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peeingonthebushes

Painfully relevant

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2004

This book is, as others have mentioned, a well documented litany of organizations, supporters, schemes, scams, tactics and objectives of the neocon right. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of information presented requires considerable effort to digest. In addition, the book brings to light a large number of very unpleasant facts and exposes many unsavory characters. This is not an enjoyable book but it is an important book and should be required reading for anyone who still believes the Republican Party stands for strong national defense, fiscal conservatism and smaller government.

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Cry the Beloved Country -- Shame on Us

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2005

This is simply a must read for thinking Americans, a wake-up call and a political call to arms for those who still believe in the principles of open democracy. In BANANA REPUBLICANS, authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber describe the political system of a country that is barely recognizable as that of the Founding Fathers. In clear and highly readable prose, with countless footnotes and dozens of supporting anecdotes, Rampton and Stauber portray today's political system as the type our Founders fled from when they left Europe, the kind of system they strove to prevent when crafting the Constitution. Reading their book, I could only cry for what has been lost, for how far we have strayed from the grand democratic ideals I was taught were our heritage and our trust.

BANANA REPUBLICANS is a book that will have you shaking your head in disgust or despair every few pages. The book begins by examining the Right Wing think tanks funded by a few wealthy families: the Mellons, Koch's, Bradleys, and Olins, for example, as well as the Coors. These wealthy scions have literally purchased the "marketplace of ideas," filling the air so insistently with radical, unscientific, poorly-researched notions that their mere repetition gradually gives them credence. The authors then move on to address the Right Wing's creation of a media "echo chamber" so loud, so effective, and so little concerned with truth that any story, no matter how unfounded, becomes credible. They offer as examples the absurdly misreported story of Bill Clinton's infamous airport runway haircut, Clinton's so-called "bimbo eruptions" and paternity allegations, and the hyperinflated and grossly incorrect misquoting and reporting about Al Gore's role in the early development of the Internet as examples of not only how the echo chamber operates, but how it diverts attention from issues to personalities and trivia. As anyone knows who listens to Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, et. al., they are masters of such ad hominem reductionism. Along the way, the authors also provide a well-deserved skewering of ABC's John Stossel, a reporter of right wing pseudo-science who has consistently hidden his agenda behind his audience's own lack of knowledge. Remember the Republican "outrage" over Clinton's use of the Lincoln Bedroom for political donors? Has anyone heard the issue mentioned since George Bush took office? Why not? The practice is as common today as it was during Clinton's Presidency.

Rampton and Stauber document the current Bush Administration's persistent manipulation of government studies and websites to fit its agenda, particularly in the area of scientific research. Chapter Five, "Block the Vote," is undoubtedly the most disturbing chapter of this book. As others have, the authors describe the Right Wing Republican agenda to subvert American democracy in the name of gaining and permanently holding political power. According to the authors, they have done so through fear and intimidation, disinformation campaigns, manipulating voter registration, suppressing black voter turnout, ramrodding off-year gerrymandered redistricting through state legislatures, and resorting to various forms of election fraud. Again, Rampton and Stauber support their case with numerous examples. In Chapter six, the last major content chapter, the authors illustrate how the current Administration, aided and abetted by the Conservative media echo chamber, has turned virtually all questioning and criticism of government plans, programs, and actions into "treason" or "traitorous behavior." So much for open debate in a democratic society, now just a memory among those of us old enough to recall it.

BANANA REPUBLICANS makes it clear that the Republican Party has not simply declared war on Democrats, they have declared war on democracy itself. The goal is a one party system with a marginalized second party for the sake of appearances. They can't afford for the United States to look too much like the old Soviet Union - it would puncture that rose-colored, idealized America they keep passing off as reality to Red Staters while they are busy subverting it. This is an eye-opening book for the uninitiated, well worth the little time it takes to read. If it results in feelings of outrage and despair over the state of our nation and our political system, well then, you've gotten the message.

