Calling all Amazon.com reviewers: let's tell off a bigot and his puppets!

[johnfunk]

First, props to the other Roger Ailes (the major-league-snarky liberal blogger, not the man pulling the strings at FOX "News" [sic] Channel) for bringing the matter to the nation's attention:

Books from Bigots

Thomas Nelson, a purported Christian publisher, has published Donkey Cons, the work of Neo-Klan shitheel Robt. Stacy McCain. Here's how one peabrain, Jason Mattera, reviewed it on Amazon:

Impeccably researched, with over 600 notes, DONKEY CONS credibly proves its point that the Democrat Party is thoroughly corrupt and always has been. Beginning with fugitive, and former vice president Aaron Burr, this book details how the founders of what would become the Democrat Party were corrupt, then chronicles how that corruption became a trademark of the party in the ensuing centuries. McCain and Vincent argue that the fundamental difference between America's political parties is that when a Republican commits a crime he resigns in disgrace, but when a Democrat commits a crime, he never faces punishment and typically becomes a national icon of the party, to boot! Starting in the 1700s and finishing with the Abramoff scandal, DONKEY CONS exposes the Democrat Party's corruption, immorality, and hypocrisy.

Sorry, Jason. McCain's own paper, the Moonie Times, says the lying shit's full of himself on that one:

When recounting the scandal of Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, the authors erroneously talk about the money that "Abramoff and friends' donated to Democratic Party committees. While Abramoff did tell others to give money to Democrats, he never contributed money himself to the party.

Okay, fellow Amazonians, here's where things stand:

• Eleven reviews, nine giving the book five stars, two giving it one;
• For some reason, the FReepers have voted the earliest review, a thorough debunking of this misleading tome written by a Neo-Nazi, not useful -- but find the reflexive, knee-jerk, pat-on-the-back reviews (most of which read as if they were written by the same brainwashed sycophant) useful!


Y'all know what to do. My review is pending, and will quote the Moonie Times column cited by the other Ailes...

[Chiyo-chichi]

1. slightly off-topic, but...

where is any evidence that Abramoff ever told anyone to give money to Democrats?

[johnfunk]

2. Not off topic at all...

... because it points out how unreliable Robert Whitesheet McCain's book is: there is none!!!

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. It looked to me like the quote from the Washington Times

was being used to refute the book's charges.

[johnfunk]

7. That's right -- using a wingnut paper...

... (getting it right for once) to refute a wingnut. In the immortal woids of Bugs Bunny, "Kinda ironic, ain't it?"

[melody]

4. Be careful, though

I posted a liberal-leaning review of a nutjob book once and had a local (to me) nutjob
harass me for weeks over it. It's a good idea to use a name far from your own name and
not even nearly identify your location when reviewing.

[lolly]

5. Link?

Can you give a link to the Amazon.com page with the reviews?

[johnfunk]

6. Link HERE

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1595550240/ref=cm_rev_next/103-6559983-6784642?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155&s=books&customer-reviews.start=11

It is under "peabrain" in the above cite" -- should've made it more clear.

I had someone harass me under similar circumstances to that described above. It lasted half a day. he got terminated by his ISP.

[TheSubliminableKid]

8. Just submitted my diatribe

Lessee... a demonstrated Neo-Nazo author and bigot, writing for a propaganda house catering to the worst Xtian Reconstructionist slime... can you say American Theocracy?

I suggested that rather than reading cornpone confederate Robert Stacy McCain's half-truths, readers should rustle up a copy of the new Kevin Phillips book -- a real critique of endemic corruption by a real conservative.