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THE BARKING DEMAGOGUE ON THE BID TV SCREEN SCREAMS BEHIND SMOKE AND MIRRORS: PAY NO ATTTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN | Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics | Glenn Greenwald

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	• Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics Glenn Greenwald Crown, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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The Macho Republicans

It is amazing how we americans can be so easily be deceived by popular notions. The author exposes the myth of many of our so called "heroes". The book is an eye opener for how our political machines fabricate heroes out of opportunists and cowards. Great book.

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STUPID. If you think Ann Coulter is a biased idiot you will love Glenn Greenwald. I read this hoping for a reasoned and inteligent argument and emded up with a pile of horse toots instead. My bad for thinking any book in this politically charged climate would be rational or intelligent. If you are already a drooling left wing natzi then this book is for you. If you want insight. Look elsewhere.

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THE BARKING DEMAGOGUE ON THE BID TV SCREEN SCREAMS BEHIND SMOKE AND MIRRORS: PAY NO ATTTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Greenwald pulls back the curtain to see those real men.

We have been lied to America and we have loved every minute of it.

Time to wake up. Pull back the screen. Read this book.

Time to pay the piper for tunes we did not even hear.

We did not dance. Wall Street did. Now we pay for it.

Read this book.

Bush was a cheerleader in his exclusive all-boys prep school in Massachusetts, and his grandpa the Senator for Connecticut pulled strings to get him in to Yale as a family tradition, in Connecticut, despite flunking High School.

Ready for this?
Bush ain't no Texan. He is a connecticutian.

And McCain hardly ever gets in Arizona.
Always in DC these past years, until now when he is just so all about Joe the Plumber.

Hypocrites robbing us blind.
Read this book.
Stop the larceny.
Stop the war.
Read this book.

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Rehashing

Great American Hypocrites reminds me of a closing argument at a trial, or a review for a final exam.

If you're well-read, or at least moderately so, there's probably nothing at all new here. John Wayne, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh, Trent Lott, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Saxby Chambliss, Bill O'Reilly, and a myriad of other members of the GOP and right-leaning media, including just about the whole crew behind the war in Iraq are draft dodgers - chickenhawks. They avoided military service in time of war like the plague and now talk like bad dudes. We know this already.

McCain and Gingrich cheated on their wives, and several GOP congressmen, senators, not to mention men of the cloth with well-documented, right-wing leanings have been in the spotlight for less than God-fearing Christian-like behavior. This too we know already.

Mr. Greenwald presents yet another strident denunciation of hypocrisy, the media's seemed version to exposing it, and the voter's seeming ignorance of what's really going on here. The theme of this book is simplistic, even elemental - talk is cheap, and actions should speak louder than words. But there's also a subliminal theme I found a bit insulting. Greenwald writes like his fellow citizens aren't at all aware of this, that we're all being suckered by a huge right-wing media conspiracy. U.S. voters are actually quite aware tough-talk and cheerleading for war doesn't make you a warrior, and denunciation of adultery, homosexuality, and child-molesting isn't proof of having mainstream family values. The political party he rips so frequently and fervently has lost the popular vote in 4 of the last 5 elections.

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Applauding LOUDLY !

Thank you Mr. Greenwald for shining a light on the truth of the hypocrites who call themselves, America's Value Patriots. When in fact they are the panzies who run from America's needs ! Self-proclaimed patriot John Wayne was not a very good actor, but instead a fellow who was a hypocrite in all aspects of his life, as you point out. As a kid I thought he was "slow", like a buddy of mine was in real life.
Also your book points to Ann Coulter as being a "talk-a-lot-do-nothing". But in reality, she's just making a buck and couldn't care less about Republican politics......Mr. Murdoch publishes her books, I used to work for his publishing house.
Keep up the good work with the truth telling in your future books, and maybe America will get a chance to throw out the bad guys and heal itself.
I beg anyone who seeks the truth to read this book, and I still hold out hope that Republicans and Independents who have the courage to read this great book are enlightened by your tome, and will convert to the true American ideals. Thus we can rid our land of the fakes like Limbaugh and Hannity, and all of those hypocites underlined in this book.
You'll thank yourself for buying and reading this book - I bought four as pre-election gifts for family members who lean to the right.

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A takedown of the GOP?s deceitful propaganda machine from the hugely popular blogger of Salon.com?s Unclaimed Territory and the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy

Long since Americans were wooed by images of Ronald Reagan astride a horse, complete with cowboy hat and rugged good looks, the Republican Party has used a John Wayne mythology to build up its candidates and win elections. Their marketing scheme of evoking brave, courageous, heroic warriors has been so persuasive and strikes such a patriotic nerve, that many citizens have voted based on this manipulative imagery even when they?ve flat out disagreed with the GOP?s positions on key issues.

Glenn Greenwald puts this bogus GOP mythology under microscopic critique and successfully argues that none of these men is, in fact, a brave, strong moral warrior?far from it. Rather, most have dodged military duty, have strings of broken marriages and affairs, and live decadent, elitist lives, which they so ruthlessly condemn Democrats for doing. Such false archetypes?that GOP leaders are exclusively ?t to command the military, represent traditional family values, and are fiscally restrained and responsible because they?re just regular folk like us?are so firmly entrenched in our culture as to allow the GOP to sit back and let their time-tested marketing ploy spin itself silly while avoiding debate on real issues. When they actually do voice opinions, it?s nothing more than a smear campaign of the supposed weakness and elitism of the Democrats.
To prevent this tired marketing scheme from succeeding again, Greenwald takes off the gloves and knocks down the hoaxes and myths, exposing the tactics the right-wing machine uses to drown out both reality and consideration of real issues. But he also calls on Democrats to shake off the defensive posture (?We love America too,? ?We support the troops too,? ?We also believe in God?) and start attacking the Republican candidates for the hypocrites they, in truth, are.

The ?rst book to dissect the Republican Cult of Personality and leave it openly exposed in its unabashed, shameful depravity, Great American Hypocrites is a deeply necessary call-out to Democrats to attack the GOP with their competitor?s very own weapons.

Ever since the cowboy image of Ronald Reagan was sold to Americans, the Republican Party has used the same John Wayne imagery to support its candidates and take elections. We all know how they govern, but
the right-wing propaganda machine is very adept at hijacking debate
and marketing their candidates as effectively as the Marlboro Man.
For example:

Myth: The Republican nominee is an upstanding, regular guy who shares the values of the common man.
Reality: He divorced his first wife in order to marry a young multimillionaire heiress whose family then funded his political career.

Myth: Republicans are brave and courageous.
Reality: It?s a party filled with chicken hawks and draft dodgers.

Myth: Republicans are strong on defense and will keep us safe.
Reality: They prey on fears, and their endless wars make America far less secure.

Myth: The Republicans are the party of fiscal restraint and small, limited
government.
Reality: Soaring deficits, unchecked presidential power, and an increasingly invasive surveillance state are par for their course.

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