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Misstating the State of the Union: Right-Wing Media Distortions about the Clinton and Bush Presidencies »

Authors: David Brock, David Brock
ISBN-13: 9781888451801, ISBN-10: 1888451807
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Akashic Books
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Brock

David Brock, a writer in Wash., DC, is the author of the bestsellers Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative and The Republican Noise Machine. He has written for Esquire, New York, and the op-ed pages of the NY Times and Washington Post, and appears regularly on TV talk shows. His work has been featured on Air America and National Public Radio.

Book Synopsis

Bestseller David Brock leads an analysis of media distortions during the era of Clinton and George W.

	Introduction	9
	No jobs? : no problem! : conservative commentators' rose-colored view of the Bush economy	15
	Fiscally what? : spendthrift conservatives and their apologists in the press	33
	Squandered unity : right-wing pundits' blind support for Bush's national security policy	48
	Bad medicine : how right-wing pundits can really make you sick	65
	Miseducation : the conservative media's smoke screen around right-wing attacks on public schools	84
	Environmental policy : conservative commentators treat science as optional	97
	"39 million greedy geezers" : what the right-wing media really thinks of America's seniors	108
	Not what you hear on TV : the comparative record on crime and public safety	120
	No sense of shame : conservative pundits' destructive rhetoric about values	132