THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina - I, for one can't wait to read this book. The timing is perfect. Between this book and John Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience", perhaps now the Sheeple who still hold on to the idea that BushCo is the greatest thing since the coming of Christ will finally wake up. Here is the review...in part:

New York Times columnist Rich delivers a savaging sermon on the US government's "rampant cronyism, the empty sloganeering of 'compassionate conservativism,' the reckless lack of planning for all government operations except tax cuts"—and so much more.

Anyone who knows his work will know that Rich is no fan of either George Bush, a man "not conversant with reality as most Americans had experienced it," or the Bush administration. In this blend of journalism and mentalits-style history—that is, the study of the mindsets that underlie and produce events—Rich looks closely and critically at the White House's greatest hits, from the 2001 defense of gas-guzzling as essential to the American way of life to "Heckuva job, Brownie" to the ongoing morass of Iraq. By Rich's account, of course, that parade of missteps is organic; Bush and company cannot help but err. In an effort to disguise that track record, the Republicans have exercised single-minded control of the grand narrative of the last five years, at least in part because they have exercised quasi-totalitarian control over the news media. (They are nearly forgotten already, but one needs to remember Judith Miller, Jeff Gannon, Karen Ryan and various columnists and commentators paid off to repeat the party line.) More>>>