A lefty takes aim at right's wrongsNY Daily News "Ann Coulter might want to steal an advance copy of Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," due out next week.
The mini-skirted mouthpiece is skewered for 23 pages as Conason, the New York Observer national correspondent, barbecues her and Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Bernard Goldberg and other angry-for-the-airwaves pundits.
Conason notes that while the 41-year-old blond may idolize anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, she isn't exactly a "model for her 'abstinence education' campaign. ... Sexual abstinence ... is for the poor rubes who stay home watching 'The 700 Club,' not for urbane young Republicans hanging out in saloons on Capitol Hill and the upper East Side."
The unabashed progressive notes that while the "perennially single, career-obsessed Coulter" wrote that liberals are "advancing a left-wing conspiracy to abolish the family" by "refusing to condemn ... promiscuity, divorce, illegitimacy,
homosexuality," she "dated the son of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, and many of her closest friends are gay men." " more...
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/110024p-99216c.html
I also previously posted this one:
Thunder From The Left
Chicago Sun-Times
Conason begins by comparing "Limousine Liberals and Corporate Jet Conservatives." Conason writes, "Bush is a modern master of pseudopopulist style. What that style blurs is the profound Republican cynicism toward the same people he embraces and cajoles." Though Conason thoroughly rakes over Enron and the Bushes' dealings with Ken Lay, he also describes earlier, relevant examples. Conason quotes David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, as describing Reagan's broad tax cuts as a "Trojan horse" to reduce the top income tax rate paid by the wealthiest families. "Working families saw their tax burden continue to rise, while the rich enjoyed tax breaks on capital gains, personal investments, estates, depreciation, and profits. Under Reagan's plan, a family earning $30,000 a year would suffer a slight increase in taxes, while a family with an annual income of $200,000 would enjoy a cut of 10 percent. There were even some special tax breaks for the owners of oil leases." Sound familiar?
The chapter on the Republicans' "family values" reads as if it was torn from the pages of the '50s-era expose of sin and sinners in the nation's capital, Washington Confidential. Conason replays the Clinton-era scandals and the sorry record of Clinton's chief antagonists in Congress, but he also fills in various sideshows, like the GOP homosexual-baiting campaign against Tom Foley, the Democratic speaker of the House (1989-'95), launched by Newt Gingrich's lieutenants. Conason reports, "When openly gay Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts warned that he would begin outing gay Republicans if the attacks on Foley continued, they ended overnight." By chapter's end, the amount of Republican hypocrisy exposed would choke an elephant. (And Conason's book stops before morality-booster William Bennett's immoderate gambling habit was in the news.)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/books/sho-sunday-conason17.html
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