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Is Porn On Bin Laden, Chirac and Schroeder's Payrolls???????
This yellow-journalism's absolute spoilage!!!! To educate how low-mindedly UNCONSCIENTIOUS this yellow-journalism is, obese Michael Moore's tripe runs chances of impersonating more "credibility"-at least his crap's got maltreated "sources" which he faultily contrives as "arguments". Porn's quintessential Über-Elitist, rejecting any doubtfulness his character-assassination piece might incur, arrogantly imposing his pollution baselessly. Judging from irremediable-gone patsies ranting about this, he lures GULLIBLE simpletons to his partisanship. The aggressively programmed zombie-reviewers (more resembling tortuously brainwashed agents who're recruited to disseminate liberals' propaganda) who fanatically impose a slippery "journalist's" smut-libel MUST suspiciously endure onset of psychological diseases because Porn's animosity-screed just plays meanly to the most terminal of discriminatingly prejudged biases, where Bush is derided from everything profane like "warmonger" to "Antichrist". I'm repulsed Porn's apparently an editor-insinuating mastery of linguistics-and has scribbled two novels, because his writing style, word choice are BORING as hell, invariant and only flow in crippled excruciation!!!! Porn's diseased in maltreating the frequency of hyphenated compounds, stressfully compressing phrases better suited in clauses into compounds.
Porn's yellow-journalism WON'T be taken half-seriously because this Über-Elitist refuses to be double-checked by confessing his supposed "sources"!!!! That alone disqualifies this tripe's merit; mercifully giving "benefit of the doubt" by reading his yellow-journalism beyond this hamper even unmasks further scandalous craftiness. Confessing liberals have NO LICIT reasons to daydream about charging Bush, a disconcerting exorbitance of Porn's "exposes" is NITPICKING. In Chapter One, he abuses Bush for "lying" about the Children's Health Insurance Program because Bush delayed its inception so he could designate money to facilitate Texas' 1997 tax cuts. Porn demonizes Bush as the bastard who "played politics" with 200,000 kids' health despite CHIP was passed, and Bush had important fiscal reasons to delay its progressiveness.
Inexcusable is Porn's unrelenting presumption of probing secret, "insider-knowledge", via "quoting" endless snippets from persons ranging from press secretaries, testifiers and fellow reporters. In this mendacious ploy, Porn can never be double-checked, infiltrating his ungrounded malignity however manipulatively he wants. On page 57, the first James Baker quote CANNOT be confirmed-on Google, it doesn't appear anywhere!!!! Third-parties are killed from ascertaining Porn's believability, which massacres the case his yellow-journalism plans to "establish". Porn misappropriates Baker's quote concerning Demoncrats' bitchy complaints over Bush "stealing the election", citing it to "unmask" Republican lies regarding manual recounts' dependability. Baker professed manual recounts were imprecise, confirmed by establishment of vote-counting machines. Porn uses MORE subterfuge to strugglingly disprove Baker's assessment, one which he shamelessly mistreats throughout. Porn simply misuses "studies" "papers" like the NYT conducted by procuring experts to substantiate them, which is useless. Like in court, ANYONE recruits experts to substantiate their side because it deconstructs to differences of opinion rather than fact, yet Porn hijacks that NYT study as an overruling law.
Porn's slaughtered in his charges that Bush's tax cuts won't instigate growth, since Dec.2003 birthed 8.2% GDP, the best consumer-confidence since the 80s, and positive payroll additions. Frailly unqualified to analyze economics, Porn gloats "exposing" Bush's tax cuts for the rich-the only smattering of credibility in his yellow-journalism!!!! Porn abuses this redeemableness by exaggerating and scolding Bush so gloomily over the most forgivable, annoying and harmless "lies". Supposedly in August 2001, Bush's tax cuts backslid the estimated $125,000,000,000 surplus into $9,000,000,000 deficit. Besides that deficit being manageable, statistics proved Bush's 2001 tax cuts salvaged the recession from worsening-yet Porn corrodes Bush as a mockery. Similarly, Porn focuses shoddily and dissatisfiedly on ever trivial specifics, like Bush's advertisement that low-income taxpayers' income-tax liability would be helped more than millionaires', which was true. Porn resorts to conjectures, "philosophizing" that in real-life terms, this deduction was "meaningless". When Porn CAN'T crucify Bush in the legitimacy of his pledges (which his yellow-journalism's supposed to "divulge"), he strategizes secondary ways to discredit Bush, like the aforementioned, out-of-context misappropriation.
Porn's yellow-journalism's crappy regarding domestic analysis. It CAREENS into utmost purgatory in stumblingly mishandling foreign policy. In Chapter Nine, this schizophrenic brutalizes Bush for "misdirecting" folks about terrorists' real motivations because Bush said they detest freedom. A miserably "good" liberal, Porn imposes people are SO stupid and dependent they couldn't themselves research terrorists' real motives if they felt Bush's simplification wasn't detailed enough!!!! Distressingly, Porn sounds like a terrorist-coddler in his sympathetic explanation of terrorists' motivations, regardless of their damaging perilousness to American interests, like creating fundamentalist Islamic countries. Another holocaustic prevarication Porn connives is tarnishing the Admin. for "cunningly" hiding Afghan civilians' deaths during bombings. Intractably insanely, Porn persecutes Rumsfeld to report civilian deaths although Rumsfeld was essentially correct, that they didn't have verifiable information to relay because those "reports" came from the worst unscientific estimates of not-independently-confirmed eye "witnesses". That opportunistic devil Porn squanders ten pages rebuking the Admin. for those contraband accusations.