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Kenneth W. Hayes

Informative

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2004

Sheldon and John have done another great job. This time exposing the right wing extremist's media machine.

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Lance C. Huffman

Well-documented and quite FRIGHTENING

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2004

This book was a very compelling look at the well-organized machine that is the right. I was impressed with how well-documented the book was, using the words of those on the right to make the case.
Those that criticize the book will have to refute an awful lot of quotes and facts by their conservative friends. With all the quotes, citations and endnotes, I don't know how one COULD refute the general claims of this book.
What was most frightening for me in this book was the push by the right to completely "wipe them [the left or the democrats] off the face of the planet." This quote by David Horowitz, political strategist for the right, is telling. As the book points out, for the Democrats, politics is a debate between two opposing camps or schools of thought. For the Republicans, it is a war for dominance. I am frightened by a group that does not welcome discourse, especially when that group is so powerful politically and economically. Squashing the political opponent seems very anti-American to me.
Read this book. Then vote.

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LindaT

Easy to read, informative and objective

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2007

This book (an ideal companion volume to David Brock's BLINDED BY THE RIGHT and THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE) taught me a lot of things - or better yet, EXPLAINED a lot of things that I have been observing for a long time. This book was written in 2004 and a lot of things have changed - including the Democrats now having more control in Congress. But in my opinion, the change has barely begun, and I think it would behoove us to read this book again - and again.

First of all, I'll tell you where I'm coming from. I'm a "baby boomer" - a little more than two and a half months younger than George W. Bush and a bit over a month younger than Bill Clinton. While I'm not in the upper years of senior citizenhood, I've been around a while. Most of my life I've leaned towards the Republican Party and I suppose you could have called me a "conservative" - if, by "conservative" you mean that I was opposed to Communism, a believer more in free enterprise than in strong government control, as well as a believer in the family, then I guess I would have - and still would - qualify as a "conservative."

But in the ensuing years I have watched the Republican Party turn into something I don't know any more. While I believed in the aforementioned values (and others besides) I also believed in the right of others to express their opinions even if they disagreed with mine. I stayed awake in my social studies classes and I believed and still do continue to believe in the rights of the individual as outlined in the Constitution of the United States. And during this administration I have seen what can only be described as flagrant disregard for Constitutional rights. I will not list them here - read the book and you'll understand.

To me, being a conservative meant the holding of certain values. But some of the values I never held to were 1. Huge mega-corporate control of our country and 2. hateful and/or dishonest and/or mud flinging techniques to achieve political ends. And to me, this CERTAINLY does not include branding people as "traitors" who don't agree with you. Incidentally, to their credit, Rampton and Stauber are objective about the hate speech thing - they point out that if it is wrong for conservatives to use hate speech, it's also wrong for liberals to do the same - and that has happened, too.

The book also explained some questions I had concerning certain people - including the late Allan Bloom and John Stossel, who, to be honest, has been making me nervous lately. It also pointed out the hate speech and the outright tacky things being done by conservatives. In fact, I have a lot more trouble with the conservatives' tactics than I do some of their beliefs, although I also am developing problems with some of their beliefs as well - with Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter being two of my most prominent examples.

This book is informative and will give a good, broad spectrum as to what's been happening lately. It is a thoroughly worthwhile book to read even now that the balance of power seems to have changed. It isn't over yet. The final chapter deals with possible strategies to change things. It ends on an upbeat tone, and in my opinion, shows a lot of hope for the future.

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Shelaffs

How to manage the masses

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2015

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Everyone should read this book. You can see politicians in the UK copying what the American politicians are shown to have done in this book. We've been following in their footsteps for decades like sycophantic, grovelling imbeciles. And if we keep working at it we too can have a third world country - you don't have to go far off main street in the US to see sights you might only expect to see in a country that hasn't quite emerged yet - and we're getting there too. I'm having to read it in very small chunks because the wickedness of the world can get you down if you pay it too much attention.

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