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Cargando... Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (2003)por Mona Charen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. So, a few years ago I read "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" or whatever that book was called. Now, as someone who considers herself neither democrat or republican, I enjoyed it. I asked my dad to read it, and he gave me this book to read. My dad is of the libertarian persuasion. Anyway, I did learn from this book, but what I learned is hardly surprizing. It seems that this book was writen to point fingers at liberals and democrats and say "see? see how BAD they are? They HATE America! Why do they hate America so?" Well, I don't think that is quite how it is. The book is subtitled "How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First." That last portion gets to me. I fail to see how examining our own faults makes us so terrible. Don't we learn from our mistakes? I would think it is a good thing. Many of the other things, I agreed with. I've never been a fan of Katie Couric or a number of other journalists. Every word I read in the paper or on the internet, every word I hear coming from the tv or radio, I'm analyzing constantly, and I know that a certain turn of phrase, or a particular emphasis in the way they say something carries a particular meaning that they intend to convey. Sometimes, sneaking it in. Anyway, I know that the media is biased. I know that reporters, authors, personalities, etc say really really dumb stuff. Sometimes, they even say things that disgust me. But that goes for republicans as well. Eh. Both political parties are definately not for me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Who's on the wrong side of history? Liberals, argues Mona Charen in this New York Times bestseller. And they've been on the wrong side for far too long. A former speechwriter for the Reagan White House, Charen describes how the left has continually attempted to rewrite history, all the while refusing to learn from it. She fearlessly calls out the prominent liberal media figures, professors, and opinion makers who flocked to Castro's Cuba and called it paradise, visited the Soviet Union and proclaimed its glorious future, and who, only a generation ago, proclaimed communism to be a "force of good" in the world. She won't let them get away with their snide disdain for America when the lessons of the past should have humbled them long ago. From D.C. elites Madeleine Albreight, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy, to Hollywood celebs like Woody Allen and Jane Fonda, to academic snobs like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag, Charen's devastating critique of the left's philosophical incompetence is a must-read for Americans on both sides of the aisle. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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While the viewpoint is constant, the analysis is limited, and I don’t expect it to change any minds. She seems to have published a long detailed set of quotations rather than any new opinion. I’ll keep the book as a reference due to its many extended quotations, but expect only the extreme right to enjoy it. ( )