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The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
by: Joe Conason, Gene Lyons |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973.929092 EAN: 9780312273194 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0312273193 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: February 03, 2001 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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  - Dixie mafioso flackHate speech from a well known flack for the Dixie mafia. Incredible apologist for crime and corruption. Do your own research. Google keywords Clinton tainted blood and draw your own conclusions, to cite just one example. Rating:  - Absolutely mesmerizingMany of us get most of our "news" from the radio, the Internet, and the Pundit shoutfests on Cable. The inevitable connect-the-dots perception of things is further diminished by Talk Show hosts on interminable partison rants. With this book, we can discover many facts about this minor or major cabal or conspiracy and its' progenitors. The Starr-Goldberg-Coulter contingent is scrutinized at length, for example, and intentions aside, revealed to have spent a lot of air-time on issues really not warranting such time and money expenditures. Just as Ken Starr himself expressed: there's just not enough meat to the bone for the Grade-A inspectors. Ultimately, the Lucienne Goldberg transcript publishing dream proved a nightmare for the whole country. Conason and Lyons have given those of us who have less and less time to read books cover to cover a reason to do so...and to never again be swayed by any info-tainment puppeteers. Rating: - All politics is local -- and personalI wrote this review years ago. Nothing has come out since to make me change a word of it. Everybody laughed when Hillary Clinton complained that she and her husband Bill were targets of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" (VRWC). We know better now, thanks to Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, whose "The Hunting of the President" provides plenty of evidence for a real, criminal conspiracy. Even they dither about whether it was vast, but that it was powerful no one can doubt. The VRWC "perverted the law and debased the media," they write. Its small beginnings were not right-wing but personal. A couple of good ol' boys in Arkansas began slandering Bill Clinton as revenge and to make a few fast bucks. They were adopted by a devil's band of racists, Christian bigots, forgers, shysters, perjurers, shakedown artists, embezzlers, sob sisters, spies, trollops, busted speculators, libel publishers, spoiled rich boys, corrupt pols, sneaks, prudes, gullible reporters, publicity hounds, termagants, lunatics, unethical editors, forsworn judges, used-up groupies and pornographers, all eventually focused on the person of Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr, a common scold. In the whole sorry story, on both sides, only two people came out with credit. The only decent person involved was Arkansas state trooper Ronnie Anderson, who "had refused to answer the independent counsel's questions about Clinton's alleged extramarital liaisons. 'I said,' "If he's done something illegal, I will tell you. But I'm not going to answer a question about women that he knew because I just don't feel like it's anybody's business.""' To their credit, the overwhelming majority of the American public was as decent as Anderson, or perhaps nervous that a powerful cabal of sex perverts backed by a free-spending rightwing kook (Richard Mellon Scaife) might decide to examine their bedroom habits, too. The only hero was Susan McDougal, who preferred prison to selling out to Starr. While "Hunting" is not the last word on the subject -- for one thing, it stops short of the impeachment -- it is the best place to start. The outlines of this "J'accuse" statement were revealed earlier by Conason, Lyons and Murray Waas in the Internet magazine Salon ([...]), to general lack of interest. . Rating: - If you love America, read this book.If you love this country and have an iota of critical thinking skills, you must read this book. The reporting, analysis, and documentation are first rate, and solid. This is not a book for Democrats or liberals, but all Americans. Regardless of your political orientation, you should be disturbed by what you read here. Of course, my review assumes you believe that Enlightenment ideals were the foundation of this country, and that institutions are only as good as the integrity and intellectual honesty of the people that compose them. Rating: - The Facts are on the TableThis book lays out the attacks on the Clinton in full detail. While you could probably guess the things done by Falwell, Starr and the unrepentant segregationists in Arkansas; it was illuminating to see the machinations of Tripp, Isikoff and others I never could have named before this book. The many 4-5 star reviews tell a lot but the one star reviews are also illuminating. None of those come from people who appear to have read the book. In a just world, they would have to and, if they still were unmoved, they would have to fact check every detail. |
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