Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 [Paperback]

Bruce J. Miller MILLER (Author)

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• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089733521X
• ISBN-13: 978-0897335218
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,640,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Served Cold, March 14, 2004

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Terrance H. Heath "terrancedc" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 (Paperback)

This conpendium of quotations from the radical right wing of U.S. politics and media makes good, if chilling, reading. it's only unnerving if you remember that these people very likely mean exactly the things that they've said. It leads one to wonder why people are so surprised when they finally see the far right's agenda in action, because it's clearly laid out in the words they say on a regular basis. This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of just about any American who believes in equality for all, as both a reminder and as ammunition: these words should be served up to right wingers at every available opportunity.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i've only read excerpts so far..., March 11, 2004

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This review is from: Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 (Paperback)

...but if this book is anything like the excerpts, then it should be required reading for every american! for some reason the corporate owned media has been giving the corrupt GOP a pass for years. this book looks to expose their hypocrisy and humiliate the fascists we know as republicans. hopefully, the brainwashed republican voters will read this book so they can become familiar with the corruption they have been supporting for so long. this book, and books like it, have been long overdue. it's finally time to expose the liars and hypocrites like the bush administration and their sorry apologists and propogandists like rush limbaugh and ann coulter. there's a sleeping democratic majority and this book will start to wake it up.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as bad as you thought, July 7, 2004

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This review is from: Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 (Paperback)

Here in one handy book are many of the outrageous things you thought you'd heard conservative extremists say, arranged in chapters by topic (education, judiciary, the Clintons, etc.) and indexed by name at the back of the book. There are over 350 pages of quotes here (in standard typeface) and I bet it would be easy to put together another volume. Quotes range from a sentence to a page, and give the context of the utterance. As one might expect, George W., Ann Coulter, Tom Delay, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Newt and Rummy figure largely, and the quotes are as outrageous as one fears. They are hateful, hate-filled and despicable, and go a long way in explaining the coarsening of American political discourse.