Sorrowfully unoriginally, Porn lowly PLAGIARIZES stalely worn-down libel regarding Iraq's war that's been circulating since before the war and since the Admin. hasn't YET located WMD INSTANTLY in a country California's size, and battles a regime specializing in clandestinely equivocating illegal programs from prying eyes. Examples are Porn ruinously maltreating harmlessly spurious Niger-Uranium allegations over a callousness of pages, despite Italians delivered those forged papers, and America DIDN'T qualify its war argument on that paltry charge. Porn exhibits the Demoncratic affliction of terrorist-shielding by challenging Hussein should've been spared because he didn't have "massive" stockpiles of banned weaponry, though minute amounts are criteria enough to consider DEADLY. Porn dares contest Hussein's Al-Qaeda connections through illegitimate conjecture, inventing that Ansar-al-Islam associate al-Zarqawi was a "rival" of Al-Qaeda, still received Al-Qaeda funding though being "independent", and isn't sworn Al-Qaeda while Porn admits "they have common goals". Porn's guile is lifted from "secret" German records and incognito "analysts".
Liars, damned liars, and Bush
We know the President lies. But what this book confirms is far deeper than that.
It is that Bush's ENTIRE RECORD consists of lies.
Consider the self-righteous indignation that greeted Clinton's lie concerning sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky...told in part to protect the office of the President and three women: Lewinsky, Hilary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton...all of whom would be damaged in their personal lives by the truth.
Clinton's record, however, is not a series of lies as is Bush's.
It is an old maxim, from Plato to Kant, that a lie is an offense against truth which damages trust. As a result of Bush's continuous lying, half the country has for its sanity to reside in a fantasy zone, as does the poster below, where his inability to use Google "proves" nothing at all.
Political views become lifestyle, more an expression of a demented personality's desire for attention than anything else.
Grammar and syntax break down, as in the case where Sen. McCain's questioning of Bush's attendance at a Bob Jones University (sic!) function becomes the accusation that MCCAIN is accusing Bush of anti-Catholicism.
The event's text is searched, in other words, for the most convenient charge by crudely rearranging words.
And, the language is damaged by even calling this "mastery".
Basing our political views on methodological individualism and not seeing how groups, including speechwriters and flaks, Manufacture Consent, Bush becomes in the language of old-fashioned mastery a perverted cynosure.
Let's see. The "losers" are men of honor like Sen. McCain and the theodicy searches their resume for "defects of character" in order to avoid the conclusion that yes indeed, there are "conspiracies", the biggest to be a takeover of all three branches of government by corporations.
"Mastery" becomes empirical and measured by the appearance of success and the approbation of fools.
But "mastery" in this context needs to be renarrated as enslavement. There are clear indications (the non-firing of Rumsfeld being one) that Bush is the willing slave of a cabal of evil men, like the Gimp in the box in the basement, in Pulp Fiction.
Needed at this juncture is not Yet Another catalog of Bush's iniquities, and frankly, Peter Singer's book The President of Good and Evil: Taking George Bush Seriously has more depth.
Instead we can usefully regard Bush as a creature of our times, and our dark desires.
For some time in America, real rats and fools have become rich and famous. Because of this, the language changes to accomodate, simultaneously, the Rat Victories and the vastly more predominate cases where Nice Guys Finish Last.
In the 1950s, Sammy Glick and Willy Loman could be narrated as ultimate Losers in the emptiness, whether of Sammy Glick's material success or Loman's failure.
The problem, as stated in the creaky and deductive philosophy of Spinoza, is clear. If we at all admire, esteem, look up to, or even suck up to a Bush clone, whether on the national stage or the office, we are asserting values that contradict our natural instinct to eat bread and salt and speak the truth.
Of course, Puritanism, with its emphasis on unredeemability for most of us smokers, perversely makes space for this admiration in which the unshriven manifest their lack of election by admiring Don Trump.
The problem here is that Bush, unlike Sen.McCain or Howard Dean, refreshing scoffers as they are, proclaims, literally, that he is saved. This is odd, because he seems to feel no need to manifest salvation by any form of charity.
The problem is that today, MOST Americans use each other and the world with a complete lack of common sense or compassion and are gradually descending, one and all, into a Moronic Inferno of psychic chaos. And, they vote.
Bush expresses that chaos in his very syntax and as such is the cynosure of the doomed.
UPDATE 2-2-2005
Thanks to the meta-reviewers for the perfect score. If the people who gave this review a *non placet* are Bush supporters then I am pitching a perfect game in a sense for I displease those who are pleased with lies, damned lies, and George Bush. Of course, to convince them to support my case would be better, and a home run, with the bases loaded, by contrast to the more austere and intellectual pleasures of the perfect game.
The lies continue. In yesterday' column, Paul Krugman shows how the set of arguments used to show that Social Security is "broken" are contradictory with respect to the collection of arguments used to show how it is that rubes, who take their money out of withholding and head for Vegas, will create a sky-high 6.5-7 percent return on equities during the same period of time...a rate of return seen only during the Internet bubble.
Of course, the attraction of such an argument is that in logic and in a sense, arguments with contradictory premises imply anything.
The lies are for many Americans a convenient total substitute for truth on which they feed for mere hope as does the California body builder on supplements alone. The whole shebang, the complete virtual reality, is headed for its next exogenous shock as a result.
Good info, but very dry
The information is good, and well presented, but as someone already mentioned, it really reads more like a laundry list instead of investigating the reasons behind what will one day be looked on as the most damaging presidential administration this country has ever (hopefully) survived. It isn't bad, just isn't really deep.
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If anything, this poor slob's review actually gives more merit to this book than is probably due, based on the author's investigative style at least. I guess a lot of the laundry list of lies the author points out must really be on target though, to rile a conservative nutjob like the aforementioned reviewer, into such a defensive posture. Kudos to the list of lies and their acid effect of truth on supporters of those lies, but again, it could be better written.
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