Excerpt from David Brock's New Book on Repug Noise Machine

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04218.html

SINCE DEFECTING FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY in the latter half of the 1990s and publishing a confessional memoir in 2002, I’ve discussed my right-wing past with politicians, political activists and strategists, academic scholars, student groups, fellow writers, and hundreds of readers of my book Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. I’m rarely asked anymore why I changed, or about the baroque intricacies of the anti-Clinton movement, which I once participated in and then renounced and exposed. After a presidential election decided by the Supreme Court, the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and the war with Iraq, politics has moved to a different place.

Nowadays, when I talk about Blinded by the Right, people want to know not how I was blinded by the Right, but how so much of the country seems to be in that position. For the first time since 1929, the Republican Party controls all three branches of government. Fewer people identify with the Democratic Party today than at any time since the New Deal. Conservatism seems the prevailing political and intellectual current, while liberalism seems a fringe dispensation of a few aging professors and Hollywood celebrities. People ask me, a former insider, how the Republican Right has won political and ideological power with such seeming ease and why Democrats, despite winning the most votes in the last three presidential elections, seem to be caught in a downward spiral, still able to win at the ballot box but steadily losing the battle for hearts and minds.

While it is not the only answer, my answer is: It’s the media, stupid.

Go to that link and read that whole thing.

It says it all.

Truly great stuff. EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD READ THIS

had a new book out, sounds good. :kick:

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My gosh, being affiliated even slighty, with the kerry Campaign, means I have an Instant E-Mail list and conduit to the Dem Party for making folksaware of issues that need to be exposed.

Anyone else on the Kerry Campaign, no matter how small a capacity, consider e-mailing DU articles that before you just would have mailed to a dozen friends, to the Kerry Campaign Local List.

Just a suggestion.

The media has become like a trick mirror in this country.

People have no idea they are not seeing the truth.

It is the biggest enemy of Democracy, the biggest threat to our nation.