"As Schopenhauer once said: "Dull minds think alike", and David came to realize that the Right-Wing CONspiracy he was fighting to promote and defend, was such a cadre of dull minds...whose mantras were always the same... anything to protect the richest Americans while shunting the common good. "Fear and self-interest", Brock says, was the impetus of many to this conservative "movement".
"He names names, and comes up with the goods...on those paid to lie for the Right Wing. Drudge, Fund, Limbaugh, Liddy, the think-tanks, the magazines, the Moonie Washington Times, Scaife, Murdock, and the rest of the Mammoniacal and deceptive thwarters of democracy...still dishing out their distorted versions of reality on a 24-7 schedule, and now occupying many posts in the ill-gained White House. Granted, Brock is no Karl Kraus, but few in this country have the courage to stand so boldly against power, money and corruption.
One poignant image that seems to sum up their offering was when, after 12 years of writing for the Right, and now submitting to an honest publication, he finally received his first fact checker. His panic, at that moment, should be the panic those who have been duped, blinded by the right, should feel after reading, perhaps, years of unchecked propaganda. "
I haven't got the book yet, but the reviews are worth reading in the meantime.
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