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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (1575)	11/22/2003 11:38:33 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Post the "libel". In your opinion, exactly what is "libel"? Anne COulter has called every Democrat a "traitor" That is libel if it wasn't so ridiculous. Where has Ivins libeled anyone, lied or slandered? Be specific.

To: mph who wrote (1575)	11/22/2003 11:43:44 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Here's what her publisher, Random House, has to say about "Bushwhacked": "Bushwhacked brings to light the horrendous legacy of the Bush tax cut, his increasingly appalling environmental record, his administration's involvement in the Enron scandal, and the real Bush foreign policy—botched nation building in Kabul and Baghdad, alienation of former allies—and, unfortunately, much more. Ivins and Dubose go beyond the too frequently soft media coverage of Bush to show us just how damaging his policies have been to ordinary Americans." * Sounds acurate so far Dubya's accomplishments as governor of Texas "As full-time residents of the state that gave you tort reform, H. Ross Perot, and penis-enlargement options on executive health plans, we're obliged to warn you that if Dubya Bush really had exported ‘the Texas Miracle,' the country would be in deep shit." * True, Bush's education record in Texas was 48th in many top categories and health care near bottom too. Currently a big Texas deficit. Dubya's environmental record "Bush has a chemical-dependency problem, but it's not cocaine. It's Monsanto, Dow, and Union Carbide. They wrote the checks that put him in the Texas governor's mansion....Bush had two voluntary emissions-control programs here in Texas. One involved polluting industries. The other was directed at adolescent males, who were encouraged to ‘try abstinence.' Only 3 of our 8,645 most obnoxiously polluting refineries actually volunteered to cut back on their toxic emissions. Numbers on teenage boys are not yet in." * True, read "The Dirty Truth" about Bush's cash for pollution deals with all the major spewers of toxins in Texas while he was governor. All backed up with official stats. * Sounds like Ivins has hit the nail on the head. Why don't more writers report this?