INDICTEMENT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!!!!!
Mr. Miller was a guest at Media Matters today. Their audio files can be obtained at the link:
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters /
(here is a link to today's DU post for the program (it is already finished). But please--when you have time-- go and listen to it from the audio files. It is a very pointed analysis of what is going on in America)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2015034#2015064_____________________________________
Form Amazon.com:
Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order
by Mark Crispin Miller
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Edition: Hardcover
About the Author
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University and the author of The Bush Dyslexicon. He lives in New York City.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In delivering this blunt jeremiad—Bush is "fascistic," "theocratic," a "crook," etc.—Miller (The Bush Dyslexicon) argues that the Bush-era press isn't simply biased, it has been lulled into an Orwellian false consciousness. One of the major examples Miller, a professor of media studies at NYU, offers is the case of Scott Ritter, the former U.N. weapons inspector who insisted before the war that Iraq probably had no unconventional weapons and was treated by TV interviewers like Paula Zahn as a near-stooge for Saddam. For Miller, further elements of the current order include electronic voting machines that he says were used to tilt the 2002 congressional elections and a cabal of Christian Reconstructionists that wants to impose theocracy on America. .....
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Book Description
A mordant and passionate exposé of the right-wing threat to American democracy and freedom.
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But as Mark Crispin Miller argues here with great clarity and effect, we are in fact living in a state that would appall the Founding Fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more "conservative" than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans' contempt for democratic practice, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet, and—above all—their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness.
Abraham Lincoln once observed that, if the United States should ever be subverted, "it will be conquered from within." And that is exactly what has happened.
more at link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393059170/qid=1090177770/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/102-2596180-7948957?v=glance&s=books&n=507846