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You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2008
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YOU DON'T KNOW ME unearths the scandals that don't quite align with the Republican Party's so-called "family values." From Gingrich's serial affairs, to O'Reilly's lewd telephone conversations, to Horsley's barnyard liaisons, this compendium will shock readers and enlighten voters as to what happens behind the closed doors of the right.
YOU DON’T KNOW ME: A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES outlines the hypocrisy behind some key G.O.P. platforms. In an easy to use A-Z format, Win McCormack demonstrates right-wing depravity from adultery to zoophilia. With a mix of high-profile offenders―such as Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Bill O'Reilly, and Larry Craig―and under-the-radar scandals, You Don't Know Me makes a strong case that Republican finger pointing is no more than another instance of the pot calling the kettle black.- Print length298 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTin House Books
- Publication dateAugust 1, 2008
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100979419867
- ISBN-13978-0979419867
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Arianna Huffington, author of Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America
"You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen’s Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack is really great bathroom reading. Organized alphabetically by topic, which range from the curious to the depraved, this book is the perfect reminder that the people who are the loudest anti-sex crusaders are often the ones most likely to be doing the very thing they oppose."
Melissa Lion, Bookslut
"...a monstrous, Muhammad Ali-like jab square to the Republican groin. Win McCormack, publisher and editor of Portland’s Tin House literary magazine, has compiled an encyclopedia of 110 acts of sexual misconduct by Republican elected officials, upper-echelon appointees and activists who couldn’t keep their pork swords in the deli case. The book is knee-slappingly hilarious at times (come on, bestiality is funny) but also downright depressing."
Whitney Hawke, Willamette Week
"McCormack’s book highlights the cracks in the paved chainmail, illuminating the repulsive truth of an exchange of political fluids for powerful gain with a series of squalid incidents and situations involving high-flying members of the Right Side of Life."
Jordan Richardson, BlogCritics Magazine
"In You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values, McCormack has compiled an impressive, reader-friendly compendium of Republican malfeasance that makes the good people of Sodom and Gomorrah look like Quakers...McCormack makes confetti out of the family values espoused by these pious members of the right."
Ben Hogan, Portland Monthly
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But, readers, do not fear for Win McCormack. He is an heir (a principal one) to the McCormack family wealth - the McCormack brothers that founded Illinois Tool Co. (used to be Illinois Tool & Die Works) and Northern Trust (one of America's oldest and most pretigious "big" banks).
Like too many trust fund babys born with the silver spoon (in this case Platinum) in their mouths, and taken care of for their entire lives by trust distributions, McCormack believes that he is entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. A bit of digging around into who he is and what he came from, will reveal enough hypocrisy on his part to discredit his Republicans as the country's only bad guys.
These skeletons don't necessarily make us bad people. But they sure do suggest that a bit of humility is called for when it comes to climbing on moral high horses in order to judge the same behavior in others. Otherwise, the finger-pointing becomes sheer hypocrisy.
The value of Win McCormack's You Don't Know Me is that it's a reminder that many of our nation's loudest and most in-your-face champions of "family values" talk the talk but don't walk the walk. He documents the misbehavin' of 101 of them, ranging from US presidents and a supreme court justice to congresspeople (both current and past), governors, media celebrities, and evangelists.
Some of the acts (gay sex, autoeroticism) don't seem wicked in and of themselves (except to people who beat the family values drum). What's disturbing is the hypocrisy of public figures condeming the very kind of behavior that they privately indulge in. Other kinds of behavior are pretty bad and condemnatory from either side of the political aisle: spouse battery, refusal to pay child support, sexual groping of women (and men), sexual harrassment, adultery, beastiality (yep, you read that right). And the wickedness is compounded, once again, by the fact that the perpetrators of these sorts of acts hypocritically climb on the public bandwagon of family values. So you've got the surreal situation, for example, of congressmen who've committed adultery going after Clinton; congressmen and evangelicals who are closet gays going after gays; a hang-'em-high judge convicted of possessing child pornography; media celebrities who claim to be squeaky clean sexually harrassing women; a politician who's had at least two abortions fixated on repealing Roe v Wade; and politicians who champion the sanctity of the family dumping their wives and refusing to pay child support.
I don't think McCormack's book should be read with a kind of schadenfreudliche glee by liberals. Neither political party is free of the taint of hypocrisy. But it is a sad reminder that the compartmentalization of personal and public lives performed by many celebrities harms their own integrity and, even worse, harms others when these same mover-and-shakers push through repressive public policies condeming the very behavior they secretly embrace.

