Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and why the Media Didn't Tell YouArgues that George W. Bush and his supporters have engaged in an organized program of deliberately deceiving the news media and the American people about his intentions, beliefs, and policies. |
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Contents
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| 55 | |
The Emperors Fashion Critics | 99 |
Working the Liberal Media | 139 |
Putting the Con in Compassionate Conservative | 157 |
NewDoo Economics George W Bush and Taxes | 199 |
Bushocracy The New Face of Democracy | 235 |
Fool Me Twice | 277 |
The Elements of Fraud | 285 |
Index | 297 |
Acknowledgments | 309 |
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Page 199 - The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality ; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice.
Page 236 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 277 - EVEN IF HE WERE MEDIOCRE, THERE ARE A LOT OF MEDIOCRE JUDGES AND PEOPLE AND LAWYERS. THEY ARE ENTITLED TO A LITTLE REPRESENTATION, AREN'T THEY, AND A LITTLE CHANCE? WE CAN'T HAVE ALL BRANDEISES AND FRANKFURTERS AND CARDOZOS AND STUFF LIKE THAT THERE.
Page 267 - Americans against immigrants, citizens against noncitizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.
Page 267 - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act) was enacted on October 26, 2001.
Page 82 - Armed with an arsenal of these weapons of terror, and seated atop 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supplies, directly threaten America's friends throughout the region, and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail.
Page vii - PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Page 274 - Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.
Page 87 - A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and why the Media Didn't Tell You |
| Author | Paul Waldman |
| Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc., 2004 |
| ISBN | 1402202520, 9781402202520 |
| Length | 308 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 20th Century Political Science / American Government / General Social Science / Media Studies |
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