 978-0-393-05850-5 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Norton | 978-0-393-07117-7 | ebook | |
| published: | 2003-09 | 978-0-06-058178-7 | audio | |
| B001LQFXUO | kindle | |||
| Recommended by Michael Moore. Krugman is a professor of economics. This is a primarily collection of Krugman’s columns in the New York Times from 2000—2003. He explains how the Bush regime is a “revolutionary power”. They don’t feel any compunction to play by the rules. They plan eventually to change all the rules. Their primary tactic is lying and relying on the gullible public to presume they could not possibly be as radical as they actually are. Also available as an audio book. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Tempting Faith: an Inside Story of Political Seduction | |||
| by: | David Kuo | 978-0-7432-8713-5 | paperback | |
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| publisher: | Free | 978-0-7432-8712-8 | hardcover | |
| published: | 2006-10-16 | 978-1-4165-4238-4 | ebook | |
| B000MGAUAW | kindle | |||
| David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo’s previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft. This is a book about how the Bush administration callously used “the nuts” for political gain, pretending to advance the conservative Christian agenda. review. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential | |||
| by: | James C. Moore and Wayne Slater | 978-0-471-47140-0 | paperback | |
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| publisher: | Wiley | 978-0-471-42327-0 | hardcover | |
| published: | 2004-01-05 | 978-1-118-03982-3 | ebook | |
| B001QCWPQI | kindle | |||
| How the unscrupulous Karl Rove controlled Bush’s actions. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq | |||
| by: | Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber | 978-1-58542-276-0 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1957-08-04 age: 54) | 978-1-101-21588-3 | ebook | ||
| publisher: | Tarcher | B000OCXHLS | kindle | |
| published: | 2003-07-28 | |||
| This is a book about lies. It is also about how the Bush administration uses ditzy Madison Avenue style deception in its foreign policy. It would be funny if the consequences were not so serious. So it goes over events we are all very familiar with, letting us in on the less spectacular Bush administration lies surrounding them. Despite the comic book cover, the book is deadly serious. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Is That a Politician in Your Pocket: Washington on $2 Million a Day | |||
| by: | Micah Sifry, Nancy Watzman | 978-0-471-67995-0 | paperback | |
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| publisher: | Wiley | B000RRQEUG | kindle | |
| published: | 2004-07-20 | |||
How campaign contributions in Washington amount to legalised bribery. Sifry and Watzman lay it all out with no bark on it in this devastatingly straightforward book — the overt corruption of our country through what we politely call “the campaign finance system.” Legalized bribery is the root of our political rot and few people know more about how to fix it and have done more to fix it than the good folks at Public Campaign. | ||||
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recommend book⇒The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back | |||
| by: | Andrew Sullivan | 978-0-06-093437-8 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1963-08-10 age: 48) | 978-0-06-018877-1 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | HarperCollins | 978-0-06-184328-0 | ebook | |
| published: | 2006-10-10 | B000OI0F8K | kindle | |
| Sullivan is a conservative who is furious with the corruption of the Bush/Republican administration. He points out how spending has increased faster than at any time since FDR. The debt has ballooned to $43 trillion. There are now twice as many lobbyists than there were in 2000. Because the Republicans control of all government institutions, any corrupt businessman flocks to the Republican party to offer bribes. Habeas corpus, the key civil liberty has been trampled. America has been torturing people by the tens of thousands. Sullivan points out other conservatives such as George F. Will and William F. Buckley concur. Conservatives believe in reduced government, pay as you go and civil liberties. They want the government out of your wallet and out of your bedroom. The Bush Republicans have provided the very opposite. Sullivan calls on all conservatives to vote Democrat or abstain to sweep these crooks out of office. Sullivan explains the continued support by the religious right given all the outrageous behaviour is motivated by a desire to cling to power and to keep the flow of corrupt money flowing. | ||||
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